Poll: Are you rich? Do you want to be?

[nohorsetown]

To what degree? Why or why not? What's your take on money?

I just got my (late) tax return, and I blew a lot of money on my daughter's birthday. I also blew almost a lot of money on some other stuff. I feel a little guilty and irresponsible. I've never been wealthy, and I always tell myself that if I came into money, I'd be super responsible and frugal and charitable about it. I dunno though.. I''m not sure if I trust myself.. would I really be so cool about it? I don't think I ever wanna be rich. Money kinda freaks me out. Of course, I'm not dissing rich people or nuthin' - some rich folks have done a lot of good. I guess I'm just prolly not cut out for it. Or something. What about y'all?

 

[headshotcatcher]

I guess my family is kinda on the higher end (we have a house in Italy as well as Netherlands) but I'd much rather be average or just below average and live in a fucking city instead of this less than 50 inhabitant village >.<

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Middle class and I like it that way.

Confortable, but not like I have soild gold limos or a pool filled with dimonds
(I don't even own a pool)

 

[Irridium]

I would love to be rich.

Whoever said money never buys happiness obviously never found a good place to shop.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

I'm not rich, and I don't feel the need to be. I actually quite like my appartment. But if someone said to me, "hey, here's a bunch of money, just incase you felt like being rich or something," I'd take it. I think I'd probably just keep on living in the appartment, but just buy some nice shit. Probably try to make more and bigger donations to the Reason Project than I can right now. And someday if I got lucky enough to meet a girl who was interested in me, and she didn't want to live in an appartment, then I guess I'd move out, and we'd find a nice house or something.

Knowing me, more of it would probably get spent on books, movies, games, and music than anything else. You're not going to find me wasting a million dollars on a painting just because someone famous painted it or anything. If I was going to waste money on something big it'd probably be something stupid, like a working recreation of the batmobile from the new Batman movies. Because that would be awesome to drive.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

No and no.
I am fairly well off, but I'd be comfortable with less.
Much more comfortable, actually.

I don't want a large house, or even a house at all. I'd prefer a small apartment somewhere.

... Well, there is everything I was going to say.
Word for word, actually.
I don't know whether to be bothered or relieved.
I am just so damn tired.

 

[Dancingman]

I'm upper-middle class, I live in a pretty upscale little beach town in a rustic home, never had a rub-your-face-with-money surplus of cash, but I live pretty well, and a little extra money would always be nice. I don't feel the need to be filthy rich, because a quiet life is a fun life for me and I don't want a bunch of instant best friends and smoking hot women who wouldn't have even considered looking my way before, smoking hot women are fine, I just don't want ones who'll leave the second they find some other better rich guy to hooch off of.

"Money can't buy happiness"
I think that the quote applies to people who live under the deluded notion that having so much money you have to buy another castle just to keep it all there will make you a happy person. Money in moderation is an excellent thing, people generally don't react well to poverty.

 

[Scolar Visari]

I'm almost certain God himself is keeping money out of my hands, 'cause only he knows the true extent of the horrors I'd perpetrate.

However in all honesty I can say I'd do one of two things.
A. Continue life as it is, with the added bonus that I can by nicer stuff.
B. I make my own PSC/PMC and proceed to slay bodies around the world in the name of peace, freedom and more money.

 

[traceur_]

I'm middle class and hell yes I want to be richer than god.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

meh,I'd probably pay off the bills,get the grocerys,buy the ps3 and store the rest for e-cash

 

[Nemorov]

I really don't want to have to worry about money anymore. Meaning I want to be in-between kinda rich. To far either way means you have to worry about it.

 

[Hazy]

Eh, Upper Middle. I'm happy. Because money, and power, corrupts.

 

[Cortheya]

I'd want to be rich. I'm a higher-ish middle class like I have 30 foot (exaggeration) plasma screens but not limos and huge houses

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

I'm not super rich, but for a nineteen year old girl, who has her own money, I'm fairly wealthy.

Hence my fancy pants car.

I'm pretty good about it though, I only spend certain allotments.
Don't get me wrong, I spend far more than I ought to... But I have yet to spend it all.

 

[HentMas]

my family manages just fine, i dont call my self rich because i earn about *pretend i write a number of your convenience* dollars a month, wich makes me fall into the void of "enough money to survive, not enough to live as i wish"

and being an expending bastard i ussually run trough every pay check just in time that my next check arives...

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

No and no. While I'm upper middle class and have a decent amount of assets, I could stand to do without a lot of it. I currently live in a mid-sized house in a largely urban neighborhood, but I'd much rather have an apartment or similarly small place in a more rural setting. Hell, I'd likely be happy if the most technologically advanced thing in my house was my laptop. In fact, I'd definitely be happier that way.

But I'm not anywhere near a beautiful countryside. Instead I'm in a place where the earth has been buried beneath glass, concrete, and trimmed lawns. There's no terrain, no streams or rivers, no group of trees more than twenty feet from a major road. I'm in an asphalt desert with a myriad of possessions and nothing to do with any of them.