"**A person’s ability to extract enjoyment from their money begins to decline with age**. What does this mean? The idea becomes crystal clear when you look at a person on their deathbed. Too weak and fragile to move their body, perhaps needing a feeding tube and a bedpan for some of their most basic functions, the person on their deathbed can’t do much of **anything except think back to what they’ve already done in their life**. You can give them a private jet to anywhere in the world—but they’re just not going anywhere. Whether they’ve saved up a million dollars or a billion, **the money won’t make a real difference in increasing their enjoyment of what they’ve got left in life**." ([Location 1368](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07T5LSF1J&location=1368)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[memory dividend]], [[essentialism]] , [[personal-values]] , [[time-value-of-spending]] **Source** -- [[202408061202 - B - Die With Zero]]