A Chinese and Cuban Talk Choices

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The Chinese (Chi) and the Cuban © return for their next meeting. Part II

Chi — Make money for what, was the question, correct?
C — Yes.
Chi — I think of money as freedom. It lets me do what I want. But you can get trapped by it, too,
C — Trapped as in…?
Chi — Thinking that money is life itself.
C — Hmm.
Chi — If money is all you think about, well, then, you’re a poor rich person.

C laughs.

Chi — Most of us want to do this, that or the other. Money can let you do that.
C — Or you can watch it pile up.
Chi — There was an American businessman who traded in silver, two brothers in fact, the Hunt brothers if I remember correctly, from Texas, who said, ‘Money is like manure, if you spread it around it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up it stinks like hell.’
C — (smiling) You can’t buy life with it.
Chi — Well, it can get you great medical care if you need it, but a pile of it does not mean life well lived.
C — If a person does what they want with their lives, then you could say they are rich.
Chi — I agree.
C — But there has to be a great pleasure to know that you can make money whenever you need it. And have some to spare also. Just in case.
Chi — Yes. Money equals freedom. If…