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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor
Huh?
BTW, the phrase "you can't take it with you" always kind of annoyed me. Um, yeah, I don't expect to play my Wii after I'm dead. If you believe in a heavenly, blissful afterlife, why would you want to take things with you? You wouldn't need them. I really don't care that I can't take stuff with me, because it's about having the item now.
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I agree with Strangler, in the sense that it's about not wasting your time on more material purposes than you need. I don't think it was intended to be about, say, things you enjoy (say, Wii) but more about the pursuit of wealth for the purpose of being wealthy, the acquiring of stuff for the sake of acquiring stuff, not because you love it. The aim of making "this much" money so you can say you have "this much." And at the cost of perhaps missing out on other things, which are free in terms of monetary exchange but expensive in terms of energy and time. Namely, love. Friends. Family.