It's crazy how money can change people

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Whether you become successful out of nowhere and start making big money, won big lottery, selling drugs or even finding a case full of cash on the street.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rlfriend-boasted-luxury-lifestyle-online.html

How stupid you can be on this one. It's not first and last example of how social media boasting can destroy people lives and future. Only last month my colleague got fired from job because of slagging of company on social media.

Back to the story. When people make money illegally they seem to forgot about one simple rule. Keep low profile, especially when your income made comes from illegal dealings. You are not famous singer or lottery winner who can prove origin of their income. You are a part time shop worker and this is how you should look like outside, to your friends, family and so on.

Very shortsighted.
 
Panmisiek said:
Whether you become successful out of nowhere and start making big money, won big lottery, selling drugs or even finding a case full of cash on the street.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rlfriend-boasted-luxury-lifestyle-online.html

How stupid you can be on this one. It's not first and last example of how social media boasting can destroy people lives and future. Only last month my colleague got fired from job because of slagging of company on social media.

Back to the story. When people make money illegally they seem to forgot about one simple rule. Keep low profile, especially when your income made comes from illegal dealings. You are not famous singer or lottery winner who can prove origin of their income. You are a part time shop worker and this is how you should look like outside, to your friends, family and so on.

Very shortsighted.
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There's probably a lot of people who make money illegally that keep a low profile. We just don't hear about them as often because they don't get caught as often either.
 
oh gee,a bitch living it up off of ill gotten gains,who'd have thought a bitch would do such a thing?
 
All money does is make me a better version of myself. I bought my first house 16 years ago. Bought my wife an suv and took one vacation a year. I did that while making 75k a year. I make way more than that now....I live in the same house. My wife still drives an suv(newer one), and we vacation in the same spots. I buy more stuff for the kids and we go out more, but I’m still me. The Lottry would be no different besides taking care of family and friends, and a vacation house somewhere. I’m not buying Ferrari’s and Jewlery.
 
Another question. What would you do If you find case with $1 mil inside on the street. Return to Police or keep?

I would keep it. You not randomly hanging with $1 mil in cash yet losing it on the street. So its kinda obvious that case came from illegal dealings and people involved are more likely making big money anyway. So I would have no remorse here.

I would keep my job but would speak to boss to downgrade my working hours to part time instead. If I wanted new car, I would take a loan. And pay for it using my legal bank account and income from my job. I would only use case money for groceries and some small spending up to $1000 per item. But not many and once at the time for example new fridge in 2018, new washing machine in 2019.

The one thing people cant prove is how much u spend on food. Some people can live on $20 a week, some $100 and more. That's $8k a year grocery spending will never raise a flag and you got good living for the rest of your life.
 
Money doesn’t change people, it just reveals them. Same with alcohol.
 
Peteyandjia said:
Money doesn’t change people, it just reveals them. Same with alcohol.
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This. Money doesn't make people different, it allows them to be everything they couldn't when they were poor.
 
Panmisiek said:
Another question. What would you do If you find case with $1 mil inside on the street. Return to Police or keep?

I would keep it. You not randomly hanging with $1 mil in cash yet losing it on the street. So its kinda obvious that case came from illegal dealings and people involved are more likely making big money anyway. So I would have no remorse here.

I would keep my job but would speak to boss to downgrade my working hours to part time instead. If I wanted new car, I would take a loan. And pay for it using my legal bank account and income from my job. I would only use case money for groceries and some small spending up to $1000 per item. But not many and once at the time for example new fridge in 2018, new washing machine in 2019.

The one thing people cant prove is how much u spend on food. Some people can live on $20 a week, some $100 and more. That's $8k a year grocery spending will never raise a flag and you got good living for the rest of your life.
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That’s the key. Need to have income to pay bills. Everything else you can use cash for. Another way is to launder some. I would buy junk classic cars for 1-4 gs. Then have them restored semi decent, paying the shops all in cash. Then i would resell the cars and take bank checks for them. Even if i broke even, the money is now clean. Any questions, I restored the cars myself.
 
Peteyandjia said:
Money doesn’t change people, it just reveals them. Same with alcohol.
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I dont know if its that cut and dry.


Alcohol just toys with my emotions. Everything is amplified.

Also i think theres a difference between earning money and just coming into it.
 
Peteyandjia said:
Money doesn’t change people, it just reveals them. Same with alcohol.
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BEER said:
This. Money doesn't make people different, it allows them to be everything they couldn't when they were poor.
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Pretty much sums it all up.

My friend's father-in-law is probably worth around 50 million from what my other friends and I have guessed. I wouldn't say he is really down to Earth, or chill because he is neurotic and probably Bipolar type 1 and/or autistic/Asperger spectrum to some degree.. but he is really nice and I can tell her only has the best interest of his family and to a lesser extent his friends in mind. He came from a pretty poor upbringing tho, his mom committed suicide when he was a kid, and then his dad died when he was like 16 or 17.

He has a really nice house and eats out a lot at pretty pricey places, but he dresses like ass, and didn't even have that nice of a car until he got his Tesla (which saves in gas).
 
cottagecheesefan said:
Pretty much sums it all up.

My friend's father-in-law is probably worth around 50 million from what my other friends and I have guessed. I wouldn't say he is really down to Earth, or chill because he is neurotic and probably Bipolar type 1 and/or autistic/Asperger spectrum to some degree.. but he is really nice and I can tell her only has the best interest of his family and to a lesser extent his friends in mind. He came from a pretty poor upbringing tho, his mom committed suicide when he was a kid, and then his dad died when he was like 16 or 17.

He has a really nice house and eats out a lot at pretty pricey places, but he dresses like ass, and didn't even have that nice of a car until he got his Tesla (which saves in gas).
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Somebody should have told him that Teslas might end up eating more cash than a gas powered vehicle.
 
Peteyandjia said:
Money doesn’t change people, it just reveals them. Same with alcohol.
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BEER said:
Somebody should have told him that Teslas might end up eating more cash than a gas powered vehicle.
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why is that? I don't know much about them, other than that they are fun to drive lol.
 
It's tough to handle this fortune and fame. Everybody's so different, I haven't changed.
 
I've seen it change so many people for the worse. I've told the story here before about the guy with the same name as me that won a small lottery ($1.3 million after taxes) how I got phone calls from his and my relatives looking for money, then less than a year later was getting calls from bill collectors and people he bounced checks to.

The one that really gets me are people with scrap money. Some of my work is demolition and we have what's called "scrap fever" people screw each other over for a couple hundred dollars like that. Sometimes people you'd least expect. Hell one time I shared a few thousands with the crew I had because they did a great job and my wife nearly blew a gasket because "we only got a few hundred dollars".
 
It doesn't change everyone.

I found out not that long ago that someone I work with was a multimillionaire and have a bottom of the barrel job within the company. They quit and basically said on the way out the only reason they work is to do something useful with their time. You'd never know they had money either, they drove cheap cars and lived a simple life.
 
Been happening for decades, it's just there for even more people to see these days:

 
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