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Title	:	How much money is enough? \| Vicki Robin \| Big Think
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check your tangents
Comment from : Anthony DeRose

my time is finite too check your title
Comment from : Anthony DeRose

Best advice was said by Mama Gump "there's only so much wealth a man really need the rest is just for show"
Comment from : gunfunandstuff

A society built and based on stuff can not survive
Comment from : Jups

MANIFEST DESTINY is satanic by nature,we are under PROVIDENCEGods Law is supremeJESUS rules is ABSOLUTEI expect haters to comment
Comment from : Anthony Enos

couldn't get through the BS of the first few minuteslife isn't fair and its because of the white man We wouldn't even being having this discussion via the internet, websites, YouTube ect if the white man didn't create itperiod
Comment from : Larry

Really good points, but why are we limiting ourselves to this planet? There are several more, asteroids, empty space, etc Saying the limit to human potential is the earth is like saying the limit to the American people is the land in AmericabrbrWe can go on expanding forever, we just have to expand our thinking beyond this planet
Comment from : Roop

I guess $1 million USD a month would be sufficient for me ❤️
Comment from : Guddu Reviews

“Greed is Good” - Gordon Gekko brbrIf it wasn’t for people that wanted more, YouTube and that iPad your watching this on wouldn’t exist
Comment from : brianmcg321

Maybe Caucasians need to rethink their plans
Comment from : Mactastic

This happened to me when I got the chance to join the company 401K plan I remember thinking that I would contribute the maximum and scale back as needed A year went by and I realized that I hadn't changed my spending habits I also realized that had no idea what I used to do with that money In the end that 401K made it possible to retire early
Comment from : cristina lacoste

She says "we know how much planet we have" and that " the earth is infinite" is false Well, maybe the earth isnt infinite, but we are not tapping into all the resources that are available to usbrbrMaybe we are using more than we can regenerate in the current modelbrbrBut in the 1970s, before the green revolution, it was predicted that there would be mass starving based on the agricultural capacity of that timebrbrYou know what happened? We invented our ways out of that problem and hunger is at an all-time low
Comment from : Arthur Zetes

John D Rockefeller: “Just a little bit more”
Comment from : Paul Espinoza

We need to struggle for the end of hegelian dialectic
Comment from : Al

She left out the part of recycling brbrWow!brbrBut why is that ?
Comment from : True Story

Did she say nothing existed before white people or did I hear her wrong? :55
Comment from : Cold

The problem with the Native Indians in America and the Africans in Africa was that they didn't have a flag
Comment from : Jack Kraken

I am rich when I flyfish for brook trout and watch ptarmigan sail across the alpine meadows and can see in all directions for hundreds of miles
Comment from : Foiled Again Jim

Incorrect framing of the actual problem She doesnt understand the "roadmap" or history She doesnt understand Human ingenuity is unlimited Automobiles, not a thing 150 years ago Computers, 40 years ago AI space travel with freedom and markets for ideas and resources the possibilities are endless (I mean cavemen would have thought what we have todaybis impossible that we had broken the laws of the universe to generate the bounty we have today There is so much more wrong here, but Ill cut to this: 1) Markets allow the most productive / efficient folks to gain and manage more resources (her concept of enough takes resources away from those that would be better able to manage it) 2) Generally speaking humans innately want more resources It is an innate driver Generally, speaking, Women want men with resources so their offspring are taken care of - men want more resources to attract better mating partners 3) Nothing wrong with assessing your own spending etc (what YOU think is enough will be different than others) that means youre managing your limited resources better
Comment from : josh winsett

When you stop looking at price tags
Comment from : Jon

Boring 😴
Comment from : Oscar Bear

I couldn’t hear her over her loud necklace
Comment from : Building Buildercip

What has she been smoking? Shut the f up B###, such jibberish so out of topic
Comment from : Nhlanhla Mbuyazi

It depends on individual but I think half a million is enough to retire and live in Portugal or Thailand
Comment from : Danny Sze

Sickening! Viewers are more interested on her necklace than what she spoke about Crazy world, rad people!!
Comment from : Parikshit Mayur

Hey Mac if you see this comment, tell McCain I said hello
Comment from : S S

How much necklace is enough?
Comment from : Bhibhas

Babies have no idea what fairness is All they know is to satisfy their desire What is fair between 2 people can be anything based on what they need or desire As long as a transaction is voluntary it is most likely fair or close to it for the involved parties
Comment from : elementalsigil

And I found the description of her epiphany and the ' of course we should do it' the least tolerant statement of the week What if others consider the science of the matter and prefer a different s different course Third stupid video from the Big Think
Comment from : Brian Hay

Another nonsense video Other than a few space vessels sent off world everything that has ever been on the Earth is still on the Earth just in a different form Recycle, repurpose, conserve as is practical and enjoy life
Comment from : Brian Hay

