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Re: Poor man wanna be rich; rich man wanna be king.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Quoting William Wallace (or Rage Against the Machine), it's all about the "freedom."
A fine Corinthian lined cage where you could have saved and become independent is still a cage. And one of your own making, which makes the effort expended in paying for it all the more pointless.
I like nice stuff. But as I age, I'm beginning to think freedom, and simplicity of existence, are the only true luxuries in life.
Your cousin might be the winner at the table who just doesn't know it... Probably because he's being bombarded with bullshit advertising and the idiot narratives of strivers around him telling him otherwise.
(Then again, if one should so choose, with money or w/o, he can always walk away. He can tell his boss to fuck himself and go tend bar in the Caribbean, or become a ski instructor out west. It can be done. You just have to see through the bullshit around us telling us we must stay on the merry-go-round of working>consuming>working more>consuming more.)
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When we retire from this rat race, you're welcome to join me living in simplicity and without luxuries at my little mountain ashram. I'm looking at a couple mountains on some nice Greek Islands as possible locations. The novices will take care of the cooking and cleaning.
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A wee dram a day!
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