<story><title>‘Braid’ creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/06/the-witness-money/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>footpath</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s a nice thread about Jonathan Blow&amp;#x27;s view on investing:
&lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2198255&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=2198255&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;you are better off taking the mental energy you would have expended on &amp;quot;investing&amp;quot; and subsequently worrying about your money, and instead funneling it into your creative endeavors. You will make more money that way, especially when you take a long-term view.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;If creative endeavors are profitable, you can use the resulting money to fuel more creative endeavors, thus making the world a better place. Keeping money in a bank account or publicly-traded stock does not particularly make the world a better place.&lt;p&gt;Once I got approximately into the f-you money level of income, it became crystal clear how fictitious money is in the first place. I wake up one morning, and bam, I am wealthy! Why? Because someone said so and typed a number into a computer. Okay... that&amp;#x27;s kind of weird.&lt;p&gt;Given that money is so fictitious and somewhat meaningless, it is a shame to give into primal hoarding impulses, just so one can see the number in one&amp;#x27;s bank account go up like a high score in a video game. It&amp;#x27;s much better to make like Elon Musk and use your money for what it is: a way to wield influence to make the world more like you would like it to be.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vortizz</author><text>Sure, money is fictitious and meaningless once you&amp;#x27;ve moved into the f-you echelon. By definition. Perhaps for that segment piping it into creative endeavors is fulfilling and worthwhile.&lt;p&gt;For everyone else for whom money is a meal, rent, or essential good instead of an expletive, who cannot afford to take an ethereally long-term view, this advice is out of touch with reality if not plain dangerous.</text></comment>
<story><title>‘Braid’ creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/06/the-witness-money/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>footpath</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s a nice thread about Jonathan Blow&amp;#x27;s view on investing:
&lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2198255&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=2198255&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;you are better off taking the mental energy you would have expended on &amp;quot;investing&amp;quot; and subsequently worrying about your money, and instead funneling it into your creative endeavors. You will make more money that way, especially when you take a long-term view.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;If creative endeavors are profitable, you can use the resulting money to fuel more creative endeavors, thus making the world a better place. Keeping money in a bank account or publicly-traded stock does not particularly make the world a better place.&lt;p&gt;Once I got approximately into the f-you money level of income, it became crystal clear how fictitious money is in the first place. I wake up one morning, and bam, I am wealthy! Why? Because someone said so and typed a number into a computer. Okay... that&amp;#x27;s kind of weird.&lt;p&gt;Given that money is so fictitious and somewhat meaningless, it is a shame to give into primal hoarding impulses, just so one can see the number in one&amp;#x27;s bank account go up like a high score in a video game. It&amp;#x27;s much better to make like Elon Musk and use your money for what it is: a way to wield influence to make the world more like you would like it to be.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>In general I agree with that, although having enough money &amp;quot;hoarded&amp;quot; such that you can collect a monthly stipend to cover basic necessities (like food, shelter, and utilities) makes spending all your time on investing your creative energies a lot less stressful :-)</text></comment>