The author has fallen into the money trap. Everyone, rich or poor gets basically the same amount of time. 80 years, give or take a few decades. The first few years are spent rather carelessly. By the time you're 40 you maybe have half a life left. Your time is worth more. You are the most capable you will ever be and you need to focus on what you really want to do in the life you have left. Say you live to be 89 and the Fed chairman decides to print up a billion dollars and drop it in your lap. What good does that really do you? When you are near the end of life, it really makes no difference anymore. That's when you look back and realize, you spent the majority of your life chasing money which doesn't really matter.
You can’t take it with you. But you can run out of money late in life and spend your last half decade either on the streets or marinating in your own feces in an understaffed nobody-cares state run nursing home.
The author has fallen into the money trap. Everyone, rich or poor gets basically the same amount of time. 80 years, give or take a few decades. The first few years are spent rather carelessly. By the time you're 40 you maybe have half a life left. Your time is worth more. You are the most capable you will ever be and you need to focus on what you really want to do in the life you have left. Say you live to be 89 and the Fed chairman decides to print up a billion dollars and drop it in your lap. What good does that really do you? When you are near the end of life, it really makes no difference anymore. That's when you look back and realize, you spent the majority of your life chasing money which doesn't really matter.
Everyone dies. You can't take it with you.
You can’t take it with you. But you can run out of money late in life and spend your last half decade either on the streets or marinating in your own feces in an understaffed nobody-cares state run nursing home.