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[dweekly]

It's a good idea to ask yourself what your goal is. Do you actually want to make a billion dollars? At what expense? Some things correlate much better with happiness than cash.

[sobbybutter → dweekly]

I think Thoreau said it best: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

[RyanMcGreal → sobbybutter]

For a detailed, pragmatic exegesis of this insight, see Your Money Or Your Life by Joe Dominguez.

[tomjen3 → dweekly]

Money has made more happiness than has poverty.

[_delirium → tomjen3]

Sure, but "have enough money to avoid poverty" is a much different goal than "make a billion dollars".

[jonah → _delirium]

Yes. Once you reach a certain level of income the increase in happiness levels off. (Around 60k in the US apparently.)

[ytNumbers → _delirium]

Wanting to make a billion dollars leads to this sort of silliness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aRor905cCw

[zaidf → tomjen3]

[citation needed]

[pyre → dweekly]

Making a billion dollars, and holding on to it are separate things. If you feel that being a billionaire will make you 'uncool,' then why not just donate a large portion of it to some charity. What could be 'cooler' than making $1B and then turning around to donate $900M to charity?