# more jim carrey wisdom > i think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer > hollywood comedy actor and multi-millionaire jim carrey one of the more perfectly ideological capitalist notions about capitalism: that "(if given the opportunity to prove money can't make me happy) i'd rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable" the freedom to do whatever one wants rather than literally wave-slaving away one's life on work in order to pay endless bills for rich parasitic assholes of whiteness i imagine myself in a nice suit and tie combo like the one brian ferry wears in 'dance away' which is now playing the lab background i clear up pretty good - yet i'm just about aware enough that 'the freedom to do whatever one wants' isn't in fact any kind of freedom of all; it's just buying shit aka materialism **in other news**: half life 3 - not out quite yet martin // republic of bob