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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Have they tried becoming billionaires?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 23 points 1 week ago

Love to become the world's richest man, use my money to buy the world's most annoying social media site, then drive myself insane tinkering with it to feed my ego.

Alternatively, I can be rolling in Facebook money and still feel so insecure that I need to jack myself up with steroids and do Fight Club shit as I settle into middle age

Better yet, maybe I get into snake oil remedies for aging and start paying people to drink their blood. Or perhaps I try and beat cancer with grapefruit enemas and die in agony because I've convinced myself I'm smarter than the nation's leading oncologists.

Even the astronomically wealthy seem incapable of happiness.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

They just need to work more hours so they have less time to think about it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

snacks head of course, the answer is obvious. Just don't be poor.

Paris Hilton was right all along!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Someone said to me once "if you really wanted to do X, you would have done it".

Your post reminded me of that, because many people might really want to be rich, but they don't become rich because it's a difficult thing to achieve. So maybe wanting something isn't enough. Maybe you need luck or other advantages on your side too.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 14 points 1 week ago

many people might really want to be rich, but they don’t become rich because it’s a difficult thing to achieve

Wealth compounds easily, practically in a country that rewards the wealthy with cheap credit and subsidizes high risk investment.

When your mom is on the board at IBM, when your best friends are the children of millionaires and billionaires, or when you have access to hedge fund levels of start up money, becoming rich isn't that hard.

It's a cringe thing to say, but your Network really is your Net Worth. Just being a Kennedy is worth it's weight, as evidenced by our future HHS Secretary's history.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wanting something is the first step towards accomplishing anything

The second step is asking for a small loan of $20-30 million dollars from your family's colonial heritage trust fund.

And then, hard work and pulling yourself up by your boot str--

What? Why are you all looking at me like that?