Squonk, Roger and all:
Just a few thoughts.
Ben Franklin retired at the age of 42 because he thought he had better
things to do with his time than "sit around all day" making money. (I know a
woman who is actually paid to sit around and read Chaucer all day. Well, not
JUST Chaucer. She's a medieval Historian.) Its absolutely a good thing for
all of us that Ben Franklin quit making money and really went to work.
Roger, its not a contest between lazy slackers and wage slaves. Its not a
choice between destroying the economy and working your whole life in pursuit
of someone else's goals. How dismal that would be. I think Elliot and Squonk
are trying to get at a high quality of life every bit as much as you are.
They want to go beyond both slackerdom and wage slavery. It takes a little
imagination, but that's ok.
Malcom Forbes spoke at my college commencement ceremony. He urged us to just
do whatever we loved, and promised that this was the only true way to become
wealthy. And he wasn't just talking about money.
That's my attitude too. The trick is to find something that you'd do whether
you were paid for it or not. Or as a line in a song goes, "If they pay me,
well that's great. But its just gravy. I'd do it anyway."
The fact that people have to sell their souls in order to fill their bellies
is nothing to be happy about.
Material wealth is about 10% of a rich, full life. And its about 90% of an
empty, shallow life.
Desire is the cause of all suffering.
Its easier for a camel...
You know.
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