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I would have put it another way: Money amplifies personality, both virtues and vices. The reason why the rich so often seem absurd is because, unlike most peo

I would have put it another way: Money amplifies personality, both virtues and vices. The reason why the rich so often seem absurd is because, unlike most people, they can live out their impulses. Money reveals who they are. Many people without money are probably equally absurd, but they have not crossed the horizon of "doing weird things because they can afford it."

JohnFen 3y ago
The first time my business partner and I made a significant sum of money, he expressed surprise at how I dealt with it. He said that in his years, he's seen lots of people gain a sudden amount of significant wealth and, every time, they go a little crazy. Or, worse, they turn into assholes or become self-destructive. He said that I was the only person he'd seen who literally didn't change at all. I told him it's because I've never hidden my crazy.
- throwaway2037 3y ago
  Nice post. So what is "your crazy"?
PedroBatista 3y ago
The same goes the other way around, many of these "chill do-gooders" and gurus of life are that because the can afford to be. Put them 5 years working 2 minimum wage jobs and barely making rent every month and you'll see an very different person, saying and doing the same things every other person under the same circumstances says and does.
hotpotamus 3y ago
I thought it was a cliché that the difference between crazy and eccentric is money.
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imgabe 3y ago
My favorite example of this is that Mark Wahlberg has a chain of restaurants called Wahlburgers. You know that had to start as a drunken joke that most people just wouldn't have the ability to make a reality.
davidguetta 3y ago
The idea that rich only are dumb is retarded if you have lived more than 10 years on this planet and have been to more than 3 parties in your life. The same people who criticize somone for buying a 5 milion car are the same who buy a 1000 iphone when they have 0 savings which would shock the starving africans. People are all the same. Rich, poor, all this is quite artificial with respect to actual personality

JohnFen 3y ago

The first time my business partner and I made a significant sum of money, he expressed surprise at how I dealt with it. He said that in his years, he's seen lots of people gain a sudden amount of significant wealth and, every time, they go a little crazy. Or, worse, they turn into assholes or become self-destructive. He said that I was the only person he'd seen who literally didn't change at all. I told him it's because I've never hidden my crazy.

throwaway2037 3y ago
Nice post. So what is "your crazy"?

PedroBatista 3y ago

The same goes the other way around, many of these "chill do-gooders" and gurus of life are that because the can afford to be. Put them 5 years working 2 minimum wage jobs and barely making rent every month and you'll see an very different person, saying and doing the same things every other person under the same circumstances says and does.

hotpotamus 3y ago

I thought it was a cliché that the difference between crazy and eccentric is money.

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imgabe 3y ago

My favorite example of this is that Mark Wahlberg has a chain of restaurants called Wahlburgers. You know that had to start as a drunken joke that most people just wouldn't have the ability to make a reality.

davidguetta 3y ago

The idea that rich only are dumb is retarded if you have lived more than 10 years on this planet and have been to more than 3 parties in your life. The same people who criticize somone for buying a 5 milion car are the same who buy a 1000 iphone when they have 0 savings which would shock the starving africans. People are all the same. Rich, poor, all this is quite artificial with respect to actual personality