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"a measureable point system"
that can be used to "Get anything you want"
who wouldn't be addicted
Why do people keep referring to that happiness study saying its 100k its clearly closer to 300k when happiness falls off. 30k a month, you can have a super car for 4k a month and take care of people around you, if you choose to. I need to make my own damn study on this.
Bold considering this video is introduced with a sponsor 😭
Bartering wasn't historically really a thing. Modern archaeologists now mostly think that ancient people had an honour system where you basically owed people favours. A lot of rural communities around the world still operate with the same system to some extent and even getting credit at the local store is easy for relative newcomers if the locals feel at all they can be trusted.
Money is a tool
This one was powerful
I make 30k a yr what the fuck
Can you make a video and kindly explain how it came about Human paying rent for shelter_
Money is good for societal control.
Money is a form of enslavement. Its nothing more then a way to enslave society. The love of money is the root of all evil. Its created out of thin air by a special group of people. It creates a debt based society. What a stupid system.
BS. Barter was not used before money. This is a myth. Check out "gift economy" and "barter myth".
Let me save you time: we’re fucked
That’s why we want communism 😊
Im so confused by this view point.
To me, finding happiness is when you don't need money to live life.
Everything you need in life you can provide for yourself without money. Money doesn't have to rule your life.
Money is another form of the division of humanity.
Money only has value because we have been programmed to value it.
Does one need money to live a good life? NO. If you think you do then you're not thinking at all.
Jeeeezus, deep shit dude and well presented….but money, as is it's profusely over rated has absolutely no comparison to the happiness of life, no matter how it's looked at and conceived, happiness, the love for life and the overwhelming chance of just being able to be a part of the existence of our beautiful planet….is totally enough to be happy about…. love life and love everyday 🤟🎶
Money is the closest thing to god in this world.
I've been waiting for this video, for so long.
I am so so excited!
Thank you ❤️
Personally I find little value in money. I have enough to live from, yet in comparison to my peers I am financially poor, but I don't strive to make more. I find the very meaning boring and unnecessary.
In the videogames I play however I love to strive for the overluxurous maximum amount for the sheer curiosity about it and that is has zero consequences. It's a save pursuit. But in real life I consider it boring.
The irony of this video being monetised 🥲
Lets not forget about the rates in which people obtain money. It took me working 3 jobs and over 60/hrs a week to make 75k a year. I felt a good sense worth and accomplishment when I saw the numbers at the end of the year. I also felt strange that other people made the same and worked far less. It was hard to accept the fact that it's not about hard work but the value society places on your time is a result of how much money you make. I want to be more valuable so that I can work less but still make the same.
Most of us are slaves to money & there’s nothing we can do about it
Money is a tool modern humans constructed to allocate the resources needed for survival. Thus, Money is a tool of our survival. If our survival strategy is pathological (justifies harming others so we can survive at their expense), then this will be reflected in the means we use to allocate resources. Like money.
even some big capitalists agree money it's not best system, we need a more practical one, nobody dares to bring the subject up or worse nobody has better ideas,, communism came to help. it failed terribly,
money is the root of all evil, it’s too powerful of a concept that corrupts indiscriminately
for me this world is like an outhouse, it begin to smell like one too.
The answer is spend it on science.
God, I'll never be happy.
Well that was depressing as hell.
13:58 red dead reference 2?????
Comment section is full of broke philosophical genius lol.
I love money ❤
money solves all problems and if you still have problems then that means you don't have enough.
It's always the poor and broke that says money has no meaning and yet suffer from a lack of it. Focusing their time and energy on why it's bad and evil while not realizing time is killing them slowly.
Ignorance of money is no excuse for ones own suffering.
Compound interest is king.
I just want to travel a little. Other tha that j feel blessed
I find its the biggest egoic trap thus you must suffer if that's your main pursuit. Entertainment, uni, consumerism on a whole in the western world seems to keep you in that black box
Gold is king
Given that some people know how to be deeply happy (not just superficially like a Californian 🤣) with 6K a year, when I hear you seeming seriously support the theory that 100K is a good average amount to be "happy", I have to go watch a different video, I think you have been misled (for once !).
I tried living without money, I got down to $3,000 a year. I lived in a van, I ate little, no TV or internet. I loved it! I found it interesting how often police would tell me to “move along” and realized there is no freedom unless you have things, property and can pay others.
A masterpiece .