Why does everyone wanna be "rich"?

still itachi · Feb 25, 2015

Money is freedom...if you have enough of it.

For most people though, money is their slave master...it's what wakes them up in the morning. It makes them do things they don't want to do, go places they don't really want to go, and talk to people whom they don't really care to deal with...It drags them away from loved ones and friends, employing their time in the pursuit of it...all in the name of affording themselves some small comfort on this earth.

What if you were free of those pressures?

So, yeah...being rich...the allure isn't difficult to understand.

Now, fame, that is an aspiration that I don't understand at all.

tr1ll · Feb 25, 2015

People think rich = no responsiblities.

L7oser · Feb 25, 2015

beyondmeasure said:
This "rich" thing is an illusion. Either way, we're all the same. We all have two dates. The day you enter this World and the day you leave...

So nothing in between those two dates, no matter how far apart, matters?

gwap · Feb 25, 2015

beyondmeasure said:
This "rich" thing is an illusion. Either way, we're all the same. We all have two dates. The day you enter this World and the day you leave...

This is either brokeboy logic or been rich all my life logic...lol

ice city fc · Feb 25, 2015

I might have said something similar back in 2012 but in my experience, it takes a certain degree of life long privilege to even ask OP's question.

fontaine · Feb 25, 2015

Tr1ll said:
People think rich = no responsiblities.

I dont think anyone ib this thread is assuming you'd be problem free outside of the naive and young guys...

But Daniel tosh puts it best...

Try to frown on a wave runner

fontaine · Feb 25, 2015

GWAP said:
This is either brokeboy logic or been rich all my life logic...lol

spot on.

ice city fc · Feb 25, 2015

Fontaine said:
GWAP said:

This is either brokeboy logic or been rich all my life logic...lol

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spot on.

More or less what I'm talking about. You run into these types all the time in the Bay Area.

"I'm not money motivated. Money doesn't really matter to me, we're all equal in my eyes"

sea manup · Feb 25, 2015

tay1 said:
Al Audi said:

what are the cons of being filthy rich?

discuss

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no motivation to do anything in life?

why?

if your only motivation to do anything in life is to get money then you're doing it wrong

take money out of the equation and you should still have that drive to do something great

jking0821 · Feb 25, 2015

Man the con's to being filthy rich are the snakes. You will never again know if some one is genuine and actually likes you or just wants your money.

"they weren't with you while you were shooting in the gym"

Give me a $100k a year job ($100k buying power from now until retirement) let me pay off my debts and i will be more then content

sidebar: holy thread bump from 2012 :lol:

Xennial · Feb 25, 2015

ICE CITY FC said:
More or less what I'm talking about. You run into these types all the time in the Bay Area.

"I'm not money motivated. Money doesn't really matter to me, we're all equal in my eyes"

What's wrong with that? Many of those people in the bay aren't money motivated they want to make a difference. They'd be in NYC if they cared about money

oidreez · Feb 25, 2015

tay1 said:
Al Audi said:

what are the cons of being filthy rich?

discuss

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no motivation to do anything in life?

So people like bill gates have no motivation to do anything in life? Think critically

PRIME · Feb 25, 2015

ninjahood said:
c'mon son...you never played grand theft auto with all da cheat codes? you win da lottery or make it big and real life turns into a big giant easy button.

Da ghost of Ninjahood still taking my reps

sea manup · Feb 25, 2015

Jking0821 said:
Man the con's to being filthy rich are the snakes. You will never again know if some one is genuine and actually likes you or just wants your money.

"they weren't with you while you were shooting in the gym"

Give me a $100k a year job ($100k buying power from now until retirement) let me pay off my debts and i will be more then content

sidebar: holy thread bump from 2012

thats why smart rich people dont show off their wealth

if you're rolling around in a lambo wearing a full fendo fit then of course people will try and take advantage of you

flyny · Feb 25, 2015

omariwestafari said:
yes i was

I had no idea

And cats these days just wanna be rich to floss. There's a difference between me and these cats.
I just want a villa in the Costa Rica, so I can smoke my reefer, and enjoy how life's supposed to treat ya. Laid in the shades of the Everglades, finally forever paid, wearing the finest fashions tailors ever made. Me and my team eating Carribean cuisine. I guess being down for so long I'm all in store to see my dreams. But once established we eating lovely, living lavish, like the house of Versailles, Paris. I gotta have this, it's so plush, just to visualize is like a coke rush. It's vivid enough, to make living this a must

rillo561 · Feb 25, 2015

Because being poor sucks?

fontaine · Feb 25, 2015

millenial said:
What's wrong with that? Many of those people in the bay aren't money motivated they want to make a difference. They'd be in NYC if they cared about money

stop it slime.

Tech is the new oil... You hit it big you have generational wealth.

And please believe senior engineers are CAKING

Xennial · Feb 25, 2015

Fontaine said:
stop it slime.

Tech is the new oil... You hit it big you have generational wealth.

And please believe senior engineers are CAKING

Those techies are building these companies to make people's live easiers with technology, that's why most of them don't cash out and continue to work hard after becoming multi millionaires and billionaires. These aren't the greedy wall street banker types

ice city fc · Feb 25, 2015

millenial said:
ICE CITY FC said:

More or less what I'm talking about. You run into these types all the time in the Bay Area.

"I'm not money motivated. Money doesn't really matter to me, we're all equal in my eyes"

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What's wrong with that? Many of those people in the bay aren't money motivated they want to make a difference. They'd be in NYC if they cared about money

I'm not being critical I didn't say there was anything wrong with it. My original point was it takes a certain degree of privilege to formulate that mindset in American society in my experience. The Bay Area as a whole is also probably the most privileged region in America so it would make sense for the mindset to be very prevalent here.

DCAllAfrican · Feb 25, 2015

Al Audi said:
what are the cons of being filthy rich?

discuss

Can't get into Heaven

...So · Feb 25, 2015

DCAllAfrican · Feb 25, 2015

Jking0821 said:
Man the con's to being filthy rich are the snakes. You will never again know if some one is genuine and actually likes you or just wants your money.

"they weren't with you while you were shooting in the gym"

Give me a $100k a year job ($100k buying power from now until retirement) let me pay off my debts and i will be more then content

sidebar: holy thread bump from 2012

You don't have to let everyone know you are super rich though.

bravelude · Feb 25, 2015

If you don't want your money, donate it.

703 hwy · Feb 25, 2015

Tr1ll said:
People think rich = no responsiblities.

Exactly, like the world just stops and you chill for the rest of your life..

Mark Antony · Feb 25, 2015

beyondmeasure said:
beyondmeasure said:

This "rich" thing is an illusion. Either way, we're all the same. We all have two dates. The day you enter this World and the day you leave...

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GWAP said:

This is either brokeboy logic or been rich all my life logic...lol

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We can agree to disagree. This money **** is fugazi anyway.

Well, are you broke or grew up privileged?

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