Money is permanent. You have it until you trade it for
something, and then that trade is permanent — you are thereafter permanently
without that money. It’s gone and belongs to someone else now. Therefore it’s
important to consider the permanence of whatever benefit you traded it for.
Think about it: when you die, you will have earned and
spent a specific, finite number of dollars. For you the number might be
2,193,003, or maybe it’s 8,806,550, or even 217,101,992. Whatever it is, at the
moment you die, it is a real and actual number. Even if you never wrote any of
your purchases down, there’s an actual list of things these dollars were traded
for, and each of these trades contributed to (or maybe detracted from) the
overall amount of pleasure and fulfillment you experienced in your life.
There’s an enormous range of possible things to trade
these finite dollars for, but ultimately there’s only one thing you’re trying
to get for your money, which is quality of life. Universally, we want the
feelings in our lives to be good, and there’s really nothing else we value. If
you could see your “final balance sheet” and look back on how things went,
you’d intuitively know which of those transactions contributed significantly to
your overall happiness and which did not.
This trading can be done extremely well or extremely
badly. The joy-per-dollar efficiency between different trades can vary by
factors of thousands or millions. So, what are you trading your money for? Do
you invest in people or things? Do you invest in yourself? What makes you happy?
Remember, it's not how much you earn that is important.
The important thing is paying attention to how much is needed so that you can
trade it to have the quality of life that is important to you.
A $4 cup of coffee could buy you 15 mins of happiness. $1
could also buy you a game online that could give you countless hours of fun and
happiness. Do you trade for short term happiness or long term happiness?
Remember to trade wisely.
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