Mo' money, less problems for real

Nope, Norwegian univeristy.

Now I deff would not be bitching if I made $75K a year. But Shit 75K a year is almost, I’m saying ALMOST, not enough for today’s market. My parents bought the house I’m living in just before I was born. They paid 52K for it. Now it worth $156K. After Katrina the houses down the road, that were totally destroyed had new ones built back, an they were sold for $200K, pluse or minus couple thousand. I know inflation & deflation happen. But sometimes I’m seeing more inflation happening.

@mrscollector You kind of just hurt my heart a little bit. I wish I could help you - and everyone else on FS - with a wave of my magic debit card. Sadly, I tried to pull it from the stone and, yeah, it didn’t budge an inch.

... a better version of you, or a worse version. You may find that when you have all the things you ever dreamed of that they are more empty after a time than you imagined. You may grow used to, even bored with things and find it isn’t so easy to go “back” and need to push “forward” to increasingly novel or exotic things to date your appetite and your boredom. The fact you no longer have to deal with peoples bullshit- that you can pay to not have to deal with them, pay them or buy them things to go away or be nice. The drive that you “need” to do this or that like go to work may be gone, that one bad day where you want to say “I quit!” But can’t, and then you have a regular day and it wasn’t so bad? Nothing is stopping you. People may become cheap to you. There are always more friends or coworkers or lovers when you have enough money. Your patience and tolerance may grow very short because you just don’t have to rely on other people beyond those you pay to do things for you.

TL:DR- money doesn’t change your values by itself, but it can give you the freedom to really see what your values are. It can play with your mind and make things like trust hard to have, it can make you feel bigger and more invincible than you are and that can make you a dick. Kinda like “rapid rage,” it’s hard not to develop feelings like you’re so awesome and get annoyed by petty things when you start feeling above it all. Money isn’t bad, it fixes many problems, but most of the time having money means playing in the “money game” and that has its own problems that still cause stress and unhappiness. Finding the right balance between the types of stress we can deal with, and amount of money we can live and be happy on is key. Too much or too little money will make anyone unhappy, and how much that amount is isn’t universal- it depends a lot on the person and where they live and what their values are.

I agree in principal. The thing that is easy to forget though is that money represents power. Instead of muscles and might or swords or guns, we have created a system where money and social ability are the primary compelling forces. If it wasn’t money, or brains, or strength, or how well liked you are- it would be something else. You can’t save your own life. You need a way to compel others. To compel researchers to find a cure, to compel the workers who gather, refine, package, and transport raw materials and finished medical products. To compel doctors and nurses to work on you, to compel teachers to teach doctors, and compel all the people who allow that such as builders and power providers and janitors and office supply companies and more. Someday humanity may just be compelled by “good” to give freely to other humans what they need- but that also requires we give up greed, desire for large homes with great views and good weather, fancy cars and fine foods and clothing- tall order.