How much is a dollar worth?
We interrupt your regularly scheduled obscure, cynical and occasionally humorous programming to bring you the following rant...
About half of a pound?
About 120 yen?
1/800th of an oz of gold?
1/10th of a movie ticket?
A song on iTunes?
0.5 lbs of asparagus?
0.3 lbs of ground beef?
9 minutes at minimum wage?
As my sister Amy says, "money only matters when you don't have it." Clearly the first dollar you earn is worth a lot more than the 10,000th which is worth more than the 100,000th if you ever are so lucky as to pull in that much money before the earth spins around the sun one more time. There does seem to be a point where earning more money clearly has a diminishing return and the oportunity cost of earning that dollar is a lot more than the dollar is worth to you. If you live a thrifty life, there is a point where you earn more money than you can sanely justify spending. At that point, how much is another 1k, 5k or 10k worth?
They say if you make goals, you tend to have a higher chance of achieving them, however, I have never really been of the mind that "earn a lot of money" is a good goal. Basically, since you could always have more money, that is an unachievable goal. Unachievable goals suck but it seems very easy to be trapped in an achievable goal (such as make 40k in a year) and then decide to reset that goal for for a higher bar (like 50k per year). Since there are an infinite number of bars you can keep raising to, you've trapped yourself in an effectively unachievable goal. At what point does one say, "Enough is enough, I'm happy and I don't need more!"
Setting financial and personal goals seemed a lot easier back in high school when everything was theoretical and very divorced from reality. Things like "get an A in Spanish" are a lot more measurable than "get better at basketball". The scope of life was much smaller then. Life is so much more free once you get out the overarching high school goal of "get into a good college" (which in its own way is a very unachievable goal). I've been to college, now what?
Stay tuned next week for "A rant on self segregation". Don't forget to tip you waitress. I'll be here as long as my dynamic IP address doesn't change. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
About half of a pound?
About 120 yen?
1/800th of an oz of gold?
1/10th of a movie ticket?
A song on iTunes?
0.5 lbs of asparagus?
0.3 lbs of ground beef?
9 minutes at minimum wage?
As my sister Amy says, "money only matters when you don't have it." Clearly the first dollar you earn is worth a lot more than the 10,000th which is worth more than the 100,000th if you ever are so lucky as to pull in that much money before the earth spins around the sun one more time. There does seem to be a point where earning more money clearly has a diminishing return and the oportunity cost of earning that dollar is a lot more than the dollar is worth to you. If you live a thrifty life, there is a point where you earn more money than you can sanely justify spending. At that point, how much is another 1k, 5k or 10k worth?
They say if you make goals, you tend to have a higher chance of achieving them, however, I have never really been of the mind that "earn a lot of money" is a good goal. Basically, since you could always have more money, that is an unachievable goal. Unachievable goals suck but it seems very easy to be trapped in an achievable goal (such as make 40k in a year) and then decide to reset that goal for for a higher bar (like 50k per year). Since there are an infinite number of bars you can keep raising to, you've trapped yourself in an effectively unachievable goal. At what point does one say, "Enough is enough, I'm happy and I don't need more!"
Setting financial and personal goals seemed a lot easier back in high school when everything was theoretical and very divorced from reality. Things like "get an A in Spanish" are a lot more measurable than "get better at basketball". The scope of life was much smaller then. Life is so much more free once you get out the overarching high school goal of "get into a good college" (which in its own way is a very unachievable goal). I've been to college, now what?
Stay tuned next week for "A rant on self segregation". Don't forget to tip you waitress. I'll be here as long as my dynamic IP address doesn't change. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
posted by beatdodgers at
10:08 PM
1 Comments:
That was awesome!
The power of Google triumphs on another boring Sunday morning yet again.
Have a good one.
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