I just had a curious image of myself as someone with vast wealth. What would I be? In short, a mini-state headed towards bankruptcy. To elaborate, I would probably fund all kinds of people and activities I like from an idealistic point of view but have no idea how to extract profit from.
As in...
Here, have this purse of coins and plant a forest for me up that hill.
But how shall we make any return?
Don't worry about that, I'll find you another task later to keep you busy while spending my fortune on you...
Fortunately, I have time until I reach that point so that I could learn how to make win-win plans that work. Cause...being a copycat of someone who had something that worked up until now...kind of sucks and fails more often than not. It's finding the next new thing that's difficult but at the same time, meaningful.
Do you remember the Richard Prior movie "Brewster's Millions" ? :D
I like the idea (and application9 of living a meaningful life. In my opinion, that requires helping others build their meaning too. Too many at the moment are only in it for themselves, that I reckon they don't realize how rewarding it is to do something together.
No, I don't know about that movie but I think I'll go and familiarize myself with the plot, at least.
I might already have this attitude and spend minor sums in such a fashion as symbolic gestures but still...good plans should lead to sustainability. A gesture can become a project. A project can become a policy. If it works. So, the goal is to be able to spread policies around. Much like the NGO funds that take up their own causes.
A drop in the ocean, in the end. Larger sea mammals generally make larger splashes, though.