Can Money Set You Free?
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Can Money Set You Free?
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#3>On the one hand, I have no boss, so I can’t be sacked – everything about every single aspect of my day and my work is entirely up to me. From that point of view, I’m about as free as it is possible for a person to be. On the other hand, I have no job security or protection of any kind. If people don’t want to read what I write, I have no income .
We always have "boss". It doesn't matter if it's my manager at my day job, or my customers at the startup I'm working on. We all serve a master. Even the hobo on the street looks for food when his stomach directs him to do so.
I don't think money itself is freedom, or that it could buy it. Though it does buy nice things. Freedom is being able to pro-actively direct your life, move your life. Freedom is being the boss, freedom is being the hobo. They are equal in my book.
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#4nice quote buried in there:
...the profound truth of Seamus Heaney’s elegy to Robert Lowell: “The way we are living/ timorous or bold,/ will have been our life.”
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#5>On the one hand, I have no boss, so I can’t be sacked – everything about every single aspect of my day and my work is entirely up to me. From that point of view, I’m about as free as it is possible for a person to be. On the other hand, I have no job security or protection of any kind. If people don’t want to read what I write, I have no income . We always have "boss". It doesn't matter if it's my manager at my day…
I don't think having customers is the same as having a boss.
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#6This quote was interesting to me, "That would be the end of the world for serious writers, who are not performers and who can’t earn a living giving concerts and selling T-shirts. Nobody knows how this is going to play out."
There isn't an audience for successful writers to be speakers?
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#7This quote was interesting to me, "That would be the end of the world for serious writers, who are not performers and who can’t earn a living giving concerts and selling T-shirts. Nobody knows how this is going to play out." There isn't an audience for successful writers to be speakers?
Only if you're Malcolm Gladwell.
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#8Yes. Money can at least set you free financially.
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#9I'm having trouble seeing what the author's definition of freedom is. Financial "security" is one definition I hear people use, and he brings up. But that can be gone in a moment or you can die and it doesn't matter, as his father did.
Freedom from what? Freedom to do what? I think that has to be defined first.
The freest people I have met are those who don't worry about what they can't control, work hard at what they can, and are content with the ups and downs of life. Money seems, to me, to be uncorrelated-- at least above a minimum threshold.
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#10This quote was interesting to me, "That would be the end of the world for serious writers, who are not performers and who can’t earn a living giving concerts and selling T-shirts. Nobody knows how this is going to play out." There isn't an audience for successful writers to be speakers?
I know plenty of academics who are highly engaging in writing but utterly useless at speaking -- even in private conversations, never mind public speaking.
I feel sorry for their students, but I'm glad for the books and research they produce.