Why Does Becoming Rich Matter?

It seems like this is rather an obvious one. Everyone in the world wants to get rich, I don’t think I heard anyone say they don’t want to.

I heard people say they don’t want to become rich not because being rich is bad per se but because they don’t want to spend their days climbing the ladder or building a business which takes away their quality of life.

But being rich itself, if there is an option to become one with no strings attached, I’m sure everyone would take it.

After all, having more money is like having a bigger house or being more attractive which are just good by itself generally.

But people want to become rich for the wrong reasons. People become rich so they can experience the pleasures and the high of life.

They want to live in this unrealistic bubble of extravagant paintings, impractical supercars for daily life and spurring their money on useless fashion and brand items.

Some may object to me and say that, “No, I worked so hard so that I can enjoy all these! There’s nothing wrong with it.”

I am not scaling a person’s morality based on whether they are doing these or not. I am simply saying that these are the worst reasons to become rich.

The biggest benefit of being rich isn’t being tapped here and not to mention, you only have so much money and this is a mindset problem.

Of course, some may say that’s not true if you’re a billionaire. But with how much yachts and properties can cost up to hundreds of millions dollars easily, I don’t really think it’s true either.

You can see this often with many famous rappers or sportsmen who waste all their wealth and become broke for these reasons.

This is a serious mindset problem which will keep you poor regardless.

The real reason to become rich is to defeat the system, it’s to win the race by exiting it.

Imagine your day-to-day, 9-5 job. The money you earn but the time you severely lost from it, the bills that keep you stressed, the loan you take for the sake of buying a home.

All these things take away what’s one of the important things about you: your freedom.

There are three ways to win the race we fight in our lives.

One is to win it, climb the ladder, spend decades while doing so and finally retire.

Another way is to exit the race itself. By exiting a race, you won by default.

The reason you become rich is to get rid of the influence or choice of money thereby making you free.

The freedom to wake up and choose things you dare wouldn’t since you couldn’t afford the time or the money is why you should become rich if you ever.

There’s a huge difference between that and living a hedonistic life.

Such a life prioritizes living below your means so you can save money to say no when you want to.

It’s not about buying the next fast red car but instead being able to wake up whenever and doing whatever you want to instead of attending any meetings or things you deem useless or unlikeable.

All that money works as an insulator to society that helps you create a small bubble for yourself.

That being said, I don’t want to sound like a scam self-help guru who’s pleading you to join my course and how 9-5 jobs are the worst.

There is another way which I didn’t mention so far.

If you really love your job then you exit the race by default as well since even if you are running in the race, you don’t race to death like others, you race at your own pace since you love what you do.

All this being said, it does seem a bit depressing. After all, whether it is becoming rich or finding your passion, both seem rather hard to do.

Though I’m sure you have been through many hurdles in life. Whether that was in an accident, finding a job, marriage, kids and what not, they were hard too and this can perhaps be done too?

Food for thought.

PS: If you want to check out a similar vein of thought then check out Naval Ravikant.