Topic: You can't meet all your needs/desires at once, even if you spend all your salary - page 10. (Read 1602 times)

Well you got a great point raised there. Our needs are endless and they would continue being a need until we perish, but I feel like it is situational to just think of it that way since there are people pursuing to be financially stable like trying to build their business as they keep living paycheck to paycheck.

I believe the rich infleuncers out there doesn't have the money "in their hands" but rather in some particular investment that we either don't know or we don't care about at all anyway. People think that the net worth of billionaires is how many cash they hold, but it's really not.

Depends on the person sometimes. Give a poor human that amount of money and s/he was dying to make ends meet, s/he could have put that money into better stuff. Sure the investment might not be the first thing that would come into his/her mind, but it's not going to be like the habit of a gambler dumping all of his/her savings in gambling.

I do, but sometimes one can do things out of ignorance, and later you just get to realize you took a wrong decision while you earlier thought it was a good decision you took.



Boss, you know that human wants could even be something that is impossible to archive. An example is all the above wants that you have stated.

 For example, let's say I want to become the president of my country within the next 48 hours; I want to buy 100 airplanes today; and I also want to perform a miracle and raise the dead. These are wants that are nearly impossible, but when talking about needs, let's say I need a car and I have the money to afford it; I need a shelter, and if I can't build my own at that moment, I can just rent one; I need food to eat; I could just buy food and eat.

But how about needs that concern one's siblings, parents, wife, and children? Perhaps if the person is in the right position to handle most of the bills for the needs of the family. Let's say you have your own needs to cover and those of your parents since they are old; you also have to assist your siblings with a few needs; and lastly, you have those of your own family (your wife and children). That's the reason I said, "You can't meet all your needs and desires at once, even if you spend all your salary." The person must have to attend to some of those needs gradually and must not just allocate all their salary or savings to them (at least still invest some percentage of their salary). There's no way one can solve all at once without others arising.

Boss, you are right; needs are easy peasy for some people, but not everyone. You have all you need, but that does not mean that some people do.





No, boss, the topic is okay. I know that there are even some wants that don't need money to fulfill, and a typical example is when you are 66 and want to age back to 30.

You are right.

Some people have just not so much need, and it is easy to solve, but everyone is different, and we live in different countries where the economic system is not the same. Like I said in the previous comment, I insist that some people don't only have their own needs, but their parents' and siblings' too.

It lies in the lack of planning. If you give a person a million dollars, all he will think about is buying things he does not need and trying to waste this money quickly. Even on luxuries, if the person is not accustomed to them, he does not know the level of luxury he is looking for.
Spending money must be planned, otherwise you are like someone who burns his money, and then you will not achieve happiness, but rather your worries will increase.

A lesson learned directly from experience is a truly beneficial experience. Nevertheless, not to discredit yours, generally, it is a good thing to owning up to responsibility, even if that costs more needs that need to be filled, at the very least, we have done what we must to do. Now it is humane to take too much responsibility, especially for yes-people who hardly decide what and when to accept or reject a responsibility. Exceeding our own capabilities also contributes to the mistakes.

Now, regarding desire, this should be the last thing we should be concerned about. The main priority I took from OP and based on experiences is that needs are more essential and prerequisite so it is worth addressing this first.

This topic goes deep. Basic desires can't be escaped, food/shelter/clothes. Certain desires which improve your quality of life should be given priority.

A thing to understand is don't go blind after desires. Taking out savings, taking loans to fullfill unnecessary desires is stupidity. A finance saying goes, fullfill your desires from the wealth generated from your investments, thus you preserve capital as well and fullfill your desires too.

Agreed Basically if you can control those desires it can be fuel to drive us working work hard to fill up the desire or motivate us to do something better than what we do now.


I think you should be a motivator blackstar  in my opinion, if you know your limit financially and know how to control it basically you can live a good life. Because the world is crazy and if we continue to chase the glamour of the world it has never end.

I think OP's fault is equating needs and desire, where in reality both are very different. People only needs few things to stay alive, while even the whole world won't be enough to fulfill one's desire. And one of those desire is investments, Bitcoin included, we never need to invest in Bitcoin or anything, but our desires to get richer and richer make us do that. Don't get me wrong I don't mean that's wrong in any way, I am just saying that desire is fine in some way and at certain level.

We can meet all our basic needs but we will be having trouble meeting what we desire.  If we need our funds to be sufficient and have extra for Bitcoin investment, the best thing to do is to learn financial management.  This way we will be able to know the methodology of how to maximize the usage of our income.  Being content on what we have will also give us resistance to spending our money on our desires.

I think the average need can be met by 99% of people in the world, but what is difficult to fulfill is lifestyle.
It all starts with how you feel you have enough so that you know the extent of your ability to fulfill your desires. If someone who earns $300 a month wants to own a Lambo - then of course that desire will never be fulfilled throughout his life without luck or the right investment. But if they want to own a car - then maybe they can in a few years.

Know your own limits financially - then think about what you can afford so you don't drown out your good mood in everyday life. High desires without a big budget are just wishful thinking, they don't have to be fulfilled.

