The Reason Many Ultrarich People Aren’t Satisfied With Their Wealth
9th December 2018
Perhaps it has something to do with the hordes of ankle-biters bitching and moaning about it.
Perhaps.
Most people who write about rich people aren’t rich themselves, and so have no idea how rich people think; the best they can do is to imagine how they would think if they themselves were rich. It usually starts out with the observation that ‘certain people have more than they could ever hope to spend’, and wends it’s way into fantasy-land from there.
The point of being rich isn’t to spend, although it does allow you to spend, sometimes lavishly; the point of being rich is that it allows you to invest. Rich people don’t put their money in a big checking account waiting for the bills from Cartier and Armani to come in — their money is invested, and rich people spend a lot of their time managing those investments. That’s how they got rich to begin with and that’s how they stay rich.
If you want to know how people who merely think of money in terms of what it can be spent on, just Google for ‘lottery winner’ and read some of the sad-sack stories. These aren’t rich people; they’re poor people with money. The difference between the two is what most article-writers never comprehend.