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It's not really spending. If you look at the resale values it is investing. High art is more investment than consumption (as they say, the rich get richer...)


The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - he goes a little bit into how he did the stuff he did.


What you fail to consider is that no one owns money. Once you die, you dont take your cash to the grave. Im getting philosophacal here, but people are only shepards to money. They are maintainers and once they die someone (or many) will take their fortune.

Like energy, wealth can not be destroyed - only transferred.

The reason billionaires are allowed to exist is because they do a good job of maintaining that money for themselves and others.


Agreed.

I found that a strong feeling of mortality brought upon me the basic humanity described in the article.

I immediately noticed a difference in how others treated me (and how I treated them) for the rest of the day.


Is anyone else disgusted by these "X should have responded like this" articles?

They are so cringy. It's like asking a kid what he would do if he was president... but actually taking it seriously.

The problem with critics is that they have no skin in the game. If they're wrong, they just shrug their shoulders.

You're a paid (if that) journalist writing for profit. Figure out some other angle for peddling your gossip.


In my experience, these things have nothing to do with the language itself, but rather that it's a second language.

As a non native speaker, you just don't have those strong emotional connections to words that a native speaker would have.

Studies show that a foreign language uses more of the thinking brain rather than the feeling brain (they showed this by asking personal / sexual questions in different languages to multilingual people.)


I recommend this documentary which goes into that question

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask


I already saw it and that is why I am asking people here. And thanks so much because I was searching for it and couldn't find it. This is my favorite part (her response): https://youtu.be/cVaTc15plVs?t=1851


Realize that your opinion and ability to predict market actions is completely unfounded.

Whatever they're working on is like research. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. If you tell them it won't work (and you lack any relevant experience), they don't have a reason to believe you and neither do you frankly.

That's how I deal with it. I say to myself, who am I to judge?


Yes, I completely agree with you, but it's a feedback anyway, more data points to consider. I would be glad to hear the negative feedback even if in my mind I say that is BS*. Maybe there are points that I didn't consider before.


I think that was the joke


Certainly should leave?


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