You don't need to consume more of the earth to keep expanding the value in an economy The value in an economy doesn't come from matter, it comes from work efficiency If I make an innovation where I can grow two apples with same same amount of inputs as one apple, I have decreased the cost of apples by half, for foe example, a person only has to work half as much time for one applebrbrPeople increased consumption for many reasons, one of them has been an ideology of materialism, true An ideology that has born little fruit in happiness or wellbeing, more it was a symptom of trauma and fear However, the gross consumption has mostly increased due to increases in population Individual impact hasn't changed much It seems like it, because we've changed so much, but we cut out a city and use that square footage for decades of different people brbrI agree there is a loss of meaning and fulfillment, I think largely due to the nihilism of not having to struggle to live However, most people would agree that it's better their children are well fed and not dying of malaria, that is directly due to a large economy that made products and services cheap enough for the average person to afford with their laborbrbrMaybe I'm misreading some sentiments here, but I feel compelled to insist that capitalism and materialism are not the same things, at allbrbrCapitalism is the free exchange of value, that's it, full stop
Comment from : shadfurman

what is this hippy commie nonsense?
Comment from : Hendry Putra

Click bait
Comment from : Nikolai Polikurov

I have something a billionaire doesn't enough
Comment from : stachowi

I find this video disturbing and dangerous The narrative is one that seems to describe dangers we produce collectively But the beauty of humanity is that we make these decisions individually and nothing has the right to legislate morality or spiritual growth
Comment from : Dino Ramzi

Another arbiter of "what the people NEED" I'm so glad our enlightened betters tell us what we need
Comment from : RobinMcBeth

What in the holy hell is she talking about? Tune in next week to Looney Tunes
Comment from : killaco23

Greed! There is NEVER enough money for the Greedy! Average folks, like most of us, there is something of "enough money" We don't have to live in a $20 mil house We could live in maybe an upper middle income house and use the resources of all that money to help people with all sorts of things, medical, education, etc Regardless, "GREED" is a disease!
Comment from : Paul Winger

If I asked myself that every time I went to purchase something, I would very quickly starve to death
Comment from : D Hawthorne

Vickey … if you talk about everyone reducing their spending by 20 you will frighten the 1 It will destroy their business
Comment from : Eric

Batter
Comment from : AZALEA TM

I'm a fiscal conservative, live below my means, and am all for sustainability and environmental conservation But she lost me when she got to "fairness" Life isn't fair, and when the government tries to get into the fairness business bad things happen Opportunity for all should be the goal, beyond that the government needs to step back and let the winners win and the losers lose If you continue to expand the social safety net infinitely it'll just become a hammock for the lazy
Comment from : Ryan Barnhart

keep dreaming
Comment from : Asvin Somasundram

Three family run business is my minimum for enough
Comment from : KBT Ken

There is what wisdom in the final conclusion But a lot of biased nonsense along the way Money is money, it has not changed If you didn’t know this before, well now you do This isn’t a new way This was obviously for anyone paying attention
Comment from : R S

Yeah, so basically the goldilocks point is "having financial security" brGreat brLiving paycheck-to-paycheck isn't that Working in the service industry is probably way bellow that point Having any job where your boss can dick you around, just because there is an endless army of untrained replacements trying to bust down his door to take your job - that's the reality for a whole lot of people brI would be interested in her thoughts on the obvious problem with the goldilocks point Because the way she describes it, it sounds like you would overshoot it quite easily There is no marker for when you have "enough, but no excess" There are markers for when you have excess, or too much, but you kinda wake up one day and notice it brYou ear more, you get more things, but your desires and needs also increase Bill Gates villa probably costs more in upkeep a month than I make in 10 years
Comment from : HaploidCell

Why are there so many buttons stuck on her neck?
Comment from : Hee Sing Sia

More is more thats why we have the word more Wtf was this? she was wrong probably on every level she should go for some psychology classes It made me cringe
Comment from : TheSmiesko

This wandered all over the place, both in its delivery and underlying explanation I have absolutely no idea what the point of this talk is It was just chuckling sentences for 6 minutes
Comment from : Jamie

I have enough money and I do not need much to be happy Purpose and friendship makes me happy
Comment from : Tak Cheng Sze

I like this goldilocks principle but I also think bquality over quantity/b is handy toobrAs in buy one thing that works really well instead of ten things that work ok and could break at any moment
Comment from : LameOpinions

In the last video people couldn't stop talking about Vicki's necklace and now they are doing it again brbrbShe is not going to take it off for you so stfu and listen to what she is saying/b
Comment from : LameOpinions

Blah blah blah historyshut up & pay me
Comment from : Snake Doc

Gibberish
Comment from : David Grzelecki

"People who believe in infinte growth are either morons or economist" - Richard Attenborough
Comment from : Leonidas GGG

can liberals make any point without putting down white people? It makes you sound as if you have an agenda other than the point you should be on It makes you sound like an F"ing" hatefull Commy
Comment from : bria garri

