The total lack of any sympathy for the difficulties of the very wealthy often reveals an underlying belief that all *your* difficulties in life are a result of simply not having enough money.
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Imagine you gain billions of dollars. Fast forward a year or two - what are your biggest difficulties? Are you any happier? Do you still experience anxiety? All your problems now are definitely rooted in you, not your want for material things.
I haven't? I must have hallucinated my memories of being hungry but unable to afford food
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But these aren't unique problems of the very wealthy then, but more like "middle class problems".
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Yes, happier. Much less anxious over personal situation. Anxiety would be primarily about effectively using my new wealth/power to make world a better place and save it from the various problems that beset it, and balancing this duty that comes w/wealt& power against desire 4 fun
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Awwww poor rich person, you get sad sometimes? That doesn't happen to anyone else ever. Only rich people.
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I don't know that people want a world in which they have more money than you could spend in many lifetimes. I do know that 44% of full-time working Americans make 18K or less and there isn't a state in which someone making 15K (min wage) can afford to rent market-rate 1-bdrm apt
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Lame hot take. Yes you have ‘anxiety’ but you have warm food and a roof over your head and more resources than 99.99% of humans ever with which to fix yourself.
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I can but my Alzheimer afflicted mother in a top of the line nursing home. I can replace my broken furnace. I can get my car fixed. I can put my child in a fabulous preschool, etc, etc. Money doesn’t solve all the problems, but it certainly opens up the solutions set.