I have no interest in power. I want wealth so that I can stop stressing out over money.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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Everyone give your money to me so I become rich so I can achieve my goals.
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Live in bunker in woods away from people
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Make LeVar Burton president
These are both forms of power.
Some people want wealth to expand their stamp collection.
I want wealth so I don't have an existential crisis every time I need to get my brakes done. Or my teeth prosthetics needs repair
And some want wealth to do fun things, help people and not have financial worries.
No. Not me......I'm mainly in the second camp. I just don't want to deal with... gestures to everything .....all this.
I want wealth so I can quit my day job and focus on creating art
May I suggest Michael Lucas' 'Cashflow for Creators'. While not exactly a must-read, personally it helped me a lot to actually map, plan and ultimately take the decision to tell the corporate world to get stuffed.
What kind of art?
I'm a performance artist, specifically circus
I am poor and chose the latter. Own a small cheap cottage on the edge of a tiny rural village at the arse end of Australia (Tasmania) live simply and have a like minded parter. I quit work at 35 and am now 59, don't get any goverment pensions etc have a small investment portfolio of shares i purchased back in the 1990s from working and live off the dividends.
I don't want to be rich, as to even try to do so I'd have to compromise all of my morals to get there. I'm rich enough. I quit paid work as it wasnt for me. My only regret in life was not quitting work earlier, thats time I cant get back.
Fuck yeah. When you come into Melbourne hit me up and we’ll have a drink
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Most people want wealth because it means they won't need to think at how to survive the next month.
I don't want wealth. I want things and to do activities that require money. If I could skip the money and just have the things and activities, I would be happy.
And there's the problem; equating wealth with money. The word 'wealth' originally meant 'well-being, prosperity, and happiness', and it still should. The word 'welfare' comes from the same root, but that's been perverted as well.
Billionaires aren't wealthy; they're just rich.
I want wealth so i can quit this fucking joke of a job and have my own business.
I want wealth because I lack self love and wish I had enough money to buy it
I love you buddy
Unless you're some kind of wierdo that doesn't like the word moist or you think LeBron vs MJ is a reasonable comparison to make, knowing the game dynamics are completely different for their respective eras, or whatever.
Self-love is free tho. Just use your hands. 🤷🏻♂️
Dammit.....I was going to make a similar joke! Except I was going to make it WAAAAY more creepy, weird and jntense intense by describing the feeling of kneeling bent over in front of your sun window, one hand jerkin that cock, the other hsnd wrist deep in your butthole massaging the prostate, just in time to squirt all over your own face.
All while knowing that you're doing this in the sunwindow. Knowing your neighbors can see you the whole time.
But noooooo! You had to make the joke first! Hmmph!
Yours would have been better, but timing is everything.
I have some bad news for you.
I want wealth for ease of mind. No more worries about food, shelter, and health for me and my family.
I'm still waiting for that ease of mind. I could live 2 years off my savings yet most of my anxiety remains financial.
I want wealth to become Batman.
I kinda don't fit in both. I need reasonable steady income/wealth (as soon as it covers food, a car, an apartment, gym, some clothes, ... for me and some relatives) so I can do other stuff.
This will be centered around volunteering in different ways (open source, research, ...) without fearing going homeless the moment I disagree with someone.
Given my low cost geo location, I am closer to this than ever.
The second fits me, I'd love to be able to secure a life for myself and my family — separate from the bullshit in the world (if possible).
I have no problem going to work every day if I know I can pay my bills and have some fun during my off time.
The last 12 months has been the first time in 20 years that I felt like I wasn't able to accomplish that, and it's getting worse.
And I'm content spending most of my weekends at home doing nothing, so I don't feel like that's too much to ask.
I want wealth so I can build a better world for everyone else to live in, like building metro lines and libraries all over my city, affordable, mixed-use housing, and funding clean energy projects. We are not the same
And some people (named Peter Thiel) want both!