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Money

Money is the currency of modeRn life though it isn't the currency of love.

I always hear complaints that he hasn't got enough money to have a girlfriend and a house. I'm also concerned that many of us do indeed worry about having no money left to feed our families even in Singapore.

This is why I read a study by so-called public affairs researchers and I got their drift. They claim at above S$8500 a year, it's enough to put money off the concerns off the table. And from then on the effect of poverty or the lack of resources to do things disappears, there is more concern in how one person does against the others in other areas, such as mastery and autonomy. This is also shown in another video he showed in his facebook wall.

As for why politicians worry excessively about their pay cuts, it's not because they want to maintain a luxurious lifestyle or something. Pay cut is never the issue, the personal time and relative anonymity lost are really concerns. Rather, it's because they don't feel that the system works effectively for the ground's good, given the realities of the dissatisfaction of part of the community, as minister mg Chan did mention in 2011.

One of my friends on the Spectrum complains that he hasn't got enough money to buy a house, "buy"/study for a degree etc even at his pay, and claims everyone's like him. And he says degree holders hold more debt and have a low pay too. So he thinks a degree is useless, while work experience is much more useful. Yet he also posts on my wall, money can't buy happiness. I don't know whether he did get the idea that we need to have a certain amount of money in our pockets before we talk about doing more things for our lives. Or did I just over-think?

That's why well-wishing but ignorant seniors did advise me, no matter how long it takes, or how expensive it will be, study in nus and local unis, and we'll automatically get social resources. Some friends I have dismiss this as gibberish, but then I think there is a higher chance of getting $8,500 (per person) with this route than going through life without a degree, assuming one isn't really skilled in anything except going through procedures, which we aspies try to adapt, do and gain social recognition we don't get. Money is, after all, more tangible than many things in the world, so we use social recognition to try to bring money.

Please guide me along because I think I need some force to defeat the evil force of greed, strongly associated with the dissatisfaction of not having enough money, not even when ones money is enough to let people live comfortably.

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