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Re: Smothering
by
Arcavum
on 08/04/2013, 13:05:55 UTC

*sigh*

I might get hated for saying this but...

I feel like the people trying to be like Job/Gates/Buffet are delusional...
partly because Job/Gates and Buffet are/were delusional.

The reason I say that is because so much emphasis is being put on acquiring money.  And money doesn't equal a happier life.
All the while, there are people having to trudge through dumpsters for food.  The hoarding of all that *wealth* means that many people will have to face possibility of starvation because a few people think that having so much money, that it could never be spent in their entire lives, is their meaning in life. *Which is delusion*

 You can live perfectly comfortably with a fraction of that.  No one needs huge mansions and 500 cars.
There's no practical/logical reason for it.

The purpose of money is to be spent and circulated.  There are people who really need that to survive, and by hoarding it, you are harming society and the economy.  *To perpetuate some sort of made up fantasy, that will probably leave you alone and unhappy for the rest of your life, knowing everyone is using you for your wealth and that you don't have a real friend in the world*

Hope that wasn't too cliche' but the thought that money hoarders are actually harming people, rarely crosses their mind.
So, I'm just intervening a bit of reality into the fantasy.