The pursuit of wealth is endless, as we all know we need to pay our bills but at the same time, we are spending way too much time and resources on our daily jobs. In all this, we forget to spend the best time of our lives (Youth) just simply pursuing wealth (career).
I'd wanted to know how much money if you had, you'd quit your day job and go out for months on camping to explore the world or at least try to work for yourself?
How much money would be enough for you to enjoy your life? Kindly only mention the amount in the United States Dollar $ as a benchmark.
I don't know too.
I come from a family where my father was the only child of my grandparents who survived to adulthood. 2 more children died young. Grandparents never spoke of it, and they were getting tearful every time I asked, but neighbours told of starvation in Meizhou, which was what pushed so many people to HK in seventies, and before that in forties-fifties.
I myself remember millet, and congee being the only meal in my earliest days, and that we were getting garments from older kids in the the village, later passing them on to younger ones. Textbooks were shared, and passed on too.
At around 1995-1996, food was no longer a problem; Father brought the first radio, and a bicycles for me, mom, and himself. Just a year later he was able to afford to take us for a trip to Hongkong from earnings from his first business importing, and selling instant noodles.
Another year later, and we were owners of one of few first private cars in Guangzhou, a crappy Toyota Corolla which was falling apart as you drive.
A one more year later, and it was our first trip to the Western world, which was mindblowing. We already had distant relatives from Meizhou, and Xian who settled in HK, and further abroad. We were very surprised to reach them in US, UK, and see them doing less well than we did in Guangzhou.
And so it went on, and on exponentially. The more money you get, the more you know how to spend them. Literally, a whole new reality opens for you with each new income level.
You will know such things you couldn't have imagined to exist, before you had enough of money to care about them.
When you had 1 mao a day, you cared only about a bow of congee, and never knew anything more.
When you had 5 mao a day, you cared about clothing you wear
When you had 1 yuan a day, you started to think of saving for something other than immediate life's necessities
When you had 10 yuan a day, you might have actually bought that something just for the sake of having fun, for the first time, and you already want more
When you had 100 yuan a day, you might first realise you don't know what else you know what you can buy
When you had 500 yuan a day, you may have finally thought out that something you could've not ever imagined to be able to own before, and you bought it
When you passed 1000 yuan a day, you really started to think if there are even more such things you never knew.
When you passed 2000 yuan a day, you think you have for the first time found one of such things out.
And so on, ad infinitum.
