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10-21-2014, 10:28 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2014
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Security.
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10-21-2014, 11:33 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SF East Bay
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Money, and my fairly conservative WR, means the potential to one day have enough of it to buy myself a gasoline-powered turtleneck sweater, or a fur-lined sink.
I might even purchase some frivolous things too 
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10-21-2014, 11:50 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2014
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Liquidity
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10-22-2014, 12:55 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Duesseldorf, Germany
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Independence.
The option to walk away at my discretion.
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10-22-2014, 01:43 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: No Where for Very Long
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Money = choices...
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10-22-2014, 10:01 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: San Jose
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Originally Posted by chris2008
Independence.
The option to walk away at my discretion.
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I second this.
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10-22-2014, 10:05 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2014
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Fungible work and materials.
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10-22-2014, 03:19 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: West Tx
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Security and a little worry thrown in from time to time.
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10-22-2014, 04:45 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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Originally Posted by Major Tom
Money, and my fairly conservative WR, means the potential to one day have enough of it to buy myself a gasoline-powered turtleneck sweater, or a fur-lined sink.
I might even purchase some frivolous things too |
The means to spend it on wine, women, and song. The rest you can waste.
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10-22-2014, 05:13 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Minneapolis 'burbs
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Options.
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10-22-2014, 11:01 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
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Integrity.
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10-23-2014, 07:29 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SF East Bay
Posts: 4,342
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Originally Posted by Onward
Integrity.
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How does money give you integrity? Just curious.
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10-23-2014, 09:59 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Peace of mind, and freedom to do as I want, when I wanna.
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10-23-2014, 01:33 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Treasure Coast
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Choices.
I remember first thinking this when I was in college and had no money and few choices. I thought of it very recently when thinking about a difficult situation I'm dealing with and realized that having money gives me many choices to address the situation.
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10-23-2014, 01:56 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Villa Grande
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"Independence," which I suppose is a particular kind of freedom.
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10-23-2014, 02:02 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Originally Posted by Major Tom
How does money give you integrity? Just curious.
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I think it means you can tell your boss what you are thinking and believing.
Also, you can buy someone else's integrity with money, like from cops in 3rd world countries.
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10-23-2014, 02:07 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SF East Bay
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I'm not sure it's their integrity you're buying, NW-Bound, but I get your point 
EDIT - on second thought, you're actually paying them to casually misplace their integrity for a brief while
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On a mission to become the world's second most boring man.
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10-23-2014, 02:42 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Limerick
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Debt. After all, money is created when a bank or the Federal Reserve lends money, so it is born as debt and used as a store of value where interest has to be paid to the lender. Become the lender and you're on your way to financial freedom!
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10-23-2014, 03:12 PM
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#59
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
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On rethinking, I now see that you are correct. When I "buy" someone's integrity, he loses it, but I do not gain it. It is simply lost.
Integrity is like "inverse entropy". It can be destroyed, but not created.
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10-23-2014, 03:34 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 4,369
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opportunity
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You can't spend yourself to prosperity.
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