You’ve just been granted access to all the world’s currency to spend as you see fit. Even the money that is currently in people’s pockets (though they don’t know it and still can spend it as per usual). Any new currency that came into existence later would be yours as well. Would you be able to spend it wisely, making wise decisions to further mankind or would you squander it on useless things?
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24 responses to “Could you deal with unlimited wealth?”
Video games are the first personal thing that come to mind. I wouldn’t buy everything, but I’d be a bit more free at buying them and the DLC for them. Other than that and using it for things for me live, home/food, I’d be giving with it. With unlimited money, I have to acknowledge that I could tank the economy or inflate the dollar if I just helped every cause with millions/billions, but I’d totally be giving it out to groups or individuals who needed help. I’d also help Elon Musk and others with funding clean energy along with other scientific research.
Money is not wealth.
When are you going to escape that hamster wheel Jear77?
@immortal_pirate It makes things a HELL of a lot easier!
@Jear77 As long as you continue to chase a dollar, blindly thinking it will improve your lot, you will always be in HELL.
@Jear77 Sort of like this…
@immortal_pirate Think of this: you’re dead broke, can’t even put a roof over your head, have proper clothing, or food in your stomach. OR are rich enough to pay your way out of virtually any trouble, have nice clothes, a GOOD place to live, and can eat whatever you please. which do you choose?
@Jear77 Been there, done that at both extremes, and even in both extremes, money was never the answer. Even when I didn’t have two pennies to rub together, I was still the wealthiest man I knew.
@immortal_pirate that might be good enough for you. But NEVER for me
@immortal_pirate
The richest person in any gathering is not the one who has the most; but the one who needs the least.
@Jear77
Those who have to manage wealth might disagree.
It certainly makes something easier in the short run.
But I don’t think it is the messiah you wish it up to be. It’s an interesting process though, not just wishing for a lot . . . but ALL of it?!
And here’s a thought: would you also bear ultimate responsibility for all the problems your money causes to everyone as well?
I think I would have trouble dealing with the reality that everything I count as gain . . . would come as someone else’s loss.
@griz It’s a thing of you pay for people to advise you, and they get paid well for it. If you can’t get good advice, put it in the bank, up to the maximum that they’re accredited for. And open MULTIPLE accounts.
@Jear77 What profit a man to gain the world…only to lose his soul?
@immortal_pirate and if a person has no soul to lose? I haven’t one.
@Jear77 Very sad if you believe that, then truly you are dead inside.
@immortal_pirate No. I’m more alive than I have EVER been, knowing I will finally make it.
@Jear77
Let’s return to the notion you presented of all the money everywhere — including that in people’s pockets — is yours. (Hello Mr. Monsanto?)
How is your “profit”, not at their “loss”?
Well you said so right there: I’d be spending other people’s money. Therefore I would spend NONE of it. If I were to walk through a valley of gold, and it belonged to other people, I would touch none of it, not even a grain. Because I’m not a thief, and it wouldn’t be right.
I like to be free from money. I feel more alive when I’m struggling to survive rather than when I’m just given a bunch of money to live off of. “easier” lives are not better quality. They turn you into a prick.
@georockstar09 Not necessarily. Without money I can’t buy my loved ones help – help that I either cannot or will not provide myself.
@Jear77 What about other people’s loved ones, and other people’s families? I’m still not going to take away from them just to benefit myself and my own family. And wealth has had a tendency to distance people who love each other. It’s good to have enough to take care of yourself and your family, but you don’t need to have unbound riches just to help them. They, too, should be able to take care of themselves to some extent. They deserve that dignity. Otherwise they would feel useless and patronized.
@Jear77
But if you do this at the expense of others’ ability to care for their loved ones?
(Back to the scenario of you owning all the currency for yourself).
@griz Let’s say that it is like the paradox of schrodinger’s cat? (Both alive and dead at the same time). It’s both mine (or whoever’s) and theirs at the same time?
@Jear77
I would point out that the whole hypothetical construct of superposition breaks down the nano-second it is interacted with (even observed) by the external world. (At which point all possibilities collapse into one or another of the possible definite states or conditions).
It’s ultimately a construct . . . that one cannot even dare to look at lest superposition collapses!
But interestingly, Schrodinger himself postulated how one could, in principle, create a superposition in a large-scale system by making it dependent on a quantum particle that was in a superposition.
What if God functioned as what our fledgling intellect in this example called a “quantum particle” in superposition? Meaning that all who are dependent upon it . . . can “retain superposition” . . . .
. . . being both of flesh that is dying, and of the Eternal Spirit of Life?
(So is this worthy of a block-threat??)
I think if I had unlimited wealth, money itself would take on a much different meaning. If I had unlimited amounts of something that you needed, what kind of monster would I be to withhold it from you. And, if I’m giving to the needy, how do I discern between the deserving and the undeserving? Having unlimited cash doesn’t make one a god, right? So, I’d defer on the safe side and assume if they ask, they must need so I’d give. Unfortunately, giving all that money away would lead to a massive devaluation of what I’m giving away. Money isn’t rare or hard to come by anymore so it becomes far less important. My unlimited wads of cash become a worthless burden to carry around. Perhaps I would start to realize that I still need the same things I needed before unlimited cash came into my life. The world transitions to a sharing economy and humanity flourishes as we go skipping into the sunset hand in hand…
@TruthDistillery
Something I experienced in my own life process was that FIRST I altered my meaning, take, and reaction to money . . . and only then did the amount of money in my life increase drastically.
When you don’t have it, there is a tendency to play it up as a kind of messiah that will “solve everything”. People who have “too much” of it, tend to live in the same mind-set, though some on a very subconscious level.
My observation is that both ends of the spectrum run so easily into a kind of folly that is remedied only by STARTING with a healthy relationship with money.
There’s shades of this in the Biblical story of the poor widow who put “only” two small coins into the temple collection box and was recognized as having given more than anyone else who dropped huge sums into it.