The centerpiece of your identity and life’s purpose?
A means to get richer than your neighbor to become happy?
Or actually richer than the rest of the world?
Thanks to the internet “we can compare ourselves to every humblebragger from around the globe and it’s making many of us miserable because everyone’s life is perfect on the Internet and our real life is flawed. This is a game you’ll never win because the other side is always cheating.”
When you spend to impress, remember that those whom you’ve impressed will not be there to bail you out when the good times end. So why bother?
You do not need to earn other people’s approval.
Who told you that this would be important in life?
So coming to my final question:
Is work merely a means for ‘buying yourself free time’?
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