What is the point of it all?

[Hugo Drax]

Why? Once you reach a certain level of wealth its pretty much good enough more will not really make much of a difference, why enslave yourself like a fool, working like a dog and missing out on life, watching your child discover the world and unfold in front of your eyes?

It becomes nothing but digits on the computer screen at some point. I never understand why Americans do this to themselves in general.

Life is too short to toil away trying to impress other people by totem pole building.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...orking-home-commutes-New-York-California.html

 

[sixone]

Some people do it because they love it, not because they get paid for it.

 

[nickbits]

Because the drive doesn't die once you "have enough".

Greed is a powerful motivator.

 

[Brigandier]

The entire thing is the point of it all, and it takes people willing to do the dance the world around to make it happen.

Do you think we'd have anything approaching our modern convenience if not for people who only lived and worked?

 

[JM Aggie08]

I legitimately enjoy working. That I'd like to provide generational wealth for my family.

Don't be so dramatic.

 

[Charles Kozierok]

There's no point to any of it.

People just have different priorities.

I do wish that folks who want to prioritize their work to the point that they work 80 hours a week would not have kids, though. It's unfair to make innocent children pay for one's life decisions in that way, IMO.

 

[Kadarin]

For the top 0.01%, it's not about working so much as it's about rigging the system to simply continue to automatically funnel wealth their way.

 

[Pray To Jesus]

Don't worry about it too much. Instead, be part of the solution.

 

[shortylickens]

 

[SSSnail]

Remember that hot girl that you used to pursue and did just about anything to get in her pants? Well, you got in her pants. After a while, you looked at her sister and thought ”hmmm”. Yeah, kinda like the same thing.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Some people do it because they love it, not because they get paid for it.

Really? She is just some HR director, toiling her life away like Sisyphus writing boilerplate memos and churning through thousands of emails a day in some cubicle. Having to fly 6000 miles every week home to spend maybe 1 or 2 days with her child and husband after an 80 hour week?



Seems pointless and stupid. Life is too short,no one is going to give a rats ass about her work when she is 6 feet under. Her child will barely even know her.

If you read that article you will see the stupidity of it.

 

[Pray To Jesus]

Why care about how others chooses to spend their life if they're trying to be good? It's pointless for you to do so. Just live your life for good and do your part to improve the human condition.

 

[Vdubchaos]

Some people don't put much emphasis on their family/children.

Everyone is different.

 

[Mixolydian]

I live to work. I'm not happy if I'm not working.

 

[zanejohnson]

oh man your missing the entire point if you think it has ANYTHING to do with money.

 

[chalmers]

I live to work. I'm not happy if I'm not working.

I'm quite the opposite. I work to live. I have a decent job and hate when I have to work over 40 hours a week. I enjoy my down/relaxation time too much to be working all the time.

 

[blankslate]

I subscribe to the hypothesis that some very wealthy people have a disorder similar to that which a hoarder of physical objects has.

Only they hoard wealth. That's not inherently bad. but it depends on if they are trying to buy politicians. Who in some cases are much worse than prostitutes.

 

[Zenmervolt]

She is just some HR director, toiling her life away like Sisyphus writing boilerplate memos and churning through thousands of emails a day in some cubicle.

Yeah...

HR "Directors" have corner offices, not cubicles, and they set company-wide policy instead of writing "boilerplate" memos.

I think you're woefully ignorant of what a Director-level position does.

ZV

 

[Hugo Drax]

oh man your missing the entire point if you think it has ANYTHING to do with money.

Where did you get that impression. They seem to do it out of totem building, trying to impress other people.

Its like those folks who get deep into debt buying "M class BMWS" in order to impress people. Not a pot to piss in, spend all day in traffic and work like a dog all in the hope that someone is impressed by what you drive. :biggrin:

 

[Pray To Jesus]

You can safely say that for some, at this point in their life, it's all about the pussy.

 

[oslama]

So you can get close to Jesus.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I always wondered that too. People are greedy I guess. Especially corporations, their numbers are always in the billions and it's still not enough, they always have to make more. They rather please the shareholders than the customers. That's why if ever I was to start a company I'd never have shareholders, it would all be about making a company that I can live well off of, but also have the satisfaction of knowing that the customers are happy.

 

[Jeff7]

I always wondered that too. People are greedy I guess. Especially corporations, their numbers are always in the billions and it's still not enough, they always have to make more. They rather please the shareholders than the customers. That's why if ever I was to start a company I'd never have shareholders, it would all be about making a company that I can live well off of, but also have the satisfaction of knowing that the customers are happy.

Get enough wealth, and you can subvert government regulations that might be in your way. It can all start at the local levels - you've got friends on the township or city governing body, and so transgressions on your part get overlooked, or you get special favors. And so it continues on up the chain as the company accumulates wealth, and thereby power.
Ancient urges for complete dominance, I suppose.

 

[Farang]

I think it mostly is because people want a sense of security/stability and because they care (consciously and subsconciously) about how they are perceived by their family/friends.

Not saying this is the reason everyone works a 9-5 but it is certainly more comfortable, financially and socially, for a 40 year old to be an HR director at some company rather than an acrobat with the circus.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I saw pics of a 20 mil house in Maui. I want those digits.