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    when will people realize its not words to make poor people feel better about being poor


    Money can buy THINGS


    money cant buy happiness

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    when will people realize its not words to make poor people feel better about being poor Money can buy THINGS money cant buy happiness
    Are you going to donate your slum properties to the homeless?

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    Suicide bombers are often from wealthier families.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Are you going to donate your slum properties to the homeless?
    I don't have any

    you gonna donate your tiny brain to science so they can figure out why poor people like you can be convinced to vote against their own interests all their lives?

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    Its a quick and interesting read


    they make money to compete with the jones


    it leaves them with unsatisfied lives


    when you place things over people you empty the human soul

    its too easy for the wealthy to get caught in that


    it leaves them empty and feeling like life is shallow


    wealth makes it harder to be happy when you reach a certain level of wealth


    what fools

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    Once you reach a certain level of wealth, the rest is just keeping score.
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Ive stood toe to toe with TWO drug dealers in my life.

    They both got the fuck out and I still own both houses.

    both were huge 6'3"ish 300 pounders.


    one white and one was black.

    Big guys think they can just get away anything sometimes.


    I spit in the face of the black guy and sprayed the white guy with my hose.

    Blew the fucking neighbors away with my actions.
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    the post of mine you quoted is 5 years old


    how did you now I didn't sell my vegas house in those years ?


    oh and its a 4 bedroom 3bath over 2000 sq foot in a good neighborhood


    so either way you are wrong

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    I don't have any
    Liar.

    Donate your properties to the homeless, unless you are a hypocrite.

     
    You are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    Once you reach a certain level of wealth, the rest is just keeping score.
    yeap once your life is secure enough to allow you to breath easy money can make you mistake what can make you truly happy


    yes things can be nice and make you day to day life easier but they just wont fill your soul


    this is why the 1 percent are often not the best Kind of people


    they keep chasing that imaginary number that will prove they are worthy.


    money will never make you worthy


    It can make you secure but not worthy

    only sociopaths don't understand that

    so they become the ones still chasing the buck no matter how well they have done

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Liar.

    Donate your properties to the homeless, unless you are a hypocrite.

     
    You are.
    these types of posts show you are an unsatisfied human


    your only joy is imagining the pain you believe you cause

    No money and only imaginary pain of others as your wealth.


    you are truly a pathetic excuse for a human being


    I hope for your sake you are actually a russo bot hole

    that would much less pathetic

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    yeap once your life is secure enough to allow you to breath easy money can make you mistake what can make you truly happy yes things can be nice and make you day to day life easier but they just wont fill your soul this is why the 1 percent are often not the best Kind of people they keep chasing that imaginary number that will prove they are worthy. money will never make you worthy It can make you secure but not worthy only sociopaths don't understand that
    so they become the ones still chasing the buck no matter how well they have done
    Donate your houses to the homeless, hypocrite.

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    A great read.

    Thanks for posting this, evince.

    It only confirms to me why it is so wise to think of happiness not in terms of how much wealth one possesses, but in other more intangible terms.

    "The research Norton has conducted illustrating this phenomenon is dispiriting. In a paper published earlier this year, he and his collaborators asked more than 2,000 people who have net worths of at least $1 million (including many whose wealth far exceeded that threshold) how happy they were on a scale of 1 to 10, and then how much more money they would need to get to 10. “All the way up the income-wealth spectrum,” Norton told me, “basically everyone says [they’d need] two or three times as much" to be perfectly happy."
    It is SO foolish to tie your aspirations for happiness to wealth acquisition. Once you have enough wealth to have the basics covered, plus a little to play with? You are as happy as money can make you. Any further improvement in your happiness has to come from within, not from your bank account.

    If bank accounts = happiness ,,, they would call them happiness accounts!

    James Taylor got it right:

    The Secret Of Life


    The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

    People who are obsessed with wealth acquisition? They don't understand the simple secret of life.

    You only get so many days to be alive.

    What are you going to do with them?

    Seems to me, once you've got wealth acquisition covered? There is no point in toiling any more unless what you are doing truly makes you happy. And if that happiness causes other people to be miserable? It is a VERY SHALLOW happiness. Not true happiness.

    Wasting your days seeking more wealth than you really need? Totally foolish. I feel a bit sorry for super-wealthy people who do this. Life is too precious to be wasted amassing a needless number on a bank account balance.

    And some people say they want to do it for their children. What? they are not capable of doing that on their own? You want to deprive them of the feeling of accomplishment of making it in this world? Makes no sense.

    Ya gotta live your own life. Nobody else is going to do it for you, and you shouldn't try to do it for somebody else, either.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Donate your houses to the homeless, hypocrite.
    if you didn't drink non stop you could donate your organs

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