The Greatest Thing Money Can Buy

Money can buy a lot of things. But one thing clearly stands above the rest…

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Money can buy lots of things, but the greatest thing it can buy is freedom.

Most people today spend their lives in what can only be called financial slavery:

• The bank owns their house.
• The dealership owns their car.
• The credit card companies and student loan providers own a sizable chunk of their future income.
• Their boss owns every hour between 9 am and 5 pm five days a week.

Perhaps the most clever and insightful observation of the futility of the rat race comes from Ellen Goodman:

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

Is this all life has to offer?