A-Lurker comments on Things I Wish They'd Taught Me When I Was Younger: Why Money Is Awesome - Less Wrong

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Comment author: A-Lurker 17 January 2014 05:02:16AM 0 points [-]

Yes but like you said, "you [need to] already have some necessary rationality to do this"- that's the kind of thing i'm talking about. You can't buy that original rationality and you can't buy the fact that rationality exists. The stuff you said is true but I think you are trying to answer to different topic than which it is relevant to. Money can buy things and make you happy- but money can't buy the fact that happy exists. When I talk about "money can't buy everything", it's in that way that i'm talking about (not to be confused as saying 'owning things doesn't make you happy').