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Spot on. Money is a conflation of two social processes or decisions: a. Who gets to have private jets and get into hot nightclubs. b. Who gets to build
by michaelochurch 13y ago
Spot on. Money is a conflation of two social processes or decisions:
a. Who gets to have private jets and get into hot nightclubs.
b. Who gets to build things of importance to the world.
Most of us are smart enough to have limited interest in (a)-- if that's what you're into, you'll never have enough-- but have an obsessive, sometimes anger-inducing and debilitating, focus on (b).
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Money is a conflation of two social processes or decisions: > a. Who gets to have private jets and get into hot nightclubs. > b. Who gets to build things of importance to the world. No, its not. Those two are two of the many aspects of the one thing that money is a determinant for: power. Or, "who gets to do what they want to do". "Have private jets and get into hot nightclubs" is just one of things people might want to do. "Build things of [or, that they think of as having] importance to the world" is another of the things people might want to do. There are more, of course.
- anoncow 13y agoPeople with money can do it if they want to. Other people have to try real hard. Want to have a nightclub lifestyle - become a bouncer/dancer. Want to live on private yatch - get a job on a somebody else's yatch(and imagine you are living your dream). Want to change the world - become a scientist and hope you get work on your topic of interest( or make the work that you get your topic of interest).
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Other people have to try real hard. Want to have a nightclub lifestyle - become a bouncer/dancer. That's not the same "nightclub lifestyle" as a nightclub patron.
- anoncow 13y agoYou are right. But are the scientist and the philanthropist living the same lifestyle?