Do you need food?
Do you need shelter?
Do you have shelter?
Do you have all the food?
Do you have enough to live indefinitely?
If you don’t then how do you know you will have it tomorrow?
What if you won’t?
What if you starve?
What if you freeze?
This is not hyperbolic
Yes, nothing is certain anyway
But we make what we can as certain as we can
Therefore the binary answer is that
everyone should save
everyone should invest
everyone should earn more
everyone should be more useful when they can
and everyone should get “rich”
to survive
INDEED
the word “rich” had became corrupted
it now invokes status and success and fun and pleasure
all the useless shit that speaks more of your insecurity, failure, unhappiness and boredom
you don’t get rich to cope with insecurity failure unhappiness boredom…
you get rich to survive
you strive to do better to SURVIVE
it’s simply the right thing to do
if you survive without getting rich — good for you
but you don’t risk it
you don’t risk ANYTHING in this short life
getting rich is but another aspect of it
doesn’t have to be super-rich or whatever
what matters is the BINARY CHOICE between staying broke or getting richer and richer and richer
binary choice to DO BETTER
to SURVIVE
so that you don’t fucking die BEFORE YOU THRIVED