05-13-2010, 03:29 PM
(05-13-2010, 03:19 PM)Clamshell Wrote: I realized some time in my mid to late teens, that the people who made their money ethically were usually the nicest, most down-to-earth people around. In fact, I've never known anyone who holds the beliefs that I mentioned above to be happy with their money--if they ever managed to make a lot. In fact, I consider the beliefs I mentioned above to be middle-class and poor class beliefs, as those are the people I see holding them...and acting on them to make their money.
Of course, I'm not saying that all poor and middle-class people hold those beliefs. But I think everyone figured that out. But those who hold the beliefs that rich people are "snobbish, stuck-up, uncaring, not down-to-earth"; then guess how they are going to act in order to make money!
I want to get rich in order to hang with cool, worldly people who are interesting. Not needy, self-serving weirdos that are dehumanizing.
Precisely. Once you've accepted that you don't have to "sell-out" in order to be rich, you no longer hold a negative view and can actively push towards that goal.
