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I am rich and have no idea what to do

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Re: I am rich and have no idea what to do

#61
I think your problem is shared by a lot of rich people. I think a lot of them have no idea what to do with their lives.

Wealth is like a clicker game. As you work you earn money, like clicking the cookie to earn more cookies. Once you have enough surplus cookies, you can put them to work earning more cookies, and then put THOSE to work earning even more cookies, and so on. Eventually you're well beyond the point where clicking the cookie makes any damn sense, but you're still in the game, seeing how fast you can accumulate cookies and seeing how far you can go, just for the sake of seeing it.

Welcome to the life of the super rich. That's what investors do -- spend their time looking for ways to spend their money that will make them even more money, just to see how rich they can get and how fast they can get there.

If that doesn't sound like a fulfilling life, think of something challenging and beneficial you can do. Start a biotech startup. Look for ways to clean up oil spills. Invent a new battery. Build a toy for your kids with Arduino. You're smart, and in a position to do things many smart people can only dream of. Take advantage of it.

Re: I am rich and have no idea what to do

#66
post #9

Opposite problem. I am tied to a corporate job, and I'd absolutely know how to use every second. No, really. Every second.

Seems like you two should help each other out!

The reality is that only he can help himself. He's just facing the search he delayed up to now. It's good he's facing it. Most never will.

Re: I am rich and have no idea what to do

#67

Therapy. Wealth and success is one of the most massive crutches there is. It can make it almost impossible to be truly in touch with your insecurities and pain because its simply too easy to hide in your victory. Your toughest challenge now is to, despite your wealth, find a way to contact the pain that drove you to your hunger for success. As the bible said, it's easier for a camel to get through the head of a needl…

Angels dancing on the head of a pin is another related one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on...

Re: I am rich and have no idea what to do

#69
I am really, really eager and excited to see the result when these DOGE-istas cook up whatever insanely “rational” schemes they imagine will make government not completely “dysfunctional” roll them out to the people they actually need to implement them (i.e., Congress).

Surprise! Politicians only claim to care about budget and spending matters when the opposite party is in control.

But I think most of us aren’t so naive as not to realize DOGE is just and only another way to troll Democrats, not actually a serious way to tackle our fiscal and budgetary problems. The past n Comptrollers of the United States have been banging away on that policy drum for as long as I’ve been paying attention to politics (beginning ca. 2000). Nobody cares. They write nice reports though.

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