Is being rich really a good thing?

[Pavlo]

Ok, being rich (that is son or doughter of a rich person who worked their asses off to get to the level they are at) seems really fun. you buy anything, you drive a pimped out m3 or a freaking bently. Your parents give you money to do anything. I personally don't like that life. The reasons are that there is nothing to work for, no goal in life. Rich asses a lot of times do drugs, cause they have extra money to spend. Now middle class people are normal. They have something to work for, have money to live and are usually happy in life. Being poor probably sucks (definitly sucks) you need to work your ass for everything. And these people usually end up selling drugs to rich kids.
I enjoy my life being between poor and middle class (I am an optimist)
and want to become rich. I want to do anything with cars.
What would you rather be (what class) and what is your opinion on these classes. Notice I said USUALLY for all the classes. There are a lot of exeptions.

[ghetto7o2azn]

i dont think i would like life born into wealth... one reason, people like that dont kno what they have... since i consider myself inbetween middle class and medium rich i would be able appreciate having a lot of money... being able to get things i could before instead of always being able to have it

[solaris=amazing]

Good subject Pavlo. I myself believe working for your own, benefits your mind and soul. Becoming rich must be awesome. I would help so many people around me that are genuine, and are hard lower-middle class workers. I have friends that really had it rough, so helping out others would be one of my first's.

Born into money.. I'm glad i ain't. I wish i had a father to help support me and my brother, and not just leave and show up in the picture 14 years later and wonder "why" we don't call him that much. My mom grew me and my bro up and we had it rough.. still living in a 1 bedroom apt (3 adults mind you). LOL, i still have NO room. Me and my bro used to share the room, but we sleep totally differant hours so it don't work out.. Anyway, i appreciate what i have MUCH more than "some" of my rich friends. They're not rich, but well off. 3 of which had EVERYTHING PAYED FOR.. EVERYTHING.. Car insurance, gas, college, food, rent..etc..

They are good friends, but example #1, when i was in a bad car wreck (100 other driver fault confirmed by PD) they where like, "oh, it's just a car"... I almost beat the shit out of all of them, cause i worked my tail off for 2 years for that pup. To them, oh daddy would buy a brand new one..

One thing i will honestly convey.. money and "things" are fake, thats how i look at it. The only thing you take to the other side is love. The here and now it's important for you to find a "career job" to be spotlighted in society.. Make money..etc. One thing i can honestly say though, i want to hit the lottery :-)

[lazysmurff]

This is a highly subjective question...but since your not asking "which is better" but rather "which do YOU think is better" its all good, and i will play along.

as much as anyone (especially on this forum) would say that they would enjoy financial stability in order to havce a good house and especially a good car, i will have to differ.

i would really, actually, prefer to have the fewest personal possessions possible. the more i have, the more dependant i would become on them for my existence. take for example, cell phones. i am one of the many unfortunate creatures to actually own one, but i never use it, i never take it anywhere, i basically just leave it at home and use it as a home line if needed. why? because becoming one of those people who says "i dont know how id function without it" scares me. same with lot of things. my computer moniter blowing up this summer was one of the best things that ever happened to me (its back now, obviously, cuz i need it to type papers for school...as hypocritical as that may be.)

the point being, the more i have, the worse off i feel. i wish i could show you all a picture of my room. one bed, one computer stand, one computer, bunch of books, closet full of a weeks worth of clothes. thats how i live, and thats how i like it.

[-Davo]

Me? I'm making my own way.

My dad's unemployed at the moment, and mum is working full time, and being a mum in her spare time (when she's not working) supporting me and my brother.

Up until I was about 18, I needed shit bought for me, I didn't have a job, and I just started uni. Now (still am 18) I have a job I'll be buying my own shit, and learning to live on my own, independently, and I think that's the best lesson anyone can have in life. Period.


"Dig for gold, dig for fame, you dig to make your name"

[landyacht]

The easy route is to have it all handed to you. But if it's handed to you, how would ever be able to appreciate it?

