Seriously, why would anyone want $20 Billion Dollars? - page 4.

angel55

full member

Activity: 630

Merit: 172

Quote from: angel55 on May 19, 2018, 01:41:01 PM

Once your basic needs are met, extra money won't do much for you.

That sounds like an extremely cyncical view of life. There is more to life than meeting your basic needs.

[/quote]

The extra money won't do much for you. Of course there is more to life, but it does not involve material goods.

EthanB

sr. member

Activity: 462

Merit: 336

Quote from: Real_Person on May 19, 2018, 09:04:58 AM

Depending on where you live, wouldn't $5M be about enough?

Depending on where you live a house could easily cost above $5M.

Quote from: Real_Person on May 19, 2018, 09:04:58 AM

Could you be happy (for example) in a comfortable middle-class life?

Yes.

Quote from: Real_Person on May 19, 2018, 09:04:58 AM

Seriously, why would anyone want $20 Billion Dollars?

Then they can do things like this : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/we-should-build-a-seastead-2418909 .

Quote from: angel55 on May 19, 2018, 01:41:01 PM

Once your basic needs are met, extra money won't do much for you.

That sounds like an extremely cyncical view of life. There is more to life than meeting your basic needs.

Quote from: suchmoon on May 19, 2018, 12:15:29 PM

$5 million doesn't go as far as you think.

There are paintings that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
$5M will disappear if all you're trying to do is live comfortably in an expensive American city within a few years.

cool_93

newbie

Activity: 154

Merit: 0

5 mln is more than enough to have a great life, but why won't you want to have more? Nothing really wrong with that, it opens up tons of new possibilities. What if someones dream is to buy an NBA franchise? 5 mln$ is not nearly enough for this Roll Eyes

I mean the end goal for every person is to be happy, and if making money makes someone happier than actually spending it, than they should do just that.

Cobalt9317

copper member

Activity: 434

Merit: 278

Offering Escrow 0.5 % fee

$5 million I can't even guess how to spend all of those money it could be a lot of money in my country even $500K would be large sum of money, and $20 Billion that's really great but the problem is within the amount of that because with that sum of money you would think of a lot things like how to save and secure the funds in other words below average middle class have nothing to worry in terms of money management because they only think of daily expenses.

Where Ignorance is bliss ~Thomas Gray

fernandoaleixo

jr. member

Activity: 126

Merit: 4

Community Manager at Bitsurf.eu

Wait, why not? What's the difference between accepting 5 million and 20 billion? You're gonna be rich and able to buy virtually anything in boty scenarios. But yeah I can see the problem, with 20 billions there is a lot of responsability involved.

paulmaritz

sr. member

Activity: 672

Merit: 274

Quote from: Real_Person on May 19, 2018, 09:04:58 AM

Please help me understand the thoughts of people who actually want (for example) $20 Billion Dollars. Depending on where you live, wouldn't $5M be about enough?

"Poor man wanna be rich,
Rich man wanna be king,
And a king ain't satisfied,
'til he rules everything..." ~The Boss

Could you be happy (for example) in a comfortable middle-class life? In case you do not know, excess money can create related problems. Seriously, why would anyone want $20 Billion Dollars?

Personally I would be satisfied with the knowledge that I have enough money to lead a comfortable middle-class life for the rest of my life. I might have exactly that now, but things can change pretty fast. Those who are chasing $20bn are either doing it out of greed, a need for security or a combination of both. Both $20bn and $5m are very relative given the bigger picture. E.g. there were plenty of billionaires and even trillionaires in Zimbabwe during their currency crisis, yet the majority had a hard time to survive.

angel55

full member

Activity: 630

Merit: 172

There is really no point to having over a few million dollars. Once your basic needs are met, extra money won't do much for you. I consider people like jeff bezos and bill gates to be real psychos. Bezos treats his workers like slaves. Bill Gate's "foundation" is nothing more than a depopulation, vaccine giving, evil money fund.

It's mostly just a power thing. Billionaires wan't the power to control how the government makes laws.

suchmoon

legendary

Activity: 3654

Merit: 8909

https://bpip.org

Different people - different needs/wants. Lots of billionaires don't spend any significant part of their wealth on themselves but rather invest or donate to charity.

$5 million doesn't go as far as you think. I'd rather have $100 million invested in a solid business that can provide for me (and 100 employees).

And some people just like working, whether the money is the goal or they like the work and the money is a side benefit. I know my own retirement goals have shifted over the years because my idea of retirement has changed.

jackg

copper member

Activity: 2856

Merit: 3071

https://bit.ly/387FXHi lightning theory

$1 Billion gives a bit more security than $5 million. You can do a bit more with it without worrying about the loss of funds for certain things.
It's true, that $5 million would sustain people quite well. It was said that $2-3 million is the average amount someone spends in a rich country in their lifetime so that is all that is really necessary (this is also the amount earnt).

There is also an issue that if you do get $5 million or more, you don't need to work and if you don't need to work then you have to find other ways to preoccupy yourself and it just turns into something where lots of people hate work, however, lots of people would also hat eto be paid to do nothiing and live in isolation for the rest of their lives (ie. everyone else you know works and you just spend many hours on your own and get to a point where you either have to work or get extremely bored and lonely further than you already have been from when you got the $5 million).

And it is true that everyone wants more than they can't have (generally).

Real_Person

member

Activity: 144

Merit: 27

"Quietly Making Noise"

Please help me understand the thoughts of people who actually want (for example) $20 Billion Dollars. Depending on where you live, wouldn't $5M be about enough?

"Poor man wanna be rich,
Rich man wanna be king,
And a king ain't satisfied,
'til he rules everything..." ~The Boss

Could you be happy (for example) in a comfortable middle-class life? In case you do not know, excess money can create related problems. Seriously, why would anyone want $20 Billion Dollars?

Topic: Seriously, why would anyone want $20 Billion Dollars? - page 4. (Read 1765 times)