Wealth

With an endless supply of money I'd be able to fund as much research as was feasibly possible into every known illness. I'd never die at all, happy or otherwise! :D
 
Not sure tbh, I personally enjoy having dreams and aspirations and I'm not sure that it would be as enjoyable knowing that I could simply have what ever then hell I wanted, when I wanted.

I imagine that's why so many rich people turn to booze and drugs.
 
Yes of course.

If I were fabulously wealthy then I could do whatever I wanted, whenever.


Money and means are the great facilitators these days.
 
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.
 
With an endless supply of cash i'd be able to do a lot more things that i want to. Which would make me happy.

I wouldn't need to work so more time with mrs and kids. Could give to needy causes and help out mates.

I don't really see a draw back tbh.

Obviously it could not fix things liked loved ones dying etc. (well, maybe) so your question seems a bit pointless to me. I imagine the money can only have a positive effect, but then the negative effects are random and not related to the money?
 
Sawell said:
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./QUOTE]

The things you have quoted are materialistic possessions. You can do a lot more with money. Think in terms of experiences, travel, exploration, meeting new people. I think of these things i would like to achieve more than possessions (except that new £3500 weirdo case system posted yesterday).
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Ethics said:
With an endless supply of cash i'd be able to do a lot more things that i want to. Which would make me happy.

I wouldn't need to work so more time with mrs and kids. Could give to needy causes and help out mates.

I don't really see a draw back tbh.

Obviously it could not fix things liked loved ones dying etc. (well, maybe) so your question seems a bit pointless to me. I imagine the money can only have a positive effect, but then the negative effects are random and not related to the money?
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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'.
 
Voltar said:
Money and means are the great facilitators these days.
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Was it ever otherwise?

Having an endless source of wealth would certainly enable me to do a lot of things that I currently cannot do but of them how many do I actually need to do? It would also bring about its own set of problems such as never being able to be quite sure if people were only near me because of the potential of money, not being able to fully trust peoples motives would become very wearing after a while I think - also I'd imagine that explaining this bottomless pit of money to the taxman would raise some interesting issues.

On balance I suspect I'd forgo an unlimited amount of money as I'd also not feel I'd done anything to earn it which wouldn't make me happy. It's an interesting conundrum but feeling that I've broadly speaking made my own way in the World means something to me.
 
I would ***** it all on trainers and Women.

So technically, I would do nothing that I don't do now anyway, I would just spend more doing it.
 
Ethics said:
The things you have quoted are materialistic possessions. You can do a lot more with money. Think in terms of experiences, travel, exploration, meeting new people. I think of these things i would like to achieve more than possessions (except that new £3500 weirdo case system posted yesterday).
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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.
 
I'd say yes. Could pay for what i have always wanted to do and take away the stress as people have said.

Although i don't think i would like to change where i live, who i am, who i hang out with, etc.
 
In terms of travel, I agree with you Sawell: spending months or years overseas is nice and fun, but I miss home and many others do too.

I'd just go for luxury three week holidays as often as I cared to with large wealth.

I'd probably also die of liver failure from all the champagne on my cornflakes lol
 
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