Time, Health, and Money. Not an Easy Relationship.
There is this life's paradox captured by folk wisdom:
When you are young, you have time and health, but don't have money. In the middle age, you have health and money, but you don't have time. As you grow old, you have time and money, but you don't have health.
But that's not always true, isn't it?
The AI helped me put these three men together at the table... The other choices were "too serious".
Many people grow, live, and die poor, so they never really have money. The interesting part is that some of them may compensate with an incredible health throughout their lifetime. Not all of them, of course, but given that they most likely had to fight their entire lives with adverse conditions, their immunity system may be better trained than in most cases and they don't indulge with all the sh*t food people eat nowadays and even consider delicacies. Time they probably don't have because they need to live. And if they don't have money, they must lack time, right? However, compared to an average person, they are used to live off less, so they don't need as much, and maybe paradoxically, they'll have more free time than someone with more money but who uses them poorly or always seeks a higher life standard.
At the other end of the spectrum, there are the capitalist prodigies, who become multimillionaires at a very young age through their own effort (not as an inheritance). They certainly have money when they are young but they won't have the time. Health is... questionable under the level of stress and work hours they probably put in. Some realize and take measures soon, others don't, and will regret later.
Regarding people who have always been super-rich because of the family situation, they may also be in the position to have all three when they are young: time, health, and money. This has proven to be a dangerous combination for many which led to: lack of a purpose in life, bad entourages, drugs, etc. Eventually, this may lead to poor health (even early death) and no money. With a poor health, someone wouldn't even be able to use time properly.
Too much free time can also be associated with an infantile mind, that hasn't found a purpose in life. That's why young people usually have too much of it.
Health - you can lose it at any age, but it's true, in general it degrades as time goes by. But if health deteriorates, the other two categories, money and time, are generally affected. If you were an active and productive individual, you lose that ability and with it the money you generated in an active way. You automatically have lots of time on your hands too.
Then, as we grow old... Yep, most people have health issues, that's unavoidable. But time and money, here's something that needs some discussion.
Not all people are fortunate enough to have money as they grow old. Some through their own doing because they made poor choices in life and bad investment decisions (lack of financial literacy played an important role here). Others because the systems they contributed to to ensure them an easy retirement aren't what they were supposed to be, they are massively unbalanced or underfunded.
Time is often as a consequence of the previous two. If you need money you need to remain active longer, but you can't do it if your health doesn't allow it.
In conclusion, nothing is as black and white in life as in the saying I started with. But it's a nice one.
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We seem to have some people these days who have got rich through being ruthless and think 'fuck everyone else'. That attitude is toxic. I saw something the other day about how billionaires used to build libraries and art galleries, but now they want to go into space to leave the rest of us to suffer.
Being able to live well for your whole life is not as common as it should be. With housing prices rocketing young people have to spend all their income on it. Those who could buy when it was much cheaper will do okay. There generally is enough wealth in the world, but it is not well distributed. I'm not just talking about taxes ;)
Many of them are and were like that, especially in their beginnings. There is that saying: "Don't ask me how I made my first million!". With inflation and what super rich means nowadays, I think that should be updated to "Don't ask me how I made my first billion!". Once they make a name for themselves, some of them (not all), think they can pay back society for their toxicity through charity acts they fund.
As for Musk, his vision does indeed conflict with ethics since he would rather save some of the human kind in face of a potential extinction event, instead of focusing on a way to save all. But maybe others will focus on saving all (unlikely they will get the same attention, in my opinion, since enough of the super rich feel claustrophobic on this planet already).
That's true, and I agree. Renting is an option. I see some people prefer it due to its flexibility and the possibility to live a simple life unattached to a place. But at some point, rent or the prospect of constantly moving may become a burden.
Of course Bill Gates tries to do good things and then some people suspect he has ulterior motives. They may twist his words. I've seen a lot of crap talked about him.
Have you seen rental costs in London? People who need to work there can't afford to live there.
That seems to be the case in many touristic cities, particularly in Europe.
We need time and health to make money 😊 Is it not so. This is a beautiful piece
Well, if you make money actively (job/s, freelancing, active investments, etc.) you usually don't have much free time. Sure, you need time to accumulate wealth, if that's what you mean. That rarely happens overnight.
Without a good health, everything else fades away. That's why a good health is so important.
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Life is tough. Money is required for a lot of things and I agree that things get harder as you grow up. I don't find myself as energic as I was in the past and it just sucks to grow older. I do think that getting some exercise goes a long way though and I felt better after that. Health can't be replaced.
It is true (and important) in a sense that it's better to take preventive actions than to react to symptoms. But unlike time, health can be improved in some cases even after it has deteriorated. Time can only be managed, you can't get it back.
Better/different food helps with that too. But too few people focus on that, and if they do, find the best combination for them.
Love the ending! Life isn't black and white no matter how much we try to see it that way. I think these nuances are where many of us get lost in, like getting stuck in maze.
I tend to prioritise time over health and money, but the trick is time will pass either way and we rarely have enough of it, especially in this day and age.
With health, I try to stick to the basic fundamentals, and see it as playing an infinite game.
Money for the most part is like a graph of (pick any stock/crypto token), it's volatile, fluctuates from season to season, and the goal for me is to have higher highs and higher lows as I age.
You are right. It's the little differences and obstacles we need to overcome that may transform our lives in mazes instead of straight lines.
You are not wrong, since time is the only resource of the three we can't get back once lost. But a degraded health condition can make life miserable, so we shouldn't neglect that.
Makes perfect sense to me your goal and the comparison with TA. I doubt it goes as a straight line for anyone, but if it trends upwards as we age this should be fine.