How does one even go about asking for that much money?
“Ay, yo, Zuck, this ya boy 'ye. I’m a little low on funds, let me hold a bil. I’ll hit you back when I get payed.”
I thought you were going to make a point about the American Dream fallacy, that only a microscopic percentage of the population will ever attain such levels of wealth, and making decisions based on an impossibility is a waste of time. But your point about spending money to make money is also valid 
My point wasn’t to spend money to make money, it’s that living below your means is not something to aspire to. It was that there’s nothing wrong w/ enjoying money. There’s nothing wrong w/ buying a Bentley if you can afford it. Or having an enormous closet full Jordans or whatever - as long as you can afford it. People have to stop villanizing others who live extravagant lives.
For every dude that goes around buying ridiculous stuff, there’s another enjoying their money w/o being frivolous. The fact that it even has to be explained just illustrates the way people view things nowadays - it’s either one or the other, no middle ground.
I actually consider being a miser a bigger waste of money than buying 4 Porsches of different colors. They’re the type of folks talking about how they’d still go to work every day if they won $100m. That’s even worse - that’s someone w/ zero ambition. Someone that’s bought into the idea that a job is supposed to define them. There’s even less honor in working for someone else, keeping a schedule based on their needs, when you have more than enough means not to do so. If a person wins even $100k and doesn’t at least contemplate about how they could use that to be independent, they’re a chump.
Buying expensive cars is a horrible investment lol. Unless you have a museum and are charging people money to look the cars its not going to generate any revenue.
I think there is something wrong with buying Jordans. Your paying a huge some of money for something that costs 2 cents to make all because of a brand name? Jordan is laughing his way to the bank.
Probably would be a real-life trolling move, but I think it’d be interesting to go over to one of those overseas factories where those Jordans are made and ask the workers “Hey, how would you feel or do you know, how many people where these are sold are getting KILLED for the shoes that come out of here?” :devil:
Who cares if it’s a horrible investment? If someone can afford it (whatever it may be) and they want it, what’s the problem? There’s people on this very site spending ridiculous amounts of money on video games and video game paraphernalia that won’t be worth anything either. And these items cost more than their price of production as well.
First we have people taking vows of mediocrity, now this. :lame:
This is why Kanye is in debt lol.
Do you know what afford means? When you buy things you can afford, you don’t go broke. Affording to buy something and having the money to buy something are two different things.
A small loan of a billion dollars?
Just because you can afford something doesn’t make it a good investment. You can afford to spend all your money on Jordans but what will that get you in the end? Just a closet full of cheaply made, overpriced shoes.
Again, who cares if it’s a good investment? Very little of what anyone buys is a good investment. What have you bought in the last 6 months that was a good investment?
If a person can afford Jordan’s, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with buying them from a financial standpoint. If you want to go into the social issues regarding how their made, that’s another story - but that’s irrelevant to this conversation.
@CTG - I think truendymion is purposely an idiot. Just forget him. For whatever reason, he’s stuck on doing things for investment and ignoring anything else you say.
Thing is if you keep j’s in good condition you can flip them for profit
Jordans are literally gold in shoe form.
Keep them in good condition and you can flip every single one for a huge profit.
it’s really very simple, when you have money people no longer scrutinize giving you more money like they do with poor people. For a poor person even getting 100k or so to go to college is a huge undertaking and one that now requires the gov’t to insure your loan… but if your rich, they gonna give you 100x the money requested at like a negative interest rate and just keep throwing it at you.
I read an article a while ago written by someone who had worked for both Oprah and some other well known rich guy - I think it was Murdoch, but I’m not sure. Anyway, he said the biggest thing the two had in common was that they never used their own money to finance anything.
Anything.
They always used other people’s money b/c their reputations in business are so great that others were willing to assume all the risk just to get a piece of what was going down.
I’ll help him as soon as someone helps me finish off my student loan debt. Nigga can’t be that broke. Saw him at Disneyland back in December! Hell security asked me to help clear Space Mountain when he arrives.
Fuck him.
It’s amusing how you guys sit behind your computer saying what you’d do with other people’s fortunes. Maybe you should figure out how to obtain that kind of wealth first.
I don’t have to speculate on what I’d do with another person’s fortune. I already know.
The people who say they would carry on with their normal lifestyle if they hit it big probably would still enjoy the money and buy nice things, just not go crazy on the bullshit status symbols.
Fuck it, I’ve never even wanted a mansion or sports cars, why would that change if I hit it big besides society seeming to value showing off money more than enjoying it?
Fuck that, seems to me that’s how we get all these broke ass musicians and lottery winners in the first place.
This ain’t a vow of mediocrity, it’s a vow of knowing what you want and not being swayed by what others insist you should aspire to, fuck that nonsense.