There is this life's paradox captured by folk wisdom:
When you are young, you have time and health, but don't have money. In the middle age, you have health and money, but you don't have time. As you grow old, you have time and money, but you don't have health.
But that's not always true, isn't it?
The AI helped me put these three men together at the table... The other choices were "too serious".
Many people grow, live, and die poor, so they never really have money. The interesting part is that some of them may compensate with an incredible health throughout their lifetime. Not all of them, of course, but given that they most likely had to fight their entire lives with adverse conditions, their immunity system may be better trained than in most cases and they don't indulge with all the sh*t food people eat nowadays and even consider delicacies. Time they probably don't have because they need to live. And if they don't have money, they must lack time, right? However, compared to an average person, they are used to live off less, so they don't need as much, and maybe paradoxically, they'll have more free time than someone with more money but who uses them poorly or always seeks a higher life standard.
At the other end of the spectrum, there are the capitalist prodigies, who become multimillionaires at a very young age through their own effort (not as an inheritance). They certainly have money when they are young but they won't have the time. Health is... questionable under the level of stress and work hours they probably put in. Some realize and take measures soon, others don't, and will regret later.
Regarding people who have always been super-rich because of the family situation, they may also be in the position to have all three when they are young: time, health, and money. This has proven to be a dangerous combination for many which led to: lack of a purpose in life, bad entourages, drugs, etc. Eventually, this may lead to poor health (even early death) and no money. With a poor health, someone wouldn't even be able to use time properly.
Too much free time can also be associated with an infantile mind, that hasn't found a purpose in life. That's why young people usually have too much of it.
Health - you can lose it at any age, but it's true, in general it degrades as time goes by. But if health deteriorates, the other two categories, money and time, are generally affected. If you were an active and productive individual, you lose that ability and with it the money you generated in an active way. You automatically have lots of time on your hands too.
Then, as we grow old... Yep, most people have health issues, that's unavoidable. But time and money, here's something that needs some discussion.
Not all people are fortunate enough to have money as they grow old. Some through their own doing because they made poor choices in life and bad investment decisions (lack of financial literacy played an important role here). Others because the systems they contributed to to ensure them an easy retirement aren't what they were supposed to be, they are massively unbalanced or underfunded.
Time is often as a consequence of the previous two. If you need money you need to remain active longer, but you can't do it if your health doesn't allow it.
In conclusion, nothing is as black and white in life as in the saying I started with. But it's a nice one.
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