In sincerity, more problems will always arise when the main goal of earning an income is to sort bills and make an impressive financial statement.
The best key to be free from this burden is to always invest first.
Invest in debts, invest in bills that make your life easy to earn more and increase your earning, save.
The other or what's left after drawing up a budget to soothe the expenses in the following order I stated above shoutbe directed toward miscellaneous expenses. Else, after spending salary in the wrong things, these stated investment would come to hunt one who doesn't know how best to do the needful with money.

I think it is important to separate the two, needs must be satisfied otherwise our lives will be very uncomfortable, however needs do in fact have a limit, so for example we need to drink some water everyday to keep ourselves healthy and if we drink too little or too much this is bad for our health, however wants are infinite and this is where we need to set limits, because if we do not then we will spend most of our wealth buying a bunch of useless stuff which bring no added value to our lives.

Slowly and slowly, we can reach our goal, unlike those rich people who can make it right away if they want. Let us say that we are less fortunate but at least we are still able to survive and still given the chance to work and earn. Even though we have small salaries if only know how to budget our money and think about additional sources of income instead of thinking about spending all of it, we really have the chance to become rich and be able to buy things that we want. More of us are financially illiterate which is why even though we have huge salaries, still end up empty and even in debt.

needs will always be there. but if you already contemplated on yourself, and see what's important in your life, some of those needs are actually just wants. and if you find peace of what you have right now, you will feel grateful for whatever you will accomplish.
comparing yourself to others will just make you depress, so better be contented on what you have and be grateful about it. you will feel more happy if you you simple wants in life.

There is a whole branch of savers trying to step off the rat race treadmill by avoiding spending any of their money as  much as possible in their twenties and early thirties.   This allows them to move away from expensive cities and leave the commuting waste of time to lead more life affirming consultancy part time work or even retire all together at early age.  They collect various ways to avoid spending money needlessly, nice aim they have imo.

Very normal for a human being to have this kind of behavior and those kind of impressions on which on the time that we do able to reach out our goals or targets on acquiring or achieving something then later on then you

will really be aiming for more higher variant specially if we do speak about cars or houses or whatever wants or those leisure things that you do have in mind. Human beings are greedy and ungrateful on some part
on which leaving beyond our means or really that out of our income source will really be leading into disaster. Its not bad on having those wishlist or goals in mind because this would really be that pushing you to
work hard even more because you are really that pursuing on something.

It is really just that a common mistake for most people is that on the time that they are really wishing for something then they would really be taking up some loans which is more than
on what they do earn until they would really be finding themselves on deep debt which would be causing that huge trouble later on on the time that it would really be
keeps on piling specially into those interest which it is something that must avoid.

I really like McDonald's burgers, but if I buy that every day then all the money I get every month won't be enough to cover it, so I decided to only buy them once a week, in this case our appetite is often passionate for something, if we follow that then we won't be able to get everything, especially for those with small incomes, but there are several phenomena that are currently happening in my city, namely paylater, many young people want to fulfill their desires so they use paylater but they don't able to pay and run away.

That won't solve your insatiable desires. As @philipma1957 already mentioned in a previous post and is also the point of this thread, our desires are insatiable; thus, even if you're a wealthy person with an abundance of money, you'll still want more and more. That's what the OP is mentioning: that despite how much money we have, we're never satisfied. How is gaining more going to solve it?

I'd also like to add that we also never appreciate what we have until we don't. I worked a job I didn't like and lived in a house that I then cursed without appreciating the benefits of both, although they also had significant drawbacks. But now that I've lost them, I can understand how ungrateful I was. I'm generally satisfied if I have a decent-paying job and an average apartment that's comfortable for me and my partner, but the reality is that due to our human nature, we always crave something a little better.

I will say that new needs does not arises but new wishes do so because our needs are not high but our wishes are so higher that we cannot meet these easily. Therefore don't concentrate on wishes but just complete your needs and the money remain saved from monthly expenses should use with the aim of increasing with the help of investment technologies.

Actually a person will try to accumulate money for building a house when he become successful in doing this then there will be one more wish to buy a car when this wish is going to achieve some other wishes will be arises which means that man cannot be happy with the achieve desires but will wants to have some more.

That is so true, it takes years and years to get something done, and when you do, you will have new needs. Thankfully I am earning more than enough to survive and cover my expenses ,dreams can wait and there is nothing wrong with not reaching my dreams, as a person I can live without having too much debt, just a bit that I am sure I can pay, and that is more than enough. If I can't reach my dreams but I can pay off my living, then I will be more than happy about it.

Because when you compare it, surely there are some whales who can buy a new car for everyday, but also we are talking about billions in the world who barely survive, and millions that are starving, I can be at least grateful that I am not one of them.

What we can learn from this topic? it is that human beings have the same thing in common in nature and that's discontentment. While we can teach ourselves to be content and be happy with what we have and just plan for our future like the typical investing in Bitcoin and the crypto market and other investments as well. There will always the time that we're trying to solve a problem that's unending. It's typical as we're problem solvers but we will realize it later on that a problem that keeps on existing will never end and we shouldn't stress ourselves with those because it is just going to hit us emotionally. That is why enjoy while you're young, save and invest, don't forget to give back to whoever you want to give back as that's gonna make you feel happy and that thought that you've shared something valuable from you is like a plus to yourself that you've been blessed. It's not gonna make you poor to share some but the thought that you want to share is priceless while preparing your future self and family.