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But if you're going to pick a fake motivation for your pitch deck, "I just want to build stuff" is pretty lame. Do people really say that when it isn't even true?
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Anecdotes are fun, but the data suggests over and over again that financially successful parents have more financially successful children.
Your statement erroneously associates financial success with happiness. Provably untrue.
I once asked people to choose between 1) Making a contribution to society as profound as Isaac Newton's, but leading such a harried life that they died before the age of 50 from a stress-related illness 2) Leading a content, good, happy, and unremarkable life Everyone in the Valley chooses (1)
This is a generally short-sighted article, that looks inward but not at the bigger picture. I want to make a lot of money because I want to start a family, and I want them to have the best life and the best opportunities available. Not to be spoiled, but simply to have a good life. And that's just the start. I want to make money so I can help people. To be able to invest in things which might cure diseases, solve hun…
For example, it assumes that there's only one reason for wanting a lot of money. What if I want a "total autonomy over my time" and "nice things", at the same time?
As @dragonwriter said elsewhere in this thread, money is one of the means of obtaining power. That's why nearly everyone would like to make a lot of money: they want power. Power to do what? That depends on each person and cannot be oversimplified the way this article does.
To buy my freedom.
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Wanting to start a family and having a family to support are two different things. I imagine the goal of a ton of people without families is to generate the capital necessary to start a family.
Having started a family a year ago, I wonder what kind of capital is necessary to start a family is? For diapers? Or do people really want to save up for college when they have barely left college themselves? Until age 3, a child doesn't even need a dedicated room, so basically any apt suitable for 2 people will do. Disclaimer: I'm in Austria, maybe it's easier here.
It might not be a reality. It might not even be attainable (maybe the bar keeps moving), but that's my criteria.
I once asked people to choose between 1) Making a contribution to society as profound as Isaac Newton's, but leading such a harried life that they died before the age of 50 from a stress-related illness 2) Leading a content, good, happy, and unremarkable life Everyone in the Valley chooses (1)
Next time ask them to choose between: 1) The very slim possibility of making a contribution to society as profound as Isaac Newton's, but leading such a harried life that they died before the age of 50 from a stress-related illness. 2) The pretty good chance that you can lead a fairly good, fairly happy, fairly content, but generally unremakable life.
Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it
resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of
the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul
*becomes*; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all
reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas
equally aside.