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Tangential, but IMO the super-power rich people have at achieving personal goals (this principle also applies to business goals, but let's set that aside) is la

Tangential, but IMO the super-power rich people have at achieving personal goals (this principle also applies to business goals, but let's set that aside) is largely due to being able to pay (to them) pocket change to make others do their giving-a-shit for them. How many shits do you have to give to stay fit as a poor person? Lots. Many shits must be given. You must be a shit-giving machine. 100% of shits given toward your goal must come from you. How many shits do you have to give to stay fit as a rich person? Let's see... you're paying an amount of money that's meaningless to you to have someone else give a shit about your meals, both making sure that your diet is healthy and balanced and that it's tasty and appealing to minimize the shit-giving you need to stick with it... and someone else give a shit about your work-outs... and someone else to give a shit about your schedule to make sure that stuff fits in... gee, look at that, you hardly have to give any shits at all, personally!

nicbou 4y ago
I feel you. There's so much shit-giving when you're poor. You can't afford to outsource maintenance. You must figure it all out yourself: car maintenance, appliance repair, taxes etc. There's always something you've gotta figure out. With a bit of money, you make a phone call and someone else is liable for any trouble that might arise.
- corrral 4y ago
  That's part of why I think the benefits of the US moving to some kind of single-payer or similar healthcare system would be much larger than they look based on a naïve cost calculation—our healthcare system consumes a ton of largely uncompensated giving-a-shit from a very large proportion of our society (basically everyone who's not very rich). I have to think that's harming other activities (including health itself, since, as covered, eating well and exercising requires a pretty large amount of giving-a-shit) some of which might provide direct benefits to measures like GDP, if some of that time and giving-a-shit were recovered for other purposes.

nicbou 4y ago

I feel you. There's so much shit-giving when you're poor. You can't afford to outsource maintenance. You must figure it all out yourself: car maintenance, appliance repair, taxes etc. There's always something you've gotta figure out. With a bit of money, you make a phone call and someone else is liable for any trouble that might arise.

corrral 4y ago
That's part of why I think the benefits of the US moving to some kind of single-payer or similar healthcare system would be much larger than they look based on a naïve cost calculation—our healthcare system consumes a ton of largely uncompensated giving-a-shit from a very large proportion of our society (basically everyone who's not very rich). I have to think that's harming other activities (including health itself, since, as covered, eating well and exercising requires a pretty large amount of giving-a-shit) some of which might provide direct benefits to measures like GDP, if some of that time and giving-a-shit were recovered for other purposes.