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Maybe it's not money that motivates some people? Money is just a marker of success in this game. The real achievement might be building a business or growing a
by anonu 3y ago
Maybe it's not money that motivates some people? Money is just a marker of success in this game. The real achievement might be building a business or growing a product or out competing a competitor.
- nicbou 3y agoMoney might just become a convenient metric, because it can be traded for whatever your other metrics are later. In any case, the pursuit of money beyond meeting your own needs is more often than not destructive. I find that this story is a good reminder that you can have a financial goal beyond which you enter maintenance mode and focus on other things.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoMoney is the metric for power At the highest levels it’s about power and control and shaping the world to what you want it to be It’s all neurotic anxiety about not having the ability to do whatever you want unimpeded forever and generating “generational wealth” so that literally your kids kids kids will be ensured that they don’t have to go to public school Go live around billionaires a while and it’s blatantly obvious that everything is just about calming fears and anxieties but with a never ending desire to get more on behalf of whatever in group they relate.
- stcroixx 3y agoOr causing a lot of people immense grief.