Money or a long life: which is more important?

Based upon what people complain about, money is more important.

Women often complain that they make less money than men. But women outlive men by five years, yet you never hear men complaining that they don't live as long as women.

Probably, one of the reaons why men die younger is that they literally work themselves to death earning that extra money.

Comments

[Marcus]

I would think it's easier to make more money with a longer life than buy a longer life with more money.

I chose life.

[Tom Hanna]

It's most likely a function of what you enjoy - can you have more of whatever you enjoy by having a longer life or by having more money. If the things you enjoy are relatively cheap but time intensive then a longer life would be more important. If the things you enjoy are expensive and fleeting, then a longer life just means more time without the things you enjoy.

[Steve]

Well, I think as time goes on, the length of life issue is becoming less and less important. People already live twice as long as they did in 1900, and recently the BBC interviewed some scientists who claim that anyone under 60, assuming they don't die in an accident, will live to a thousand.

You'd need a lot of money if you're going to live that long.

-Steve
Games are for Children

[Wendy]

This is a random comment. I just remembered, after reading your blog, reading about auras a long time ago when I was interested in that sort of thing. I read that the colors people favor or wear usually reflect the colors of their aura. Also, wearing darker colors can negatively affect your aura and wearing brighter colors can bring more life to your aura. The author's explanation for why women live longer than men is that women usually wear brighter, more life-enhancing, aura-enhancing colors while men usually wear drab, dark colors that can muddy up the aura. If so, then according to that author, the culture which tells us what colors are more appropriate and 'masculine' on a man are killing a man faster!

Can't remember the author, can't quote her, but it's a fun little piece of trivia that intrigued me.

[dadahead]

Whither Libertarian Man of Mystery?

[Boblikeshisfruitonthebottom]

Hi, I just randomly happened on your site.

You have a lot of random topics, but I have to say I agree with everything I've read that you've said.
Maybe I'll go eat some bread, by the lake bed.

Seriously though, your stuff about asian women was dead-on. I'm saying this as an Asian man.

Keep up the good work. Speak the truth, no matter how much doofuses refuse to accept it.

[Goen]

2 in a row. I'm also a random guy (albeit not Asian) who just happened upon your site. Plans for today were cancelled so I decided to test out Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.

Nice blog, I don't have much to say about it but well done. I would choose to live longer, myself. No real reasoning for it, but I would rather be gauranteed a long life from the get-go and earn my money than be gauranteed to be rich.

-Bored High School student from New York

[Downtown Lad]

Yeah - it's unfair that women live longer. There oughta be a law!

[Erin]

I think it's more of an equal pay for equal work issue. ;) I'm not so sure we can legislate biology. Think of child birth, and call it more than fair!

[lycfyg]

Women should shut up and go dust something.
Repeal the 19th amendment and maybe we can save the country.
Women are socialists by nature. Natural born Democrats - always looking for a handout.
But women are survivors. When the BIG one hits, only three things will be left alive - cockroaches, rats and women.
Now, one of you women out there, go make me a sandwich.

[richard]

I would choose being rich. I think it doesn't matter how long you live but how you live.

I read about your "outing" as a man and i think you are exactly right especially with the thought that most women in "high" positions owe a lot of their success to their looks or simply to being a woman at all. The really sad part is that they don't realize that and actually think they are great professionals.

One look around themselves would show them that almost no ugly women are in prominent positions. And those who might be are almost always there because no man or attractive woman wanted the post at that time. And if they want to keep their job they HAVE to change their looks. (see the new fill-up-cause nobody-wanted-the post-turned-chancellor-candidate Angela Merkel in germany)

[anonymouse]

Heh. Spend a day working as a nurse, waitress or teacher. If hard work or frustration could kill you, women would all be dead in their 40s. Men probably die earlier because its so damn hard to get them to go to the doctor, IMHO.

[Elliot Essman]

The tradeoff of money for longevity is only relevant if based on a broad statistical sample. There are many women who work themselves to at least ill health for the sake of a buck. Also, the argument doesn't take into consideration those who come by money fluidly, through chance, or even through smarts.

