Profound.
In the modern world the rich, successful, unethical, immoral person is placed higher than the moral, ethical person with little money. Success, as so rightly pointed out in your article, comes from the bank balance, not from whether a person is good.
Sad and not something I participate in. Most people see me a failure as I have little in the way of assets and resources, but, hey, I also have no debt. And that makes me very happy!
@andyfishman True happiness starts when you no longer care what people think about you. Most people are unfortunately excessively ignorant and this is on purpose; this is the only way they will keep looking at you as you say they do, and therefore continue to work like slaves to generate a currency in order to satisfy needs they don't actually have with funds they don't actually own.
Yes. And not caring about what others think is, strangely, the door to true freedom and happiness. My ex-wife keep s carrying on (only been divorced for 18 years, but hey, kids...) about how I could be really successful if I just paid attention to the best groomed, best dressed and best presented bullshit that society seems to judge you on. The fact I will give my last dollar to the guy begging in the street with no regard as to where MY next meal is coming from counts for nothing.
And strangely, I don't care and am still happy. I think that pisses her off most!