Lemur866:
When you’re miserable and poor, you know why you’re miserable. It’s because you’re poor and you live in squalor and you have to bust your hump for your jerkoff boss.
If you get some money and you’re still miserable, and you think it’s because your life has no purpose, well, your life had no purpose back when you were poor either. It’s just that you were so busy staying out of the rain you thought your purpose in life was fulfilled every night you spent with a roof over your head.
There’s definitely something to this. Getting a bunch of money all of a sudden propels you out of the easy-to-figure-out levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
Chimera:
"Rogers won a whopping £1.9 million ($3 million U.S.) in the National Lottery and, despite early insistence that she would continue to live frugally, bought four large homes, several new cars and had two breast augmentations.
I mean, in her defense, if you just get one breast augmented, you end up kind of lopsided.
Lemur866:
A million dollars only buys you something like $50,000 a year in income. If you use some of your million dollars to buy your house outright you won’t need as much to pay your mortgage or rent, but you’ll have spent a big chunk of capital and will therefore have a smaller income.
It’s not that a million dollars isn’t a lot of money. It really is. But it’s not enough to set up in in luxury for the rest of your life, even if you’re really good at managing money. It’s enough to set you up for modest middle class living in a small town without working for the rest of your life, but not luxury.
Alternatively, it’s enough to set you up in such a way that you can probably choose a vocation based on what it is, rather than having to pursue a salary level.