7. What is money good for? Distance. It buys you distance from everyone else. But normal human beings like to be near other human beings. We are a social species. So not only can’t money buy you happiness, it can buy you a lot of isolation and that’s not happy. You’ll likely be happier living in the middle of the noisy messy world than all alone at the end of a long driveway in the middle of nowhere.

Dave Winer’s advice to the new millionaires in Silicon Valley owing to the Facebook IPO.