Do You Wish You Were Rich?

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Exactly...

That is a nice illusion, but I mean are you living on 8 dollars a day? I am on SSI so of course by default Im poor....but my boyfriend doesn't get much more per day. Also living costs in the U.S are high and its like you have to be part of the system or at least the work force or you're doomed.

Yes in some third world countries perhaps some of the U.S poor would be better off than they are here, if they were there..but expressing that sentiment does not solve the problem of all the U.S poor homeless who live much like those people but in a country with even less acceptance of it...and it doesn't improve the situation of U.S people living in poverty but not quite so bad as the worst third world country you can think of. How are we the 'greatest country' if we still have people living in that kind of poverty on the streets and can in many cases be arrested just for not having a home...same with Britan how are they a great country when their policy towards homeless is simply 'move along, you can't rest here, or there or anywhere.'...most places seem to solve poverty and homelessness by sweeping it under the rug unless its so widespread there is no way to hide it anymore.

Oh man, do I wish I were rich. But only rich enough so that I could instantly buy everything I've wanted to buy for ages without having to prioritize them. What makes it even worse is that my mind keeps going back and forth between a new computer (which I actually seriously need) and a 7-string guitar and 5-string bass (which I also sort of need), and the only money I get is a laughably small monthly paycheck for students.

a chronically homeless person who posts on the haven when he can, has to subsist on not appreciably more than 8 buck$ a day, his payee parcels out a pittance to him. it keeps him homeless as he can't even afford a rented room anywhere. I am sure he is far from the only one.

I wouldn't mind having the extra money to hire someone to clean my home or drive me everywhere, but I can't see myself smoking cigars or eating caviar. I can't even stand cigarettes, and fish eggs? Gross!

If I was rich, as in won the lottery or something, I wouldn't have to work. I'm sick of the working world. I'm sick of the high-paid head office people sending inspectors round to complain of the silly trivial things and putting the boss under pressure to make the job harder for the employees but not put the wage up. I'm sick of the job center forcing you to take the first job you see whether you like it or not, and then being told by your boss if you don't like the job there's the door, but the job center not letting you claim money because you resigned yourself, so you've just got to stay in the job you're not happy in. I'm sick of people having to be neurotypical with the right social skills to get a job. I'm sick of employers hiring people they know instead of giving other people a chance. I'm sick of employers judging you as a worker by your work history and having to have references by previous employers and needing experience to get experience.

Enough with all that. I can't be doing with it. I wish I was rich enough to not have to work.

Yes, of course I wish I was rich. Who wouldn't want to be? Then I could pay off family debt, invest in the update we could need (fixing up the bathroom, renewing the WC), buy the books and games on my wish list, have security for rainy days, and be able to help my favorite causes (turtles and wolves and rescue animals) a lot more than I can now.
I would go on volunteer vacation for my favorite causes, and help animals and see my fave animals up close.
Having a lot of money gives you a lot of security and the opportunity to get the best health care money can buy.

Well lol, as I've said to my mother several times as I read about the war on wolves waged in several countries and all the good projects to help wolves, turtles and other endangered species, "if I'd had money, I wouldn't have any money!" (left)

To put it simply, no.

As the Buddha once said, all suffering is caused by desire.

I've long had a "bargain" with the almighty, that if he'd let me be rich, i'd devote the lions' share of the fortune to helping his children wherever I could.

I am a poor student.

It really sucks to have to live from fortnight to fortnight (that's how I'm paid), worrying about money all the time.

I'm studying IT (big surprise there) and hope to finish next year. There's jobs going at a university near the city for autistics to test software. I'd like to work there and so that's what I'm studying towards.

Quite a noble thing to say, I'd like to think that I would do something similar, if I somehow manage to save a large sum of money and have both the willpower and wisdom to resist spending it for my myself. Perhaps I would share it with others who have positively affected me in some fashion throughout my life.

I'd also like to note that in a world where success and dignity go to those who have the deepest pockets, it is more important than ever to realize that happiness can best be obtained through a simple life and good friends, as great philosopher Epicurus once thought, and not through such vain fronts as wealth and ostentation. Monetary security can be a predecessor to happiness, but I think that for a wise man that is about as far as it goes.

I would love to be rich!

lucking into a fortune then spending it all on luxuries is the most common thing one could do.

I would love to be rich enough to have a house far away somewhere in the middle of nowhere. And if all my basic needs are met too, I want nothing more.

I remember on a long-ago visit to the coast, I was on the beach and I looked up at a cliff and noticed mansions atop the cliff and thinking, "man, it sure would be nice to live like that." I later drove up on the access road to that place [amazingly it was not gated] and saw a few tin cans up there on one side, they were on an indian reservation separated from the rest of the neighborhood, and thinking i'd be just as happy living in the tin can atop the cliff with that sublime pacific ocean view, as it would in a mansion.

Now that I can agree with.