Quote Originally Posted by Ash256 View Post
I know I've mentioned this already ISF, but what concerns me the most about your attitude within this thread is your seeming complete lack of empathy for your fellow man. It comes across as almost psychopathically callous. The ongoing theme within your posts is that "I'm the rich guy in my utopia, I'm the entrepreneurial genius, and the poor, disabled and unfortunate can go fuck themselves and live in misery because I want ALL my money".

You should take a step back and place yourself as the kid working down the mines, as the startup being raped by the cartels, as the dude living in the slums on a pittance getting owned by price-fixing food companies, as the working man who can't feed his family after his bank goes bust. How does your utopia feel now?
You see a difference between making money and altruism. In my mind, making money is the most altruistic thing someone can do. That is why I would like to make a shit ton of it, I hope by the end of my life I will have made more money than everyone else in the world. This is because money is not just some magical evil thing, money is a tool of exchange. It is something you get when you provide value to someone. That is, if you do not force them to give it to you.

I want everyone to be well off and happy, and I think the best way to do that is through a total free market. So please don't say I'm heartless, but feel free to say im ignorant, even though I think you are wrong.

I don't feel bad when I get unlucky. For me, life isn't about trying to minimize bad luck, its about realizing that luck doesn't matter. All that matters to me is the quality of the decisions I make in my life.