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To: Ilaine who wrote (44946)	7/11/1999 6:36:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 108807

There's a delicate balancing point. It's nicer to have enough money not to have to worry about what (or whether) you will eat tonight or whether you can make the rent. I've been there, too; my first full time job I was making $200 per month plus a basement apartment. Even in the 1960s that didn't go far. But I was extremely happy. I was doing something I loved and which made the world a better place. But JRB used the term "rich," which means something totally different than being able to pay the bills and buy popcorn at the movies and have a cushion for medical emergencies. And the idea that being rich insulates people from unhappiness is the ludicrous idiocy I was objecting to.