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What Does Naval Ravikant Say the Point of Money Is?

at 3:59

From the episode: A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love

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Naval Ravikant says money solves money problems and buys freedom in the material world. On A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love, he gives the purpose in one line, confirming a sentence of his own that is read back to him. The point of money is that you do not have to be in a specific place, at a specific time, doing anything you do not want to do. He sets that next to the harder claim from the same talk. A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love still cannot be bought, however much freedom the money purchases.

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