Does having money mean we make better decisions? Or does making better decisions mean that we make more money? In part, it depends on how you define “better”: when I had very little money, I ate largely meat-free meals and I drank hardly any alcohol. From a physician’s perspective, these are much better decisions than the ones I make now. But I think it’s fair to say that the decisions I make now are more authentic. Being comfortably off allows you to make the choices you really want to make rather than those you have to make as a result of a lack of funds or other constraints.
有钱就意味着我们能做出更好的决定吗？还是说，做出更好的决定就意味着我们能挣到更多钱？在某种程度上，这取决于你如何定义“更好”：没什么钱的时候，我基本不吃肉，也不怎么喝酒。从医生的角度来看，这些决定比我现在的决定要好得多。但我认为可以说我现在做的决定才真正是我的“选择”。富足的生活让你可以做出真正遵从自己意愿的选择，而不是受没钱或其他因素束缚、无奈之下的选择。