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Money is an attractive nuisance :-) Its too easy to use it as a proxy for 'score'. Kind of silly hearing folks smirk "he's only worth about 50 million." Its a problem I wouldn't mind having but wouldn't sacrifice my family for.


Envy is toxic.

There's nothing wrong with ambition or aiming to make lots of money, but when these are driven by envy you maximise angst on missing a goal and you will always have someone to still envy no matter how successful (unless you're literally one in a billion successful).




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