money

Tonight I ponder money. WHile I was at Tom's I got sucked into watching Wall Street which is of course a movie about people who do all sorts of illegal things to get tons of money and then go to jail.

There's the typical issues about "how much can you need" and "beyond a certain point there's nothing else to buy" but aside from that... There's a scene at a pool party. And the guy has so much work to do managing his moolah that he is at a table with accountants and lawyers doing legal stuff at a POOL PARTY. When he should be sipping wine on a raft and playing with his kid. When you have that much cash, you spend half your life managing it.

This is why I will never be rich. I don't wnat to focus that much of my energy on the money after it comes in. It's in the bank, I either spend it or save it. Hopefully some of both. I have a bit of spare cash locked away in a nice CD where it earns a little interest and I don't have to think about it. But I am not getting rich either. After over 2 years of that I will maybe have made enough money to buy a plane ticket... if I get a good deal on the ticket.

And besides what would I do with all that cash? I suppose I could hire a limo driver but it is easier and more enjoyable to drive myself. I could owna boat but then I'd have to worry about upkeep. Same for having a big house. More money = more stuff = more time spent on maintaining stuff. About the only thing I could think to do would be to travel, and my tastes for travel are such that ANY hotel room feels luxurious unless it is falling apart. So yeah I could stay in some nice places but really doing a bit of travel each year just doesn't require that much money. I went to Vermont on half of my puny tax return. Certainly I could manage to do all the travelling I could ever dream of doing on a tiny fraction of what these uber-rich folk take in in a month. So what makes all that money worth it? Even if you want your own jet and boat and 4 houses... eventually you run out of stuff to buy, and it is more work to keep the money in order, yet some people NEED to keep accumulating. I don't get it.

money

Tonight I ponder money. WHile I was at Tom's I got sucked into watching Wall Street which is of course a movie about people who do all sorts of illegal things to get tons of money and then go to jail.

There's the typical issues about "how much can you need" and "beyond a certain point there's nothing else to buy" but aside from that... There's a scene at a pool party. And the guy has so much work to do managing his moolah that he is at a table with accountants and lawyers doing legal stuff at a POOL PARTY. When he should be sipping wine on a raft and playing with his kid. When you have that much cash, you spend half your life managing it.

This is why I will never be rich. I don't wnat to focus that much of my energy on the money after it comes in. It's in the bank, I either spend it or save it. Hopefully some of both. I have a bit of spare cash locked away in a nice CD where it earns a little interest and I don't have to think about it. But I am not getting rich either. After over 2 years of that I will maybe have made enough money to buy a plane ticket... if I get a good deal on the ticket.

And besides what would I do with all that cash? I suppose I could hire a limo driver but it is easier and more enjoyable to drive myself. I could owna boat but then I'd have to worry about upkeep. Same for having a big house. More money = more stuff = more time spent on maintaining stuff. About the only thing I could think to do would be to travel, and my tastes for travel are such that ANY hotel room feels luxurious unless it is falling apart. So yeah I could stay in some nice places but really doing a bit of travel each year just doesn't require that much money. I went to Vermont on half of my puny tax return. Certainly I could manage to do all the travelling I could ever dream of doing on a tiny fraction of what these uber-rich folk take in in a month. So what makes all that money worth it? Even if you want your own jet and boat and 4 houses... eventually you run out of stuff to buy, and it is more work to keep the money in order, yet some people NEED to keep accumulating. I don't get it.