I just had a perspective change on life.... now im money hungry.

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PRECISELY! Glad to see someone gets it.

All those people claiming "money buys happiness" or "more is always less" haven't had very much of it - or at least not for a while (new vs. old money).

In fact, this is one reason why the better off end up having to self segregate themselves because you realize other people "just don't get it".
And who wants to spend their time explaining themselves to other people who just don't share your reality?

Word, you nailed it, +rep. I'm a sharer. I like to share everything I have. I would even say that sharing with friends is what really makes me happy. But as a guy that likes to share, I have to recognize that some people are simply mooches. Mooches are a serious bummer.

I don't even have very much money, but I have a lot of fucking broke friends. And when your broke friends lose their job or car or dog, and need to "borrow" some of that hard-earned cash that you must appear to have so much of, "just for a week" when you know they can't pay that amount off in a year... Well, no matter how nicely you try, people don't like to hear "i can't afford that loan" [they know I'm lying] or "you can't afford that loan" [they know i'm right], and you're either about to lose money, or a friend.

I used to regard friendship above all else, and didn't care about the money. After a year or two of having more money than most of my friends, I've started just getting rid of all but the closest friends, one by one, as they ask ask for loans I could probably have given them. Invariably, I look like a prick to these so-called has-been friends, and maybe I am. But guess what? I'm happier with all that money, because at least I know the money's not sitting on the couch, owing me more money, eating my food and playing my xbox while I'm at work.

The most frustrating thing you can do with your hard-earned money is watch people-you-trusted waste it.

 

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Word, you nailed it, +rep. I'm a sharer. I like to share everything I have. I would even say that sharing with friends is what really makes me happy.

Sharers have succeeded from socio-biological standpoint, because sharing increases the trading pool. You help someone today, recognizing that their well being and future success is tied to your own prosperity. It is not "good" to be surrounded by poor people who cannot trade with you. Not mentally or physically healthy. Thus we share. It is different person to person, but generally, insular individuals, even successful ones, were susceptible to extinction.

I used to regard friendship above all else, and didn't care about the money. After a year or two of having more money than most of my friends, I've started just getting rid of all but the closest friends, one by one, as they ask ask for loans I could probably have given them. Invariably, I look like a prick to these so-called has-been friends, and maybe I am. But guess what? I'm happier with all that money, because at least I know the money's not sitting on the couch, owing me more money, eating my food and playing my xbox while I'm at work.

I stopped giving loans even to family. I no longer engage in charity. I think it is very destructive to give people things without strings attached.

Instead, I now pay people to do things. Someone says they need $500, I presume that is because they do not have an opportunity to earn $500. So I hire them. This very quickly weeds out the people looking to borrow and not pay back. Plus I can explain it to them morally with a straight face.

When someone wants a loan, offer to hire them. If they don't want to work, you are never getting paid back what you loaned them anyways.

And you will be doing them and their self esteem a favor, as they will get the money honestly, and they might even get some positive momentum in their life from being active and engaged with commerce.

Giving people money without strings is why welfare is so destructive to the morale of the poor. It destroys the incentives for them to take care of themselves. This is why private charity [sic] is better than state welfare, because private charity [sic] will not support people indefinitely. It will not support people who use charity for drugs or booze. The state doesn't care. In fact, the state's incentives are to keep people on welfare, not to get them off. The more people on welfare, the more government jobs, the more taxes, and the more government growth.