I think you might be a little cynical about where a gamble and hard work(but mainly a gamble) can take you in the right industry at the right time at the right place. It happens, people get rich. Not every rich person is born rich and all that inheritance money has to start somewhere.Mortai Gravesend said:I don't think you're painting a very accurate picture of how most people become rich though.Fieldy409 said:All true but...Mortai Gravesend said:But money isn't necessarily from successful hard work or doing something smart. And successful hard work and doing something smart don't necessarily translate to money. Not sure if they even do most of the time.Fieldy409 said:Well think about it if you think youve earned that money. You can take a lot of satisfaction from sucessful hard work or doing something smart. Confidence isnt just about thinking your sexy. It can be about thinking more highly of yourself if you were able to do something big.Mortai Gravesend said:Interesting thought, though why would it give someone a confidence boost unless it was because they already believed the thing about money? It would seem like a phenomenon that feeds on itself.Fieldy409 said:Prehaps having money gives the man a confidence boost? Everyone agrees that confidence is sexy.Mortai Gravesend said:And yet people still do say things that make them look shallow and will cause them to be looked down upon by others. Except apparently women who all have a fetish for money.Matthew94 said:Even with anonymity people may not list those things. They may fear looking shallow or being looked down on by other users for posting such things.Mortai Gravesend said:Because of their anonymity that lets them say what they please without real consequence? Seriously, it's just a bitter thought.Matthew94 said:Not many people will list being attracted to money for obvious reasons.Mortai Gravesend said:It's amusing how some people say money, yet the people who seem to actually be attracted to guys don't list it. Bitter much?
Did you seriously read this as me contending that no one ever is attracted to money?Do you really think it's not possible, that there aren't women that could be attracted to money?
But seriously, I don't know if there's even anything that would say that success is dictated that well by money.
Or it can cause the ugly side of confidence, arrogance.
If you started a little business and worked your ass off and in 20 years its a chain of stores. Or you were a carpenter and one day saved enough money to become a builder and started building and selling homes and it snowballed until you had a dozen men working for you...
Achievement, Its a sense of achievement. The few self made men and women I know in the building industry and store owners ive done a little work for seem very confident. Entirely different for the children who inherit the money though.
Im not talking about billionaires though when I say rich. Just millionaires, who knows how you become a billionaire. Me and my Dad work for a fair few rich people as hes a builder contractor and im his carpentry apprentice.
Its definitly not easy but Im talking about people I know. Might be irrelevant to this discussion though since most of these people are like middle aged. I doubt that middle aged people find the same things attractive as young people.