How to Tell if You're Rich

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My definition of rich

You can consider yourself rich when you have enough money to do the things you want to do without having to work at job to earn the money needed to do those things. Putting a dollar value on rich misses a lot of people.

Edward of NY @ Jun 26, 2009 21:07:51 PM

Have to diie sooner.

The only conclusion I come to with each hit to my retirement income is I have to die sooner rather than later,

Gary of FL @ Jun 01, 2009 13:27:07 PM

Have to diie sooner.

The only conclusion I come to with each hit to my retirement income is I have to die sooner rather than later,

Gary of FL @ Jun 01, 2009 13:27:07 PM

Have to diie sooner.

The only conclusion I come to with each hit to my retirement income is I have to die sooner rather than later,

Gary of FL @ Jun 01, 2009 13:27:07 PM

If you had to read this

If you had to read this article your probably not rich.

Not Rich of VA @ Jun 01, 2009 09:23:00 AM

Want to be rich? You probably are and don't even know it.

Rich is in the psyche, not in the bank. I did a documentary in Tahiti, Somoa, Bora Bora and other similar locales in the seventies. I was shocked and amazed and impressed at the real natives who lived there (as opposed to those in the tourist spots). They were "filthy rich," as far as they were concerned. The lived in thatch roofed structures with open sides and lived off their sea diving and boundless trees of fruits and coconuts. And they laughed and sang a lot. They were truly happy, totally undisturbed by the trappings of taxes, fees, crooked politicians, greedy bankers and others if that ilk. They walked, swam, moved aroudn witout motorized vehicles. Their health care was natured itself. They were a great lesson for each of us. Too bad we don't pay attention.

Dennis George of CA @ May 23, 2009 13:15:52 PM

Rich is relative; over taxation makes us all poor

It is pretty obvious that the higher income families trying to live on either coast are taking it on the chin. Ironically these are blue states which means they are losing even more in state and federal taxes under the new administration which their states supported. With retirees and corporations which bring in jobs and tax dollars abandoning the high cost states these areas will soon be all but prohibitive to the "upper middle class" and give way like NYC and LA to either the super rich, the destitute or the eternal apartment dwellers without kids. We have seen the future unfold in our most expensive cities and now face a future where every city starts to resemble this economic catastrophe wrought by overspending, chronic debt and burdensome taxation. Cities without the amenities of NYC and LA will start to look more like Detroit.

Uncle Sam and Aunt Pelosi's Tax Slave of CA @ May 21, 2009 02:05:58 AM

How to Telll if You're Rich

Gee, you didn't publish articles like this during the Bush years when he was giving tax breaks to the weatlhy, did you?

Roger L Tschappatt of WV @ May 20, 2009 02:33:22 AM

How to Determine if you're rich

Does any thesaurus give a synonym for happiness as net worth?

Ann Filippi of FL @ May 10, 2009 23:38:15 PM

Rich

The main point is that the consumerism and materialism has created a mindset which equates money=happiness. In a consumer world money buys everything from a cent worth toy to politicians and projects.Therefore there IS a link to feeling "secure" in an increasingly volatile, urban consumer life.

But Happiness and satisfaction do not DIRECTLY Relate to wealth. One dosent get worried over something he didnt know its existence. So a bushman in Africa, or Bhuttanese could be as happy as or happier than an American or a European who has worries about what car to choose and the how to pay for it.

WOuld be great if you all could see Gods must be crazy 1 and 11. Classics in that sense.

vathsayana @ Apr 28, 2009 07:12:19 AM

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The global economy is mysterious, even scary. Chief Business Correspondent Rick Newman connects the dots. In addition to his writing for U.S. News, Rick is the co-author of two books: Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11, and Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

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