Comments on: What’s Valuable Now That We Have No Money?

By: ooopinionsss

ooopinionsss — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:18:32 +0000

How you think when the economic crisis will end? I wish to make statistics of independent opinions!

By: JustinTheSkeptic

JustinTheSkeptic — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:12:56 +0000

Bob, great stuff! Now if the other people who posted only realized that you “get all that,” and then some.

By: JP

JP — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:56:22 +0000

Value does not depend on how much money you spend on something, whether it’s travel or food or anything else. Value lies in the real enjoyment one gets from life, from having authentic relationships with the people and with the things in our life.

By: Bob McTeer

Bob McTeer — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:42:27 +0000

To Jack:

It was a late night stream of consciousness. I agree with you that rich is probably better than poor.

By: Bob McTeer

Bob McTeer — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:31:53 +0000

To Anne:

Thanks for your sympathy.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:29:32 +0000

I feel sorry for this author on so many counts I don’t know where to start. I feel sorry for someone who travels not because he wants to but because he feels he should in order to keep up with his peers. I feel even sorrier for someone who has the time and money to travel yet appears incapable of taking in what he sees or learning anything new. I feel sorry for someone who can’t tell the difference between an average meal and an outstanding one. What a dull world you must inhabit.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:13:30 +0000

From what I understand, you are more or less saying that being rich, and the so called “good life” that comes with it is overrated.

Then why (according to the studies) is it that the vast majority of rich people are happier than the poor or middle-class? Why do rich people strive to become even richer? Clearly your arguments don’t resonate with people who actually have a lot of wealth.