Quote from: AnOn.edu on September 22, 2012, 06:46 amQuote from: pine on September 22, 2012, 06:29 amWhen you need shelter/food of course you are motivated to search for them, but if you have 100 units of shelter and food it starts to become boring. You may want a nice burrow today, but there is a upper limit on how much capital you acquire before you obtain other goals. It could be a million, a billion or more, but there is a limit. This is why very wealthy people aren't even really aware of their wealth in practical terms, which is an immensely desirable freedom that you are currently seeking to obtain. Simple freedoms like walking down a supermarket isle without having to think about the prices, that is something. It is that freedom you want most, not specific goods or services. I'm not trivializing that because I think its important. I'm just saying, after that, then what?Not to get all Buddhist, but that freedom (as all are) is an illusion. In that case you trade walking down the supermarket isle free of price worry for worries about asset management, looting by any financial institution, and asset security. Name me a freedom that doesn't require being shackled to something else? Sure, we all have preferred methods of enslavement, but it still comes down to trade offs.True I suppose, you trade me your bank accounts and I'll obtain groceries for you.But in all seriousness I would not describe having millions of dollars as enslavement. Sure you need to do some work, but you can't compare it to working for a living. Besides for some of us playing with money is actually a fun activity. What are we? Masochists?