Comments on: One Uncle’s Advice About Money

By: nguyentrungthanh

nguyentrungthanh — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:17:00 +0000

I’m agree with your ideas. Money is only a tool. The motivations behind getting money is to help you achieve your dreams and visions in life.

By: cribcage

cribcage — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:43:04 +0000

Sometimes I spend money and I’m happy, like going out to a fine restaurant. Sometimes I don’t spend money and I’m happy, like hiking. So I devote more time to the inexpensive things that make me happy, only occasionally spending money on other things.

During one of AskMe’s relationship threads, someone commented that there are many roads to happiness in this life and you ought to be able to find one that doesn’t hurt someone else. Same principle. Good advice in both cases.

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By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:35:26 +0000

There’s an old joke that might summarize this article succinctly:

Money won’t buy you happiness, but it will buy your favorite type of misery.

By: Josiah

Josiah — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:11:30 +0000

Good advice. Slight misquote of the bible tho; it actually says “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil” Its only A root, not THE root, and not of all evil, but of all kinds, ie, many varieties of evil.

By: Dane Jensen

Dane Jensen — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:59:22 +0000

In my labor economics class in college the professor was fond of the term “util” as a unit of Drake’s “Unit of Happiness”. He did all kinds of computations involving utils to illustrate various theories of why people work, how much they choose to work, and what they do with their earnings.