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CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU? | Chapter 1
quickly realised that he was too far from the starting point to make it back in time. He ran as fast as he could, and finally reached the starting point, exhausted. There, he dropped down dead.
Pahom’s servant buried him in an ordinary grave only 6-foot long, thus answering the question in the title. “Six feet from his head to his heels was all he needed.”
Can’t you take it with you?
We all know the answer to this question, and if we were to phrase it as a statement, we’d all agree that ‘You can’t take it with you’ is true. Yet, we still want more.
Why?
Why do we want more? Why are we never satisfied with what we have?
Before we begin to answer this, we need to look at and understand the history of money. We have an excellent saying, ‘Money does not grow on trees’. I expect you’ve heard that said by parents or grandparents. Maybe you have even said it to your own children. The core truth of this saying tells us that money is not a product of nature. In other words, it’s a
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