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Surprisingly little actual long term quality of life, happiness or life satisfaction can be bought with money, any money. They are important if you properly don
by jajko 1y ago
Surprisingly little actual long term quality of life, happiness or life satisfaction can be bought with money, any money. They are important if you properly don't have them but as soon as you leave that category they are at best secondary.
So people boasting about their 'successful careers' are pretty boring empty bunch, rather tell me how you spend your evenings, weekends or vacations, how good parent you are (aka how much you suffer for your kids and don't outsource hard but important parts to grandparents or nannies), what you do for your community and so on.
- xvilka 1y agoLong term QoL definitely needs money: healthy food, means to exercise, enough time and freedom for work-life balance, travel, and so on. So yes, money are necessary for it. But the amount has a certain cap, let's say somewhere between $1-30M depending on the place where you live and the size of your family.
- terminalshort 1y agoThe idea that being a good parent requires extensive suffering and work is the worst that our current society has created.
- satisfice 1y agoIt depends what lifestyle your children want to live. My son wants to be a fiction author. I want to give him that opportunity. So I have to work. Maybe YOU would throw your child out on his own, I will not.
- terminalshort 1y agohe's got the talent or he doesn't. You can't put in the work for him, so make your life worse trying.
- satisfice 1y agoLook, I know you are trying to focus on the humanity part of humanity, instead of the nuts and bolts of economic life. I get it. I support four adults with my work, including myself. My son writes fiction that I suspect will never earn him a dime. His wife suffers from disabling social anxiety. My wife is 65 and not able to work. We all live together in a gentle and loving cooperative existence. Meanwhile, my career keeps a roof over our head. Now, why shouldn’t I see meaning in my struggle to keep the wheels turning? I have built something important in the course of my career. Not world shattering, but also not nothing. A career is an honorable thing.