Is getting rich worth it?

Paul Buchheit?Written Oct 17, 2012· Featured in?Business Insider?Originally Answered:Is getting rich worth it?

I certainly don't regret it.

毫無疑問，我不會(huì)后悔。

Wealth removes constraints. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on the extent to which you needed those constraints. If you have a serious alcohol or other drug addiction, wealth could be fatal for you. In general, it makes people more of whatever they already were. If you're an asshole, getting more money will probably make you more of an asshole. However, if you have purpose and meaning in your life that goes beyond chasing the golden carrot, money can give you the freedom to focus on the things that truly matter to you.

擁有財(cái)富可以減少很多限制。而是否你需要這些限制，決定著擁有財(cái)富對(duì)你而言，是好事還是壞事。如果你是一個(gè)嚴(yán)重的酗酒者，或者沉迷于其他毒品，擁有財(cái)富，對(duì)你來說甚至可能是一件致命的事情。通常來講，財(cái)富只是讓壞者愈壞，好者更好。如果你是一個(gè)混蛋的話，有更多錢很可能讓你變得不止混蛋。然而，若在你的人生中，在追逐金錢的財(cái)富之上【存疑，golden carrot典故未知】，你還想追尋你生命的目標(biāo)及意義，金錢可以給你去專注于對(duì)你至關(guān)重要的事情的自由。

One of the biggest dangers of wealth is that it often causes people to cut themselves off from the larger society, either out of fear or the belief that they are somehow better than others. We are all one.

財(cái)富的一大危險(xiǎn)是，它常常讓這些人從大的社會(huì)剝離，比如失去了恐懼，或者認(rèn)為自己在某種程度上優(yōu)于他人。但，我們其實(shí)是一體。

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