How old are you, and what's the best piece of advice you have for someone 10 years younger than you? What question do you have for someone 10 years older?

If you still think money is just for new games and consoles and movie tickets and eating out with friends, then boy do I have a surprise for you.

Money is more than just buying power. And fuck that noise about IRAs and retirement for the moment (but that shit is dope start squirreling away cash for that).

Money is so much more. Money is freedom. It's the freedom to quit a job you hate anf still be able to eat and sleep for a while while you find a new job. It's the freedom to say, fuck it I'm going to my friend's wedding in Miami. It's the freedom to move to a different city.

It's something that you simply can't understand when you're living for free with your parents, or in a dorm with some 'student loan' black magic.

Money makes you the master of your own life. If.

If you're responsible. If you don't rack up debt. And if you're smart about when and how you exercise that freedom.

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