I am poor and chose the latter. Own a small cheap cottage on the edge of a tiny rural village at the arse end of Australia (Tasmania) live simply and have a like minded parter. I quit work at 35 and am now 59, don’t get any goverment pensions etc have a small investment portfolio of shares i purchased back in the 1990s from working and live off the dividends.
I don’t want to be rich, as to even try to do so I’d have to compromise all of my morals to get there. I’m rich enough. I quit paid work as it wasnt for me. My only regret in life was not quitting work earlier, thats time I cant get back.
Fuck yeah. When you come into Melbourne hit me up and we’ll have a drink
Goals
I want wealth so i can quit this fucking joke of a job and have my own business.
I have no interest in power. I want wealth so that I can stop stressing out over money.
And some people (named Peter Thiel) want both!
I want wealth so I don’t have an existential crisis every time I need to get my brakes done. Or my teeth prosthetics needs repair
The second fits me, I’d love to be able to secure a life for myself and my family — separate from the bullshit in the world (if possible).
I want wealth to become Batman.
I want wealth for ease of mind. No more worries about food, shelter, and health for me and my family.
I’m still waiting for that ease of mind. I could live 2 years off my savings yet most of my anxiety remains financial.
I have no problem going to work every day if I know I can pay my bills and have some fun during my off time.
The last 12 months has been the first time in 20 years that I felt like I wasn’t able to accomplish that, and it’s getting worse.
And I’m content spending most of my weekends at home doing nothing, so I don’t feel like that’s too much to ask.
Most people want wealth because it means they won’t need to think at how to survive the next month.
I want wealth so I can build a better world for everyone else to live in, like building metro lines and libraries all over my city, affordable, mixed-use housing, and funding clean energy projects. We are not the same
These are both forms of power.
I want wealth because I lack self love and wish I had enough money to buy it
I have some bad news for you.
Self-love is free tho. Just use your hands. 🤷🏻♂️
Dammit…I was going to make a similar joke! Except I was going to make it WAAAAY more creepy, weird and jntense intense by describing the feeling of kneeling bent over in front of your sun window, one hand jerkin that cock, the other hsnd wrist deep in your butthole massaging the prostate, just in time to squirt all over your own face.
All while knowing that you’re doing this in the sunwindow. Knowing your neighbors can see you the whole time.
But noooooo! You had to make the joke first! Hmmph!
Yours would have been better, but timing is everything.
I love you buddy
Unless you’re some kind of wierdo that doesn’t like the word moist or you think LeBron vs MJ is a reasonable comparison to make, knowing the game dynamics are completely different for their respective eras, or whatever.
I want wealth so I can quit my day job and focus on creating art
May I suggest Michael Lucas’ ‘Cashflow for Creators’. While not exactly a must-read, personally it helped me a lot to actually map, plan and ultimately take the decision to tell the corporate world to get stuffed.
What kind of art?
I’m a performance artist, specifically circus
I kinda don’t fit in both. I need reasonable steady income/wealth (as soon as it covers food, a car, an apartment, gym, some clothes, … for me and some relatives) so I can do other stuff.
This will be centered around volunteering in different ways (open source, research, …) without fearing going homeless the moment I disagree with someone.
Given my low cost geo location, I am closer to this than ever.
