Does having money mean we make better decisions? Or does making better decisions mean that we make more money? In part, it depends on how you define “better”: when I had very little money, I ate largely meat-free meals and I drank hardly any alcohol. From a physician’s perspective, these are much better decisions than the ones I make now. But I think it’s fair to say that the decisions I make now are more authentic. Being comfortably off allows you to make the choices you really want to make rather than those you have to make as a result of a lack of funds or other constraints.
有錢就意味著我們能做出更好的決定嗎？還是說，做出更好的決定就意味著我們能掙到更多錢？在某種程度上，這取決于你如何定義“更好”：沒什么錢的時候，我基本不吃肉，也不怎么喝酒。從醫生的角度來看，這些決定比我現在的決定要好得多。但我認為可以說我現在做的決定才真正是我的“選擇”。富足的生活讓你可以做出真正遵從自己意愿的選擇，而不是受沒錢或其他因素束縛、無奈之下的選擇。