One of my main social challenges : finding people who
- (i) don't depend on money for happiness, who
- (ii) know that they don't need money, who also
- (ii) enjoy discussing how money works, and how to take lots of it from other people, just for fun.
1. The poor and diseased
Many people have strongly repressed emotions about what they would like to do, which they cannot do because they don't know how to do it without money. This causes them to spin off into one of two pathological directions :
- (a) they are depressed because they don't know how to make more money, or
- (b) they are manic about money because they don't know how to find happiness, without money
2. The rich and ignorant
Some people have lots of money, so they are in neither of the former categories. However, similarly because would not be able to be happy without it :
- (c) they are foolish enough to spend money without realising that they would not know how to be happy without it, or
- (d) they have a fundamental anxiety about how to not lose money, which is a privileged version of (1,b)
3. Everyone else is simply happy
This is a rare privilege : to be able to be happy regardless of state of poverty, other disease, length of life, and the expectations of other people.
( This is a troll post, utilising some obviously unnecessary dichotomies. )
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