<p>Rich enough so that I wont ever have to worry about money ever again. No more, no less.</p>
<p>I would be happy with a job that I love and making 70grand+ a year</p>
<p>I want a harry winston engagement ring so…
but in all seriousness I really only want to me comfortable you know? not have to worry about money all the time would be great but knowing me I would do that even if I had enough money so you know its a little pointless.</p>
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<p>If you make 10mil a year you can quit your job as a banker, sell your house (if that is what you desire), become a lawyer that makes 50k, find someone you love to marry, and have the financial security of knowing that if you get fired you won’t have to rush to find a new job.</p>
<p>And you can take a nice vacation every once in a while.</p>
<p>I’d be happy making 100-200k a year…would that be considered as rich?</p>
<p>I’m aiming more for upper middle-class. I want enough money to travel, live in a nice house in a good area, own a good car, and never have to worry about paying my bills.</p>
<p>Being uber-rich would be nice but I think when you have everything money can buy, things start to get boring.</p>
<p>I want to live comfortably and be able to travel or afford new things if I want them without a lot of stress and hassle, yes.</p>
<p>To post 25</p>
<p>No, making 500,000 a year isnt even considered rich.</p>
<p>@SmallCollegesFTW: money = power. Lol, but yeah, if there was no correlation between money and power, I’d pick power.</p>
<p>Coming from a not-so-rich background myself, yes, I’d rather be rich.</p>
<p>I think that this adds something to the discussion.</p>
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In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship – be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles – is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things – if they are where you tap real meaning in life – then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already – it’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clich</p>
<p>^ I love what he’s saying, but what I hate about it is everything I read by David Foster Wallace now is tainted by his suicide; I know it probably shouldn’t be but it makes truly listening to what he says hard</p>
<p>Why? He never said it would be easy. Just curious about your thoughts, I have an idea of why you would think that…but enlighten me.</p>
<p>It’s probably exactly why you think I would. </p>
<p>The fact that he ended up choosing to end his life pretty clearly suggests that he was not happy; granted, he had a history of depression so perhaps it doesn’t invalidate his philosophy, but it does not help its case.</p>
<p>I guess I see it as some sort of twisted evidence that maybe he was wrong - maybe that’s not the way to live your life.</p>
<p>[Reading that back, it sounds pretty horrible.]</p>
<p>…to be fair he had severe Schizophrenia. And his doctors switched him off the standard drug and onto a different one which adversely affected his mental state. They then switched him back in an effort to help him…unfortunately chemical psychotherapy doesn’t work in such a clear cut fashion.</p>
<p>What I’m trying to say is that severe mental illness does excuse suicide to a certain extent. There comes a certain point where its simply not a matter of willpower. A great analogy is a person with a broken leg, no matter what their force of will they are not going to be able to run.</p>
<p>Have you read any of his stuff? I’m tempted to read Infinite Jest over the summer [since the thing is so huge] but am not sure if I’d be able to appreciate it.</p>
<p>I’m working through Infinite Jest right now. I’ll look at his other stuff when I’m done. So far it’s fantastic! What of his have you read? And definitely pick it up. Just plug through 40 pages or so every once and a while and you’ll be done with it in a month. It really is worth it as far as I can tell.</p>
<p>Apart from that speech? Nothing. But I’ve heard such great things about him and reading that speech only made me more interested.</p>
<p>EDIT: Actually, I found a few of his articles online; reading the Lobster festival one and, wow, he really does use footnotes extensively</p>
<p>EDIT 2: I’m really liking this; <a href=“Epicurious – Recipes, Menu Ideas, Videos & Cooking Tips | Epicurious”>Epicurious – Recipes, Menu Ideas, Videos & Cooking Tips | Epicurious;
<p>Yeah…Infinite Jest has over 100 pages of footnotes. I actually have two bookmarks: one where I am in the book, and the other where I am in the footnotes.</p>
<p>I want to make enough money so that my family can live happily and comfortably, but not so much that my kids don’t grow up learning to appreciate their blessings and to be able to work and live without mommy and daddy’s money getting them out of trouble.</p>
<p>I live in an area with both very very rich people and very poor people, and I have friends in both spheres. A lot of kids I know lack perspective on their privilege, family, and school records. They don’t realise how many people would give anything to get the grades they are ashamed of and that there are other folks out there who are in different circumstances but work just as hard. Most of these kids who lack said perspective come from families with the money to pay for anything they could ever want. </p>
<p>I don’t want to raise snobs. And I fear that making lots and lots of money will make this harder to avoid.</p>