• bouh@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Most people want wealth because it means they won’t need to think at how to survive the next month.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    I am poor and chose the latter. Own a small cheap cottage on the edge of a tiny rural village at the arse end of Australia (Tasmania) live simply and have a like minded parter. I quit work at 35 and am now 59, don’t get any goverment pensions etc have a small investment portfolio of shares i purchased back in the 1990s from working and live off the dividends.

    I don’t want to be rich, as to even try to do so I’d have to compromise all of my morals to get there. I’m rich enough. I quit paid work as it wasnt for me. My only regret in life was not quitting work earlier, thats time I cant get back.

  • Sorrow3527@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I want wealth so I don’t have an existential crisis every time I need to get my brakes done. Or my teeth prosthetics needs repair

    • ReanuKeeves@lemm.eeOP
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      3 months ago

      I love you buddy

      Unless you’re some kind of wierdo that doesn’t like the word moist or you think LeBron vs MJ is a reasonable comparison to make, knowing the game dynamics are completely different for their respective eras, or whatever.

  • three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social
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    3 months ago

    I want wealth so I can build a better world for everyone else to live in, like building metro lines and libraries all over my city, affordable, mixed-use housing, and funding clean energy projects. We are not the same

  • Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.com
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    3 months ago

    Everyone give your money to me so I become rich so I can achieve my goals.

    1. Live in bunker in woods away from people

    2. Make LeVar Burton president

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      3 months ago

      May I suggest Michael Lucas’ ‘Cashflow for Creators’. While not exactly a must-read, personally it helped me a lot to actually map, plan and ultimately take the decision to tell the corporate world to get stuffed.