# America = Money + God **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 11, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-money-god/643675 "2012-12-11T03:00:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-money-god/643675/16 "2012-12-11T14:01:34Z")
> **[Ask the emotional vampire](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=673289)** > > Do you know any of the 5 types of emotional vampire? A person who hurts so much it’s hurtful just to be around them? Some of us are paranoid (the Splitter type), grandiose (the Narcissist), even sadistic (the Critic). Some (my own type, the Victim)... > [@Ask the emotional vampire](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-emotional-vampire/641925/14): > > I’m guilty as hell about not needing to support myself, not least of which because it’s unfair to anyone I’d want to be my friend. It draws the line at friendship for most anybody. > > Still, work is hell on earth for me. All I can manage are music gigs, which are very few and don’t ask anything I’m not willing to give. As far as the 9 to 5, sorry all you 9-5ers, but your resentment and shame is actually easier for me to take than being one of you. > > I’ll check out those links you gave. Thinking - working with ideas that matter - beats working on crap that doesn’t matter any day. I don’t have the time nor desire to give you a lesson in the fundamentals of basic economics. However, I will say you might have a better understanding of the value people place on “money” if you actually had to work for it. Money is only an abstraction. A medium by which we exchange value. Your “job” is what you put into the system. In exchange for your work you get money so you can take stuff out of it. All people want the second part where you take stuff out. It’s less common to find people who are excited about the first part where they have to put into it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-money-god/643675)._