gonelikethewimd: I disagree, money does not buy you happiness...It may buy you an easier way of life...but, not happiness...
There are many rich people who are miserable...Most are politicians...
I hear you...but gee, I’d like the opportunity to test it out, anyway. I believe that happy wealthy people were probably happy, anyway— before the wealth. I think how you “get there”, matters, too. Born into it doesn’t give you something to bounce it against...being poor and then working your way up and out gives a different perspective. I started out ( in life) just above poverty, had many lean ‘salad’ days, worked my way through college, and probably settled somewhere between lower- middle to just above, middle class. I’LL TAKE IT!
A point that's become painfully clear to me now that my far more successful older brother has just married a Romanian. And he voted brexit. The most successful are determined to be the most foolish. Men with money even self-made money are not nearly as smart as people say they are.
Michael_A1: naw ....... it just buys you MORE of the illusion of being free , your really not anyway !?
I didn't' say "being free", I said: "more degrees of freedom".
No matter how much money you have, you are still bound by the laws of nature, like gravity or thermodynamic equilibrium. But you are less bound by the laws of man, like a royal p*dophile doesn't have to face court because he's rich, while someone without money would.
PeKaatjeAnkeveen, North Holland Netherlands6,334 posts
money is meant to spend it, not to collect as much as possible. so pend it while you can, after you are dead, you can't spend it anymore and some creepy vultures are hoping to get the money you worked so hard for all of your life.
PeKaatje: money is meant to spend it, not to collect as much as possible. so pend it while you can, after you are dead, you can't spend it anymore and some creepy vultures are hoping to get the money you worked so hard for all of your life.
Much wisdom in this.. we can’t eat paper, right? Money isn’t worth anything unless it’s spent. Remember, Manhattan was purchased for about $26.00 in shells and beads..
rohaan: That used to be true, and probably is still, to some extent. However, since the early 2000’s, many very wealthy people have been held to the standard— the administrators of the 401 scandals, Martha Stewart, Jeffrey Epstein, etc...
Yes, some rich people go to jail now and then, but I tend to believe that it's only a top of the iceberg. We will never know how many slid by paying off / intimidating the offer or witnesses or investigators. Money literally buy them freedom.
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