The increased pool doesn’t only mean gold-diggers, but also people you meet through hobbies you wouldn’t be able to take if you didn’t have the time money bought, or in places to which you wouldn’t have traveled if you couldn’t afford to.
I don’t buy the money getting “dates” thing. That’s not the money – it’s the open display of it or something like it. Someone who suddenly acquires wealth but doesn’t display it has the same pool of partners as before. Someone who suddenly decides to make a sham display of wealth may have many more dating choices appear, but in fact is no wealthier than before.
OTOH, a rich guy sure has far more choices about how to impress his dates once he makes them.
Everyone has fucked up children. They come from all classes. Its just that when “Becky, daughter of John and Cathy Peterson of Sioux Falls - a plumber and nurse” - becomes a party girl and dies of a meth overdose, it doesn’t make news. And you have never heard of Middle Class Maddie of Cincinnati, Ohio’s sex tape (unless it was really good).
Caroline Kennedy, Howard Buffett and Anderson Cooper seem to have done OK.
Meh, I’m not rich and I’ve done that. Having money means the two chicks are twin sisters, actresses, or astronauts.
You’re aiming way to low.
Find some twins,and get them their own reality tv show were they land on the moon. Then have sex with them there.
Eh? That’s not what I said at all. I said those are the three things that motivate most of what people do.
If greed is the guiding force in your life, what’s to ever change it?
I’m not using “greed” as a dismissive four-letter word here. I mean that if the purpose of your life has been to acquire as much as you could grasp, through spending every day looking for advantages and having the ability (usually available cash or wealth-driven leverage) to exploit them, what’s to ever make you stop?
Whether it’s Joe Middlemanager with his house in the 'burbs or Don “I Wanna Eat the World” Trump… when does ANYONE say, “Okay, that’s enough.”? It only strikes us as absurd when the person acquiring is already so wealthy it’s meaningless, but there are millions who keep grasping long after it will really make any difference in their lives.
There was a study a little while ago that showed that lottery winners and paraplegics return to their base level of happiness after about a year.
So money just gets you the chance to be the same miserable person you’ve always been in comfort.
None of the wealthy people I know get laid anywhere near as much as the disco bartenders, D.J,s, (especially strip-joint D.J.s), and musicians I know. Sure, some of the handsome famous ones have groupies, and lots of rich folks pay for it as often as then can schedule it, but self-confidence? I’m seeing less self-confidence and more “driven to earn as compensation for some lack of (fill-in-the-blank)”. If you want to get laid a lot, work for a wealthy guy directly … their wives and girlfriends are screwing the bodyguard, the cabana boy, the gardener, the pool cleaner, the masseur …
But you can be ecstatic for a year. Maybe money can’t buy you happiness, but it can rent it for a while.
That sounds ideal. I’m already a fairly upbeat person - I just need more resources to apply to it.
Let’s see:
A ton of pennies is worth $3, 630
A ton of quarters is worth $40,000
A ton of $1 bills is worth $908,000
A ton of $5 bills is worth $4,540,000
A ton of $20 bills is worth $18,160,000
A ton of $100 bills is worth $908,000,000
I’d be happy with just a ton of pennies.
So the trick is to become rich, and then you can afford to spend time learning how to become a disco bartender, strip joint DJ or musician without the associated worries of earning enough to pay for rent or food.
When I was at university, my limiting factor for keeping the fun times going was money. When I got a job, the limiting factor became time to spend my newfound (relative) riches.
Being rich removes both those limiting factors.
If a person wants security, money will buy that. If they want sex, money will buy that. If they want to be talented or attractive, money will buy people telling them that they are.
Another one from Dave Barry -
Money can’t buy love, but you can get a lot of high-quality fake love.
I heard it as “Money can’t buy love, but it sure gets you a whole lot of like”
David Lee Roth: “Money can’t buy you happiness, but you can buy a boat and sail right up next to it.”
On a serious note, in my case it enabled me to do something I never thought I would do: retire in my late 40s. I always thought I would work in my field until I physically couldn’t any more, but when it mutated into something unrecognizable, I realized that I just didn’t want to do it any more. 
I had heard many times over the years, “When you are ready to retire, you will know it” and I can totally relate. 
Slightly off topic, but I don’t think Anderson Cooper turned out ok. I’ve read part of his biography, he says the reason he likes going to war zones is that the pain he feels inside is reflected in the outside world in the worst places on earth.
I watched a documentary about trust fund kids on netflix, many seemed pretty fucked up. I guess part of it is that you are surrounded by fake friends and gold diggers rather than real friends. Plus you never get to establish your own sense of identity, you are always the child of a rich/successful/famous person rather than your own self. But again, I’m fucked up and I"m not rich. So I would take rich on top of this anyway.
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos recently bought the Boston Globe for $250 million. He could have paid a lot less for it, but he wanted the two-day shipping.
(Joke stolen from Jimmy Dore)