# 7. What is money good for...

- Author: @gurupanguji
- Date: 2012-02-02
- URL: https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2012/02/02/7-what-is-money-good-for/
- Categories: essay

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<blockquote>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.</blockquote>
<a title="Advice for new Facebook millionaires." href="http://scripting.com/stories/2012/02/02/adviceForNewFacebookMillio.html#p12501" target="_blank">Dave Winer's advice</a> to the new millionaires in Silicon Valley owing to the Facebook IPO.