Wealth is measured in Time!!

Example, “you are 2 years wealthy”

Why? If you you have a lot of debt and you stop working, and it takes you 2 months to go broke. Then you are two months wealthy. You can never stop working.
If you make one million a year and expend 1.2 million a year, you are not wealthy eather.

This definition is precise because you can actually measure the amount of “wealthiness”

So by reading this site everyday, I – and other readers – have proven ourselves to be one-dimensional, focused on money and nothing else? Funny, I thought I had an interesting, varied and fulfilling life which I simply wanted to secure by paying down debt and building my savings. Apparently the poster thinks otherwise. This preachy post was not GRS material.

The article is well written and provides that MOST people will not be wealthy in the 1% category of money, but can be sufficiently wealthy in: friends, health, spirit and attitude. No where in the post does she say, “don’t get money”, she states that being wealthy is NOT all about money. And she would be correct.

It doesn’t take much to look at the headlines and see financially wealthy people who fall apart- on their fourth marriages, estranged from children, even committing suicide because they still don’t have it all. If those people, while they were on the way up, read and took to heart this article they might have ended in a better place.

I saw this article as a step back, remember WHY you are interested in building FI. Unless your entire life is based on greed- which is possible- all other things here should be built along with your financial base. Good to keep in mind!

As readers, we’re only seeing one facet of this process. I suspect J.D. isn’t just looking at responses on audition pieces. If he’s smart, he’s also combing over analytics and wondering who ISN’T reading and commenting. If someone is looking to fill a gap, they have to address that gap — not just what works for an already loyal audience.

I think it’s fascinating how we’re working with “virtual currencies” too. I’d like to read more about bit coin.

If it’s all up to JD and he hires Honey, I’m out of here. If I want to read out about someone crawling out of debt, I’ll read about Joan over at Man Vs Debt. As least she has a damn clue.

http://yakezie.com/201798/writing-contest/definitions-of-wealth/

People are afraid to risk because they fear to fail. But they forget to ask themselves on simple question, “What is I succeed”.

I wish JD had worked out how he wanted to do this beforehand and stuck to it instead of apparantly chopping and changing. Personally the end of the week can’t come soon enough for me, this has been tedious and many of the writers seem to be an obvious no-fit for the site.

If so, cool.

(“The Money-Empathy Gap: How Money Makes People Act Less Human”)

(just playing devil’s advocate, here!)

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html (takes until “money is not wealth” to get going)

http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html

I really liked this post. While we’re all looking for ways to get rich slowly and I assume we’re referring to monetary riches, it’s also important to remember that all the financial wealth in the world doesn’t buy happiness. Oftentimes if we stop to remember how much “wealth” we really do have (not the monetary kind), we’ll end up being happier and this lends to other things that create the financial riches we desire. I enjoy reading about the psychology behind matters like these and feel they are relevant to the site.

Just my two cents…

It’s up to you, of course, but I think we’ve seen enough. In some ways, its almost like ended before it began.