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Re:Ask HN: Did you get "never have to work again rich" throu... by tannerc on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @01:34PM (#7978320)
On a related note to my last paragraph, I just stumbled on this quote from David Foster Wallace and found it remarkably relevant:

"I think somehow the culture has taught us or we've allowed the culture to teach us that the point of living is to get as much as you can and experience as much pleasure as you can, and that the implicit promise is that will make you happy. I know that's almost offensively simplistic, but the effects of it aren't simplistic at all."

Source: http://radioopensource.org/david-foster-wallace-chris-lydon/

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Re:Ask HN: Did you get "never have to work again rich" throu... by contextual on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @07:10PM (#7980427)
I believe the objective in life shouldn't be how much money and success we can acquire, but how good a person we can become.
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