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It’s weird. Society has tried to influence me that money, wealth, status, career are beneficial. I was raised middle class. But I’ve never quite seen the po
by meken 4y ago
It’s weird.
Society has tried to influence me that money, wealth, status, career are beneficial.
I was raised middle class.
But I’ve never quite seen the point in all of it.
All it’s really led to is a lifetime of beating myself up and asking what’s “wrong” with me.
So I’m not sure more expectations and guilt is the answer.
It’s hard to see how that would have done anything more for me.
- lolinder 4y agoOP isn't talking about creating expectations of money, wealth, status for their own sake. The biggest thing he says his family expected of him was to provide a stable foundation for his own children. This is something which some amount of money is necessary for, but if you focus entirely on the money you've destroyed that foundation just as thoroughly as if you failed to provide for them at all.
- 88913527 4y agoIt seems like a bit of a nothing-burger considering how low OECD birth rates are. More men than ever are simply not having kids. So if the objective is to create a stable foundation for the next generation -- and there is none -- mission accomplished. I have no purpose. It's the same conclusion, though a different path towards it.