How much is enough?

[Supermodel]

I guess I grew up believing that everybody dreams of being rich. Now I hear a lot of rich people saying they are miserable, that money doesn't buy happiness. Can you be content in not being rich and not ever wanting to be? Or given the choice, would you choose riches?

Here are your choices:

1. you are offered instant riches and you accept.
2. You decline.
3. You accept and give it all to charities/causes of your choice
4. You accept and give it to YOUR government.

[Son of Scargill]

3.....Even though I believe that charity is"an ambulance,parked at the bottom of a cliff"

[Jurhael]

A cross between one and three.

Well, I have hobbies, yanno, but I don't often ask for much anyway, so having zillions would be kind of pointless. hehee

[RedRevolutionary87]

id take the money and buy mercinaries and weapons and start a revolution:)

[MindCrime]

I like Red Revolutionary's line of thought!

Who was it that said "once theyre ruined all the land and spoiled their fields they will realize that they cant eat money"? It was something along those lines....

[Nateddi]

Knowing that the money did not come from starving people's labour, I will accept as a cross between 1 and 3. I would donate it to many causes, while keeping enough for myself to live a comfortable life (nice car, a nice house, etc).

[Sasafrás]

Yes, it is very important where exactly the riches come from. If I discovered that the money did not come from some source that I disagree with or that upsets my stomach, I'd probably do a cross of 1 & 3. I think it's very important to support worthy causes, but in all honesty, I wouldn't donate a penny to anything political, even if I agree with the political organization. I'd be more likely to donate a portion to children's hospitals like Saint Jude. Maybe to aid in sending kids to college if they can't afford it. Or hey! Che-Lives does need funds right? I'd give some to help keep the revolution and Che alive para siempre! Then, I'd keep a lot and use it to fund my education, because I really need it if I wanna go to school with fellow Che-Lives member, munkey soup. :)

[sabre]

hmm id probably accept the money and give alot to charities then invest the rest in the stock market so i could keep making money and donating but still keep enough to like well off but not too well off

[peaccenicked]

No ammount of money is enough. I would take it all and burn it. We don't really need it. Money was a product of scarcity, now there is no scarcity just greed. People are poor because others are greedy.money is a product of greed. We need a State that outlaws greed.
When people see that greed is stupid and childish, we wont need a State any more.

[Imperial Power]

Peace did you become anarchist?

[peaccenicked]

Marxists and arnachists have the same goal
but not the same theory of State.

[vox]

"Here are your choices:

1. you are offered instant riches and you accept.
2. You decline.
3. You accept and give it all to charities/causes of your choice
4. You accept and give it to YOUR government."

What rubbish. SM tries to pose a question about the importance of riches by only asking what you would do if OFFERED, by some unknown entity, riches?

She prefaces her question, and its absurd answers, with a PHILOSOPHICAL question:

"I guess I grew up believing that everybody dreams of being rich. Now I hear a lot of rich people saying they are miserable, that money doesn't buy happiness. Can you be content in not being rich and not ever wanting to be?"

After she asks nice, all she wants to know is what you would do with the money!

Here's an alternative approach:

Would you rather have a job that makes you a lot of money, let's say over 80% of the US population, and you hate the job, or would you rather make the median of the lower 40% and be happy?

That is, would you rather be rich and miserable or getting by and happy? This restores SM's supposed ethical boundaries to the question.

vox

[Jurhael]

Oh, I'd rather be happy myself. eheheh...

Even if I make less money, it's not like one cannot save it. heh

[sabre]

I would rather be happy and poor , but not so poor that im not happy , (cant even afford food, etc.) as long as i can live id take a job i like over a well-paying job i wouldnt like