Time is not Money

Time is money, as the saying goes, and if you have money then you can control your time (that is where we have taken the thought process).

This thinking is supposedly against the culture of working 40 hours a week for a paycheck.  It is what cool kids say when they are talking about running their own business or breaking free from the man, man.  But it's garbage, and it's a little dangerous.

If you have enough money you don't have to work to pay for necessities, that is true.  So then you've earned your freedom right.  Well, unless you are sick.  Steve Jobs had all the money in the world and he couldn't control his time.  A living dog is better then a dead lion I read somewhere.  So somebody working as a slave for forty hours a week and has evenings free and weekends off is far richer than Steve in his currently dead situation.

People always hear this argument and say "well, of course, you have to be alive... but if your alive then time is money".  But my whole point here is that money can literally take your life.

Money is dangerous.

Most people get more money and become less free.  They realize how to earn money and then want to earn more of it.  They set some aside and then realize how much more they really need now that they have some.  Or they start to earn a lot of it and realize how it feels.  Then they NEED to earn more and more, not for the money but for the need, the feeling.

And lastly, most of us have started to earn a little or a lot and turn wants into needs.  Somebody may have a need for 25k a year when they are earning 35k a year, and then they get an amazing new job and are making twice as much, but their "need" is now 60k a year.

Because once you have owned two cars, that is now a need.  Once you have taken your wife out for a date and eaten sushi and looked into her eyes that becomes a need.  Once you have sent your kids to private school and seen how well their friends are behaved that has become a need.

Needs are like beliefs, most people have them but could not name them and have never taken the time to sit down and asked why.  Why do I believe that?  Why is that a need?

What are your beliefs?  What do you believe you need?