Never be impressed by Lear Jets, Lamborghinis or yachts full of bimbos.
Rather, be impressed by a good weld, a fine dovetail, a good dunk, a great goal or a good soldering job.
Perhaps when humanity is “perfected” people would prefer to be skilled than rich.
Until then, well, if you don’t want a Lear Jet or a Rolls…
He’s rather ignoring some of the intangibles: Wealth brings privacy; ease through airports; living to your own timetable. People chasing you, not vice versa. People to carry your bags, cook your meals (if you don’t like cooking). People preparing what you require in advance; people to count your money for you.
Most importantly , wealth buys you TIME to do whatever you wish with it.
I used to believe wealth meant freedom. The past three years have changed that belief.
I think the opposite may well be true.
“I fix stuff and I know things” is more important to me than “I have things”.
RNrn
An old Native American insult is one of my favorites:
He buys his things.
Like!
Although, to be completely honest I wouldn’t mind being in this guy’s shoes where I get rich and I can try it all out, then make a video to comment about it to confirm what I knew before I became Richie Rich.
RNrn
We all buy our things, unless you forge or cast your flatware, fire your stoneware, etc.
I get around with a two-stroke engine, that I maintain myself, strapped to a bicycle, that I maintain myself. Sure, I didn’t mine the metal, but I never pay a mechanic. Did you buy your car? Your cordless drill, your fishing rod, your gun?
Gimme a break.
What, you didn’t dig up the iron ore and do the castings yourself? Weak sauce…
Yep. I’m just a poseur. Heck, I even have enameled steel plates that I bought. Don’t get me goin’ about my hatchet, my machete and my knives, heck I gots so many of them things I didn’t make myself, I may have to fly the rainbow effin flag.
” . . . unless you forge or cast your flatware, fire your stoneware . . .”
I have a small kiln for flatware and a large one for stoneware.
The kilns were purchased, I don’t mine my own mineral ores, but I do gather some of my clay.
Some of my flatware and stoneware came down to me from ancestors, some of whom taught me how it is done.
I have finished wooden goods I’ve started from seed and woven goods I’ve started from either seed or sheep.
“Did you buy your car?”
I bought the tubing and the welder.
Yeah, sure I trade, including for and with money. I wouldn’t be posting this comment if I didn’t. I’ve hardwired vacuum tubes into bistable multivibrators to make a computer, but I haven’t, to date, made my own vacuum tubes, and only one transistor.
FU
I fix things as well, but $$$$$ buys me plane tickets, cloth to keep warm, and a Sports car to play in, a truck to do my business, and pays rent for a roof over my head
This is why the teenagers gather around the Lambo at the car show, and the Old Guys gather around the crazy rat-rod with the blower, or the chopped-and-dropped International Harvester crew-cab pickup truck with the home-made suspension.
Nobody really respects the guy who just wrote a check. The guy who lowers an antique POS truck by making a whole four-link, that guy gets the respect.
Nobody meets the top guys, except their retinue. Do you think Bill Gates talks with dirty mortals? He’s probably more obsessed that the second richest man in the world doesn’ become the richest man in the world.
For them, we are statistics, things that advisors tell them of, if they want to know. The people who service his aircraft (plural) are hired by people who are hired by people. They are part of the aircraft contract that his accountants and lawyers deal with, not He.
My man boobs aren’t big enough to hang with William Gates.
Hans
BOOM!!!
Just change yer name to Eipstain!
Best-selling novelist Joseph Heller once attended a party at a billionaire’s mansion with his friend and fellow novelist Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut asked Heller if it bothered him that their host makes more money in a single day than he had throughout his entire career. Heller replied “I have something that he will never have. I have enough.”
“But I’d trade it all for a little more”
-Monty Burns.
Life in the fast lane, everything, all the time.
A man content has family, friends, deer and beer … and very little government.
Robin Hood
But the bloody kings keep giving me government, not their money.
True. But they’ve also given you thick, tangly bushes to hide in.
He’s forgetting the women to go with this: $500 per hour or 2k per night or 10k for a weekend or vacation.
Being invited to all the best parties and conferences $10million in donations
Lording it over humanity Priceless.
Well, he mentioned his wife, so… a lot more than that.
If you make a decent wage, you are, by any reasonable historical or global standard, rich.
Pretty much, indoor plumbing , a full belly, a roof over your head , oh and glorious toilet paper.
I dunno, that private jet looks awfully good after having sampled the current airline offerings.
All my life I have avoided to becoming a millionaire and I was very successful achieving that goal.
I don’t know why people just don’t save up the money for a sensible good life (ie – a decent car, a nice house with a patio, an occasional fancy meal, ect).
Vanity, I suppose.
“It may be true that money can’t buy happiness but poverty can’t buy anything”
Never be impressed by Lear Jets, Lamborghinis or yachts full of bimbos.
