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You make a good point, allow me to comment on both sides. I would love to be rich, absolutely filthy rich. However every time I buy a lottery ticket, I start da
by underseacables 6y ago
You make a good point, allow me to comment on both sides. I would love to be rich, absolutely filthy rich. However every time I buy a lottery ticket, I start daydreaming of what it’s like to be rich, and how much good I can do in the world. I wonder if I feel that way is because I grew up in a very lower income Midwest family. Is it an appreciation of money, how it was gained, or something deeper that turns rich people so cold to those who are not? Not at all rich people are bad, I think there are a lot of great rich people who do a lot of great things, but the richest of them are not as altruistic as they would like us to believe. It’s the ulterior motives I guess that really bothers me when the rich give.
- failwhaleshark 6y ago1. Your buying of lottery tickets is the strongest-possible signal suggesting that you will never be rich, sorry. Source: the research of Thomas J. Stanley. 2. That climate change hasn't been adequately solved is proof-positive the rich aren't doing their part, or are possibly actively-accelerating environmental, ecological, and civilization extinction and collapse. It's morally-indistinguishable from them coming into every home, waving a gun around, and bragging about how their going to kill this child or the next one. What do you do when someone threatens to kill YOUR descendants? Let them, beg them not to, or shoot them first? 3. All philanthropy should be done in secret or it casts an image of attempting to buy favor.
- underseacables 6y agoOh, no, you mistake me. I make enough money now that when I see the lottery get to half a billion dollars, I can afford without worry, a ticket that’s now an investment.
- failwhaleshark 6y agoNo, I don't. It's not an "investment" if the expectation is still less than zero. Throwing money away for magical thinking is irrational.