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We have an idea that if something we're doing isn't actually earning money, or spending it, then it's completely worthless. but if you start to work less, you can actually start to give more to society, but on a local level.

-Tom Hodgkinson

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Tom Hodgkinson

We have an idea that if something we're doing isn't actually earning money, or spending it, then it's completely worthless. but if you start to work less, you can actually start to give more to society, but on a local level.

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To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. money, money everywhere and still not enough! and then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

Here's the pay paradox that why men earn more explains: men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn more money, therefore men have less power (earning more money as an obligation, not an option). the opposite is true for women: women earn less money, therefore women have less power; and women earn less money, therefore women have more power (the option to raise children, or to not take a hazardous job).

Do not depend on the hope of results. you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. as you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. you gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. in the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

If you have the abilities to earn a lot of money and if you have the character to persist in giving that to the most effective charities you can find, then that may be the best thing that you can do. and - also, if you do become a wall street banker, i think you need to be aware of what you're doing in terms of your daily work, not just earning money to give a lot away. but you need to think about - am i harming people through the work that i'm doing?

For after all, what is there behind, except money? money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to italy. money writes books, money sells them. give me not righteousness, o lord, give me money, only money.

My job is making money, helping other people make money. i am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? so my job is spending money, helping others. this is a headache.

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