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Originally Posted by will76
Hey just shooting the shit, to each their own how they want to live their lives... i'm giving you more bumps to help sell your stuff.
The "you can die young" is the classic response of people who don't want to work a lot. True you can die young, you can also live to be 100. And if you don't work much and you live to be a 100 chances are your life will fucking suck and you will work till you are real old and then tossed into a retirement home because you can't afford anything and the state will have to take care of you. Per your logic, god help you if you don't die young because your life will suck as your will be poor and old.
For every person you have known that died before 60, there are millions more who live pay check to pay check well into their 70's and still working.
/Dr. Phil ;)
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That's a pretty backhanded statement. It's as if you're saying that I don't really care about my family and spending time with them, I'm just using them as an excuse to justify my laziness.
That BTW is a classic response from a money obsessed workaholic who is trying to justify his lack of time spent with his kids, or the fact that he's on his 3rd marriage, or that his kids grew up to be addicts, strippers, hookers, whatever.
I never said I didn't save any money, or that I was looking for a handout, or that I haven't planned for my future, be that living to 100 (because I've saved) or dying tomorrow (because I've bought insurance).
What I've learned over the years is this,
you never get rich, you just achieve new levels of relative poverty.
No matter how much you have, you're always looking at the guy one rung above you on the ladder and envying him.
The guy who can't afford to take a nice vacation envies the guy who can. The guy going on vacation and flying coach envies the guy flying first class. The guy flying first class envies the guy who can charter a private plane. The guy chartering the plane envies the guy who owns a plane. The guy who owns a plane envies the guy who owns a nicer plane. The guy who owns the nicest plane probably sees his wealth as more of a burden than a blessing, because everyone wants a piece of him and he doesn't know who his true friends are, and he envies the "normal joe six pack guy".
At some point, you decide what your priorities are and live them. It's not like I'm too lazy to work hard....if I was, I would have never taken the initiative to start my own business in the first place. A lazy person wouldn't dream of spending their free time "working" to try and get a new business going.
I made a conscious choice to earn less money in order to have more time for other things that are more important to me and I have zero regrets about that. Quit trying to find something wrong with me just because I don't share your worldview and worship of the almighty dollar.
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