Do You Wish You Were Rich?

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when i was young, my precious little "parents" used to tell me things like they did not have enough $$ to send me to take karate lessons, send me to psychotherapy, get designer clothes, go to private school. whatever. in my defense, i did not want a lot of things. (fine).

at that time, i wished they/we had more $$ than we did. but i did not want to be "rich".

then in college (ucsd), in la jolla, interacted with a lot of students and other idiots, that looked like they earned or had a lot more $$ than my precious little "parents". felt deprived and jealous. (fine).

but mostly, just felt annoyed and frustrated.

b/c a disproportionate number of them acted superficial, condescending, arrogant, materialistic. Republicans. judgmental and shallow.

they acted like their retail value was more than mine, b/c their bank account was bigger than mine.

but i try to put as little emphasis on $$ as possible. us hippies.

but, i do think about $$ a lot.

and, merely by obsessing over $$, that makes me a bit materialistic too.





while i do not wish i were rich, i would rather be rich than poor.

and there are things in life more important than $$. (fine).

It would be useful..but I cannot say my attitude would be 'bring on the cigars and caviar'...I mean the great things I could do. I could secure housing for me, my boyfriend, my brother and my dad, and maybe even some of our friends, I could invest in renewable energy and there are lots of cool things one could do with money.

Even if I became 'rich' I wouldn't want to be like a rich stereotype...I wouldn't want to host wealthy people dinner parties or anything...I think I'd still want to live fairly simple life but just never have to worry about funds to go to a concert or on a cool trip somewhere.

Would I like to have more resources, yes. Would I like to be one of the 1%, no.

I wish I had the genes to support being one of those invisible rich people who anonymously helped poor people in a financial way, when he caught wind of their sad situations. the rich are different from you and me, they have better genes and much better luck. horatio alger works for them, not so much for the rest of us.

I would like not need to care about money, but I don't need much to live and I can adapt well
Just a stable income would be enough and I have no desire to a luxurious life

the major difference between the third world and the American underclass, is that we are physically closer to where rich people are at, than they are. i'd bet that most of us live within an hour's walk of at least one millionaire, whereas in the third world it might be a day's journey before they even saw a middle-class person.

I have distant relations in the far east who literally know nobody in person who is middle class. this according to my late mother. but go ahead and deem me wrong.

would be convenient to have just enough to fund study of chinese and japanese true self defense arts abroad in japan and hong kong, and then open up studio to teach somewhere accessible/affordable in the united states without having to charge anything to keep it’s doors open to apprenticeship... but such is not the case. surely have to go back to school for some unknown in demand trade while learning at least three languages on the side, so work can be found, and stay possible through work visa while training in any found spare time. by the time that’s done, it’s more likely that comprehensive self teaching books would have to be written and published instead(kind of the plan, anyhow if to live long enough even if to get to teach in person, as it’s not outside of personal abilities in writing and detailed illustration, just far less lively/fulfilling a dream to live out on it’s own for whatever reason.).

I think a lot of us would like to be rich enough to become professional do-gooders.

Sometimes, but mostly so I could indulge my eccentric supervillain tendencies. Personal airship, robot army, that sort of thing...

I also wouldn't mind being able to own a 2017 Honda CRV as those are pretty nice.