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These largely seem like the exact things you shouldn't do with FU money. Fly private? Bury your own fiber lines? Randomly give out $50 when the spot in line isn't really worth that? These sound like great ways to quickly end up without money again.

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I choose to look at it this way: the true benefit of having money is the freedom of choice it can buy you, not the material items/services themselves. The freedom to choose not to spend your time doing things you don't like or find tedious sounds pretty good to me.

Bingo - time, your time, is the one thing you can't buy more of later.

Having money makes you realize you actually didn't need as much of it as you thought you did.

I don't know why you've been down voted, I was thinking exactly the same as you.

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