Downvote , we pay for you <| sep |> I pay extra on my gym membership for the ability to bring guests for just this reason . No one ever takes me up on it except my roommate , who became my new lifting partner . <| sep |> fucking good shit . why are those taiwan animator newspeople so fucking based ? they are like lightning rods for nationalismconservatism . but then again taiwan is anticommunist chinese so that kinda speaks for itself . however , most of the people who work at that company are taiwaneseamericans who relocated to taiwan and work for them and i ' m guessing most of them are under the age of 30 . <| sep |> I fail to see the basis for your observation . Again , the purpose of money is as a method of replacing the trade system . Sharing wealth does not at all go against this purpose of money . And you cannot say the one does not value money purely because they choose to share some of it . Some of the richest people on the planet are also active charitable givers . Bill Gates follows the Carnegie philosophy of wealth , which states that being rich in life is good but dying rich is shameful . The value of money , in a cultural sense , is entirely arbitrary . Beyond its core function as a means of legal tender , the value of wealth is what you make of it . You seem to think it ' s a competition that you somehow lose by giving again , even though you say it isn ' t bad , you are still saying it is somehow against the purpose of money to give to others , but really wealth is simply a managed state . If a wealthy person gives to others , can you say they don ' t value their money ? Perhaps they saw value in sharing their wealth . We see the world entirely differently . I do not think I cannot value my wealth without comparing it to the wealth of others which is what you were saying in your analogy . I do not think that sharing wealth makes the wealthy feel less accomplished . And it certainly does not reduce their drive to succeed . As someone who has worked with the extremely wealthy who often are also philanthropists , this is just false . The value of money does not come from hoarding wealth . It comes from understanding that every dollar you earn is what you have to live off of . As long as you are living a life you find acceptable based on your income , then how exactly you are spending your money should not matter , you still understand the value of that money and how it contributes to your lifestyle .