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Postby Purpelia » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:24 am

Slavery is only bad if you don't have enough cash to get away with it.
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Postby Croat-Hungary » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:30 am

Hammer Britannia wrote:
Croat-Hungary wrote:I'd buy the best Math tutor

That's called slavery

I won't force them to work like i will employ them so to speak

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Postby Ifreann » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:32 am

The Holy Therns wrote:Start learning about investments, I suppose.

You're not thinking like a rich person. Pay someone else to learn about investments for you.
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Postby The Free Joy State » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:36 am

Ifreann wrote:
The Holy Therns wrote:Start learning about investments, I suppose.

You're not thinking like a rich person. Pay someone else to learn about investments for you.

Still not thinking rich enough: underpay someone to learn about investments for you, then pay someone to pay someone to supervise someone to hire an assistant to manage your investments. Meanwhile, you get a manicure -- you had a hard day.
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Postby The Holy Therns » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:49 am

Ifreann wrote:
The Holy Therns wrote:Start learning about investments, I suppose.

You're not thinking like a rich person. Pay someone else to learn about investments for you.


I'm just saying what I think I'd do if I was rich, not that I'm correct about it.
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Postby Ifreann » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:50 am

The Free Joy State wrote:
Ifreann wrote:You're not thinking like a rich person. Pay someone else to learn about investments for you.

Still not thinking rich enough: underpay someone to learn about investments for you, then pay someone to pay someone to supervise someone to hire an assistant to manage your investments. Meanwhile, you get a manicure -- you had a hard day.

Someone somewhere in this chain should be working for exposure.
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Postby Dakini » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:56 am

I'd pay off my parents' mortgage, set them up for some holidays and fund their retirement. Help my sisters buy places to live (instead of renting), set them up with some proper holidays and assist them with funds to help them do what they actually want for a living. I'd start up a brewery, buy a house, help my friends set up the sorts of things they want to do for a living, buy some land on which to plant trees (perhaps with a small clearing where I could put a cottage), contribute to various environmental and social causes and campaigns, support progressive politicians and groups, give money to charity, invest in environmentally friendly businesses.

Oh, and I'd of course also take several holidays with my friends.
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Postby Bear Stearns » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:57 am

Ifreann wrote:
The Holy Therns wrote:Start learning about investments, I suppose.

You're not thinking like a rich person. Pay someone else to learn about investments for you.


What? This is how people get ripped off by unscrupulous brokers. Most wealthy investors run their own portfolios.
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Postby Lamborghini Aventador » Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:00 am

Purpelia wrote:Slavery is only bad if you don't have enough cash to get away with it.

uh might want to re think that

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Postby Lamborghini Aventador » Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:01 am

Dakini wrote:I'd pay off my parents' mortgage, set them up for some holidays and fund their retirement. Help my sisters buy places to live (instead of renting), set them up with some proper holidays and assist them with funds to help them do what they actually want for a living. I'd start up a brewery, buy a house, help my friends set up the sorts of things they want to do for a living, buy some land on which to plant trees (perhaps with a small clearing where I could put a cottage), contribute to various environmental and social causes and campaigns, support progressive politicians and groups, give money to charity, invest in environmentally friendly businesses.

yeah let's get it

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Postby Ifreann » Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:02 am

Bear Stearns wrote:
Ifreann wrote:You're not thinking like a rich person. Pay someone else to learn about investments for you.


What? This is how people get ripped off by unscrupulous brokers. Most wealthy investors run their own portfolios.

What's the point in being rich if you have to do things for yourself?
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Postby Bear Stearns » Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:07 am

Ifreann wrote:
Bear Stearns wrote:
What? This is how people get ripped off by unscrupulous brokers. Most wealthy investors run their own portfolios.

What's the point in being rich if you have to do things for yourself?


Because people are stupid and if you want something done right you have to do it yourself.
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Postby Ifreann » Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:21 am

Bear Stearns wrote:
Ifreann wrote:What's the point in being rich if you have to do things for yourself?


Because people are stupid and if you want something done right you have to do it yourself.

I didn't ask why rich people(people who are stupid and rich) should do things for themselves. I asked what the point of being rich is if you have to do things for yourself.
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Postby Grinning Dragon » Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:29 am

Ifreann wrote:
Bear Stearns wrote:
Because people are stupid and if you want something done right you have to do it yourself.

I didn't ask why rich people(people who are stupid and rich) should do things for themselves. I asked what the point of being rich is if you have to do things for yourself.