The way she rambled and laughed Fairly sure she was having mini strokes doing this video
Comment from : theldun1

oh yeah yeah
Comment from : Boor

I thought it was going to be about having a max limit on how much money you can have
Comment from : Coinsilver3

Ok Vicki I hear you And disagree I just looooove to consume :)
Comment from : catamaran sailor

this is nothing new or radical Epicurus had the same idea of what really constitutes happiness
Comment from : Liping Rahman

There is never enough money
Comment from : A E

If you think of your life as a business, happiness is the product you make You wouldn't want to use more resources than necessary to make the product Or better yet, you'd minimize the resources and input, to maximize the the happiness output
Comment from : Jim Ramirez

What a wonderfully eloquent and informative take on the subject Fantastic stuff Vicki Robin
Comment from : David

Time is important
Comment from : St S

min 1:58-2:10 yikes
Comment from : Mazovk Izta

Dear madam, I like your necklace
Comment from : Unsung Heroes

"Does it make you happy ?"brExactly; I couldn't agree more brbrWhen it comes to money, that's all you need to ask
Comment from : Herman Johnson

It really depends on where you live If i had $500/month where i live it'd be fine If i had $1000/month it would be perfect and i could afford everything i need to be happy and live the life i want In other places $1000/month is not even enough to subsist
Comment from : Iulian Ghita

ahahah so naivebrbrPower comes from money - power is the most powerful stimulant for a humanbrbrPower is that others do what you wantbrbrNo power - others force you to do what they want
Comment from : David Boson

Happiness > money Some people take longer than others to figure that out Further more, it might take longer for some to figure out how to teach that Some day everyone will hopefully learn both of those thingsbrbrWith that understanding I believe we can arrive at perfection
Comment from : Anthony Morford

Human nature: There's never enough! I want more!
Comment from : william louie

talking shit
Comment from : cutler82

Is this a “Bernie Sanders 2020” campaign video?brThere is mahjong game being played right now that needs those eyeglasses back
Comment from : John Ray

She's a socialist get her outta here !
Comment from : winnie wildflower

Shockingly poor taste in attire
Comment from : A Marmot

The thing with Malthusian arguments is that they constantly underestimate how clever we humans can be when put in a bind Our history is littered with technical revolutions that have completely changed how we extract things from the Earth, and some of them are even for the better These sorts of arguments always fail to gain traction not just because humans are greedy (and yes we are), but because they completely ignore human ingenuity
Comment from : fat4eyes

I was hoping this would be a talk on monetary policy
Comment from : Jon Elgan

I'm loving the comments about her necklace :D
Comment from : felipemp93

Enough money is the amount needed to experience the world in its entirety Is that obtainable for all people? No
Comment from : cjua2803

i guess it depends on what stuff do you want to have
Comment from : Ran Dom Joe

1 What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soulbr2 I want to talk to her about her peices of flair
Comment from : Bamometha

lol Big think has become a socialist talking head I gave it the last couple vids, but they have all been this way Sad unsubbed
Comment from : The Truth

Great video! I'm really impressed!, So uncommon point of view! 'Growth is good' - that is soooo our culture we live in 😓 That type of philosophy can be unhealthy and even dangerous in some cases Again - great video 👏
Comment from : bonheur87

There are many people that are conscious of their spending but there are also many that take advantage of that to get rich You can't tell someone they have to be mindful of others, it has to come from within As long as there are people that exploit others to get ahead we'll never reach a true balance brbrThink about it like this: If I own a fishing farm and earn a profit of $1000 a month but have to pay $200 for a filter that keeps the water clean, I have net profit $800 If everyone did the same we would all be profitable enough But, there is always that guy that decides to remove the filter so he earns the full $1000, while polluting the water and eventually reducing profits for everyone Nobody wins, but the greedy person sure made a lot of money while it lastedbrbrThat's basically the mentality that we need to get away from and I'm not optimistic that's possible
Comment from : FabledDan

Educating people lead to innovation? We should do more education
Comment from : Jeremy

How much is enough? More than I have that's for sure
Comment from : Chunks Place

You did a rather poor job of putting these ideas across :/
Comment from : James N

Wow click bait title! I was hoping for some quick financial advice, not a lecture about how consumerism is bad sheesh!
Comment from : Shawn Kent

I've only just noticed how large the percentage of videos on the Big Think channel are absolute piles of dog sh@t
Comment from : Ben Trayford

Fly to Africa or haiti and tell them not to be materialisitic Money solves problems, because no one wants to work for free The alternative is slavery or slavery in a limited capacity(socialism ) Sorry, not sorry
Comment from : randomguy

How much money is enough? Only enough to allow you to do the stuff that truly makes you happy so just enough to cover my remaining student loans
Comment from : Ryan John