Price of Success Poll

[glatt]

What is money for though? It's for buying things. Why do you have things? For comfort. If you give up money, but retain comfort, it means that you have somebody taking care of your comfort. Kind of like a kid. So I'd give up money if my comfort was still being taken care of in some magic way.

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by glatt

What is money for though? It's for buying things. Why do you have things? For comfort. If you give up money, but retain comfort, it means that you have somebody taking care of your comfort.

Not necessarily. Comfort is fluid. It's different for different people, and changes for each person over time. I can be comfortable with very little, as long as I'm not terrified that I won't be able to afford clean and safe food and shelter. Other's aren't comfortable unless they can eat out a lot, have a certain level of car, a large home, and are seen as having a certain social status.

Also, the poll says "sacrifice" not "do without completely." I don't think anyone is saying they'd give up all of any of those things for success. However, I might invest some of my savings to try starting my own business, in the hopes of achieving greater success. That amount of money might be little enough that it doesn't qualitatively effect my comfort. This would count as sacrificing money, in the short term.