The same reason as to why I do things myself, so I am not wasting money on paying someone else to do the same job I can do and keep more of my money to myself.

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Postby Ifreann » Tue Sep 10, 2019 10:07 am

Grinning Dragon wrote:
Ifreann wrote:I didn't ask why rich people(people who are stupid and rich) should do things for themselves. I asked what the point of being rich is if you have to do things for yourself.

The same reason as to why I do things myself, so I am not wasting money on paying someone else to do the same job I can do and keep more of my money to myself.

Work to get money so that you can have money and keep working to get more money. Would you even swim around in it like Scrooge McDuck?
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Postby Grinning Dragon » Tue Sep 10, 2019 10:13 am

Ifreann wrote:
Grinning Dragon wrote:The same reason as to why I do things myself, so I am not wasting money on paying someone else to do the same job I can do and keep more of my money to myself.

Work to get money so that you can have money and keep working to get more money. Would you even swim around in it like Scrooge McDuck?

If I could I would.
Being frugal is a good thing.

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Postby Ifreann » Tue Sep 10, 2019 10:32 am

Grinning Dragon wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Work to get money so that you can have money and keep working to get more money. Would you even swim around in it like Scrooge McDuck?

If I could I would.
Being frugal is a good thing.

If you believe that being buried with your riches will benefit you in the afterlife, sure.
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Postby Bear Stearns » Tue Sep 10, 2019 10:38 am

Ifreann wrote:
Bear Stearns wrote:
Because people are stupid and if you want something done right you have to do it yourself.

I didn't ask why rich people(people who are stupid and rich) should do things for themselves. I asked what the point of being rich is if you have to do things for yourself.


Because your chances of losing that wealth are greater if you don't do it yourself.

The point of being rich is power.
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Postby Ifreann » Tue Sep 10, 2019 10:39 am

Bear Stearns wrote:
Ifreann wrote:I didn't ask why rich people(people who are stupid and rich) should do things for themselves. I asked what the point of being rich is if you have to do things for yourself.


Because your chances of losing that wealth are greater if you don't do it yourself.

The point of being rich is power.

Eww.
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Postby The Black Forrest » Tue Sep 10, 2019 11:12 am

Bear Stearns wrote:
Ifreann wrote:What's the point in being rich if you have to do things for yourself?


Because people are stupid and if you want something done right you have to do it yourself.


If the people are stupid, the rich person is at fault for hiring them.

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Postby Ifreann » Wed Sep 11, 2019 6:12 am

The Black Forrest wrote:
Bear Stearns wrote:
Because people are stupid and if you want something done right you have to do it yourself.


If the people are stupid, the rich person is at fault for hiring them.

The days of the CEO knowing all jobs of the company are lonnnnng gone.

The rich person is also stupid.
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Postby Grinning Dragon » Wed Sep 11, 2019 6:16 am

Ifreann wrote:
Grinning Dragon wrote:If I could I would.
Being frugal is a good thing.

If you believe that being buried with your riches will benefit you in the afterlife, sure.

I didn't say anything of taking my wealth or benefiting me in the afterlife, I do however have the plan to pass on said wealth to my children as any parent would do.

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Postby Ifreann » Wed Sep 11, 2019 6:26 am

Grinning Dragon wrote:
Ifreann wrote:If you believe that being buried with your riches will benefit you in the afterlife, sure.

I didn't say anything of taking my wealth or benefiting me in the afterlife, I do however have the plan to pass on said wealth to my children as any parent would do.

And they'll take that wealth and work their whole lives adding to it, and pass it on to their children, who'll work their whole lives adding to it, and pass it on to their children. Generations and generations of people piling up money just to have a big pile of money.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Wed Sep 11, 2019 6:29 am

Ifreann wrote:
Grinning Dragon wrote:I didn't say anything of taking my wealth or benefiting me in the afterlife, I do however have the plan to pass on said wealth to my children as any parent would do.

And they'll take that wealth and work their whole lives adding to it, and pass it on to their children, who'll work their whole lives adding to it, and pass it on to their children. Generations and generations of people piling up money just to have a big pile of money.


To be fair, his nation name is a dragon.
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Postby Ifreann » Wed Sep 11, 2019 6:30 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Ifreann wrote:And they'll take that wealth and work their whole lives adding to it, and pass it on to their children, who'll work their whole lives adding to it, and pass it on to their children. Generations and generations of people piling up money just to have a big pile of money.


To be fair, his nation name is a dragon.

Good point.
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