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Man's grasp is always greater than his reach. Why don't you desire what you CAN grab? Doesn't that make more sense than desiring what another person can grab. Another way of looking at it: You are alive. Being alive means you have the ability to change the world around you. Change the world around you.
Seriously though. What the fuck am I supposed to do? Open a reliable liquor store?
You have no capacity to enjoy what you have, what makes you think that your idealized picture of life as a wealthy person would be even remotely fulfilling?
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Coming from someone living paycheck to paycheck - a million dollars is extremely rich. You could do with counselling to find the root cause of your current depression. Don't make any big decisions until you're in therapy, you'll probably end up regretting them. A million dollars in savings isn't rich, good lord.. that's rich!
Rich for who? Who are these people then? http://streeteasy.com/nyc/sales/manhattan/ Why should they get to have more fun than me? Fuck them.
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> It really has everything to do with not being rich. A million dollars is not rich. 100 million is. 100 million isn't rich, 10 billion is. Look, there's always going to be someone richer. Only one person in 7 billion gets to be the richest person on the planet. Stop staring at the top, and consider the over 99% of the world's population that's a lot poorer than you. You are easily in the richest 1%. You are rich. Yo…
Honestly, I would be fucking happy with 100 million. If someone has 10 billion, good for them, I don't want to be famous. 100 million is what I want. I feel like then, I could live how I wanted. I want to help people. I want to make the world a better place. I have no evil desires. If someone came up to me right now and said hey buddy, I'll give you 100 million if you help me starve just 1 dying boy in africa right n…
And who wouldn't? In fact, anyone who's not a millionaire would be happy with a million. If being that rich doesn't make you happy, why would being even richer work? Maybe you should focus on something more fulfilling than money.
> If someone came up to me right now and said hey buddy, I'll give you 100 million if you help me starve just 1 dying boy in africa right now, I would punch that cock in the face. I do not want to make money at the expense of other people.
And are you sure you haven't made your money at the expense of other people? I'd hate to depress you even further, but it's very hard not to make money at the expense of others. Particularly at the expense of the poorest people in Africa or Asia. Many of the cheap goods we buy are made by people who are terribly exploited for just cents per day. US and EU agriculture gets subsidies that make it impossible for African farmers to compete, and our surpluses get dumped below cost, driving them out of business, causing famine.
If you're serious about not wanting to be rich at the expense of the poor, and don't want to be the cause of kids in Africa starving, then focus on that. You've got enough money to visit Africa and Asia, to see how people live there, and do something about it. Raise awareness, build a school, campaign, whatever. There's tons to be done.
And you don't even have to eat up your million buck for it. Your 60k of passive income is more than enough to do something. After you've spent a few months or a year or a few years on this, you'll still be rich, and you can still decide that helping the poor isn't your thing and do something else with your money instead.
Just stop focusing on that 100 million, because almost nobody gets there, and focusing on that above all else will only destroy you at no benefit to anyone anywhere.
"I have saved over a million dollars and I make over 60k per year in passive income ... At that rate, I will never know what it is to be rich." WHAT? I would consider that hideously rich, I've never met anyone with that much money before. A million dollars? Speechless.
How. How do you not know anyone 'that rich'.. I am not rich. I feel like this is a major shortsight.
That you think you're not rich is a problem in your perspective, not your wallet.
Change your perspective. Stop staring on a handful of filthy rich playboys, and look around you at all the real people.
You're either trolling or you have a mental health problem (depression perhaps?).
I don't see how it is so mentally insane to want more out of life. I think people who think 1 million is the same as having 100 million are delusional, as it is nothing of the sort. Sure, I could buy a bunch of shit with 1mm, but then what? If I had a job right now that I enjoyed, BELIEVE me, I wouldn't be posting. But I am unemployed, I left my old work, and I won't go back to it. So I have to find something new.
Now is a perfect time to look for something new. With your good passive income, you can afford to try lots of different things. It doesn't have to be a job. You can travel. You can spend a year doing volunteer work. Maybe that's more satisfying than this hunt for a goal that's beyond the reach of very nearly everybody in the entire world.
Maybe you could change your focus outwards. For 30 days, instead of focusing on how you could amass more money, you could focus on what you could do to help the most people. You would likely feel less depressed after that.
This reminds me of a poem mentioned in the book:
True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter island.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22′ has earned in its entire history?” And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.” And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?” And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.” Not bad! Rest in peace!
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Rich for who? Who are these people then? http://streeteasy.com/nyc/sales/manhattan/ Why should they get to have more fun than me? Fuck them.
Giant who cares about overpriced houses mate, Jesus if buying and selling houses is your idea of fun no wonder you're depressed