We all like the idea of being rich. But in reality, is being rich really that great? Without money as your motivation, bc you’re so rich you dont need

it, what is your motivation to get up and out of bed everyday?.. Sure -now our “poor selves” are like “ well I don’t need to get out of bed. I don’t have to work. I can do what want.” But there would be a day where doing nothing doesn’t seem so fun anymore, and having too many options may make everything seem dull. Is being rich really all that great? Would it eventually feel like a trap? What would you do everyday as a rich person to stay motivated?

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FreddieUK · 70-79, M

I wonder if being able to afford to do anything you want to do whenever you want to do it takes the 'special' out of things that we look forward to now. One of my disappointments is the way for example, Christmas has been extended and built on in such a way that the special day is no longer as it was. The commercial drive to make everything exciting and different has managed to suck everything from anything 'special'. In the same way, I think that being able to have everything every day would become dull very quickly. Perhaps that's why extremely rich people are so unhappy and need to grab things like power to make themselves feel special.