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by bdangubic 525 days ago
The truth is, there is no such thing as “fuck you money.” It’s a myth, optimized like most of the other American myths, to make the hamsters spin the wheel just a little faster.

Hard disagree… I strongly believe (perhaps subjectively as I am surrounded in some ways by them) there are a lot “regular” people who reached FU money and are living their lives to the fullest vs. billionaires who are dick measuring 24/7 with other billionaires

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Joseph Heller (of Catch-22 fame) was one of them.

His response to a billionaire was 'I have something you will never have - enough'.

perfect, just perfect!