I think it’s safe to say all of us would love to have a fortune. Crappin’ on solid gold toilets that wipe your ass for you, sleeping on mattresses stuffed full of one hundred dollar bills for comfort or having the ability to buy ANYTHING in the world you wanted. We’ve all heard it before, money does not buy happiness, but I think we all agree it makes life more comfortable.
The hypothetical today deals with the type of filthy rich people that exist, well known and unknown. Everyone has heard of Bill Gates who’s worth $56 billion, but not many of us have heard of David Thomson who’s worth $22 billion. If you had the chance, which would you be?
- Receive $25 billion and have absolutely no life or notoriety in society, but you obviously live a comfortable, yet lame life.
or- Receive $50 billion and be the most famous and most recognized names in the world. You live a high profile life with everything you do being monitored by reporters and paparazzi. You really have nowhere to go for privacy due to your fame.
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I would have to say that $25 billion is plenty of money for one person to have and the idea that I get that much money AND privacy, I would take option 1 in a heartbeat.
Plus, if I wanted to become famous down the road, I would just use my money to buy something well known and Mark Cuban myself around town.
I already lead a lame life. To have that same life plus money? That’s priceless, Dude.
Besides, the only thing that fame brings to people like Bill Gates are more people like me hoping to convince him to spend 0.004% of his daily interest (more than I’ll see in the next few years) on my latest Bright F—ing Idea.
So being a David Thompson buys me immunity from that at the price of $25 billion? Sounds like a bargain to me.
I’ll take option 1 and hope my kids never end up signing on to a reality show called “keeping up with the MegaDawgs.”
MegaDawg
I don’t think you could really have a lame life if you had 25 billion. Money can’t buy happiness, but 25 billion can sure get you a nice house in happiness’ neighborhood! Hell, you might be next-door-neighbors with happiness. And that’s probably close enough for me. Give me #1.
Option #1 is a slam dunk for me as well. The reason that many people desire the fame is because it often goes hand-in-hand with fortune, but I’ll take the fortune over fame any day of the week.
I’d even settle for $1 billion and a comfortable, yet lame life.
I’m with you on that Derek! I’d take $50 million to put down on a new pair of shoes.
you’re Venomous Kate though, you already have fame!
Always take the big money! Besides, with $50 billion and that kind of attention you will need the extra $25 billion for attorneys and whatnot!
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