Money solves financial problems but hits diminishing returns fast, like overeating turns nourishment into sickness. Wealthy people often mistake it for a cure for deeper psychological struggles it can't touch. Many rich people spend unimaginatively, trapped in the belief that more money fixes everything.
Money only has a certain utility. Yeah, you can eat until you're full and then you can eat until you're stuffed and then you can eat until you're sick. But at what point do you stop eating? There is a point beyond which food ceases to serve any positive function. Things in excess kind of become their opposite. So you have to be very careful with money and other things, you know, alcohol, power, fame. They can distort a lot of things. How do you keep that in check? I just know too many rich people now to think that money fixes the inner game or the most problematic psychological challenges. All the challenges that people have. It doesn't at all. It can fix a lot. Money can fix money problems, but that's just one category. It's incredibly useful as a vehicle for other things, but I find a lot of folks very uncreative about how they use money.
