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Again, are you an actual adult?  If the one and only objective in your life is to have the "best," in material goods and status and working little, then yes, marrying rich is a brilliant move.

But maybe there are plenty of happy, secure people who don't actually desire this.

I think there is a fallacy on this board that money = security for the rest of your life.  That's not true.  Money gives you the illusion of security, which for many people, is enough.  But money cannot protect you from everything, including depression or unhappiness.  Nor will money secure your children for the rest of their lives.  Even with huge sums of money you can still lose that money, get sick, die, get divorced, raise screwed up kids, raise kids who lose all that money you wanted so much.  It happens and it has happened to people who are smarter and nicer and more attractive than you or me.  You might say "oh, but money makes all of those worst-case scenarios less likely," or "I'd rather have a problem WITH money than without it."  Ok, sure, but wouldn't you rather just not have problems?

I make an average income, but I don't have a shit-ton of problems in my life.  I definitely have problems, but they're problems I can handle.  And you know what?  That's enough.  I don't need a luxury yacht, or trips to Europe, or fancy schools for my kids.

You know what [b]money can't buy?  Time.  [/b]You have a finite time on this Earth, and you are wasting it on stupid shit like fantasizing about your rich friend and how she has it better than you. 
 I'm going to enjoy what I have instead of wasting my time.[/quote]

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It's just ridiculous that you can type it with a straight face and assume others will believe you.  One of the great advantages of money is to buy time by paying others to do tedious, stupid, time-consuming stuff.  Like cleaning, cooking, driving, picking up dry cleaning, doing your research, booking your travel etc.  Why do you think CEOs have assistants? To free up their time for other stuff.  So yes, money can buy time.[/quote][/quote][/quote]

I don't really understand your argument.  Instead of spending your time getting your shit done without complaining, are you saying it would be better to fantasize and envy the .001% of people on the planet who have enough money to avoid basic chores?  I don't like cleaning that much either, but I don't really think it is ruining my quality of life.  It is just something I have to do, like brushing my teeth or using the bathroom.  I have a relative who earns 300k a year and doesn't hire out a single task that she can physically accomplish - not cooking, not cleaning, not yard work.  She even sews and mends her own clothes.  What's going on there?  Is she miserable or stupid or wasting her time?  No, basic chores are not as unbearable as some of the giant babies on this board would have you believe.  She just bakes in tidying up and cooking her food into her day.  She LIKES cooking and sewing.  They are just part of life.  Work is part of life, and there is NO REASON to be miserable about it.

By the way, I do not vote Republican.  I don't envy the rich, but they are also siphoning the wealth out of our country.[/quote]

OK.  You don't understand my argument. (Actually, you do but let's pretend that you don't).  Let's put it in simple terms.

My house takes about 4 hours to clean top to bottom.  Every two weeks, I pay a crew of people to do this while I do other things I like better. There, I've just bought four hours of time. No, cleaning isn't anything I HAVE to do. I can't pay people to use the bathroom for me.  But I certainly can, and do, pay them to clean it for me.

No one cares about what you like or what you think ruins a quality of your life. No one cares about your relative either.  Nothing you said negates a basic truth that you can buy time by paying other people to do things you don't like that would otherwise occupy your time. [/quote]

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