Rather, be impressed by a good weld, a fine dovetail, a good dunk, a great goal or a good soldering job.
Perhaps when humanity is “perfected” people would prefer to be skilled than rich.
Until then, well, if you don’t want a Lear Jet or a Rolls…
He’s rather ignoring some of the intangibles: Wealth brings privacy; ease through airports; living to your own timetable. People chasing you, not vice versa. People to carry your bags, cook your meals (if you don’t like cooking). People preparing what you require in advance; people to count your money for you.
Most importantly , wealth buys you TIME to do whatever you wish with it.
I used to believe wealth meant freedom. The past three years have changed that belief.
I think the opposite may well be true.
“I fix stuff and I know things” is more important to me than “I have things”.
RNrn
An old Native American insult is one of my favorites:
He buys his things.
Like!
Although, to be completely honest I wouldn’t mind being in this guy’s shoes where I get rich and I can try it all out, then make a video to comment about it to confirm what I knew before I became Richie Rich.
RNrn
We all buy our things, unless you forge or cast your flatware, fire your stoneware, etc.
I get around with a two-stroke engine, that I maintain myself, strapped to a bicycle, that I maintain myself. Sure, I didn’t mine the metal, but I never pay a mechanic. Did you buy your car? Your cordless drill, your fishing rod, your gun?
Gimme a break.
What, you didn’t dig up the iron ore and do the castings yourself? Weak sauce…
Yep. I’m just a poseur. Heck, I even have enameled steel plates that I bought. Don’t get me goin’ about my hatchet, my machete and my knives, heck I gots so many of them things I didn’t make myself, I may have to fly the rainbow effin flag.
” . . . unless you forge or cast your flatware, fire your stoneware . . .”
I have a small kiln for flatware and a large one for stoneware.
The kilns were purchased, I don’t mine my own mineral ores, but I do gather some of my clay.
Some of my flatware and stoneware came down to me from ancestors, some of whom taught me how it is done.
I have finished wooden goods I’ve started from seed and woven goods I’ve started from either seed or sheep.
“Did you buy your car?”
I bought the tubing and the welder.
Yeah, sure I trade, including for and with money. I wouldn’t be posting this comment if I didn’t. I’ve hardwired vacuum tubes into bistable multivibrators to make a computer, but I haven’t, to date, made my own vacuum tubes, and only one transistor.
FU
I fix things as well, but $$$$$ buys me plane tickets, cloth to keep warm, and a Sports car to play in, a truck to do my business, and pays rent for a roof over my head
This is why the teenagers gather around the Lambo at the car show, and the Old Guys gather around the crazy rat-rod with the blower, or the chopped-and-dropped International Harvester crew-cab pickup truck with the home-made suspension.
Nobody really respects the guy who just wrote a check. The guy who lowers an antique POS truck by making a whole four-link, that guy gets the respect.
Nobody meets the top guys, except their retinue. Do you think Bill Gates talks with dirty mortals? He’s probably more obsessed that the second richest man in the world doesn’ become the richest man in the world.
For them, we are statistics, things that advisors tell them of, if they want to know. The people who service his aircraft (plural) are hired by people who are hired by people. They are part of the aircraft contract that his accountants and lawyers deal with, not He.
My man boobs aren’t big enough to hang with William Gates.
Hans
BOOM!!!
Just change yer name to Eipstain!
Best-selling novelist Joseph Heller once attended a party at a billionaire’s mansion with his friend and fellow novelist Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut asked Heller if it bothered him that their host makes more money in a single day than he had throughout his entire career. Heller replied “I have something that he will never have. I have enough.”
“But I’d trade it all for a little more”
-Monty Burns.
Life in the fast lane, everything, all the time.
A man content has family, friends, deer and beer … and very little government.
Robin Hood
But the bloody kings keep giving me government, not their money.
True. But they’ve also given you thick, tangly bushes to hide in.
He’s forgetting the women to go with this: $500 per hour or 2k per night or 10k for a weekend or vacation.
Being invited to all the best parties and conferences $10million in donations
Lording it over humanity Priceless.
Well, he mentioned his wife, so… a lot more than that.
If you make a decent wage, you are, by any reasonable historical or global standard, rich.
Pretty much, indoor plumbing , a full belly, a roof over your head , oh and glorious toilet paper.
I dunno, that private jet looks awfully good after having sampled the current airline offerings.
All my life I have avoided to becoming a millionaire and I was very successful achieving that goal.
I don’t know why people just don’t save up the money for a sensible good life (ie – a decent car, a nice house with a patio, an occasional fancy meal, ect).
Vanity, I suppose.
“It may be true that money can’t buy happiness but poverty can’t buy anything”
Rich or poor it’s nice to have money.