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PaperclipPerfector  10mo ago (text post)   2573 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 7, 2023

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You're in the honeymoon phase. Enjoy it now because in a few months or years you'll start to realize the money doesn't buy you happiness, class or status and you'll feel pretty desperate that you spent money on uhhh, the gemological institute rather than on improving the happiness of the people around you. And if you don't reach that point it's not great either

Nah dude, I was old as fuck when I got my degree (at least in comparison) and I know what I like, and that is gems and the institutes thereof and steam engines and classical music. The people around don't need my help in terms of money, they all have theirs; and when they need something heavy lifted or a pipe soldered or a some such they know who to call.

You gotta be less cynical! They good life really can be good, and money absolutely buys happiness 1:1. If it doesn't, you need to spend it on different shit.

Nah man, I know what I like too, but I'd rather go without them than make the people around me jealous that I have something they covet. It actually makes me feel horrible to flaunt status around other people. It's just sick and would be ridiculous for me to brag about what I have when it makes other people upset. I'd rather use my resources to empower people around me than make them jealous. I have ruined friendships from envy before and I would much rather have the friendship back than be able to feel superior to them because of what I have or what I've been able to experience.

Maybe it's my area but flaunting status would be buying a big dumb mcmansion or a Maserati or something. Nobody gives a shit about my nerdy obsession with Shostakovich and how he is the best modern composer and fuck the haters.

This is socal though, where your either buy your 700000 dollar luxury truck in cash or live on the street with no in-between.

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