We need these things to go over there.
Great! I can move these things over there.
Easy enough, sounds like easy money to me.
And it’s true. But then after few times of moving these things over there something else happens: easy isn’t so great, easy is boring. And doing boring work kinda sucks.
But we keep doing it cause at least boring is still easy money.
It takes a little more time but then later down the line easy money becomes “not even worth it anymore”.
In the short term we’re willing to convince ourselves easy work for easy money is worth it. And maybe in the short term it is. (In fact, when the light bill needs to be paid, it definitely is!)
But come on…Easy work for easy money is out. Specialized, personal, fulfilling work that serves the world around you is in…and over time people will give you certificates of appreciation (money) for that work.
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