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nowater

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are you afraid of money?
how much money makes you afraid.

ill go 1st. like trillion to the power of ten. now i have to sit down and think

you?
 
100,000,000,000,000¹⁰ what? Like cold War soviet rubles? Cause I don't think that amount of money exists unless there's a colony of rich folks we don't know about who sent emselfs into space.
 
No, I'm not afraid of it.
I see it as a tool.
It's a hammer to me.
Hammers don't scare me.

I don't like money though.
I manage it well but I don't like the subject of it.
I'm emotionally detached from money in the same way that most people are not particularly emotionally attached to the chair they're sitting on.

It only gives me a finite amount of motivation.
The brunt of my motivation actually comes from trying to figure out how to fuel efficiency for stretching the value of the dollar to save money.
Or in simple terms: Trying to figure out how to do more with less.
 
you had a trillion x power of 10 you would have a target on your back. Consider that a bit at least.

^I am Alot like C K in my approach to money --- but I don't have it yet so it is a little worrying! As long as I have the things I need to survive a fairly decent life -- pretty much only spend on consumables at this point. (Other than that vidja game box I'm looking at --- cabin fever is real and there is noone around here I wanna meet)
 
nowater said:
are you afraid of money?
how much money makes you afraid.

ill go 1st. like trillion to the power of ten. now i have to sit down and think

you?
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I have watched many beautiful and talented individuals be consumed by money, via proxy of either a addiction to spending it or for facilitating substance abuse and actions leading to both self harm and to those around them.

I have witnessed them lie, cheat and steal, and personally have been on the brunt of their fury when refusing to lend them money.

I’ve watched people on the cusp of reaching peace and stability fall into a dark pit chasing materialism and believing their self worth is naught without consuming and experiencing what is the “norm”

Blaming their resulting suffering on their inability to acquire these “resources” and even one woman who I had a relationship,

From my observation leading it to end a loving period, into spending much energy and time attempting to meld me into devoting both our time, money and energy into acquiring and experiencing very transient and superficial things until we both snapped like a Kit Kat.

I’ve witnessed myself do all the above many times over, to attempt to fill a delusional and imaginative “black hole” within myself.

On a daily basis, I perceive in a plethora of ways, the way resources are misallocated and how a perception is doctored so the whole of humanity is blind to anything other than gain and “wealth”

I treat money with respect, and out of a forced necessity but completly despise it as an evil.

I’m very biased, I do not mean to present any of this a truth, it’s completly an emotional perspective thinly veiled with childlike logic.

However I’m happier and more free without this burden, what I need is what I want and most importantly what I need is very simple.
 
I usually have enough money, but when not enough I start to move in unexpected ways and it starts to become afraid of me and then I find it again. Weird stuff. it is just a agreement by people and seems to measure trust in some way.

I don't care for it that much, most of my money is in books, knowledge, some art work and various things I find in dumps and upgrade. Why pay if you don't need to? I follow the Havamal mostly.

I am looking for independence and freedom, not money. It is just a tool in the end, a weirdly implemented one.

I like the takes of others too.

He seems to express a chance I hope 1/10^14 about. Might not ever happen my friend, but who knows in this quantum world.
 
yeah I hate money, I just waste it, sometimes I bury it in places because I fear taxes
 
KurtAurelius said:
I have watched many beautiful and talented individuals be consumed by money, via proxy of either a addiction to spending it or for facilitating substance abuse and actions leading to both self harm and to those around them.

I have witnessed them lie, cheat and steal, and personally have been on the brunt of their fury when refusing to lend them money.

I’ve watched people on the cusp of reaching peace and stability fall into a dark pit chasing materialism and believing their self worth is naught without consuming and experiencing what is the “norm”

Blaming their resulting suffering on their inability to acquire these “resources” and even one woman who I had a relationship,

From my observation leading it to end a loving period, into spending much energy and time attempting to meld me into devoting both our time, money and energy into acquiring and experiencing very transient and superficial things until we both snapped like a Kit Kat.

I’ve witnessed myself do all the above many times over, to attempt to fill a delusional and imaginative “black hole” within myself.

On a daily basis, I perceive in a plethora of ways, the way resources are misallocated and how a perception is doctored so the whole of humanity is blind to anything other than gain and “wealth”

I treat money with respect, and out of a forced necessity but completly despise it as an evil.

I’m very biased, I do not mean to present any of this a truth, it’s completly an emotional perspective thinly veiled with childlike logic.

However I’m happier and more free without this burden, what I need is what I want and most importantly what I need is very simple.
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I don’t think I’m afraid of money itself. It’s more about what it does to people. I’ve seen similar situations where once money becomes the center of everything, everything else starts falling apart. So I try to keep it simple for myself. If something costs me my peace or normal relationships, it’s not worth it. I’d rather have less and avoid that kind of race.
 
I think money can change you or the people around you. For the better or worse. Saying ill stay the same is incorrect. U change on the daily even subconsciously. your beliefs change your thinking pattern changes(especially for sum1 young like me)
The better question is wats the impact of having incredible amounts of money have on me. Would I hate to see what I become. That will make me afraid

But also money is a commission construct. It doesnt mean anything. If aliens are real are they using paper cotton money? Probably not. It might not mean as much elsewhere in the universe compared to earth
 
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