Money, Women, or Power?

[Lazerus]

Money, purely cause it can have a more lasting effect. The raging hormones in me say WOMEN WOMEN WOMEN but i'd probably end up getting abit carried away some time and end up scratching for the next 40 years, plus i'd rather be dignified in old age then having some 20year old stunner helping me get dressed afterwards

Besides think of all the nagging and jealousy

[Boris Godunov]

Money. Would give oodles to charity, retire and never work again, travel the world, pay off the debts of family and friends, etc.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
pay off the debts of family and friends, etc.

commie

[Japher]

Charity?

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Kontiki


That would be one form of blindness. Another is to think that having lots of money means the only thing you could possible do with it is buy gold-plated Lamborghinis and eat caviar all day.

Same thing.


There's nothing that I need an obscene amount of money for, so I wouldn't chose it.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by General Ludd
There's nothing that I need an obscene amount of money for, so I wouldn't chose it.

Helping others?

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Helping others?

I can do that just fine without any money.

[General Ludd]

And I think that with my wish of experience, I could help people better than I ever could by simply throwing money around, anyways.

[Kontiki]

I guess if your life's ambitions are to live in a dirt pit and never interact with anyone else, you wouldn't need money. If you derived some sort of satisfaction in being able to start your own business without much worry of failure, or donate to charity, or go to Africa and build a school, or AIDS centre, or buy some vaccinations for children, or help build a homeless shelter in your own town, or contribute to a local school or community project, or help your family and friends out, or be able to not worry about helping your kids now or in the future (should you decide to have any), or just be financially independent enough that you could travel and see the world, or take a "spiritual trek" through Nepal or somewhere, or just read, or work on your garden, or take your time learning new skills without ever worrying about making ends meet, then having a pile of money might not be so bad.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by General Ludd
I can do that just fine without any money.

Really? What, pray tell, could you do that would match giving billions of dollars for cancer research, or to fight world hunger, or for third world debt relief, or any of the numerous other things that are in need of funding?

Honestly, if given this opportunity, I think it would be immoral not to take the money and use it for benevolent purposes.

[Kontiki]

Originally posted by General Ludd
And I think that with my wish of experience, I could help people better than I ever could by simply throwing money around, anyways.

What better way to gain experience than to be able to devote extra time to gaining it because you never have to worry about paying bills? Or gain it from travel, or education, or just reading, again having the time away from work to do this, and the means with which to pay for it if necessary?

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Kontiki
If you derived some sort of satisfaction in being able to start your own business without much worry of failure

... experience would be incredibly helpful. Trying to start a buisness with unlimited funds backing you would be incredibly unrewarding and ultimately self-deprecating.

or go to Africa and build a school, or AIDS centre, or buy some vaccinations for children, or help build a homeless shelter in your own town, or contribute to a local school or community project, or help your family and friends out, or be able to not worry about helping your kids now or in the future (should you decide to have any), or just be financially independent enough that you could travel and see the world, or take a "spiritual trek" through Nepal or somewhere, or just read, or work on your garden, or take your time learning new skills without ever worrying about making ends meet, then having a pile of money might not be so bad.

This is all pretty much equivelant of buying golden lamborghinis and caviar. It's all self congradulatory back-patting, without you actually doing anything of substance. I'd rather have the experience needed to teach in africa than to just throw money around and never think about it again.

Really? What, pray tell, could you do that would match giving billions of dollars for cancer research, or to fight world hunger, or for third world debt relief, or any of the numerous other things that are in need of funding?

Researching cancer? Teaching self-subsistence to those who are starving? Becoming a activist politician? Throwing money around doesn't do anything unless there's people there with experience to put it to good use.

What better way to gain experience than to be able to devote extra time to gaining it because you never have to worry about paying bills? Or gain it from travel, or education, or just reading, again having the time away from work to do this, and the means with which to pay for it if necessary?

There is only one way to gain experience - to live. How you live simply determines what experience you get. If you never have to work, you are missing out on the experience you would of gained through working. If you never have to worry about paying your bills, you are missing out on the related experiences of money-managment and being poor. ect...

Besides, using money to buy your way through everything is not likely to end up being a very valuable experience.

[Kontiki]

I'd say you're being unbelievably narrow-minded. If you can't use your imagination to figure how a pile of money would be helpful even in your oh-so-noble pursuits, I feel sorry for you.

Here's another couple of things that popped quickly into my mind, but I certainly wouldn't limit the range of options to this:

You say you'd rather teach in Africa. Great. How about gaining the experience necessary by volunteering your time to help teach locally or with recent immigrants from the area. And how would you get to Africa - swim? Being able to buy that plane ticket whenever you want to go wherever you want comes in handy for selfless pursuits. Or how about the double wammy - go to Africa, be able to buy the materials to build a school and buy all the textbooks and then teach yourself. Hell, you can even help put the school together brick by brick. I'd wager that's even better than merely showing up to teach.

Or how about the great experience of travelling to remote corners of the world and seeing how various cultures live? It's not like you have to fly first class, arrive by Range Rover and stay in five star hotels, unless you want to. It could just mean that you have the freedom to do this and not have to worry about how to afford it.

True, you might sacrifice the experience of struggling to make ends meet, but I don't think it would be hard to compensate for that and then some in other ways.

[Japher]

Minions I say! Minions would be much better than money!

[Lazerus]

With all that money you could find some way of reducing the worlds population by a third and put the global living standard through the roof in a decade.