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$400,000 To Quit Drinking

There's a game called Grand Theft Auto. And basically when you beat it, you're given everything in the game. They give you like millions of dollars. They give you the cars, they give you— they give you everything. You have everything. And it's the best fucking thing ever. You've beaten this game and now you have access to everything in the game. Oh, wow. But it's only fun for about an hour and a half, and then you go, this fucking sucks. I literally don't have anything. There's no challenges, there's no missions. Like, nothing's left. Like, there's— you literally have no purpose. And that's like, that's what it feels like to me. Like, when I think about people that have money early, like, they don't have— they don't have like that sensation of like making it and like, you know, figuring out the value of a dollar, like, for themselves.

January 5, 202032:45David
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Jason31:57
I have two kids and that crazy life. So yes, it's a crazy life.
David32:00
I always thought about this. Like, we have friends here that are like— well, not we have friends here, we have friends everywhere, right? That have been like born into money and that don't have to work at all ever. And like, I always thought, like, when I fir…
Jason32:44
Of course.
David32:45
There's a game called Grand Theft Auto. And basically when you beat it, you're given everything in the game. They give you like millions of dollars. They give you the cars, they give you— they give you everything. You have everything. And it's the best fucking thing ever. You've beaten this game and now you have access to everything in the game. Oh, wow. But it's only fun for about an hour and a…
Jason33:23
Yeah, well, they do have it. They can make it on.
David33:24
And that's what that's like. Yeah. You're not completely fucked if you're born into money. Right. You could do so much with it. You could help so many people. But, um, that's just what I imagine, like, Natalie pacing on the beach is like. It's like when you'r…
Natalie33:38
Yeah, but there's also like, if you're born into a certain situation, you don't know the other situation, right?