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The Purpose of Wealth Is Freedom

The reason you want wealth is because it buys your freedom. The purpose of wealth is freedom, nothing more than that. There are fundamentally two huge games in life that people play: money and status. To be the winner there must be a loser - so we have to figure out who's in charge now. We're starting this endeavor to create this hopeful piece of art that explains what we're doing. At the end of it, something brand new will be create. T's a positive sum game. Status, on the other hand, is a zero sum game,. It's a very old game which has been playing since monkey tribes. And even politics is an example of such a game;

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