If my parents were rich and had the money to do that for me, i think i would have milked it when i was younger. But now, i think i'd just be asking them to take care of me in their wills; let me inherit it. First i need to know what it is to work for everything, so i'll appreciate it more later on.

But i'm already a rich man. I have God, i have great friends, i have parents and brothers that love each other, i'm blessed to know my Grandparents at this point in my life, i have a reliable old car, i have a nice basement apartment, i have food to put on the table and nice clothes to wear, and i'm paying for an education that will find me a career that i will love.

Money may make you wealthy, but i believe that being truly rich isn't what is in your wallet, it's what's in your heart.

[YogsVR4]

Its not about the money - its how you live your life.


All things considered - I wouldn't mind being rich. You get to do some things that you wouldn't otherwise be able to do.













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[Little_Stang87]

Being rich would be nice, but i am middle class in this world.

[jimmy[the]gent]

me and my parents are probly considered lower midle class everyone i know is better off than we are and am thankful for the prespective it has givin me in life

when people bash on the poor and say welfare is crap i remember when we where on welfare and how christmas would have been without it...

if for some reason i ever become truly rich i would piss everything away least i would have good storys to tell.. all i want is to have an average house and to not wory about money,more than that everyone i know wil become polluted into thinking they are better then the homeless person they see or the taxicab driver taking them home, that is being truly poor.

Jesus was poor and owned nothing, he was enlightened. posetions mean nothing to me but it would hurt me to see my kids go thru everything i did..

[Pavlo]

Thanks for all the replies,
I am middle-poor class, I am 15 and 4 month and for the first time in my life I just got my own room. All my life I shared room with my older sister.
But I don't care much that I am not rich. I agree with some one saying that life does not depend on being rich, it's how you live it. I am an optimist, so is my family and even though we don't have that much money (3200 a month for a family of 4) I think we live pretty good. And when are being optimistic all these good things just keep on coming.

[TexasF355F1]

Originally Posted by YogsVR4

Its not about the money - its how you live your life.


All things considered - I wouldn't mind being rich. You get to do some things that you wouldn't otherwise be able to do.

I agree. Money is all relative. It can be very helpful, but it can also be very destructive. I would consider my family to be the lower part of the upper middle class. It hasn't always been that way, but my dad busted his ass to get to where he is today. I don't take anything I have or receive for granted. Being an only child also makes things a bit different in the fact that there are no other kids to support.

Therefore, I do get nicer things. But I never brag or talk about anything I have. Hell, when I first got my truck if someone asked me what I drove I would simply say a Silverado, but my friends would chime in with but its got this and that and I was just like they don't need to know that. If they ask then I'll tell them. I've been thankful enough to be taught the value of a dollar and how to invest or save my money and keep out of debt.

I'll end in saying that money does not bring happiness. It can make a lot of things better, but if you have trillions of dollars but you're all alone you're not going to be as happy as you could be.

[lazysmurff]

money is simply a means of aquiring what you want/need to live a happy life. it is not, in itself, a thing to have.

you reach a saturation point. and at that point, it becomes irrelevant to have any more money.

where that saturation point is, is up to you

[ec437]

Lets face it. You can be a great person no matter where you are financially, but we all know that life with lots of money is preferable to life with little money.

[Oz]

Pharking Loaded, thank you very much.

[kcap122]

im 16 right now, and in my area you really see like 3 main classes of people:
You got this one town where all the really rich, seven-figure income families live, and theres like 10 of those families. Then, theres my part of town, where we're doin real well, like $140k a year for the 4 of us. Then, you have the poor families, and theres only a few of those, but theyre all hispanic and indian and they live up on the hill.

The big difference you see is that the really rich kids do get into alot of drugs, in fact all the dealers are spics that sell to the richies. The poor kids have it rough, i know alot of them rent 2 bedroom houses and tis awful. But I def think people are most happy where I am right now, which is smack in the middle of middle class.

Lucky for me, parents are makin me pay for my car, and insurance, gas, the whole works. I really wouldnt wanna be a rich douchebag like my friend who was just bought a g35 for getting his license. I like where i am, middle class 0wns