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Because money is only useful because of what it can afford you. Why do you want to make money? The answer to that is the true objective.
by Benjo 16y ago
Because money is only useful because of what it can afford you. Why do you want to make money? The answer to that is the true objective.
- revorad 16y agoWell maybe I'm like Felix Dennis, and I want to earn money just for the heck of earning money. Choose your own motives, but don't tell me what should or should not be my motive.
- hnal943 16y agoThen the reason you want to make money is that it is your way of keeping score in life. The money itself is obviously not desirable.
- revorad 16y agoHaha there seems to be a lot of semantic merry-go-round on HN lately. The reason you want oxygen is that it is a way of staying alive. The oxygen itself is obviously not desirable.
- Benjo 16y agoThe reason you want oxygen is that it is a way of staying alive. The oxygen itself is obviously not desirable. This is actually my point.
- Tycho 16y agoYou have to also consider all the other things that happen when you 'make money,' even if you don't spend it on anything personally.
- Benjo 16y agoGP was responding to: I want to earn money just for the heck of earning money So we're operating under the premise that he's not in it for that stuff.
- Tycho 16y agoIf MakeMoney() was a higher order function, I'm talking about the combination of lower functions that it involves, as opposed to whatever activity MakeMoney itself could be nested within.
- Benjo 16y agoHe already established that he only cares about the MakeMoney interface, the details of the implementation are unimportant.