The 10% that does not respond well even to large doses of money is mostly health and old age related. So my rule is: try to stay in the top half by income, preferably much higher, and try to age healthy.
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Life is basically cosmic ransomware
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Solving for life directly in the bottom half is far harder than solving for money, which is why most who are forced to do it fail to varying degrees and accept misery in proportion as their lot as a result. Kinda sucks, but hey, 100 years ago when that was true of bottom 90%
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Tricky balancing act. You have to get enough $-flow, fast enough, young enough to escape misery orbits. But if you try too hard relative to talents, you’ll blow a fuse, burn out. Then, even if you overshoot $-flow hugely, no happiness will take root in space cleared of misery.
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I sometimes wonder how anybody makes it past 40 with sanity intact Then I remember, nobody does
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“Happiness” in this thread is a loose proxy for any non-miserable state of being that can take root in space cleared of misery, usually with $. Think of it as a ladder of more interesting states, most without names, of which basic happiness is the lowest accessible rung.
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I’m very skeptical of people who evangelize the character-building merits of responses to misery and pain besides trying to avoid them/buy your way out with $. If you look closely, they usually solve the hard problems with $ and save their stoic virtues for the easier stuff.
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I’m not going to valorise it, or wish it on anyone, but immense suffering has been clarifying on my character and goals, so it does happen. Only meaningless suffering is bad.
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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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Oh for sure, I’d probably be dead if I couldn’t the medical care but within the same band people who just the money as palliative care without any desire for psychological transformation just create psychological/trauma debt that builds up anyway
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Sure. Such growth is often only possible because of the space created by using money to clear away some of the toughest parts of the misery. And not all who can buy such space have the strength to use it wisely. Sounds like you did, which speaks to your strength 
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My tendons speaks to my weakness Venkat so let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Fair point though. My reaction comes more from empathy than contempt (which is common for strivers in these parts).
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