Money. Healthcare, legal help, top notch education, supporting causes u believe in, giving aid, having more of a voice, living your dream, not having to please ppl 4 your finances sake, ability 2 go and do and b wat u want (at least easier a lot of times). Security. Longevity. To name a few
You got it. I know someone who made a fortune in an IPO - a helicopter level fortune. He bought a second houseboat in order to get access to a dock. He got tons of toys.
His wife threatened to divorce him if he bought any more, since she was stuck dealing with the people who came to add on to the house and fix the toys. Plus, she didn’t want tons of people running around her house. It turns you from a person to a manager.
Also, necessary consonants and vowels.
Pat Sajak assures me that you only have to buy the vowels.
So u either cant understand wat i m saying or u just dont like it. Either way: tuff.
Power over others, which is far more important than anything immediately material.
I am not wealthy, but I would think that having millions would cause stress on the individual, as to how to invest it, etc. I don’t think money can buy happiness, as it cannot change the brain chemistry of the person. In addition, I have read that when a person buys a new car, the newness and excitement of the new car wears off in about two months. Getting back to money, yes, I’m sure it is basically great to have a lot of money, but probably folks with less money appreciate things more. After all, it is kind of fun, in a way, to save money for something. Watching the progress of saving money for an item is not a bad thing.
On Facebook I look at pictures of fabulous castles and mansions, and the comments underneath! “I would love to live here!” Not being born a Hapsburg or royalty, don’t these dodos understand it’s who you live with, not how big or ornate your house is? Living with a jerk in a condo or in a palace, your life isn’t going to be any happier in the palace (except you have more space to escape from the jerk).
How is a ton of $100 bills 1,000 times heavier than a ton of $1 bills?
ETA: I mean more valuable - not heavier 
Obviously a decimal error. Should be $90.8 million.
Randy Newman quote: Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a pound of cocaine and a 16 yr old girl. (probably a paraphrase).
I suspect he was about half kidding.
Pretty sure Paul Allen’s mother’s Alzheimer’s hewed pretty closely to the usual course…
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
Clearly anything that can be bought or influenced with money can be bought or influenced to a greater degree/higher quality with more money. That’s pretty much it.
However, a lot of everyday security and comfort type things fall into that category- on one end of the scale, you have homeless people wearing coats in the summer because they have nowhere else to put them, you have middle class people with central A/C, and then you have Bill Gates, whose house tracks visitors and adjusts the temperature of the room they’re in to fit their individual preferences.
Same thing with clothes; there are people happy to have shoes, there’s me, who has a $170 pair of dress shoes, and then there are the people who have their feet hand-measured and the shoes hand-made by some little old Italian man.
Money doesn’t buy you good relationships, good people, or happiness, and in many ways, can obscure the search for those things if there’s too much around.
Low six figures isn’t particularly unbelievable in a field like IT or real estate. In fact, in the grand scheme of “having tons of money”, it’s not that much.
However, “mo money mo problems” rhetoric aside, yeah, having money is really nice. It allows you to do what you want, when you want to. Having high incomes means my wife and I get to go out to dinner when we please, go on vacation when and where we please, buy a home where we want to instead of renting or taking on randoms for roomates, potentially send our kids to good schools, pay someone to take care of our relatives when they get old and weird so we don’t need to actually deal with them.
Don’t let anyone tell you that more money isn’t better than less. Everyone always says “oh money isn’t that important to me” until they need it. Buying lots of fancy cars and expensive crap isn’t important to me. Having the resources to live my life the way I want to is.
What fucks them up is that they have everything handed to them, they are no real consequences for their actions, their parents are often distant or absent, and often they have certain expectations set for them. This makes them become spoiled, entitled, resentful, bored and out of touch.
Then again, there are plenty of poor and middle class kids who turn out to be fucked up jerks too. Rich kids just get to look cooler doing it.
A few years ago, my wife and I spent a weekend in Newport, RI. We did a tour of “The Breakers”, the old Vanderbilt mansion. Which incidentally looks like a hobo camp compared to Versailles, the home it was loosely modeled after. Then again, no one lopped off Cornelius Vanderbilt’s head.
Anyhow, with all the servants and staff and whatnot, living like that essentially becomes less like actually living in a house and more like staying in a private grand hotel where the only guests are you and your family & friends. It’s also really really expensive, even by robber baron standards. Which is one of the reason most modern mega-rich people don’t live like that anymore.
Also, I heard that boats are a big headache in terms of cost and maintenance. So I guess that’s another big problem rich people have.
This I think that this in a nutshell is the difference between the 99% and 1%. The 99% for the most part see money as a means to make their life better. The difference between $50,000/yr and $100,000/yr is a nicer car, a nicer house, and maybe hiring a housekeeper. For the very well off however additional money won’t really change their life. The difference in lifestyle between $10 million/yr and $20 million/yr is negligible. When you have that much money what’s left to buy?
The answer:
At this point acquiring money has become the end goal rather than the means. They acquire money because they don’t have anything else to do with it. As a bonus extra million is a little boost to their self esteem and a little more ability to lord over those around them. So watching their net worth grow gives them the same pleasure as a pinball player breaking his old high score.
Tell that to my pilot and my dancing horse!
“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.”
Spike Milligan
There was some athlete who switched teams and a lot of fans were complaining and saying he should have shown loyalty to his original team and not gone to the new team just because they were paying him more money. They said he was already making so much money he shouldn’t worry about making more. And he responded, “If somebody offered you five million dollars to take the new job, would you tell them no?”