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I recently watched a YouTube video that deconstructed wealth as a marker for success.

It got me thinking, though, and now I'm curious: what's your marker for success? What is it that brings you joy?

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Nottheonlyone 7 Dec 4
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Now, I am wanting to watch the Youtube video... for which you did not provide a link for.

Wealth does not bring joy or happiness directly. It simply offers a person many more of life's opportunities one or more of which might being a person joy or happiness if pursued.

I didn't think to share it at the time I watched it, and now I can't remember how I came across it in the first place. Unintentional oversight.

@Nottheonlyone That's OK. Perhaps you will remember to post the video next time you fidn inspiration from one, so others can better understand. You do get more responses if you post the videos you are talking about.

@snytiger6 Found it. It starts out pretty cheesy, but the information is good, just wait for it.

@Nottheonlyone I think there could have been a better target than Bill Gates... like Koch Industries, but the video does make a lot of good points.... once you put aside the cheesy host bits in front of bleached out blue screens. Those penings really undermine the actual message of the video.

I was pretty much already aware of most of hte points made itne video mostly via the liberal talk radio programs, which Clear Channel decided they did not want ot carry anymore when Thom hartmann's show had better rating than Rush Limbaugh's show. So they reformatted all the liberal tailk radio stations to broadcast sports instead., because they didn't like the message beign put out by the liberal talk show hosts. Racheal Maddow and Ed Shultz moved to MSNBC to do TV, but the rest of the voices can't be heard anymore on broadcast through the air free radio.

Anyway, Thom Hartmann introduced me to Bernie Sanders and Democratic Sopcialism, which is very prosperous in northern European countries.

BTW, befor eI discovered Thom Hartmenn on the radio, I read a book of his called, "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight", which very eloquently explains how all of oru energy sources were derived from sunlight. I highly recommend the book.
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Level 8

Money is not ambrosia. For me, Omar Khayyam's lines in the Rubaiyat capture the essence of my quest for happiness.

"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou."

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Level 8

If the rich are "successful", it means ten percent of the population enjoy the wealth produced by the other ninety percent. It also implies the other ninety percent are "failures". Twelve-thousand years ago, when class-stratified societies began, the ten percenters were telling the ninety percenters that their wealth and status was "the will of the Gods". A hundred years ago, the ten percenters justified their position in society by saying they were the product of "good breeding". Nowadays, they are "successful". But what it really means is that Humans have failed to figure out a way of distributing surpluses.

That is more or less the argument used in the video I watched.

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Level 8

Solving problems is my marker. Also teaching and mentoring is my close second.

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Level 7

It all depends how you define wealth dosent it.

Hence the question.
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Level 6

Making someone's life better in a significant and lasting way. Especially if you can do it without the expectation of thanks or reward.

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Level 8

My children.

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Level 6

I'm a professional tinkerer. Nobody really knows what I do, & they pay me for it. Been happening for years. I don't even apply for jobs. They seek me out. If that's not a marker for success, I don't know what is.

Well done

If that's what works for you...

@Nottheonlyone - I mean, who wouldn't want to make a living playing with toys?

@davyjones I guess the question is what brings you joy. And if your life's work brings you joy, you've probably nailed it. Your original comment sounded like it was more about money than joy in my head. Good on you!
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Influence

In what ways?
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