On the flip side, I've also been with centimillionaires/billionaires (oil industry) who are very modest. I know one who drives a Ford Explorer as his daily driver.
You can't make sweeping generalities like that.
How to not let the money get to your head?
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On the flip side, I've also been with centimillionaires/billionaires (oil industry) who are very modest. I know one who drives a Ford Explorer as his daily driver.
You can't make sweeping generalities like that.
Sure I do, and I take care of them financially.
We could all sit on a dirt floor and exchange hugs, singing kumbaya and shit, or I can go out into the world, crush it, and bring the best of everything to them, while making everyone I do business with better off.
Don't take this as condescending, but when you make a lot of money, if you don't have esteem issues, cognitive dissonance about value, or a success based guilt complex, you will feel really fucking good about yourself, and really empowered to make the world a much better place.
Capitalists move the world in bold directions, not Peace Corps volunteers.
Nothing quite tickles the funny bone like a month-to-month man obsessing over his Mercedes.
If someone treats you as inferior to them because you have less money then it says more about them, than it does about you.
anyone heard this fable?
Q: why are you poor?
A: because stupid
Q: why are you stupid?
A: because poor
think this is the key to the thread title
Q: why are you poor?
A: because stupid
Q: why are you stupid?
A: because poor
think this is the key to the thread title
It's great to feel proud of your financial accomplishments. After all, you need to FEEL like your hard work has paid off. It helps with your self esteem.
Now, obviously the more financially successful you are, the higher in the social ladder you go and the more you acknowledge your status as compared to others.
That doesn't mean you are any better than anyone, just that you have more status.
Never let money get to your head. Remember, your ancestors were probably not as well off as you were, consider yourself blessed.
Now, obviously the more financially successful you are, the higher in the social ladder you go and the more you acknowledge your status as compared to others.
That doesn't mean you are any better than anyone, just that you have more status.
Never let money get to your head. Remember, your ancestors were probably not as well off as you were, consider yourself blessed.
Actually I have. I'm talking about St. Barts, Martha's Vinyard type people ....some descended from people in history books.
Except for the $100 bills in the wallets, and the fact they pick up $2000 tabs casually, you would never know.
I came from the modest and middle class branch of a family that has some pretty amazing outliers.
I see plenty of upper middle class types that exhibit the qualities you mention. But really rich people I have met are not walking around flaunting it.
They buy nice stuff because they can afford it, but they don't tend to waste money on crap that less affluent people do. And when I have picked them up in my minivan with my kid's stuff in the backseat, they were careful to say something nice.
Got a point
Hmm.. maybe you should talk to someone about your anger issues? Anyways, Big has a point here. I remember I was the most happy when I was broke... believe it or not. It's the people that surround you who count..
Hmm.. maybe you should talk to someone about your anger issues? Anyways, Big has a point here. I remember I was the most happy when I was broke... believe it or not. It's the people that surround you who count..
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Dunno if this makes any sense but I like stacking it a whole lot more than I like counting it. Once I've made it I dont really give it another thought. I do get occasionally confused when people say something is expensive that I perceive to not be expensive but other than that I don't really let how much I have mess with my opinion of people. I base my estimation of peoples worth on thier effort not their accumulation. If you got a mil but sit at home and masterbate all day I think less of you than I do of someone who makes 10 dollars an hour but works hard at doing a good job and tries to continually improve. *shrug*