What does money mean to you?

[Bioture]

mastercard is awesome... what r u talking abt

[SaucyKing]

people dont like to think of this because its unpleasant to them, but someone has to be a janitor, someone has to work at a store. not every one can sell real estate, otherwise how could society function? someone has to stock food and stuff. someone has to do lower paying jobs. they call this 'structural functionalism'

HOLY CHRIST AND BALLS PEOPLE

I'M ACTUALLY AGREEING WITH TONE

Heheh, in class, when the teacher tells everyone to shut up, I say, "Let em talk. We need someone to mop our floors, right?"

Which is true. Without the millions of losers in the world, there'd be no chance to succeed, for the people that actually want to.

[K2Grey]

First define what a loser and success are.

I don't have aspirations of being a janitor myself, but I don't think "loser" every time I pass one.

[Eric is God]

First define what a loser and success are.

I don't have aspirations of being a janitor myself, but I don't think "loser" every time I pass one.

I'm sure somewhere there are janitors who are in unions and make a pretty decent living. Garbage men for example make very good money especially for the hours they work. I'm guessing your point is that money doesn't necessarily equal success and I'd agree on that.

[Facetious]

however, from reading your posts on these forums i can imagine you bragging about your job and your grades and your schoolwork, and i know people that brag like that rub me the wrong way big time.

how??

I was accepted for the final round interviews with Merrill Lynch about two weeks ago, and they wanted me to go down to their NJ Hopewell campus to do the final round interviews. They flew me down to philadelphia, had a driver (who had a nice, luxury car but wasnt a limo) drive me from philly to my hotel in NJ, where I stayed in a king suite, and then had a driver that took me to dinner in this ridiculously overpriced restaurant. Went in exchanged business pleasantries with the other recruits and recruiters, came out, got into another car, went back to the hotel. Woke up, got a ride to campus, did the interviews, left for philly airport, and was back in state college within a day and a half.

I have the vouchers for the plane tickets and car rides here:
Round trip plane tickets: $750 (i know its a lot, dont ask me why - they were small planes)
Ride from Airport to Hotel in NJ: $130
Hotel (at ML discount rate): $127
Ride from hotel to dinner, with driver waiting 3 hrs: $197
Dinner at peacock inn: $60 without drinks
Ride to campus for interview: $25
Ride from campus to airport: $130

The transportation costs went over 1400 itself for a day and a half - are these guys NUTS? All they had to do was ASK me to drive down and then reimbuse me like 50 bucks for gas money and find a motel for me to sleep in... I felt like this whole thing, while nice, was a complete waste of money... but big companies don't care... why? I felt like the whole thing was to impress me about how much money they can throw around...

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[Bioture]

i didnt mean to make it sound like bragging but i guess you got me.

[Rab]

money is just a boundary to cross in order to do/get what it is you want.

for example, if you want to go on a life changing mission to the top of everest... you need money.


money is also a means of survival.

no money = u die.



people with bigger goals need more money. and i think there's a natural equilibrium... whoever has the goals/needs the money - will get it.

[The Apache]

Yeah man, money is nothing.
That's why I have a roof over my head, and a comfortable bed to sleep in at night.

[ZeUs!!]

£250 means I can afford to see in the new year in a different country (and hopefully not get torched)

[cundor]

No one worries about money until they're broke

[Arikel]

I think money can work both ways around, it can either be your freedom or it can either be your slavery it all depends on what you do to get it and why you do what you do to get it!
Today it's not really a question of hoarding to much money but more of pass money around making it circulating in order to do whatever you feel like whenever you feel like. Having huge loads of money is still a measure of how successfull you are at life although i think that image is slowly dissipating.
I think the most interesting and usefull skill a person can have today is not how to make money but how to provide things that are not obtainable by money and to obtain whatever you need without the need to spend a cent, along with that comes the need of being able to give a good use to your money.

[BleakFuture]

No one worries about money until they're broke

Or until they can't spend any because they have to pay bills

[Facetious]

i didnt mean to make it sound like bragging but i guess you got me.

i mean you could have been like, "they spent a bunch of money to fly me out there and bought me nice things" not list literally every thing they got you, thats the difference between bragging and just trying to start a discussion about money. at the time of the pride post, i was too lazy to search for a post like this but i knew they were out there.

as far as money is concerned, money cant buy happiness but it certainly can contribute to it. no amount of money could make up for having a job that i hate, because if im spending the majority of my waking hours doing stuff i dont like, my life, clearly, will suck. however, as long as i have a job i enjoy, money makes a huge difference, because having money negates having to do dumb chores and shit. i probably wont spend a lot of money on stuff (or at least i say that now, if i get married and make a bunch of money im counting on spending a lot on bullshit furniture and stuff like that), but the difference between having a housekeeper come once a week and cleaning everything ymyself would be a huge difference in my life. i hate cleaning, i never want to do it. basically, having money to eliminate the anxiety of worrying about bills and chores would be important to me, but i dont really think theres a huge difference in happiness between buying the basic toyota camry once every 8 years and getting a new lexus every 2 years.

[K2Grey]

It seems clear to me that the purpose of his list was to show what a colossal waste of money it was and exactly how they wasted money, and not to brag about how money was wasted on him.

[Facetious]

yeah, but its obvious on the kind of stuff they wasted money on. if hed just said "they wasted a bunch of money" im pretty sure everyone would have gotten the point. its not like they bought him 2,000 dollars of teddy bears, they bought him, food, transportation, and hotel rooms.

my point isnt "wow bioture is a huge asshole" its that earlier on in these forums he asked why someone might have a problem with him, as far as pride is concerned. im saying that someone more modest would not have listed all those things, they would have said "i got a lot of money spent on me, and in reality, i feel it was a waste, and im conflicted as to whether having extremely nice, but unneccessary things is worth working 60-80 hours a week in a fucking god-awful boring job like being a low-level financial manager."