Is Money Your Master Or Your Servent?

More and more people are facing money-related anxieties. How does the volatile nature of the world’s economy affect you?

 

In simple terms.

Wat b goin.down foo. U got enuf fud to eat.peychek to peychek. Let us now
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It's my master,but I make it server,kind of like a slave rebellion.

 

I collect my paychecks, pay my bills, put the rest in savings or decide to have some.fun depending on how responsible I'm feeling. Money and I aren't in a very complicated relationship.

 

Money is my servant, but I must have been treating it badly since most of it has left me.

 

As long as there isn't something like rapid inflation, I will be just fine. My job isn't going anywhere.


Edit to say....and no, money is not my master.

 

neither
but I cannot go to the store and buy food with my good looks.

 

i always had enough money to live comfortably and save a little money each month. but i've also lived somewhat modestly compared to most of my peers.

having an infant daughter, my family is looking to move to a bigger, nicer place - which will leave me saving NO money, possibly dipping into my savings a little bit.
but it's about quality of life - i'm almost 30...how long am i gonna save for my future? (i will continue to contribute to a retirement account though)

 

Both master and servant, depending on which portion of my life I'm turning a blind eye towards.

 

Not my bitch/master! If you want to make X amount, go out and work for it. Simple and easy to do and if you have to work two jobs so be it. Easily made, and easily lost for some.

 

Haven't seen you around here for a while, dude.

It is very easy to make money but not for everyone. It takes money to make money. To me....working two jobs because you have to is not making money. It's doing what you have to do to get by.

Look at it like this.....poor people spend most of what they have on what they need. Food, housing, transportation, etc. Middle class people spend money on those same things but they have more left over so they may buy extras like vacations, boats, spend more on hobbies, things for the family/kids. Rich people spend money on living expenses and buy the extras that the middle class buys but they have plenty of money left over and they use that money to...make more money!!

So the best thing a middle class person (who wants to have moderate wealth one day) can do is to forgo the extras and dump their extra money into things that will make them more money.

But to me...money isn't everything. I have enough to survive on. I can easily make more money but I've realized that I don't want to put the effort into it. What I really want is more free time to do the other things that make me happy. So that's my goal. Time really is money because we trade time for money and I'll take more time and less money. The easiest way to do that is to reduce my need for money. No rich person on his death bed ever said he wished he had more money.

 

i get by just fine. my only money-related anxiety comes from knowing that i can't come home after work and relax without having to stop and listen to my roommate bitch about being broke. but he also refuses to get a job, so i have no pity. i just haven't gotten around to moving out yet.

 

It's true that it takes money to make money. I used to struggle about that a lot. I really don't anymore. I think a lot of working is based on your confidence level. Some people just don't know what they can do and don't feel confident in their own abilities.

Money is not my master, I ignore money until I have to spend it. I have a hard time making purchases sometimes, I'm very indecisive, but this is actually something I challenged myself to work on last year. I started spending my money on good things and trusting that if I spent it, I'd make sure to make it back and that has worked a lot. My money is better now than it's ever been and the way I feel about it(low-stress) is even better.

 

If the economy fell off a cliff, my income would quickly drop to zero, or less than zero. My business has some fixed expenses that have to be paid every month, even if it has to come out of my savings.

 

Oh yeah, gotta spend it to make it. Bad thing is, sometimes it goes out and slowly returns or seems like it all out no return lol.

I do what I do now, as much as I can so later on, my nest egg now will be bigger. Eventually I'll have enough to go to a 9 to 5 job etc, but want toys, kids, housing etc to be covered. Cover my ass now, save my ass later! I hope!

I lurk mostly, if you don't have anything nice to say or helpful to a thread, I don't troll them up! Sometimes I'll run across one I feel strong about and have knowledge of, but usually back off them too. Just keeping it real as the resident racist asshole!

 

Money isn't my master, but necessitiy. Some are slaves to money even when they barely have enough, but almost all fall into abject slavery to money once they get more than they need.

 

its mostly my boring annoyance. because other people seem to think its some kind of a god.

there are some things i like that its good for, but most other things are fucked up by making them have to be about it, when there's no natural or good reason they should be.

i could go out in the woods and build a place out of what i can find in nature and what people throw away, but they'd never let me call it my perminent home address and let me live there year around all the time.
there is or were, a few counties in a few states where there are places where you can, but they're all place where you'd have to pack in water from a thousand miles away.

humans are nuts about the stuff. most boring crap ever invented.
if i could just have the tools i want and a place to play with them off by myself somewhere that i wouldn't be bothering anybody without it, i'd never touch the stuff.

 

I like money.

Neither a servant nor a master, but just a materialistic object that satisfies my needs.

 

anything you call necessity, is master. by the very act of doing so.

i don't mean one you choose. masters aren't really chosen, except as some kind of sex fetish thing.

and beyond food and shelter and enjoyment for the imagination, anything, money or anything else,
having to have it, is a condition created by culture, cultural values, and the influences that create those.

(you can't buy food in a store without it, sure, but in a different culture you might be growing and gathering and processing yourself, all that you need or want of it.
same goes for every other thing we are forced to spend it on. we could all build little houses that would keep us warm and cozy if we lived in a culture that did that.
people take too often and too much for granted, that the only things they are familiar with are the only way things can be, and they're really not.

and drudgery isn't the only alternative to what we're familiar with either, that line of bull is what we're sold by a corporatocracy that wants to keep its hands in our pockets)

 

Money make the world go round, you are a fool to think otherwise! Everything has a price tag now, you wanna play, you gotta pay.
Too much of anything, is just enough!