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01-11-2011, 05:11 PM | #1 |
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"Money". Is it Worth it?
Despite the recklessness of my own self destruction, I don't see money as the driving force behind my motives. Yes it would be nice to have money, but at what point is the line drawn and self seeking millionaires declared hell bound???????
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01-11-2011, 05:17 PM | #2 |
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Now that is a question indeed ....
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01-11-2011, 05:23 PM | #3 |
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That all depends on the exchange rate.
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01-11-2011, 06:32 PM | #4 |
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Money is just a medium of exchange, though during hard times it's medium rare.
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01-11-2011, 09:29 PM | #5 |
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You can do more with it than without it. For myself, pretending there is some higher purpose and some spiritual lesson to learn is better left to the Gandhi's of the world.
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01-12-2011, 05:00 AM | #6 |
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Money doesn't make happiness...
...but it makes sadness bearable. Just ask any heir to a fortune.
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01-12-2011, 11:17 AM | #7 |
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Just like anything else, the more you need it, the more it is worth.
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01-12-2011, 12:37 PM | #8 |
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There's a level of $ that is needed to provide what you believe are the necessities of life.
After that, it becomes wants, and then luxuries, then power, and then greed, and finally more is never enough. |
01-12-2011, 12:57 PM | #9 |
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I think greed is out of order. Anything after the necessities is greed. If you want it, but don't need it, it's greed. We all have greed.
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01-12-2011, 02:03 PM | #10 |
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There is a line that can be drawn and a line that can be seen, but a line that can be drawn isn't always a line that can be seen, and a line that can be seen isn't always a line that should have been drawn. Also, sometimes lines are different lengths, widths, etc.
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01-12-2011, 07:51 PM | #11 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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01-12-2011, 07:54 PM | #12 |
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When you're making $10/hr cleaning up blood, vomit, and splinting bones, yes it is worth it.
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01-12-2011, 09:13 PM | #13 |
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Anyone who feels their money isn't worth it, I will gladly take the burden off their hands.
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01-12-2011, 09:19 PM | #14 |
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Nobody "has" money. There is no concrete aspect to the experience of "having" money. You can do or buy things with money, and the value is exactly the value of those things. You can hold some money in reserve for the purposes of doing or buying future things, but at no point does the value of the money cease to be a function of those proposed future things. People who don't have any money think that there is a point where you will "have" some money, but the fact is: that never happens. Money has no intrinsic value. You can't eat it, etc.
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01-12-2011, 10:22 PM | #15 |
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At the point where they have no immediate need for more money and their earning will hurt someone else.
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