Mastodawn

⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe Apr 22

@lothcat yes.

CrazyDogLadySezPEACE Apr 22

@lothcat 💕 Enough is enough. More than enough is for sharing. 💕

☮️🩷🪷

bad5onic Apr 22

@lothcat the sad thing. You may also get to the point where it isn't ever enough to give all you want away. Still a nice thinking.

JoeJoeTom (aka Eerie Tom)Apr 22

@lothcat Yes, absolutely.

Robot Diver 🌊🌬️🍃🌿🌸🌱🌱🌱Apr 22

I'm starting to really understand that this is the wealth of community more than money

guigui3000

Apr 22

@lothcat what is this from?

@guigui3000 I've added a source link to the post.

Fluffy Kitty Cat Apr 22

@lothcat I wanna be rich enough for 50 acres of good land for an ecovillage, fuck getting a BMW

@fluffykittycat 👍

Some Kind Of Garf Apr 22

@lothcat For myself I would like to be rich enough for a permanent home, not necessarily large a 3 roomer is fine, in Tazacorte or the likes. At that point I'd be content to spend remaining riches on mutual aid toots and charities.

Schroedingers_Cat Apr 22

@lothcat Yes - broadly concur. To me, being rich would be about hearing someone is struggling, and saying "What can I do to help? Do you want to come and stay for a week? Can i order you something?"

It is always about helping other people, in their own crisis. Providing support for people who need it.

And - longer term - looking to see what I can do to make peoples lives better. Can I buy up properties to rent, at low rental? Can I invest in peoples companies?

Natasha Apr 22

@lothcat And it feels it even more after years watching every penny.

Russ Sharek Apr 22

I had a partner years ago who used to tell me that their goal was to have slightly more than enough, so they could afford to be generous.

Their wisdom stuck with me far after we parted ways.

Erosdiscordia Apr 22

@lothcat Yes. This.

Rich enough to buy art from my friends, and pay more than they're used to asking.

And rich enough to know I can walk out of most ordinary bad situations.

@valentine Walk-away money is a necessity.

Moonshine Fox Apr 22

@lothcat exactly this yes! I want to be wealthy enough to be comfortable and help out people

Fuzz-Ra Apr 22

It's not easy to explain to people who don't think that way that most people think that way.

Fennek | Commissions OPEN 🦊🐾Apr 23

@lothcat THIS. I want to be rich enough to enjoy life and not be worried all the Time if I can pay the next bills.
Rich enough to afford healthcare.
Things everyone should be able to have!

calcifer

Apr 24

@fennek @lothcat no one should have to ever worry about affording healthcare. That’s a deep failure of a society, to create any place where the chief worry of being sick or injured is financial.

Fennek | Commissions OPEN 🦊🐾Apr 24

@calcifer @lothcat true I cant afford one since my Partner lose his job for 3 years and couldn't find a new one. Its sucks and I think healthcare should be free avaible for the poor people. No one should worry about this. At the Moment I cant pay monthly for a insurance since I am the only one with a Income. I just try my best to create savings what is not easy with a small income

Mike Apr 24

@fennek Last time I got seriously injured someone asked if I needed an ambulance, I said no, I'd figure something out, cost was the reason. (It all turned out fine, but 😵‍💫)

Fennek | Commissions OPEN 🦊🐾Apr 24

@sunumbral I feel this, I always see to manage it alone too and yes it is not the best but if you are poor, you have no other choice.

Rosa Poly Lux Apr 23

@lothcat this is very true and very touching!!

er4z0r 🇺🇦Apr 23

@lothcat Amen! Exactly that!

grob (teeth era) 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Apr 23

@lothcat *and high confidence that it _stays_ that way without permanently having to slap "the cutting tool" out of neoliberal politicians hands

@grob Yes, stability is an important factor.

kæt Apr 23

@lothcat It's odd how very rich people seem often to be thinking about money all the time, and worrying about it, and having to step out of things to deal with it., and having opinions on it. It seems weirdly like being poor.

