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Originally Posted by rgeorg
Actually, I'd probably try to ignore it! I enjoy my work and would be at loose ends just to quit. We have a good life and I am content with the level of material goods that we have. I observe that spending lots of money often brings many problems and insecurities (there is always someone with more money). I wouldn't want to shower my child with unlimited funds because I would worry about her character development.
I guess she'd get it when we are gone... but at least she'll be older by then.
Although a few more techie gadgets would be fun....
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actually, if we are being serious, in principle i rather agree with you. the very few rich people i have known who have never had to worry about money at all (i mean specifically those who are living on their parents' bank accounts, not the ones who have worked hard to make their money) are completely disconnected from the real world and know practically nothing about life. they are also often pretty unressourceful, and not capable of getting much done in the way of practical, day to day responsibility. i think it's good for young people to have to live with relatively small amounts of money for a while, and to have to work to earn it, to learn responsibility. and i think it should be illegal to be obscenely rich (people who earn, for instance, multi-million € "bonuses" on top of salaries so huge it must be materially impossible to actually spend all of it, whilst their companies are "cutting costs" and laying people off and others are living at or below the poverty level ; that is unjustifiable to me), there should be some kind of limit. particularly as, bizarrely, the general reaction to having lots of money seems to be to want to hoard it / get even more, apparently just for the sake of having it.
however, i *also* believe that once you've struggled for a few years as a young person, and learned responsibility, ressourcefulness, etc., life should get easier. i, for instance, have already learned quite well what it means not to have enough money, and i think i have more than earned the privilege of being a somewhat idle rich person.
or, at the least, comfortably comfortable.
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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Hire an assassin, and go on a cruise (by definition a ship is a watertight alibi ). |
hm, i may need to change my answer.
(where is that list of mine...)