Gregory's ServerLike most humans, I don't actually want to be rich. I just want to never have to worry about money.
There's a difference.
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 Paul, but you get into the diminishing returns territory pretty quickly. For someone poor, a million dollars would be life-changing. But one more million? Not nearly as much.
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 @grishka @Craigp @axoplasm My great grandfather, who worked hard in New Zealand for twenty years, returned to China with our family having bought lots of land, and then had everything taken away as the Cultural Revolution took hold, said that a roof and two meals per day is enough; three meals is good luck; don't work too hard because it's too easy for everything to be lost again. That was his advice to his daughter, my grandmother, just before she escaped back to New Zealand with the kids.  @libroraptor @grishka @Craigp @axoplasm This is my thinking tho' on a much smaller scale and my rationalization for sharing so another person can get a little bit of health care. @Craigp yep. There's a song here in Cambodia my wife loves. It says we don't need riches or big houses or cars. What we need is just enough. I have more than enough with her. It just took awhile to find her.    @Craigp I heard of a research into how much money a person needs to live comfortably and be happy. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1011492107#sec-1 Turns out, there's kind of a threshold: around $75000 a year in 2021 money. I'd round up a little for inflation and say 100k. True, it's quite high by your standards or mine. It still isn't what we mean by "rich". The problem is that for some people this threshold of "enough money" doesn't exist. It's probably a personality thing. The more money they have, the more they spend on an unnecessarily luxurious life, and they always want more money. @grishka |
