Before you get the money, your goal is to change the world and make the biggest impact. When you get it, your priorities change. You sometimes realize it takes more than money to make an impact.
You may still make a difference but not the way you had planned, and but without money you would still be dreaming unrealistically.
The Fallacy of Money As A Means
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#12This 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…
From the article: If people without families to support are brutally honest with themselves So you are not the audience.
How many people, even among entrepreneurs, plan to never have a family?
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#13This 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…
From the article: If people without families to support are brutally honest with themselves So you are not the audience.
I don't know if that line makes much sense... just about everyone will have a family to support at some point. Why not plan ahead?
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#14Money is just a symbol of value. Who doesn't want to be highly valued. People love coming up with grand reason for justifying their desire for massive amounts of money. I suspect most people, deep down inside, just want the secure feeling that having tons of money provides. It's your license to freedom.
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#15This 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…
From the article: If people without families to support are brutally honest with themselves So you are not the audience.
So think bigger: call the world your family. How can you support them? Might need some money to do it.
It might not be your goal, but you can't deny it would be a noble one.
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#16This 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…
Fact: If you think that everyone who wants money wants it in order to "create the biggest impact possible," you are either incorrect or have an unusual definition of "biggest impact possible." Opinion: It's almost nice and idealist for you to think this, but you ruined it by being generally sour (on my interpretation).
Agreed, I did do that.
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#17"I’m talking about becoming someone with strong moral fiber, a zeal for life, and complete comfort in who they are and what they’re all about."
I think that this is exactly not what you want to do to find a life partner. Whether you are a man or a woman, if you do this, you will find that (almost) all of your potential partners are shallow and extremely disappointing. Moreover, the people you are attracted to will be afraid of getting into a relationship precisely because they are, rightfully, afraid of disappointing you, or, more likely, afraid of feeling disappointed in themselves. You might get lucky, and it would help to be superficially attractive, if you choose to try to meet members of the opposite (or same) sex by improving your inner self.
I'm not saying you shouldn't try to be a better person, I'm just saying, it's terrible dating advice.
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#18I don't want a lot of money.
I would like just enough to afford shelter, food and internet, so I can not die and keep working on making software development better.
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#19This 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…
From the article: If people without families to support are brutally honest with themselves So you are not the audience.
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.
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#20When you get down to the core, there are many reasons one might want to start a company:
Freedom, Legacy, Philanthropy and Charity work, Fame, Superiority, You just enjoy creating value, To scratch an itch?, Sex... Maybe? E.T.C
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And you are right that we need to find out exactly what our motivations are and then truly accept and admit it..
Next, optimise your company, life and decisions so that you can achieve those goals otherwise you'll end up miserable, confused and un-satisfied.
Starting a company might not always be the best way to satisfy our desires but in some cases (like if all you desire is FREEDOM), there is no better way to satisfy that desire than to start a company.
And while money cant solve all problems (it solves a lot of problems) it makes living with said problems (and also solving said problems) a whole lot easier.