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So, last night was dinner with friends, followed by drinks/shisha and then a tsundere movie with the housemate. A very pleasant celebration all around. I broke out the usual harebrained scheme for world domination. This time it involved shlepping Jerusalem to the moon and hostile takeover of ASEAN once it's fully formed, i.e. common currency, lowered trade barriers, tentative political alignment. Then the housemate and I were having lunch today and he read an article that claimed minimum annual salary is 16k USD and GS' CEO makes that much in an hour, while exclaiming whether this could possibly be true. It probably is. But that got us both thinking what money means. And here's my take:
I want to have a nice car, not necessarily a luxury vehicle, and decent roads to drive it on. I want to go have a decent meal at a nice restaurant and walk out without having to worry about getting shot and robbed or vice versa. I want to live in a house that's not in a gated community with armed guards. I could go on, but you get the idea. What price would I pay for that? I wonder what I wouldn't.
I want to have a nice car, not necessarily a luxury vehicle, and decent roads to drive it on. I want to go have a decent meal at a nice restaurant and walk out without having to worry about getting shot and robbed or vice versa. I want to live in a house that's not in a gated community with armed guards. I could go on, but you get the idea. What price would I pay for that? I wonder what I wouldn't.