Is being rich overrated?

[Turk]

"Things Broke nikkas say for 100 Alex"

 

[IShotTheSheriff]

Yes, of course its overrated in a sense.

We can all agree that it gives you options, but that's simply because of the system most of our moves continue to perpetuate. Money is has powerful as the value we give it. It's simply put, the byproduct of trees.

 

[Vandelay]

Dunno about overrated, but I don't desire to be filthy rich.

Let me make six figures with a million or two in the bank and I'm good.

 

[DrX]

yup....$ can be used to enslave u.....u got rich ppl that are enslaved to their lifestyle.....i rather be independent and have a enough to live comfortable

 

[Detroit Wave]

only a person who never struggled in life would consider being rich "overrated"

 

[Roid Jones]

Better to actually ask rich people this question, no knock on my brothers and sisters on here hustling to getting theirs,

 

[John Mayer]

I feel like everyone is so money hungry but I couldn't care less about that shyt

I think once I reach 90k to 100k I'll be straight and I don't want a job where I got to work 60 hours a week just to make mad money.

But to each his own

People who make 90k to 100k work 60 hours a week maybe more.

 

[Jayson_bourn]

I think it is once you reach a certain point. But as long as it is a hindrance of any kind. It isn't overrated.

 

[FreshFromATL]

Yeah I think it was 75k.

But then again...it all depends on the person.

I just learned from being dirt poor in the projects that money isn't everything to me.

I'm doing good now and I've learned that I'm not materialistic by any means

If a person is making 75K per year and still got crazy-ass issues (especially financially related), I think its safe to say that money isn't the issue and no amount of money would ever help that person. That individual needs to go and TAKE a LOOOONNNNGGG look at self and reevaluate shyt.

 

[BezO]

Nah! Things cost money... room, board, clothing, travel, some types of education/trainin', etc. Wealth allows you to obtain/experience the best of things that cost money.

Wealth gives your children a head start.

Wealth allows you to be job free.

 

[FreshFromATL]

yup....$ can be used to enslave u.....u got rich ppl that are enslaved to their lifestyle

This is true as well. Only thing worst than never having it is having it and then losing it. That shyt could make a sane person do some fukked up shyt.

 

[Sad Bunny]

People who make 90k to 100k work 60 hours a week maybe more.

Nope

My homie works for the DOD and works 7 to 3 everyday

He makes 90k

 

[cylde21]

its always to poorest people who say money is overrated, money doesn't matter or complain about capitalism , losers that mentality is destructive and wrong

 

[Sad Bunny]

only a person who never struggled in life would consider being rich "overrated"

I struggled all my life

But I learned how to remain Thru it all

So this thread is basically saying money isn't everything

Trust me...I'm from the worst of the worst breh

 

[GunRanger]

I think I saw something a while back that happiness has a correlation with wealth....but only up to a certain point.

I wish I could tell you the dollar amount but I don't remember.

Maybe another coli member has seen something similar?

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  5 Ways Money Can Buy Happiness
  “Happy Money” authors: Spending money on experiences, surprises and other people can lead to happiness.
  By Philip Moeller May 20, 2013 | 9:00 a.m. EDT + More
  
  Psychologists have been busy testing the premise that money can't buy happiness. Nobel prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman has garnered lots of attention with research that says this largely is true. Beyond about $75,000 in annual income – enough to fund a moderately comfortable lifestyle – more money does not make people much happier, he said.
  
  Not so fast, say two young academics. Elizabeth Dunn, an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, and Michael Norton, an associate professor of marketing at Harvard Business School, have written a new book called "Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending." In the book, they make a persuasive case that money does have the ability to buy happiness, and it's not how much money you have that matters, but how you spend it.
  
  
  
  http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-best-life/2013/05/20/5-ways-money-can-buy-happiness