• Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.com
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    Everyone give your money to me so I become rich so I can achieve my goals.

    1. Live in bunker in woods away from people

    2. Make LeVar Burton president

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      No. Not me…I’m mainly in the second camp. I just don’t want to deal with… gestures to everything …all this.

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      And there’s the problem; equating wealth with money. The word ‘wealth’ originally meant ‘well-being, prosperity, and happiness’, and it still should. The word ‘welfare’ comes from the same root, but that’s been perverted as well.

      Billionaires aren’t wealthy; they’re just rich.

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    Most people want wealth because it means they won’t need to think at how to survive the next month.

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    I am poor and chose the latter. Own a small cheap cottage on the edge of a tiny rural village at the arse end of Australia (Tasmania) live simply and have a like minded parter. I quit work at 35 and am now 59, don’t get any goverment pensions etc have a small investment portfolio of shares i purchased back in the 1990s from working and live off the dividends.

    I don’t want to be rich, as to even try to do so I’d have to compromise all of my morals to get there. I’m rich enough. I quit paid work as it wasnt for me. My only regret in life was not quitting work earlier, thats time I cant get back.

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      I love you buddy

      Unless you’re some kind of wierdo that doesn’t like the word moist or you think LeBron vs MJ is a reasonable comparison to make, knowing the game dynamics are completely different for their respective eras, or whatever.

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        Dammit…I was going to make a similar joke! Except I was going to make it WAAAAY more creepy, weird and jntense intense by describing the feeling of kneeling bent over in front of your sun window, one hand jerkin that cock, the other hsnd wrist deep in your butthole massaging the prostate, just in time to squirt all over your own face.

        All while knowing that you’re doing this in the sunwindow. Knowing your neighbors can see you the whole time.

        But noooooo! You had to make the joke first! Hmmph!

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    I want wealth so I don’t have an existential crisis every time I need to get my brakes done. Or my teeth prosthetics needs repair

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    I want wealth for ease of mind. No more worries about food, shelter, and health for me and my family.

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      I’m still waiting for that ease of mind. I could live 2 years off my savings yet most of my anxiety remains financial.

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    The second fits me, I’d love to be able to secure a life for myself and my family — separate from the bullshit in the world (if possible).