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Fun or Money?

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Fun or Money?

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HAL9000 said:
It does give you those possibilities but it doesn't guarantee it, option 1 guarantees fun.
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True, I'd take my chances on the money enabling me to do all the fun things and enjoy a constantly fun life (though not guaranteed, a high possibility), plus having the money to facilitate goals, achievements or specific desires to give your life more purpose. Like having substance in addition to the dessert.

It could be anything from funding political aspirations to investing to make a fortune, buying a sports team, on and on... things that you wouldn't get with just the guaranteed fun life.

The money option is close to having your cake and eating it too.
 
the_Industry said:
True, I'd take my chances on the money enabling me to do all the fun things and enjoy a constantly fun life (though not guaranteed, a high possibility), plus having the money to facilitate goals, achievements or specific desires to give your life more purpose. Like having substance in addition to the dessert.

It could be anything from funding political aspirations to investing to make a fortune, buying a sports team, on and on... things that you wouldn't get with just the guaranteed fun life.

The money option is close to having your cake and eating it too.
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Yep perfectly valid reasoning. :thumbsup:
 
As someone who chased a career and passed up lots of fun: I'd say focus on things that will give you happy memories years from now.

The economy could go to shit and you could still be out of work.

Also, lazy dirtbag assholes always seem to survive somehow. Which is something people like me cant figure out.
 
Most studies show that there actually is a level of wealth, above which people tend to be happier. BUT, as wealth increases beyond that, happiness does not increase.
 
depends on the personality type.

misery of others = happiness for some.

i agree with you on a middle class, 'content' level, but there are certainly people out there laughing maniacally at every million.
 
HAL9000 said:
But there are some things that you find fun that don't require money.

I'm saying that you will be given the thing not the money, I.e. if you enjoy skydiving you get to do it without paying, no need for money, free fun.
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Ohhhhh, I get it. So, if I like traveling around the world, eating at 5 star restaurants, swimming in Fiji before breakfast, having dinner in Paris later in the day, etc., I get to do that? I would have private jets chartered for me to get to place to place with hookers and blow. I think it would be fun to visit the North Pole and then the South Pole. It would be fun to be a space tourist, climb aboard a Soviet rocket, and hang out with the astronauts on the International Space Station for a week or so. I have my choice between that, and having money. Hmmmm...

This thread is retarded.
 
Some folks are blessed with kickass jobs and ways of going through life that really are not that financially rewarding, but completely rewarding nonetheless.
That's where I want to be.
Maybe that was what the OP was thinking about.
 
While definitely not rich, I have enough money to do most things. I do not, however, do many things that are fun. Therefore, I'd pick fun.
 
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Unlimited fun or unlimited money? Hmmmm... leaning towards the money. I'd make sure my grandfather would finally retire and put him in a small but nice house near to most of his friends still alive. No reason in hell why someone who risked life and limb in world war 2 for freedom should still have to work at 87 to support himself. I'd likely do the same for the mother and pay for all the hip and knee replacement surgury she needs that costs tens of thousands, because her current financial situation has her pegged as being too rich for government aid on that end, too poor to pay for such things outright.

Knowing that the family is taken care of, their cars aren't always on the verge of falling apart, all of their health needs are covered and they can afford to not be in pain all the time would offer the sort of piece of mind you can't really get from endless fun.
 
I'd choose money in your scenario since unlimited money can equate to unlimited fun. If your poll was fun all the time and not much money, or tons of money but no fun. Then i would have chosen fun.

Basically unlimited money can buy you anything and provide you with unlimited things you find that are fun. So its a win win any way you look at it.

Guarented fun doesnt put food on my table or a roof over my head.
 
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I'd take the money, then I could help out my family and friends when they go through rough times, and I could still have fun too.
 
"Money doesn't buy happiness." Uh, do you live in America? 'Cause it buys a WaveRunner. Have you ever seen a sad person on a WaveRunner? Have you? Seriously, have you? Try to frown on a WaveRunner. You can't!
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/tosh
 
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