Why Don't Rich People Just Stop Working?

Re:Why Don't Rich People Just Stop Working? by randycupertino on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:13PM (#28540937)

I've noticed how quickly I become depressed when I have nothing to do. It's sort of like the properties of a gas- my lethargy expands to fill the volume of space I have. When I was on a sabbatical between jobs instead of going to museums and art shows and exploring new hikes and doing other things I'd think I would enjoy I laid around and binge-watched The Wire and the West Wing.

When I'm busy I actively block out time to do those activities and plan for them and look forward to them. It's a weird phenomena but I'd guess if I was wealthy enough not to have to work (which I'm not!) I would need to keep working anyways to keep some structure in my life and avoid depression.

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Re:Why Don't Rich People Just Stop Working? by nightski on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:17PM (#28540989)

I must be weird because I have never been bored in my life, working or not. I always can think of countless things I'd like to do at any moment.

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Re:Why Don't Rich People Just Stop Working? by ttyprintk on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:32PM (#28541206)

This is not weird. I positively love being unemployed. All of the activities of the parent post are suddenly open, and I can contribute to my family, including traveling to see them. All of my personal projects reach milestones and benefit from real, professional attention. Those are things I can’t turn off, it’s just a question of how to subsidize them. Takes between one and ten million dollars earned and spent over a lifetime to do it.

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