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now i'm not saying that i don't like making money, we all like making money and we can't lie, money makes the world go round after all. but what really irritates me about money is that it can transform your favourite hobby into a buisness, what i mean by this is that when money gets involved, everyone try's to exploit it as much as possible turning their every day hobbies into a buisness.

now what people don't realize is by doing this their interests slowly degrade until it becomes a tedius job. people don't realize this but they are sacrificing doing something they love in order to make money out of it, of course this doesn't count for everyone out there but i believe that making your hobby into a job is a stupid idea, it's kind of like marrying a cousin, and i know people do that but still thats what it is and it's not wrong to do that and i won't disclose my opinion on it. my point is that in my opinion, if you turn your hobby into a job you are taking something you value and turning it into a chore and you forget what truely matters.

sometimes real money isn't even involved, look at world of warcraft for example, people are turning something they enjoy into a job and are paid in virtual gear and money.

and yet even that is tied to money as blizzard is manipulating players to play for long periods of time so they continue their subscription.

my point is that everything revolves around money, these days more than ever.

this is just what i believe but i think money has changed peoples interests alot and often for the worst, i'm not going to ask you to agree with me, i just want you to tell me what you think about this, if you're one of the people who's job is a hobby, tell us what you think about this and if you agree or disagree.

sorry it seems like a pointless thread but i just want to see what people think about this viewpoint.

[Edited on 12.23.2012 8:17 AM PST]

  • 12.23.2012 8:09 AM PDT
Subject: Money ruins everything

I persist too long after my own defeat,
Yet I still press forward, staggering on my feet.
But I know that my resolution will be my end.
And once I fall, I shall ruefully transcend.

Humanity and their material possessions. Despicable.

  • 12.23.2012 8:10 AM PDT
Subject: Can money ruin happiness?

No but I lack of can because you don't have a house and you sleep on the streets.

  • 12.23.2012 8:12 AM PDT
Subject: Money ruins everything

Don't most newly made millionaires kill themselves?

  • 12.23.2012 8:12 AM PDT

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If I go of topic, It's known as Whitchering

Happiness ruins my money.

  • 12.23.2012 8:18 AM PDT

The lack of money ruins everything.

  • 12.23.2012 8:18 AM PDT
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Posted by: Mitochondrion
No but I lack of can because you don't have a house and you sleep on the streets.

i think everyone should have to work in a 9-5 job, that way they would appreciate their money and their happiness equally. it just annoys me that many people have no choice but to do a 9-5 job and that they get paid less that those who do highly paid jobs, i have also noticed than many people who work in highly paid jobs are less appreciative of happiness and that they only care about money in contrast to that of people who work 9-5.

back in the days of the mills it was still the same, you had your mill owners and your mill workers, i'm not suggesting communism, i'm saying that there are people who work hard and earn less and there are people who don't work as hard but earn more, this is comming from someone who is in the second bracket. i think it's unfair and generally the hobby jobs tend to earn more, for example, look at youtube, people who make monetized youtube video's earn more than the average 9-5 worker and they have it easy, they don't admit it though but just face it, if you're a youtube partner, you don't have to get up every morning and travel to work, you do it in your own time to a schedual you're confortable with.

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  • 12.23.2012 8:27 AM PDT
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Posted by: kikashi hatake
The lack of money ruins everything.

if that was the case then all we would need to do is print more money and give it away, money merely entitles you to a share of the world produce of whichever you choose be it food, shelter, warmth or even leisure.

if everyone had lots of money, there wouldn't be enough of these products to go round. though to be fair it would be great if they gave money away to people on the condition that they could only spend it on services such as education and holidays because theres plenty of them to go around, services last for as long as theres people to run them, though to be fair there are some things to consider in certain services that could cost money and would take alot out of the worlds produce so it really wouldn't work, for example you get money that you're only allowed to spend on a holiday.

for starters, transport costs fuel, hotels cost on complimentaries etc. i think education could work though so long as they only supply tutor's but still....

  • 12.23.2012 8:36 AM PDT

Meepzoid

I don't think money ruins one's happiness. I feel like if I go into this it would be a 4 page essay so I won't.

  • 12.23.2012 10:11 AM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

There's a perfect line between wealth and poverty where you are unaffected.
Head towards poverty and you become more grateful.
Head towards wealth and you become less grateful.

Note that you can be wealthy and be grateful, but affluence can make you forget how valuable things once were.

  • 12.23.2012 10:18 AM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

No.

  • 12.23.2012 10:18 AM PDT