some quotes since it's a nice articlehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1369770852791709697 …
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> It can reveal what people have experienced in life. Show me a pessimist and I’ll show you someone whose economic well-being hasn’t turned out the way they imagined; show me an optimist and I’ll show you someone whose career has exceeded their expectations.
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> Money reveals who people trust, who they don’t, who they find compelling and who they will never take seriously. > It shows what society values (not necessarily skills, but scarcity) and what makes things break (expectations getting too high, having no room for error).
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> It shows, better than anything else, the advantage of being born lucky vs. having the odds stacked against you. > It shows what makes people happy and what clearly doesn’t.
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> Few things are better than money at revealing our capacity to adapt to circumstances. Few things are better at revealing how prone people are to jealousy, envy, and regret.
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> The point is we should go out of our way to learn about investing by looking at things that have nothing to do with investing. And we should learn about things that have nothing to do with investing by looking at investing.
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