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I'd rather have a much longer life than have money in a short life. Money is not everything and there are plenty more experiences that I could have in a long life without much money, rather than having a short life and a lot of money.
Take the time to enjoy the life and what you have. But most importantly, take the time to enjoy it with those who are closest to you.
Money is scary because once you have more of it, the more people want it from you. They say fear of death increases with a supply of money.
Fear of death might, but actual likelihood of death decreases with affluence. All you have to do is look at the GDP figures for rich countries and poor countries and then look at life expectancy for each. Norway is something like 80 times richer than Niger per capita and has 30+ years of longer life expectancies.
If we're going to calibrate this based on our fears, then it's important to keep in perspective whether those fears are based on reality or irrationality.
The blanked out country would be N-i-g-e-r. Apparently a misspelled pejorative as an actual country's name is sufficient to be filtered out.
Taken care of.
What causes the death mostly, murder?
Infant mortality/maternal mortality, disease (especially), war, possibly a lack of safety considerations/regulations by or for consumers, abject poverty, lack of basic sanitation systems, lack of food from drought or warlike conditions.
Murder rates (outside of military and paramilitary conflicts) are usually higher in the US than most anywhere else, though there are a number of places in Eastern Europe, Africa and Central America that push past us. Outside of the US there aren't many developed countries with high murder rates. So I guess you could argue it's a factor as well, if a relatively small one.
Yea, every time I think of that river, I just think about all those people bathing in that dirty river.
Its so dirty it freaks me out.
KUDO's to you, Flacco.
You got it exactly right!
I have always said that I would like to live forever just to see where mankind will go next and what new things we will invent. I find that all these things that I used to read about in dime-store science fiction novels that are now real and in my life just positively fascinating. I can't wait to see what is next on the horizon.
FYI – All money is good for is the moment, and at the moment it is nothing but dirty green paper.
How is that for an old fart's not-so-humble opinion!
Never thought of it that way, very interesting.
time = money
I'd love to have more time, but it seems that there is very little to do anymore that doesn't require some amount of money.