I'm not rich and I've done whatever I want to do with MY life for the better part of the last 50 years. You're still stuck in the matrix or you think that living a free life requires you to be rich. Newsflash, money is just money and we can always make more or new money. Life, you only have one and you should live that accordingly.
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This is so profoundly a bad argument it is hardly worth responding to, but here it goes.
Your perspective assumes that freedom is purely a mindset and that money is irrelevant to living life on your own terms. While I agree that mindset is crucial, financial resources absolutely play a role in the options available to you.
You claim to have done whatever you wanted for 50 years—great. But that suggests either (1) your desires were always within your means, which obviously is not the case for everyone or (2) you had enough resources to support them. Either way, money was a factor.
Dismissing money as ‘just money’ ignores its role in securing real-world freedom—freedom from dependence, freedom to relocate, freedom to pursue interests, and freedom from coercion. You might not need to be rich, but to say money doesn’t matter is naive. Try living ‘freely’ with zero dollars and see how long it lasts.
We only get one life, as you said—so why pretend money isn’t a key tool in making the most of it?
yap this was most of the times the reasoning why it is difficult to pursue adhd superpowers.. .in the end though something was off to not make it within the means of possible.
I've lived on zero more than once and I stick to my statement. I've lived in 6 countries and I've experienced more "life" in my early 20's than most people experience in their entire life. The real fact is that most people are lost in consumerism and the system they've grown up in. You will never be free as long as you put a nationality and monetary value on yourself.
Sure, not disputing any of that, but it also completely misses the point. You got other people to do the stuff you didn’t want to do the entire time? Can you give me examples of anything you find uninteresting or boring that you have never had to do?