Interview · moment 6 of 33
Money, Desperation, and Getting a Big Check
from The Joe Rogan Experience | #330 · #330
5 min
Guest
Tim reflects on how money doesn't buy happiness but relieves desperation, recounting his first development deal and getting a big Disney check, and how his manager thought he had a gambling problem from all the restaurant spending.
- Money doesn't make you happy but it relieves desperation, and desperation makes you sad.
- Tim got his first development deal in 1993 and felt a physical weight lift when he finally didn't have to worry about paying rent.
- Getting a big check from Disney led Tim to start eating at nice restaurants; his manager thought he had a gambling problem.
- The hunger of not knowing where you're going fuels some people but breaks others.
- Modern articles prepare people to live with less and own nothing, claiming they'll be happy—but that's because people don't have anything.
- Poor people see wealthy people as evil and assume they must have stolen or subjugated their way to money.
- There's a vast chasm of intelligence between brilliant people and those struggling, making it harder for some to understand how to earn money.
- Schools don't teach anything about money—eighteen years of education and students never hear about credit cards or interest rates.