Are you ~not interested~ in money?

but what about

"I'm doing it because I care"

vs

"I'm doing it because I have to"

different things???

xp Retiring at 55 definitely sounds appealing, but what I worry with that is the longer in the future we plan, the more unexpected and unpredictable things are likely to happen. Plan at 25 ... plan depends on constants through 55. I had a friend who was on the retire-at-55 plan, then he suddenly met a girl, and a year later he's now a husband and a father.

"I'm doing it because I am interested" is altogether different

I think, even when semantics are disputed, one can still be interpreting the question wrongly.

Like, if the question were "Do you love money?" and people started debating "well, yeah, I like money, I like having it, it's useful, so yes I like money" it would be valid to say "the question was not whether you *like* money, but whether you *love* it."

Semantic differences in words can still be salient.

yeah, and then you can get to the territory of people collecting coins and notes.

<3 Aussie money, for example.

great thread

You are a terrible poster.

when younger totally had plans when I was young to earn £1m and retire at 40.

totally didn't appreciate how far/not far £1m gets you when younger

sorry about that superfluous "when I was young" bit

actually i suppose it's doable. £25000 a year assuming i die at 80

if it's in your capacity to get ludicrous amounts of money, i'd think you'd have a social obligation to be interested in it so you can disperse it to those in need. i think bono's doing the right thing, basically.

but the man is mentally ill!

mentally ill... like a fox?

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I wanna say I completely agree, but growing up in the US in modern times there is a psychological/emotional attachment I have to money that is deeply, subconsciously ingrained. Whenever I'm in a situation where I'm broke and depressed, the minute some money starts to come back my way I instantly feel better, and it's kind of scary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6uCyrnhG90

i figure i could be happy with a billion dollars

I'm interested in money up to a point. Anything over 2 million starts to become overkill but I wouldn't call this a caveat

so did I just vote "I completely agree" that I'm interested in money or "I completely agree" that I'm not interested in money?

who's bright idea was it to stick ~not~ in the thread title?

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caveats win in a landlside

otoh, money-loving disagreement wins in a landslide

Prince told me in a dream that money can be used to buy heaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqgu3Z9N6t4

http://wfmu.org/365/2003/256.shtml