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Which would you rather? Financial wealth or social wealth? (pg. 9)
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by XaNaX
put $100 million in cold hard cash in front of someone and then tell them they can either keep that money or trade it for what is behind door number 3 which is a life of financial poverty but they get to have "social wealth". nobody can see the choice you are making and nobody will judge you.
what percentage of people do you think are going to pass up the money? |
I'm not saying the percentage would be low. Rather, I'm just saying it wouldn't be 100%, so it's unfair to say that everyone with a divergent opinion is lying.
Personally, given the choice between the hard cold cash and the opportunity to have a mega-social life behind door #3, I think I'd decide to stick with neither.
| quote: | Originally posted by Akridrot
This is an interesting aspect to the thread, maybe we should start addressing this, because I'd like to understand it too. My mother is the same way. She has extremely strong convictions about money and various social issues: everything ever is about money; everyone in the world wants to win the lottery -- and you are a gigantic, lying idiot if you don't (but in her mind, you secretly do); she thinks that Muslims are bad people and that any sane, normal person would back her up she thinks that all women, no exceptions, want to be equal with men (the only ones who aren't are just weak to her) and that who successful women who occasionally embrace a very submissive side behind closed doors do not exist, or that they don't have an iota of intelligence. The main theme behind all her convictions is that she believes with complete certainty that everyone else backs her up and that anyone who doesn't is crazy, stupid, or lying. |
This deserves a thread of its own... I'm working on that, hold on :) |
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| Rose |
| It's easier to make yourself a social life than to make yourself ultra wealthy |
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| RickyM |
| quote: | Originally posted by XaNaX
put $100 million in cold hard cash in front of someone and then tell them they can either keep that money or trade it for what is behind door number 3 which is a life of financial poverty but they get to have "social wealth". nobody can see the choice you are making and nobody will judge you.
what percentage of people do you think are going to pass up the money? |
The thing is that it is an unfair question...who wants to live a life of financial poverty?
If you were to say £100 million in cash or you can trade it for being comfortable financially (a decent well paid job), and 'social wealth'...then you would get a different set of answers.
By the way, have you any idea what £100 million would look like in cash? Would need to be a pretty big room that this decision takes place in :D |
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| Krypton |
| I tend to think financial and social wealth come hand in hand. |
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| RickyM |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
I tend to think financial and social wealth come hand in hand. |
Exactly. |
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| mickeymarley |
| I have both, does that make me a cu*t? |
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| Akridrot |
What I've learned from reading these replies:
- In my OP, I explicitly said: "You will be filthy rich, but have no friends, or you will have all the friends in the world, but no money. This is the dichotomy, and it's only one or the other." I said this. Even though I never typed those words in the OP, it's exactly what I meant.
- Because of what I explicitly stated above, the logical conclusion is that: financial wealth doesn't equal social poverty, so even though I explicitly stated that as a condition of the question, it's OK to ignore it and not consider it in your answer (please keep in mind that I explicitly stated that financial wealth with social poverty was a choice, even though you can't find the exact phrase I made in the point above (which is in quotes, signifying that it was stated somewhere in this thread, by me) or anything remotely similar to it. I did say this, according to everyone else in this thread).
- Also, social wealth equals financial poverty, which I did explicitly state, and since I explicitly stated that as a condition of the question, it's only logical to consider that in your answer, so the obvious decision is choosing financial wealth, which doesn't equal social poverty instead of social wealth which MUST equal financial poverty. Brilliant reasoning from our fine posters. |
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| diggerz |
All I know is that I know nothing,
My skin will decay, my car will get old
but my spirit will grow
If taken care of and bred with love,
I'll never be poor. |
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| Utencil |
| quote: | | Being a millionaire or billionaire doesn't really appeal to me, whether it's in this current society or even in the more social society. Does anyone else on this planet feel the way I do? |
Yes many people feel like you do. You’re not special even though you might think you are. But we can forgive you for you’re at that age where pointless day long philosophizing is the norm.
I’ve found that most people who aren’t interested in becoming a “millionaire or billionaire” are at that point in their lives where they face the cold hard truth that they never will acquire such wealth. Hence the motivation to question “financial wealth”… |
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| Akridrot |
| quote: | Originally posted by Utencil
for you’re at that age where pointless day long philosophizing is the norm. |
Do all 20 year olds go through this phase? What's the phase immediately after this one? (serious post) |
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| diggerz |
Well, let's just say I can afford to philosophize all day long
You...Know This
Rule #1 Never Fail
Rule #2 Never forget rule number one...
W.Buffett:p |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Utencil
Yes many people feel like you do. You’re not special even though you might think you are. But we can forgive you for you’re at that age where pointless day long philosophizing is the norm.
I’ve found that most people who aren’t interested in becoming a “millionaire or billionaire” are at that point in their lives where they face the cold hard truth that they never will acquire such wealth. Hence the motivation to question “financial wealth”… |
LOL. I like it. "Philosophy is just the consolation prize for people who can never have the greatest pleasure in life: being a billionaire."
:D |
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