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   Rasmus Lindegaard (rasmus91@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 03:38:46 JST Rasmus Lindegaard

   • Paul Cantrell
   • JillL

   @cambria @jillL @inthehands unless money really does rot the brain and you only think you'd do those things because you're not a billionaire.

   😬

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     Rasmus Lindegaard (rasmus91@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 03:38:40 JST Rasmus Lindegaard

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     • JillL

     @realtegan @cambria @jillL @inthehands oh i agree.

     If you have a house/home, means of transportation, food, some leisure time and enough air in the budget for the occasional family trip, why should you want more?

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 03:38:40 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • JillL

     @rasmus91 @realtegan @cambria @jillL
     The novelist Joseph Heller was at a party hosted by some…Rockefeller or whatever, let’s just say Rockefeller.

     GUEST: Mr. Heller, doesn’t bother you that •you• wrote all these great novels but •he’s• the one who got all this money?

     HELLER: No, I have something he’ll never have.

     GUEST: What’s that??

     HELLER: Enough.

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     Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 (realtegan@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 03:38:42 JST Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸

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     • JillL

     @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands

     Money, to me, is a means to an end - that end being security and happiness. Depending on the person and the society, security and happiness isn't all that expensive. Anything left over should be used to help other people into security and happiness, thus creating a world that's even more secure and happy.

     Wanting more and more money is just an illness - a failure to understand when you have "enough". That's how money perverts and rots a person.

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     Rasmus Lindegaard (rasmus91@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 03:38:43 JST Rasmus Lindegaard

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     • Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸
     • JillL

     @realtegan @cambria @jillL @inthehands and all that is probably much better for your soul or humanity or whatever you want to call it, than a billion $ in your portfolio

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     Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 (realtegan@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 03:38:45 JST Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸

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     • JillL

     @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands
     I'd never become a billionaire because I'd never sit on the money that long. I'd be like, "Ooh, here's a charity that needs it!" or "Hey, that guy needs a new car for work," or "I bet I could revitalize this town by hiring a bunch of people, so let's see how that might work."

     So I'd just never accrue the money in the first place.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 03:45:36 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @realtegan @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL
     It’s one of my all-time favorite stories. And it’s about money, but it’s not •just• about money.

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     Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 (realtegan@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 03:45:37 JST Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸

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     • JillL

     @inthehands @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL

     Thank you. This is *exactly* what I was talking about.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 05:43:31 JST Rich Felker

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     • Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸
     • JillL

     @realtegan @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands Exactly. It's not that money rots the brains of billionaires. It's that, to become a billionaire in the first place, you had to be extraordinarily evil and shallow in your choices of what to do with money.