【Quora】变得富有，值得吗？

Is getting rich worth it?

Paul Buchheit Written Oct 17, 2012· Featured in Business Insider Originally Answered:Is getting rich worth it?

I certainly don't regret it.

毫无疑问，我不会后悔。

Wealth removes constraints. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on the extent to which you needed those constraints. If you have a serious alcohol or other drug addiction, wealth could be fatal for you. In general, it makes people more of whatever they already were. If you're an asshole, getting more money will probably make you more of an asshole. However, if you have purpose and meaning in your life that goes beyond chasing the golden carrot, money can give you the freedom to focus on the things that truly matter to you.

拥有财富可以减少很多限制。而是否你需要这些限制，决定着拥有财富对你而言，是好事还是坏事。如果你是一个严重的酗酒者，或者沉迷于其他毒品，拥有财富，对你来说甚至可能是一件致命的事情。通常来讲，财富只是让坏者愈坏，好者更好。如果你是一个混蛋的话，有更多钱很可能让你变得不止混蛋。然而，若在你的人生中，在追逐金钱的财富之上【存疑，golden carrot典故未知】，你还想追寻你生命的目标及意义，金钱可以给你去专注于对你至关重要的事情的自由。

One of the biggest dangers of wealth is that it often causes people to cut themselves off from the larger society, either out of fear or the belief that they are somehow better than others. We are all one.

财富的一大危险是，它常常让这些人从大的社会剥离，比如失去了恐惧，或者认为自己在某种程度上优于他人。但，我们其实是一体。

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