Splurging on meaningless things is too easy to do.

People do it all the timeadding to an already packed shoe collection, for instance.

It’s gone and belongs to someone else now.

Therefore it’s important to consider the permanence of whatever benefit you traded it for.

For you the number might be 2,193,003, or maybe it’s 8,806,550, or even 217,101,992.

Whatever it is, at the moment you die, it is a real and actual number.

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