Are you fine with never being rich

You all sound poor.

Where's your capitalist pride? You should never be satisfied with the amount of money you have. Until you have all of it.

That's right.

ALL THE MONIES !!!
 
Well. We can't all be. And frankly, I never wanted to work that hard or take big risks. Yeah, I'm good.
 
being rich would be great but you don't need to be rich to enjoy life.

I travel all over the world and live extremely comfortably and I'm not rich. I mostly fly eco rather than business, so being rich would only improve my life. I wouldn't trade my lifestyle to try to attain it though.

I work online and have solid control over how/when/where I work and spend my money, which is great. Europe next month, then back to Asia after that, then America/US at the end of the year, then back home to Aus for summer, and then back to Asia. That is my current plan for the near future.

All the while I'll be chilling at beaches, eating quality food, and banging lots of girls.

Find your happiness in life, then find the best way to min//max it. Trading time for money (ie a job) is often one of the worst ways to do it. unless you have a very high paying job or a career that you are truly passionate about. Don't settle for less.
 
I think comparing material resources one has with another is one of the most destructive thing you can do for your happiness because until you become the richest person, you will never truly be happy, and in the infinitesimal probability that you did reach that goal, you will still be preoccupied with how to keep it.

It's more important to understand that money is just a tool, an end to a mean, so you need to figure out what your goal is that is apart from getting richer and set out to achieve them. That way, you will be living a more fulfilling and meaningful life rather than being stuck envious of others.
 
Plutoburn said:
I think comparing material resources one has with another is one of the most destructive thing you can do for your happiness because until you become the richest person, you will never truly be happy, and in the infinitesimal probability that you did reach that goal, you will still be preoccupied with how to keep it.
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Yep, ie "keeping up with Joneses"

Fight Club was a radical changing point for me. It really changed the way I looked at consumerism and i was just in high school at the time. I still remember the day I decided to sell everything i owned. Nothing felt more stress free than having nothing and it really was the point where I could think clearly about what I wanted to do with my life.

I still have possessions (maybe too many now), but I bought a condo in Thailand to store that shit. There is no property taxes here and my on-going building maintenance + water/elec is so low it isn't even something i think about.

Now I have best of both worlds where i can have a few cherished possessions, along with freedom to take a bag and go anywhere for as long as i want. If I had to worry about a mortgage, or leasing my room etc, then I would get rid of it and go back to living out of a bag.
 
Oeshon said:
Yep, ie "keeping up with Joneses"

Fight Club was a radical changing point for me. It really changed the way I looked at consumerism and i was just in high school at the time. I still remember the day I decided to sell everything i owned. Nothing felt more stress free than having nothing and it really was the point where I could think clearly about what I wanted to do with my life.

I still have possessions (maybe too many now), but I bought a condo in Thailand to store that shit. There is no property taxes here and my on-going building maintenance + water/elec is so low it isn't even something i think about.

Now I have best of both worlds where i can have a few cherished possessions, along with freedom to take a bag and go anywhere for as long as i want. If I had to worry about a mortgage, or leasing my room etc, then I would get rid of it and go back to living out of a bag.
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What do you do with yourself?

Living the life?
 
Yea but I'm not giving up on being rich
 
Midnighter said:
What do you do with yourself?

Living the life?
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Just try to enjoy every day and live on my own terms. If I was rich it would be easier. I still work but I can manage all my affairs online and don't have to work any set hours. For me, it was the best compromise to min/max life.

I don't want to live on the road always like a lot of digital nomads, nor do I want to be tied down to a job or mortgage in 1 place. So to achieve that I moved to Asia to keep my costs down while I built an online business. Now I got a small place here so I can have a home base where I can keep some stuff that you wouldn't fit in bag, along with the freedom to pack a bag and go anywhere anytime for however long I please.

For example, I like to play golf and wakeboard, but it wouldn't be practical to be traveling place to place with golf clubs and my wakeboard gear with me. Likewise, I enjoy having a large tv and a properly stocked kitchen for cooking. At the same time, I want to be able to leave all of it when I want for long periods of time.
 
BTard said:
When I cut the work cord, my life improved tenfold.
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As 'Forest Gump' use to say: 'There is only so much money you need to live on, the rest is just for show'.

People think that having lots of money is good and that it will make you happy, it doesn't. I have families that I know personally that were extremely rich. One generation made the wealth (oil) and the next generation destroyed it, both the wealth and themselves. How many wealthy parents lost their 'spoiled' children to drugs? How many lottery winners lost their fortune in under 5 years? Money can be a curse if one does not know how to control it.

$20 million dollar houses! Please. Use $500,000 for the house and give the rest to charity. Plenty of poor, sick, and hungry people in the world who need help. Animals too. That was my choice of charity. Save a human or animal life. Forego the expensive house, car, boat, plane, or diamond.
 
Once you earn over a certain amount, I don't think it makes that big a difference to your life.

You don't need that much material possessions. Owning too much stuff can also be a pain in the ass and actually a hinderemce to being happy/at peace.
 
Steven_Universe said:
I’m working at a good career and being successful and I’m pretty happy.

Today my boss was telling us on a conference call about how he was in Vancouver driving around,

And he went to neighbourhoods where the cheapest house was 4 million dollars, and the nicer houses were about 20 million dollars.

I was just realizing I’ll most likely never be able to afford a house like that.

Even if I made 500k a year or a million a year I could never buy a house in that neighbourhood.

I’m pretty cool with that though. I’ve come pretty far from the gutter.
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your boss is a twat,that was said to make you and your coworkers feel inadequate.
 
I'm not rich and probably never will be, but I earn enough to live a comfortable life and do the shit I want to do. I enjoy my job and I rarely, if ever, turn down the opportunity to do things because I can't afford it, so I'm happy with my situation.

You can be rich and spend all your life at work I guess. I like a bit work life balance.
 
I would be more okay with it if I didn't have one set of "rich" friends. They're a constant reminder of the gap. But I'm way better off than my parents and gave my daughter a better life than I had growing up, so it turned out alright.
 
Don't actually know. I've always had a feeling i'd make it, and end up being "rich". Not actually rich, but living beyond the comfort zone, a bit more than upper middle class so to speak.

I'm not actively pursuing it, beyond working my 9-17 job (which cannot provide me that), so i guess i won't. I just have to make my peace with it, being the lazy slob that I am.
 
There are different kinds of wealth. On a money side I'll never have to worry and that is definitely enough.

I play a div 2 sport and on Sunday I had my best performance ever, I won the battle every snap. A coach was speaking to one of the opponents afterwards who had been in a premiership team last year before moving for work, he said I was the toughest and nicest opponent he'd ever faced.

It's my birthday today and I got woken up by my wife, kids and coffee. I got a ps4 pro to replace my dying launch model and now I'm working on the house we're moving into in a month or so. Doing my own work, for me.

I'm exactly where I want to be and that is pretty good.

Happiness doesn't really scale with wealth, $90,000 per annum is the sweet spot. Sire more money would always be nice but I'm not prepared to sacrifice enjoying what I got to get it.
 
Kardashians said:
im just sad i cant save all the bunnies that'll never know love :(
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That's a weird obsession, coming from a country upbringing. Rabbits are an exponentially numerous vermin and a danger to our food supply.
 
Depends. If I love my job, then no, I don't care about being rich. But if I hate my job then I better be rich because no way I'm being poor AND hating my work. Give me at least one of the two.
 
Am ok but some things would be cool to try.

Would liek to try one of those 1st class airlines with a bed airplanes. Maybe check out a private Caribbean islands as opposed to a 5 star resort. Maybe buy a made to measure Brioni suit.
 
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