I think there must be a sweet-spot somewhere. Being rich should mean not having to think about money because you've enough.

calcifer

Apr 24

@chiffchaff @lothcat very rich people don’t think about money all the time; that’s a thing that happens to people who are rich but desperately want to become very rich.

The very rich literally hire people to worry about money for them. It’s very strange to watch.

slow learner deep feeler🦋🌿❤️‍🔥Apr 24

@chiffchaff @lothcat

I once suddenly felt the strong presence of a person who was not concerned with money at all. It startled me, and I looked up and saw a man, too far away to make out his face. I let myself explore the feeling as he walked closer because it was a complete novelty to me. There were concerns, but money was not involved. It was such an experience, to suddenly feel how much money worries are part of my daily life. We were walking closer to each other. Weirdly, he had noticed me, too. So there was the money freedom, and the awareness of each other, which both felt so unexpected. It turned out to be Paul McCartney. As we met, he said, "yes love, it is me."

I held onto that feeling of not being afraid of not having enough money for as long as I could.

Marence Apr 23

@lothcat
I want to be rich enough to buy art from the coffee shop walls, and get a CD from the bands at shows.

Major Denis Bloodnok Apr 23

nilsmielke ⁂Apr 23

@lothcat Count me in!

Exactly

@lothcat "Money can't buy happiness, but it sure can buy off misery"

@denisbloodnok Truth.

Niels Nielsen, geographer Apr 24

@lothcat That sounds almost like being Bilbo Baggins.

@nichni It does! Hobbits know how to live right.

Tristan Apr 24

@lothcat
There was an NPR story in 2019ish that happiness increases with income up until about 75,000 USD, which is the point where the curve falls off and further increase is marginal. People with just enough not to worry about money we're happiest while rich people were never satisfied.
They had some asshole economist they were interviewing about it and he got so mad when they brought up the study and just insisted "nuh uh nuh uh NUH UH!!""

@Tristan I think of that study often, and am completely unsurprised that a rich economist would deny it's true.

Francesco Marini Apr 24

@lothcat I’d add “and to not have to worry about the future”, but other than that, this. Definitely.

@fmarini Yes, good addition.

Joe Brockmeier Apr 24

@lothcat Oh, what is that from? That totally sums it up.

I don't want money for money's sake, I just want to be able to not worry and for bonus points be able to do nice things for other people. I don't really want have a big hoard of money to buy stuff I don't need.*

* Except a Batmobile. I do dream of owning a working replica of the Adam West-era Batmobile. But it would be an EV so as not to be as bad for the environment. Still gonna make flames come out the back, though.

@jzb Someone shared a link to the source, so I've added it to my post.

One big treat for yourself, then share the rest, sounds like a good plan.

Nicole J. LeBoeuf (she/her)Apr 24

@lothcat Reminds me of the society in Ursula K. LeGuin's "Always Coming Home" who considered you poor if you had a lot of stuff, and rich if you did not, because the natural thing to do with a lot of stuff is give it away,

It wasn't just that hoarding stuff earned you the reputation of being miserly and maybe a little wrong in the head, though it did - the hoarding was considered a symptom of actual poverty.

I think I need to reread that book now.

chetman Apr 25

@lothcat @OverclockedAndy This is truth.

PandaChronicle Resists Apr 25

yep

Giliell Apr 25

@lothcat Just replacing the broken appliances

Unholy Ordnance Apr 25

So true - when it boils down we don’t need a lot to live a contented life

Leipoa ocellata Apr 25

@lothcat
This.

Dr. Nancy Wayne ✅Apr 25

@lothcat I love this!

🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦Apr 25

@lothcat rich enough to buy 50 new tea glasses for a local community that organizes free coffee and tea for lonely people.

[email protected]:~$

Apr 25

@lothcat “And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. So He said, ‘Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all…’” Generosity is a state of mind not a financial status. Some of the most generous people in this world are also some of the poorest.

Ighostrider Apr 25

@lothcat that's lovely 💝