Agreed. The main aim would be to not let it destroy your life. The greatest danger is from family and friends. Now that you have serious money, they all see you in a different light, and soon they all come knocking for a handout. Pretty quickly, all your friends and family have become suspect spongers, and you don't know who you can trust anymore. Resentment kicks in, rivalry for your favours ruins relationships, accusations fly and you can never go back to the way it was before. Many winners go bankrupt in a matter of years. 10 mill sounds like a lot, but it isn't when you start adopting the life of a millionaire. Winning the lottery can be a curse.
But not if you don't let anyone know your 'good' fortune.
1. Hire the best legal and financial people available. 2. Move into a penthouse suite with a sea view. 3. Order room service, a '64 Veuve Clicquot, and hide for 2 weeks.
Yes it is a waste of time, but the most interesting thing for me are the responses to certain subjects. Maybe that's why I post so many inane threads. Sorry.
This study out of Maryland pivots on two premises: that the present economic system will ultimately ruin the earth (Capitalist greed) and that the concentration of resources and wealth in the rich, will prevent any efforts to prevent ecological collapse (rich greed).
Is this scare-mongering? What's your opinion?
"Motesharrei's report says that all societal collapses over the past 5,000 years have involved both "the stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity" and "the economic stratification of society into Elites and Masses (or "Commoners") ."
Driver, sounds like we're in the same decade, you and I. Most of the mail you're going to get are by women in their 30's. Except that they're not women, they're scammers trying to get you offline asap, to wrangle private info off you. Block them.
The perfect arrangement is if they live just nearby. That way, you don't have to face a grumpy late-riser with pillow-hair, morning mouth and a detailed breakfast order for you.
Imo it doesn't depend on the length of time being single, as much as on one's individual personality. Some of us are very social creatures, needing company, some set in their ways, finding it difficult to compromise, some of us are solitary by nature, and find it challenging to share their privacy. I do think that the older one gets, the less flexible we all become.
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Agreed. The main aim would be to not let it destroy your life. The greatest danger is from family and friends. Now that you have serious money, they all see you in a different light, and soon they all come knocking for a handout. Pretty quickly, all your friends and family have become suspect spongers, and you don't know who you can trust anymore. Resentment kicks in, rivalry for your favours ruins relationships, accusations fly and you can never go back to the way it was before. Many winners go bankrupt in a matter of years. 10 mill sounds like a lot, but it isn't when you start adopting the life of a millionaire. Winning the lottery can be a curse.But not if you don't let anyone know your 'good' fortune.