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Originally Posted by Onkel Neal
You, sir, have the style I like. What use is there to being rich if you don't don't interesting stuff you could not ordinarily do?
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Dam straight. When I was a teenager I was employed on a crew in a remote camp. It was the summer of 1974. I made $13 a day. Each person would work a week with the cook washing dishes, peeling veggies etc. She was a old woman. Firm, direct and smart too. Dead honest, all the time.
One day I was taking about having million dollars and she smiled at me and stopped working. We sat for a spell (and had a smoke) and she told me that rich people are rich regardless of the amount of money they have. The rest of us think differently. I must have looked puzzled so she explained.
"What would you do if if you had a dollar?"
I told her I would spend it. "
And what if you had 10 dollars?"
I spend that too.
"And if you had 100 dollars?"
I saw where her questions were going to I disputed that a MILLION dollars was way more money than I could spend like smaller sums.
She smiled at me again and explained that her husband was a miner and had hit a big payoff 5 years previous that netted over a million dollars. She was serious. And now they had paid off most of their equipment and set aside money for the kid's educations, but other than that they were broke. They had spent it all. She said that she knew if they made another million they would spend that too. She said unless I was a rich person without money I would just spend what ever money I came my way.
She said.
"Rich people think differently, they don't just spend money, they make it grow.
That's why they are rich."