Codie Sanchez argues that money is the ability to push back on the universe and live by your own will instead of others'. She describes realizing she didn't want to depend on anyone, and meeting a wealthy person who seemed unintelligent, which made her question how they got rich.
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I don't ever want somebody telling me again that I can't do what I want to do. And I don't want to feel the control of another human on top of me. And so for me, money is freedom. And I think it is really your ability to push back on the universe. Like, the more money you have, the more you get to exert your will on the world, and the less money you have, the more you get exerted upon. And so I didn't like that. Right. And so that was the moment that I was like, I don't ever want that to happen again. And then the moment where I was like, ooh, I think I can actually do this was when, you know, do you remember, like, the first time you met a really rich person and you were like, they're not that smart. And I had one of those moments where I met like, how's this person have money? Yeah. I was like, what this guy?