Wealth
- Thread starter Sawell
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May just be me but I really don't know. I think of it like using the money cheat in the sims, it's nice not to have to worry about the money but after the initial materialistic cheer has been achieved (you buy the nice tv, computer, house and car) you don't really appreciate the money, or your job/little things in life.
I think it's true to say there's a materialistic happiness and an 'inner' happiness. I just wonder if your feet never touch the ground in terms of materialistic happiness how much you would start to underappreciate it, and how quickly it could form into something much worse.
Not to mention the complex with friends, are they really your friends or do they just want money etc. I think you'd become very wary of others and perhaps isolate yourself. Add to that the fact you can go where you like and do as you please this could also induce isolation from your family, loneliness and inevitably a trend of solitude that's hard to break.
You see famous people break down or kill themselves, turn to drugs etc all the time. Even CEOs who aren't famous. There has to be something about it.
I think it's true to say there's a materialistic happiness and an 'inner' happiness. I just wonder if your feet never touch the ground in terms of materialistic happiness how much you would start to underappreciate it, and how quickly it could form into something much worse.
Not to mention the complex with friends, are they really your friends or do they just want money etc. I think you'd become very wary of others and perhaps isolate yourself. Add to that the fact you can go where you like and do as you please this could also induce isolation from your family, loneliness and inevitably a trend of solitude that's hard to break.
You see famous people break down or kill themselves, turn to drugs etc all the time. Even CEOs who aren't famous. There has to be something about it.
Well the question isn't really pointless, as it's not asking if you'd be happy being given the money. It's asking if you think that when you die, you would be happy. That's accounting for the rest of your life, having been rich for a long period of time. Having no goals, having no aspirations, having smothered and spoilt your family. 50-60-70 odd years of this assuming you die of old age. There's a lot more to the question than the face value of 'would it be nice to be endlessly rich'.
I think people big up world exploration a lot. I've known a lot of people to go off travelling to see the world for a year/half. Most of which come back early because they miss home. They all say they loved seeing different cultures, landscapes etc. And they genuinely had a once in a lifetime experience. But I'm not sure that would give you a fufillment that would deem your life to have been a happy one, personally anyway.
What's more, travelling the world wouldn't be a once in a life time experience if you were rich. So again, you get diminishing returns.
Indeed. I just think a lot of people see wealth through rose tinted glasses. I know quite a few people who are millionares through my father and none of them seem any more happy than anyone else I know. Most of them have trust issues as a result of being sucsessful and are divorced or in a sham marriage. One of them springs to mind, he just travels around europe on his bike when he has the chance. It sounds glorious but it's basically just exaggerated escapism.
I think I could, because I understand the problems with wealth and I could address them.
More than anything I'm playing devil's advocate.