[Chixulub]

Well, I would have had a different answer before my heart attack at 32.

Security, which is what money translates into on some levels, is important on a 'quality of life level' Then again, I have a brother in a persistent vegetative state, truely a fate worse than death. So if by money versus longevity, you mean quality of live, I'll take a shorter higher quality life. If you just mean money as the hollow, unfullfilling thing a a Barbie Duplex and Barbie Volvo for your offspring, I guess I'd take the life part, keep the money...

[Jen]

A long life! I don't mind a little less money. I am scared of dying!!

[Jen]

A long life! I don't mind a little less money. I am scared of dying!!

[Bill]

Na! I would prefer more money unless that longer life means a longer and more youthful life. Turns out that if you live ten more years working a 40 hour work week compared to working yourself to death at 55 hours per week, you'd probably end up with more wealth anyway. But if I was severely handicapped for those ten years, I don't know how a longer life can be better than money.

[Joe]

Life and its experiences are over-rated, death is the great equalizer, since everything you gained - your memories and experiences, are lost, and humans by their very nature are constantly have a never ending thirst for experiences they love. So either way we live lives of perpetual want, and as long as death exists, it's sting is felt more by those who had everything and wanted to keep it then those that had nothing, the more positive attachments you have to the world, the more difficult it is to leave it.

[justin]

well. i have to say throu out all history females have always out lived the males. mostly because they raised the children and needed to. and most males went out and fought the wars hunted for the food. and pretty much worked them selfs to death. the females. didnt work as hard physicly and didnt wear down their bodies. but if things keep up as they are now with the females out working just like the men in a few hundred years u will see both females and males will live just as long. posible. i dont know for sure.

[Thomas L. Vaultonburg]

Love the site. Zombie Logic press www.zombielogicpress.com is mine.

Men are much more risk-loving in their actions. That translates to more likelihood of accidental death, or death indirectly related to risk-loving activities (neglecting one's health, for example), as well as more stress because of such actions.

However, the male preference for risk also explains the gender gap in income. Men are more likely to take riskier, higher-stress, but higher-paying jobs.

[Heather Chapman]

I'm reviving what he had going, only I really am a young blonde female. Lol. Once I start writing, I'd appreciate feedback. :)

~The Libertarian Girl...#2~

http://thelibertariangirl.blogspot.com/

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[Duk, the Killer of Tiny-dicked Cracker-Albino White and Nigger dudes.]

Shut your bitch-ass up, KissMyIrishAss (before I rape your ass and kill you)!!! I'm typically a nice guy, but too many people are using racial slurs and making racist statements here so I'm doing the same. Fucking nasty-looking, pigment-deficient, maggot-dicked cracker-albino boys! If Genghis Khan's Mongol Chinese Army didn't spare you all maggot-dicked (smaller than tiny) white boys during their atrocious European massacre and invasion, there would be none of you white boys (not men) left!!! Maggot-dicked white boys have been conquered (and their women rounded up and raped) to a greater extent by the Mongol armies of Genghis Khan and Attilah the Hun than no-dicked white boys actually conquered any other race. Don't believe me? Do a Google search of "White History" and read up your history boys.
As for tiny-dicked niggers, no women in this world WANT YOUR filthy STD-infested dicks except horribly nasty and ugly nigger bitches. Last week I saw a nigger bitch so ugly I almost fucking sued her ass in court!!! NO LIES!!! Goddamn father-fucking nigger bitches (they can't get no other man than their poor fathers) are the ugliest bitches under the Sun, probably kicked out of HELL by Satan himself because they're so fucking ugly. I'm trying to buy a machine gun so I can kill them ALL!!!
As for the Mongoloid people of Asia, they are the embodiment of perfection and deity. Bow to me you poor cracker-albino maggot-dicked white boys like how you did to Genghis Khan and Attilah the Hun and I may spare your dick (if I can find the fucker!).
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