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> You can, if you have "fuck you money", which Musk has 10000 times over. You can have "fuck you money", but you can't have "fuck you time". Sure, the capitali

• coldtea 10y ago
  >but ultimately there is a finite amount of bedtime moments, meals, Sunday mornings, etc in your kid's lives. Try as you might, fuck you money won't change that. I think you've misunderstood the concept of fuck you money, at least as it relates to time. They don't buy you more time -- they buy you the luxury to be you that decides what you do with your finite time. And bonding with your children is entirely up to you (or Musk's in this example) decision if you have those. Besides, nobody argued that there's not a "finite amount of bedtime moments, meals, Sunday mornings, etc in your kid's life" -- just that when you are rich it's upon you (and not, e.g. your boss or financial necessities, or drudgery work like cooking, and cleaning and such) to spend more of your time with your kid during those moments.
  • GuiA 10y ago
    > money buys you the luxury to be you that decides what you do with your finite time This is an illusion. Ultimately, you have to choose what is a priority in your life. There will be moments, many of them, where you have to choose between a board meeting or making it to bedtime, or taking a business trip across the world or a weekend spent hiking with your kids. If you choose too many of the latter, at some point your board will get sick of you, your executives will stop trusting you, etc. If you're prioritizing the things that let you be the CEO of a company, you're necessarily deprioritizing the things that let you spend the most time with your kids. The problem with "fuck you money" is that it also easily lets you fuck yourself.
    • vidarh 10y ago
      The point of having "fuck you money" is that you have money enough that if your kids are more important to you than your company, you can tell your board to fuck off and hire someone else to run the company. You don't have "fuck you money" if you are still dependent on being CEO to maintain the lifestyle you want. You have fuck you money when whether or not you work is down to what you want rather than what you need.
    • coldtea 10y ago
      >>money buys you the luxury to be you that decides what you do with your finite time >This is an illusion. Ultimately, you have to choose what is a priority in your life. Notice how you just confirm the same thing I said. So, hardly an illusion. "Ultimately, you have to choose what is a priority in your life" == "it's you that decides what you do with your finite time" >There will be moments, many of them, where you have to choose between a board meeting or making it to bedtime, or taking a business trip across the world or a weekend spent hiking with your kids. That's exactly what I said. Musk gets to chose. >If you choose too many of the latter, at some point your board will get sick of you, your executives will stop trusting you, etc. So, at worse you'll be off the board, and still left with b/millions in the bank. And only if you do it all the time. Still, not the same kind of problem as not being able to spend time with your kids because you work all the time or you'll fall behind on rent and be homeless, etc... >If you're prioritizing the things that let you be the CEO of a company, you're necessarily deprioritizing the things that let you spend the most time with your kids. The whole point is that you don't HAVE to "prioritize the things that let you be the CEO of a company". And you'll still be rich, with a home, with money to educate and feed your children etc if you DON'T.