People may ask you to join them in a business, with grand promises of grandeur and wealth. When you tell them that it does not interest you because you're not aiming to be rich anyway, they just look at you, disbelieving, and then condescending you. Is it that wrong to be contented with what you have, and not aim to have too much?
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Is it wrong not to aim to be rich?
- Thread starter zyrefredric
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some people do not need money to be happy, that's all there is to it. it is not 'wrong' by any means.
There is nothing wrong with being rich and there is nothing wrong with being poor.
To be honest being poor itself is not degrading, I don't know about yours but in my country some kind of priests does a vow of poverty, I believe in INDIA Monks do the same (correct me if i'm wrong), being poor is also a choice.
On the other hand being completely miserable, and by that below the line of poverty, is outrageous.
To OP: it's fine not aiming to be Rich, it's just not what the majority would think for life.
I agree with coolking49 post too.
basically be happy
being rich can help you be happy, but it's not a pre-req or anything
being rich can help you be happy, but it's not a pre-req or anything
maybe if you were richer you could upgrade to photobucket pro and stop putting up with those bandwidth exceeded messages
This. I think that sums it up alright.
For me, I dont need to be rich; I just want to have a confortable life, and be able to give my children a happy life and good education like my parents did with me.
Nothing wrong but, I don't see why wouldn't you want to be rich, I mean, you don't need a big ass house, the best car and all that shit, you can perfectly be rich and be modest, just have the car that you want or bike (a Vespa in my case). The best part is that you'll never need money, and if you feel like travel to Europe (for example) you can go, nobody needs to know who you are and you can enjoy your life at it's best.
If I become rich sometime I'll have a small house, with everything that I want, and a nice studio to play my guitar and do my job (graphic design), probably a mini museum (just for me) with all the consoles in existence (just like the AVGN), I'll be very happy with just that :>
If I become rich sometime I'll have a small house, with everything that I want, and a nice studio to play my guitar and do my job (graphic design), probably a mini museum (just for me) with all the consoles in existence (just like the AVGN), I'll be very happy with just that :>
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OP, moneyshots are a natural way of communicating love there was no need for you to sugarcoat your topic this much
Thing is, how much is that? If you had a large amount of money (say 10 million), you would be rich enough to not really need to work, pay bills and stuff. But, with that much, most people spend it quickly, on luxuries like cars and a big house. But that big house would come with bigger bills, which would make you worry about money again.
The opposite is also true. If you were to give somebody who had no money £500, they wouldn't worry about it, they would just use it where they needed to.
tl/dr The amount of money you would need to have enough to not worry is relative to the position you were in and how you spend it.
on a somewhat related note i read a cool article the other day about the negative psychological effects of being rich. sorry if everyone's read this it is a month or two old.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/04/secret-fears-of-the-super-rich/8419/
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/04/secret-fears-of-the-super-rich/8419/
You should really be thinking about what will make you a happy person. I am a real believer that some of what happiness is is biological, that is there are naturally 'buoyant' (no I dont mean fat) people who will still be happy even when everything isn't going their way. And then there are people will won't be happy no matter how much they accomplish, they just aren't happy people.
I don't think I would be happy as a very rich person, money changes people a lot and I wouldn't be the same, I know that. I want to live in what my father calls 'honest poverty' (he is a doctor, and he thinks anyone who isn't making 75,000+ a year is poor). I guess to me that means a journalist, or a teacher, or someone who works for a non-profit organization. I just want to be middle-class, I'm somewhat naturally happy person and I don't feel like having money is what would make me happy. At the same time, I always think 'imagine the money I could be making if I go to law school' and I do think about it, but I would never do it just for the money.
I don't think I would be happy as a very rich person, money changes people a lot and I wouldn't be the same, I know that. I want to live in what my father calls 'honest poverty' (he is a doctor, and he thinks anyone who isn't making 75,000+ a year is poor). I guess to me that means a journalist, or a teacher, or someone who works for a non-profit organization. I just want to be middle-class, I'm somewhat naturally happy person and I don't feel like having money is what would make me happy. At the same time, I always think 'imagine the money I could be making if I go to law school' and I do think about it, but I would never do it just for the money.