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It really is very hard to care about money past the point it stops being a source of immediate anxiety. People capable of caring enough to solve for money past their personal anxiety point have a kind of superpower. It might even be the defining trait of entrepreneurs.
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If you stop worrying at say 10k in the bank, but need 100k in non-personal funds to start a project, being able to care enough to go after it (as opposed to caring enough about the thing you intend to do with it) is a superpower. It’s not enough to want it as a means to an end.
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Past trivial amounts, money is tricky enough to make that you have to care about it as an end in itself. The instrumental relationship to money breaks down at edges of paycheck band (~14-150k). Below, it looks like magic. Above, it gets gamified (stock comp starts to dominate).
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I don’t think this is an accident. Paychecks = middle-class. The value of money evolves to get calibrated so that the instrumental band of complexity of making it coincides with average intelligence and lifestyle anxiety levels.
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If the middle class is ever forced to to think non-instrumentally about money, which means being outside the game enough to see it and play it with a bit of meta cognitive mindfulness, but not so much outside that you stop caring entirely, it goes full Kanye.
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