# Explain how rich people think **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 5, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-rich-people-think/974435 "2022-11-05T18:49:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-rich-people-think/974435/22 "2022-11-05T21:46:36Z")
Human nature is always a continuum. Whether it’s truly a bell curve or not, that’s the best way to imagine it. Most people have a moderate amount of motivation to work, Some people really like their jobs; some people work out of sheer necessity. At the far ends are people who are driven to pile up more: more money, more fame, more power, more possessions and people who shun all possessions and try to live with nothing. Six sigma people at both ends - six standard deviations away from the norm: very extreme personalities - obviously exist. If there are 8 billion people in the world, then 13,600 are at each extreme. That’s more than all the billionaires in the world. Even two sigma people - hardly extreme - leaves 200,000,000 at each end. Yeah, some people are really, really different from you. Nothing else could possibly be expected in a society of 8 billion people with thousands of cultural heritages and hundreds of personality types. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-rich-people-think/974435)._