Respect

Scrabble

Uno?

I know what?

Ok how about connect four

Why am I connecting for?

Cause 5 is too much and 3 is never enough

I wish my uncle had known that when I was a kid

OMG

Nice thread

It’s all relative. A professional sports star has to pay their own medical bills and most sports stars will end up requiring additional care as they age as well due to the traumas they endure regularly. They also need various insurance, agents, etc. They still take home ALOT of money- just like someone who makes $300k does. But it’s all relative. People get by in life on much less than either make and have to pay “upkeep” expenses like insurance or juggle expensive health issues. We tend to pay what is called “lifestyle tax.” That is to say that most people making big money both have obligations (a CEO of a large investment firm needs to have nice suits and the like as part of their job, people need to pay advertising, promotion, etc..) then there’s the fact we settle in. Most stable people making $40k don’t spend like they make millions,...

and most people working high stress long hour jobs for big money will acclimate to the pay and want to enjoy the money- or else they’d work less for less money. So as we make more we tend to spend more. We do t eat like a starving college student on ramen and beer. We buy things we want because even though they are “expensive” they are affordable to us. Say you’re an actor making $3mill per movie or episode of a hit show- that’s $100k a year for 30 years for one job. Most people could retire on that and make more money than they would working. Yet we constantly see celebrities working and in financial trouble. They haggle salaries when objectively- on any deal over $10mill what’s the difference? That’s $200k guaranteed for 50 years already. Do you make $200k right now? Do most people?

So “lots of money” whatever we personally think that is- is never as much as it seems, and yet at a point, studies show having more doesn’t increase happiness. It can even decrease it as the connection between work and reward, between the “real world” and a bubble of wealth isolates us, before we grow accustomed to it. If McDonald’s or Outback or etc. is a rare treat for you- if you could afford to easily have it every night, it wouldn’t be a treat anymore. Most people won’t ever own a new Ferrari, if you have 6, it stops being a once in a lifetime thing and you could have one whenever you wanted. So “luxury” becomes BIGGER, more extravagant. So... it’s all relative. We tend to want “more” by our nature regardless of how much we have or how little others have.