Money can’t buy happiness but it sure as hell can create room for it
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This thread brought to you courtesy some free space that would otherwise have been filled with misery if I hadn’t had $ to throw at it to make it go away
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Point I’ve been getting at is that keeping misery at bay is by far the most valuable use of money. Most actual desires for positive experiences aren’t actually that expensive to fulfill. The best things in life are free. It’s avoiding the shitty things that costs $$$$.
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If you inventory desires, I bet you’ll find that most material things you want are pretty cheap. Ice cream is cheap. Movies are cheap. Even a cliche trip to Paris is cheap if you live in the west and are canny about deal-hunting. But an illness or commute-busting car repair,
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Wealth causes stoicism as well as the belief that stoicism causes wealth
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If you doubt this thread just think about a couple of people one rung better off than you, but otherwise similar in lifestyle/family situation as you. Examine what they spend their extra discretionary income on: to remove some marginal misery, or add some marginal pleasure?
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Apparently I wrote up a version of this argument back in 2012 and forgot. I’m so in reruns/reboot mode
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I’ve yet to encounter a situation of misery so deep it can’t be made even worse by taking money out of it. Either first-hand or as a spectator.
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We just get good at pretending to be sane enough to stabilize the $ flows needed to keep misery at bay and protect a small clear space for better things. Sanity is overrated.