• A problem that can be solved with money is not really a problem.
I am broke and need X, which no one gives for free. Let's call X education, because that and time might solve everything. Is that not a problem worth calling so?
I am broke and need X, which no one gives for free. Let's call X education, because that and time might solve everything. Is that not a problem worth calling so?
So, if your car suddenly needs a $500 repair, and you have $2500 in emergency savings, that's not a "problem". It's a contingency you were prepared to handle.
Which is a better way to phrase it:
A contingency you were prepared to handle is not a problem.
After all, a billionaire can still get lost at sea and die.
The worst kind of problem is one you can't see your way out of and no option seems to exist to escape it.
Given the tone of the rest of the piece, I'm not sure being that charitable is warranted, though. I'm legitimately having a hard time telling whether this list is presented seriously, or as some kind of parody.
Or, in the spirit of taking it as parody, that it's at least a 'solved' problem[0] in the sense of the mathematician who sees a fire, sees a fire extinguisher, says "Ah, a solution exists!", and moves on.
0: where a solved (note lack of scare quotes) problem isn't really a problem.
If a problem can be solved with money, your real problem is not having the money.
He means money that you have and can spare.