Why Aren’t Rich People Happy With the Money They Have?

Re:Why Aren’t Rich People Happy With the Money They Have? by EADGBE on Monday December 10, 2018 @09:50AM (#18648252)

This is a good example; no one has to worry about finances for the rest of their life if what they've already saved up can sustain them for the rest of their life. Just as a squirrel doesn't need be concerned with finding food again if its nestegg is properly stocked.

So many people are so concerned with The Jone's and new cars and high-expense lifestyles that it requires a very different kind of number.

It's a formula, and you just need to put in the numbers to find what works. For some maybe that's $200k. For others, maybe $200M.

- Unfortunately, this whole thread is yet another example of the HN bubble.

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Re:Why Aren’t Rich People Happy With the Money They Have? by scarface74 on Monday December 10, 2018 @09:58AM (#18648320)

I could come up with a lifestyle where my wife and I could live off of $200k, a paid for house and social security if the social security amounts that we would be entitled to now don’t change when we are retired (inflation adjusted). It wouldn’t even be a hard life that wouldn’t allow us to have some fun, travel, etc.

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