A Few Laws of Getting Rich
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A Few Laws of Getting Rich
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#2I made a significant amount of money at once. It ended up destroying a few long term friendships. In hindsight, maybe that was my fault. But human nature is a funny thing, and rapid changes in social status will reap havoc on social equilibriums built over decades
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#3money makes you more of yourself
no one knows which drink will turn you into an alcoholic… it could be your next one
same with money your next or first million might the thing that will disconnect you from all that you hold dear
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#4Disappointed they landed on the hero worship bus of “there’s no way a billion dollars at 18 would have stopped Bill Gates.” Yes, it absolutely would have. Inflation-adjusted that would be nearly $10 B in cash. He might not have gone and rested on an island but he almost certainly would have done something like pump wild amounts of money into Traf-O-Data and spin out before Microsoft could become a thing.
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#5Ugh. All these articles conflate the idea of “getting rich” with the kind of wealth that most people don’t know what to do with, eg billions of dollars. What about just reaching the point where you never need to work again? Can we talk about how that’s a reasonable goal for people to push for rather than accumulating the net worth of a small country?
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#6Ugh. All these articles conflate the idea of “getting rich” with the kind of wealth that most people don’t know what to do with, eg billions of dollars. What about just reaching the point where you never need to work again? Can we talk about how that’s a reasonable goal for people to push for rather than accumulating the net worth of a small country?
Then it will sound like there’s a continuum of wealth, rather than the black-and-white, soapy-journalism-primed “haves and have-nots” that modern media can’t stop talking about
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#7money makes you more of yourself no one knows which drink will turn you into an alcoholic… it could be your next one same with money your next or first million might the thing that will disconnect you from all that you hold dear
Did you know that money is entirely a social construction?
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#8money makes you more of yourself no one knows which drink will turn you into an alcoholic… it could be your next one same with money your next or first million might the thing that will disconnect you from all that you hold dear
Did you know that money is entirely a social construction?
It's awfully real when you are hungry.
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#9money makes you more of yourself no one knows which drink will turn you into an alcoholic… it could be your next one same with money your next or first million might the thing that will disconnect you from all that you hold dear
Did you know that money is entirely a social construction?
So is sanity :-P
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#10Ugh. All these articles conflate the idea of “getting rich” with the kind of wealth that most people don’t know what to do with, eg billions of dollars. What about just reaching the point where you never need to work again? Can we talk about how that’s a reasonable goal for people to push for rather than accumulating the net worth of a small country?
Most billionaires still work I think.
I personally believe that true contentment in life is if you can do something meaningful to help others. The human connection is such a basic thing in life. We want love, not just sex.
You might think that getting lots of money would make other people like you more but I think that is the opposite. Billionaires really aren't that "likable" are they?