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I'm generally very curious about the internal lives of all people around me. I don't think that being rich makes, on average, one more or less interesting. If a
by badpun 7y ago
I'm generally very curious about the internal lives of all people around me. I don't think that being rich makes, on average, one more or less interesting. If anything, rich people tend to be more robotic (single-minded and logic-driven), which would make them less interesting targets for dissection, if it were somehow possible.
- drclau 7y agoWhy would you think that about rich people? I'm honestly curious.
- badpun 7y agoIn order to become rich, you need to be very focused on the goal. This means that you're either naturally very single-minded, or you've managed to prune other interests, doubts, thoughts from your head, and just executed mercilessly for years. In either case, this makes you a rather one-dimensional person. Additionally, successful people tend to be in always-be-selling mode, so it's super-hard to have an honest conversation with them.
- thrav 7y agoIn my experience this is fairly accurate. Most of the self made people I know (outside of Silicon Valley, of course) are just incredibly disciplined old men who almost exclusively care about money and their family.
- lisper 7y ago> In order to become rich, you need to be very focused on the goal. Or lucky. That worked for me.
- cheerlessbog 7y agoMany rich people, maybe most, inherited it. Presumably.
- closeparen 7y agoMost rich people are skilled workers punching a clock, same as everyone else, but in better compensated fields. Monomaniacal focus on getting rich will make you an outcast in the societies you need to network with - everything is supposed to be about passion and impact.
- badpun 7y ago> Monomaniacal focus on getting rich will make you an outcast in the societies you need to network with - everything is supposed to be about passion and impact. I dunno, I work in a bank and here being semi-openly cynical and greedy is not seen as faux-pas. Not to mention that part of being a successful person is being able to fake whatever needs to be faked in a given environment if necessary - be it passion, impact or whatever.
- holoduke 7y agoI don't agree. Same that you cannot say that poor people tend to be more lazy without any passion and therefor not interesting. In my opinion it doesn't matter. Rich, poor or between. You got friendly and douches in all categories.
- amelius 7y agoThere's this Tolstoy quote: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Perhaps a similar thing is true for rich versus poor. (And of course, wealth translates to happiness too).