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"Five homes. Three estates. Fancy cars. Private jets. (The jets are always rented. If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it — it’s cheaper in the long
by Hexstream 17y ago
"Five homes. Three estates. Fancy cars. Private jets. (The jets are always rented. If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it — it’s cheaper in the long run.) Thousands of acres of land. Art on the walls and libraries stuffed with first editions. Bronze statues littering up the garden. Chauffeurs, housekeepers, financial advisers and other personal staff coming out of my rear end. Oh, and thousands of bottles of fine wine in the cellars. Never forget the wine."
All this overhead is definitely not for me. I want to get rich but to gain maximum independence and peace of mind, not to clutter my mind with countless possessions.
I don't think I'd live very differently whether I had 10 millions in the bank or 100 millions. I'd just want a ridiculously top-notch workstation (like in Matrix?), really fast connection and a big architecture in the cloud for my world domination fantasies ;P (and maybe a private island or something)
- CamperBob 17y agoWhich is kinda what he's saying. He explicitly says that if he could do it over again, he'd have stopped at the point where he could live comfortably but not extravagantly. I used to wonder how people like Bill Gates could resist walking away once they'd made their first ten billion, and doing something fun or personally fulfilling. If I were Gates, I'd be living on the Moon and looking through a telescope at Mars. But upon thinking the question through a little farther, I realized that if Gates were the type to do something like that, he'd never have made that first ten billion in the first place. He would've quit after his first ten million, without the resources to do anything but live well on Earth with the usual expensive toys. A depressing paradox, when you think about it.