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Thursday, July 07, 2005

Poor rich people

The Australian: Millionaires prove money equals misery :

"More than half of the millionaires say their financial situation is only reasonably comfortable. Even more remarkably perhaps, 7 per cent describe themselves as poor or just getting along."

Clearly these "rich" people need to spend a week wondering how they will pay for their child to go to the doctor or dentist. And then wonder if they have the money to pay for the medicine. They need to worry about whether they can have the heater on or how much money it will cost to repair the tyre on their car and whether they have enough money for petrol. They need to be in the position to decide whether they can get dinner that night and whether they can afford a can of paint to spruce up their house. I have no time for people who have money who think they are poor. They need to get out and see what it's like not to have deodorants , not to be able afford products for basic hygiene, to make the choice of smelling nice or eating. We have people sleeping in cars and sending their children to school from there. We are not deprived. People without money are deprived. Thw want to haves and must haves are never going to be happy.Materialism does that to you. There is more to life than money.

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