Topic: Is wealth boring? - page 8. (Read 7327 times)

Thanks, I can identify with this approach.

Now that requires some imagination

When you get bored, you have the option to do good or bad. This is why some rich people and celebs get into trouble with drugs and sex scandals. They looking for exitement in the wrong places.

Rather get involved with community projects and charity, where the goal is focused on doing something good for other people.

Bill Gates is one of the richest people in the world, and look what the Gates Foundation are doing to leave a positive legacy in this world.

There is no need for you to be bored, when you are wealthy. Just Pay it forward and leave a positive legacy.

do you find that poker guy who is rich as fuck(dan bilzerian right?) to be bored with all those bitches and yacht, mega houses that he have? he seems really happy

so boredom depend on the person not much on the wealth

As most human beings, I can't tell you what being wealthy is like, I can only tell you that being poor fucking sucks. It's miserable stressful and depressing. Forget travel, restaurants, decent clothes, nice watches or jewelry of any kind, nice cars, yachts, a good education, access to health care whatsoever, concerts, film festivals, owning art that's not a poster, or enjoying alcohol that doesn't come in a can. And I'm not talking about homeless starvation poor, just normal working class poor. If I were homeless starvation type of poor I'd walk to the nearest tall bridge and fucking jump off it. You know what's boring? Boring is eating raman noodles and peanut butter sandwiches to survive for the 10,000th time. Wearing all your cheap clothes until they literally have holes in them and become unwearable and all the time you look like your wearing peasant rags. Sitting around watching t.v night after night year after year after year because you can't afford to do anything else other than the cheapest entertainment option to stave off the desire to off yourself. Toiling away at a meaningless job you hate for barely enough money to pay for your basic necessities, while the proceeds of your labor goes to increasing the wealth of the business owner. What I wouldn't give to be bored by wealth. And by the way, wanting ever more levels of opulence is a mental illness, fundamentally evil, and not at all a natural or correct way to act - this is a lie told to the poor by the wealthy. I'd never work a day again in my life or desire ever greater wealth if only I just had enough to not be constantly suffering. And what a fucking stupid question.

if you are bored, money might not fix it. 

we generally desire that which we do not have,
and place a special glamour on it.   Being a
millionaire isn't what you think.

having more money can make you happiER,
and improve your quality of life...
and it's absolutely appropriate to try
to achieve prosperity.  At the same time,
you can have millions of dollars and be
unhappy, bored, uncontent, angry,
anxious, unhealthy, fearful, you name it. 

According to me wealth is not boring and by acquiring it we can have lots of fun and fulfill all our hidden desires.

You will never have enough money, try asking bill gates or some of the richest people in the world. They will always ask for more, simply because if you can ask for more why ask for less?

Is freedom boring? Is slavery fun? In capitalism, wealth = freedom. Poverty = slavery. This ain't rocket surgery.

I have never been wealthy but I can promise you it is not boring.  Doing anything and everything you have ever wanted to do and not even have to think about money sounds like the tits.  Normal people love this idea of a way of life. 

Well, if they want to pay for it, then everyone's happy I guess. I wonder who provides the 'uniform' for the billionaire though. He can't pan handle in his tailor made suit. Needs to be authentic, grease stains and the smell of rancid alcohol, the whole nine yards.

for people who are not wealthy wealth is not boring and they are pursuing it . and even becoming wealthy is not going to be satisfactory to them . humans are usually so greedy and would never be satisfied so they will always want more, so the pursuit never ends!

but for those who have vast wealth beyond imagination in their possession i think it can get boring. so they would seek other sorts of thrill.

People are boring. Wealth can't be boring...it's an enabler. It's a freedom giver and a stress reducer. Wealth makes it possible to live out whatever creative (or boring) ambitions one has.

Don't get me wrong, the value of life isn't gained through wealth, but life is made a lot easier.

Have you ever thought of doing something for people other than yourself? You could do a lot of good with that kind of money.

Personally, I would fund scholars who focus on transcending industrial capitalism with minimal violence, waste, chaos, and downtime.

That would actually be a very interesting idea.  I would love to see them talk about community before they do it, and then after.

I would think the action would make one more willing to donate and help good services. 

I heard there's a guy in Moscow who charges a lot to teach billionaires how to pan handle for a day on the street.  im serious.

I dont think that above 1 billion that's greed anymore.

Sure if you got a few 100.000$ you are greedy for a few million $ to buy sports car, big mansion and a few toys.

But after you reach over 1 billion, i think it becomes just a hobby to make money.


Like i can imagine a poor person greedy to get alot of money, but for a rich person i think the emotion is not greed anymore, but rather just a hobby or as they call it "The game".

Therefor i think its the poor people that are greedy not the rich

don't think he was really born rich then.

People who are truly born rich really have no idea they are rich until they're an adult. Even then they might not realize it. And I'm not talking about their parents hiding their wealth or something, it's just that children takes their own situations as natural, thinking that's the way the world is. Once a rich man took his daughter on a commercial first class flight, and the little girl was really surprised, asking her daddy "daddy, why are you bringing hundreds of friends with us?" Since she's only ever been on private jets, she thought that all the passengers were her dad's friends.

So they won't think if it's fun or not fun, they'll think it's natural and the way things are/should be.

Which is why sometimes i wish i was born wealthy and had the easy life all my life, but if I am able to succeed and become wealthy myself, I'll probably be able to enjoy it a lot more because I have something to contrast it with.

As others have said, it's more about doing something you love while earning that wealth. Otherwise it's like climbing a ladder thinking things are super-exciting once you get to the top, but you never get to the top to get that feeling, long before that, you fall off the ladder and die without ever having allowed yourself that peak experience of contentment.

I say try to pick the most interesting ladder that you can, that way you can just keep doing what you're doing as you go along. Then it's not about the wealth, more the quality of life experience.


Lol. Man. That's a touch insulting. Having been born poor myself, I think I would have taken him to the worst areas I know and left him there at 3am in the morning and told him to enjoy himself. When your poverty is another persons 'rich' experience, you should start charging for the ride.

Put an ad somewhere:

'Rich and bored? Come experience the shit life with me! I'll take you lower than you've ever been before, and show you things that'll turn your nose up like you wouldn't believe. Just 4 BTC a day. McDonalds meals not included. Bring your own pack lunch, but not salmon sandwiches, or we'll end up getting the crap kicked out of us both due to your culinary faux-pas while were traversing the post-apocalyptic wasteland called 'The Projects.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM

Well it depends on the situation or on the person
Actually i onced asked a rich guy (my classmate in college) before if is it fun being wealthy.
He said at first it is but as he grew older, he's getting tired of it and he wanted to try something born rich people didn't experienced (being poor ) so he hang out with me (yes, i'm a poor guy) and showed him our(poor people) world. He said it was hard but it was fun and he really admire me on how i can survive on that situation