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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/mihirjain2029 on 2025-02-09 15:08:39+00:00.
Honestly, I don’t even want to have all that money at once. If just the job market is good enough that I will always be employed and earn a livable wage, that’s what makes it already. It’s a lot about trust in the economy, and knowing that there is a social system that prevents me from starving in case my education becomes worthless at some point.
I feel kinda bad reading this reply because you’re trying so hard to be a good worker in a system that has literally indoctrinated you into being a good worker when the point of the meme is to not worry.
I think it is more about the nature of work in today’s world. I think if we each felt that our day to day labor contributed to a better world where we were taking care of eachother, we would be proud of our labor and have a desire to continue bringing about good things. But, a lot of us don’t see how our work helps the world, or if we do, we don’t share in the reward for doing so.
I mean, I’ll take either to be honest.
No, I want enough money to not work anymore
That falls into the category of not worry about things.
If this is true, then it would also fall into the category of being rich. This would make the OP read “I don’t want to be Elon Musk-rich, I just want to be retire-at-26-rich”
Nah, being rich is having enough to not worry, but still greedy and seek more and not using it to benefit others.
aaaaaand almost the entire capitalist system is built around the effort to reduce any individuals worth so that they are in a constant state of worry and need to continue to produce through their physical labor for the benefit of others. feudalism was worse. communism put capitalisms sins to shame with the absolute corruption, human rights abuse, and genocide (stalin slaughtered 20 million all on his own under the mantle of the ussr)
I would like to be able to afford my own house. My residence has a hoarder and a messy person, and I am not allowed to clean up. I would like to be able to walk in the laundry room without tripping on clothes, and the front room is filled with trippables. Also, I never went on vacation. The distant shores of Hawaii, Japan, and Egypt will never be known to me. My life has been defined by a lack of fiscal agency.
Here’s hoping that the turmoil of today will allow future generations to have enough wealth to live a satisfied life. At this point, that is all that I can hope for.
I have enough money that I don’t worry, but not necessarily enough that I shouldn’t worry.
Yes, thank you. This is what I have been saying for a long time. But I came across so many temporarily embarassed millionaires and workbros who rub it in how they are going to be more successful than I am. I just cringe because I just want a simple life and don’t have to worry much about money. Some people can’t understand what humble means.
Looking back at my life having seen my salary slowly increase over my career, you always end up taking for granted what you once worked hard to get and comparing yourself with people who make more, making you want more. But nobody should make so little that they have to worry.
Due to the wonders of medical bankruptcy, that number you need to not worry gets higher every year
We are not all American. Some of us can die in the corridor of an NHS hospital of an easily treatable illness instead. At no personal expense.
Meh, triage. They’ll probably cart you into surgery when you start dying.
If people really didn’t want to be rich, no one would play the lottery.
People play the lottery as a fantasy of escaping their financial circumstances. People have debt and demanding jobs.
Can confirm, I have enough that I don’t really have to worry anymore. The only concern is over if I was to lose my job. So paying off debts faster would be nice as it then reduces how much I need to pay month to month. Vast majority of my expenses is paying back debts.
I want to be rich
Me too, stupidly so! Like intergalactic fleet of space yachts kind of stupid rich!
I don’t need enough money to not worry. Just need a job that’s secure. The job I have is nice but there’s always something that could happen
Pretty much my situation. My employer pays everyone a living wage, but the job security isn’t exactly perfect
It’s still handy to have enough money that losing your job wouldn’t be an emergency.
Ye but that’s what I’m saying. It’d be nice to just have a job that you never have to worry about losing
Fun fact. There a lots of discussion in financial spaces that the money doesn’t stop the worry.
It does remove many actual issues though.
What actually stops the worry is social security, such as state welfare or having a partner that earns a salary as well. This way, there is backup.
doesn’t stop the worry.
As someone who makes a lot more money than I did previously, I’d say it largely does, at least for me.
I don’t spend anywhere near as much time:
- Budgeting
- Looking at my bank account balance
- Deciding what needful thing I’ll neglect this month
In short, I spend less time thinking about money, which means I spend less time worrying about money.
It’s not like I don’t worry at all about money, but I do worry a lot less of the time, and less intensely.
At this point, honestly, I think having more income might make me more stressed than I am now. Though I would like to be able to quit my day job for a business I own myself, maybe. As long as the income was reliable.
Id argue the real sense of worry is by living a life style below your means. As someone who has had to live pay check to paycheck, but has been fortunate enough to have a substantial increase in salary, dont spend all your money. If you dont change your habits with new money, the worry will fade away.
You can stop keeping strict budgets on things and make them more vague. As long as savings account keeps going up, the worry fades
Yes, but someone worrying about property tax increasing so they might have to take economy instead of business class on their annual Bahamas holiday, is not the same kind of worrying as:
“Oh fuck if Trump cuts this program then I’ll have no choice but to crash at a friend’s place or live in my car”.
