To be rich.

Anyone know or just give random thought , of how is rich people life . how is a normal day of rich people .
i think they all do everything we normal people do , except they buy things we cant afford .

 

What do you consider rich?

I want to get rich because I want a Bentley. I think my life would be similar to how it is now, except that I would have a Bentley and probably do more cocaine.

I know enough rich people. They are usually very interesting and worth talking to, because most of them have to have had a very particular sort of view on life to get to the position they did. Rich people's children, on the other hand, are usually lazy shitheads. Rich people are sometimes good people, but almost always horrible parents. Their children live lives that I would be jealous of though, because they don't have to study or work hard for anything, since they're not trying to get rich, but, rather trying to get unrich. The best of them seem to end up being hippies in ashrams. The worst of them end up junkies or cokeheads

 

There's a lot of stuff many of them don't do like cleaning, painting, construction/home repairs, yard care, etc. They hire someone else to do those things, all they do is write the check. That must be exhausting work for them... those pens are heavy and they might get a paper cut.

 

I think most of them are doing it wrong - stressing themselves to death in order to make more and more. If I came into a large amount of money, I would buy a nice little house with some land, put some aside to travel the world, and give the rest to a handful of charities that I actually trust.

 

Good point eggsprog. Less is more.

 

Old money or new money?

 

Rich people are also lots of other things besides being rich which also influence their every day life. So, obviously, their life can differ as much from the next rich person as a poor individual in regards to pastimes, housekeeping, happiness, etc. etc...

 

Does it really matter?

Yanno , eggsprog does make another good observation. For those who are able ; please have a favorite private charity. Special Olympics is not only trustworthy but a damn good cause. Your time is worth more than $ ; these kids really need to see adults caring and mentoring.

 

I would be very curious to be a fly on the wall of the mega rich. I mean does tbe woman of the house wipe the bathroom counter after putting her makeup on or does she have domestic help. Many have cooks, and drivers, so their life is probably quite different.

 

A distant relative owns an island . She has a pilot on her payroll. She spent several years of her life reseaching our family. I met her several years ago. She stopped by to interview me for her research.

 

Word.

A big problem in the world is that people don't know when to be happy with what they have. You can always get more money, and the wealthy don't care for much else than getting more money. Which leads to inhumane and destructive business practices, etc.

If I had a lot of money, I would simply do the things I wanted, and try to use my wealth and influence to make the world a better place.

I've only met a few rich people, and they weren't much different from anyone else, except they seemed to worry less in general.

 

The problem with the way our economy works is that any company (owned by some rich dude) must continually be growing. You can't just say OK we made 5 billion this year, let's just sustain that and keep making 5 billion every year, because that 5 billion becomes worth less and less every year. No, the company must keep expanding at an ultimately unsustainable rate, no matter how much annual profit it makes, so the rich owners of these companies find themselves in a catch-22. Even if they are reasonable people who are not too greedy and could just chill out and be happy with their riches, they are unable to do so because they must encourage constant economic expansion in their ventures, so they are caught in a perpetual cycle of work, just like wage slaves are caught in a perpetual cycle of work. At the end of the day, in an economic system like ours, wealth does not buy you freedom and all but those who choose to opt out of the system entirely are trapped. The only real difference is how comfy the jail cell is.

 

money itself, is the most boring thing in the world. it is a great convenience though, to have a little more then you need, or want or have a use for. money still isn't wealth though. its a symbol that represents a numerated amount of potential value. and as pointed out, the real value of even that amount diminishes over time.

i know what i would like to do, if cost were no object. but any more then what it would cost to do so, would be completely meaningless.

 

F.Scott Fitzgerald: "The rich are different from you and me."

Ernest Hemingway: "Yes,they have more money."

 

everyone here writing same thing . sort of . if i had money i still would live a quite simple above middle class life . but not fancy crazy rich life . so then all these rich people never thought they would get rich .

 

I've only met one person that made over a million dollars a year. He was a major asshole. He acted very entitled - he felt entitled to speak to people like servants and he felt entitled to be responded to in kind.

 

I've known one person I consider "rich" in that I know he grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth and he has alluded to "getting a little something from somewhere every so often". He said that a few times and that was it, not that I would have ever pried into personal business. I have reason to believe it is from a trust fund. (can't imagine...anyway)

He does not see life through what I consider normal people eyes. He thinks he sees things in reality; but he has not a clue. He has said more than once he'd do so and so "even if I didn't have any money". LOL I've told him several times that was ignorant to say because he has No Idea what he'd do if he didn't have money. He is then subject to act offended because I know he literally has no idea about life on the other side of "always having" and will remind him of that. He gets defensive but never will admit to not understanding living with lack of money.

At any rate, he thinks he projects himself one way, and it is totally the opposite.

Other people I've met that I would consider rich - not megawealthy - do possess an entitled air. Perhaps once you get used to having others bow and scrape to you, you grow to expect it.

 

The richest person I personally know is worth tens to hundreds of millions, not even sure. He runs a very big business headquartered here in the Netherlands, with tens of thousands of employees worldwide. He worked very hard to turn his grandfather's relative small business into the big multinational it is now.
Nearly always working and being busy with one thing or another. He is a humble and down to earth person and doesn't think he is better than anyone else and he mingles with the rich just as easy as with the poor. He just lives in a gigantic house and he spend around 10 million on trees alone to plant a forest around his house. And drives a more expensive car than me.

 

I often wonder what my life would be like if I had been born rich instead of good looking.

 

God said, "do you want big penis or do you want money?"..

it never occurred to me, that I could buy a bigger penis.. :leaving: