Secret Fears of the Super-Rich

[Pompal 09.]

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/secret-fears-of-the-super-rich/8419/

 

[LAgirl]

interesting thanks for sharing

 

[Pompal 09.]

Tell one of them to give me one million and will show them how happy I will be :happy:.

 

[Araz]

I can see how it could be really lonely...when your life looks perfect from the outside, it's isolating.

 

[NoPro]

Way back when I worked in the Corporate world I have having lunch with a co-worker who brought up the subject of his boss, and how his boss was complaining about his mortgage (this was when rates when up to 20%). My co-worker was saying "what does he have to complain about? he has probably a million in shares....".

I said: it's all relevenat. We worry about our $100K mortgage, he worries about his $400K mortage. Our $25K car breaks down, his $100K car breaks down. Our kids get kicked out of school for smoking behind the gym, HIS kids get kicked out for smoking behind the gym. Having money solves a lot of problems but not all of them.

The comments that open the article about the super yacht and how if you don't have it, you worry about others looking down on you. That is only a problem if you care what others think of you. I personally don't. Plus I don't care if you have a better bike/house/car/truck/boat than I, good for you if you do. I purchase things I like, not how they'd look to others. If someone is like that, and I've met quite a few like that, I just don't socialize with them.

As for relationship issues relating to money and how much you have, what else is new? I have yet to see a personal ad or meet a woman who would date someone who was broke. If I couldn't at least pay for some of the dates, or get her birthday presents etc, she/they wouldn't be with me. I dated one woman for 5 yrs and she made and always would make, more money than I and when we talked about marriage, I said (like my parents) we would throw it all into a pot and pay all our bills etc. SHe said no, hers was hers and mine was mine. I said to her then "we won't go anywhere because you'll want to take vacations on the south of france and I would only be able to afford to go to Barrie". I said to her "how do you think it would work out if you spend $400 on a pair of shoes and I can only afford to eat a slice of toast for lunch"?

There is a misnomer in that story: Where the writer stated that nothing short of armageddon would affect them. Well, the thing is, poor people are probably more able to cope with disaster and taking the problems in Japan, you could have $1,000,000.00 in the bank but that won't get you a meal if there is no food coming in.

I was listening to Raw Dog on XM the other day and a female comedian was doing her bit. She said "I was reading in the paper the other day about the recession and how hard it hit everyone. I was broke before and I'm broke now....really, it didn't affect me one bit!". This is very true and apropos to this story. When you have nothing to lose, the market and economy doesn't affect you. When you have a LOT to lose, you also have a lot to worry about.

 

[Kathleen from Germany]

For T Boy......re: when we talked about marriage, I said (like my parents) we would throw it all into a pot and pay all our bills etc.

...I am one of those believers as well...but sadly, not too many people feel this way. It seems money rules everything...people need to hug more....