I’ve met a few mega-rich people in my time. Not one
of them was happy. The best example was a guy I knew in Chicago. Worth about
half a billion bucks, he had the penthouse suite in the apartment block in
Chicago which he owned and a huge house on the water’s edge in Miami. Each
location had a Porsche, a Mercedes and a super muscle car in its garage.
Winters were spent in Miami, summers in Chicago. At the Miami house, the boat
ramp had a 40 foot fast craft and a few water bikes.
He was built on my lines, short, stocky, a few years
younger than I but going bald. When I went out to lunch with him one day, he
expressed his deep worries and decisions to be made:
He was always upset at having missed a couple of
deals that would have made him another $80M. I asked him what he would do with
that money that he couldn’t do now and he was confused by the question;
He was worrying about whether he should get hair
transplants;
He was worried that the Playboy models and
centrefolds who came to stay at his house and share his bed were really
attracted to him or his money; I was there when a couple of these women were
there and I saw no signs that they particularly liked him, so he may have had a
point;
He was equally worried that the sports superstars who
were his friends really liked him or were they laughing behind their backs at
his short stature;
What are the dark sides of being financially well off
that people overlook?
Source:: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-dark-sides-of-being-financially-well-off-that-people-overlook
No comments:
Post a Comment