Wealth Unlimited
Chatting at work today with the topic of the richest people, and idea was formed. If you had 100 Billion Dollars, how would it change your life? One person claimed he would continue to dress the same, which I find hard to believe. With that kind of wealth, you wouldn't even notice the difference between a $1,000 outfit and a $10,000 outfit, much less a $100 outfit. Your time becomes more valuable than the cost of caring about the price of something.
Most people think of the basics - bigger house, faster car, more pussy, cooler watch, etc. But, what most people with untold wealth do not do is dream big. At least, in this country. Seems that they are building an island in the shape of the world over in one of the Gulf countries. Every continent will be there, and able to support 100,000 people living there. They love to flaunt there wealth in some countries, while here we are supposed to act like "old money." For here, I guess Vegas is the closest thing to Big Dreaming, which is one of the reasons I like it so much - it stands as a testament to what people would do with limitless money: a big, gaudy set of buildings in the middle of nowhere. I can not help but smile to myself every time I go there.
But, those things take time, and though they seem to be made of bigger dreams, can we not go further? Why do you need a watch when you can hire someone to follow you around all day and night, ready to tell you the time at you mirest asking. "What's the time?" "The time will be 11:20 pm at the beep, sir... Beep." You could hire a human to be an alarm clock, in case you wake up in the middle of the night and want to know the time. With your kind of wealth, why stumble round looking for a clock, just ask the human alarm clock. Make sure you put a snooze button on him, in case you want to sleep a little longer in the morning. Or made have a large stick by the bedside to give him a good whack. Or whatever you want.
With $100,000,000,000 you could pretty much do whatever you wanted. Well, at least anything that involved another human. You couldn't really break the laws of physics with money, or go to a different solar system, or read all of the books of the world, etc. All the power of that money solely exists in the minds of you and your fellow humans, so anything you would want would have to be human in nature. Which is why I never wanted that kind of power, only real power for me.
So, think over all that you would want, and ask yourself, isn't it just power over other humans?
The Edward
3 comments:
If I had $100billion, I'd live in a solid gold house and eat liver and onions.
I'd build houses for cats in need and hire 'round the clock caregivers. Also a scientist that would do exclusive research into how to transform kittie turds and clumps in a reusable source of energy for my kickass new line of eco-friendly new car that would run exclusively on said source of energy. Also I would hire a personal trainer/cook to assist making me over into the goddess I am that's currently hiding under an excess of weight. And having the goddess released would mean flaunting new clothes and maybe hooking up with highly inapproprite people. Used books would be high on the purchase list. I would have time to read them all because I would be working only when I wanted to. Ah, dreams...
I am that co-worker who claimed that I wouldn't change the way I dress. My reason for the claim is that I currently dress the way I do mostly because I don't care. I have the money to buy and wear fancy italian shoes and hugo boss suits, but I don't because it really doesn't interest me. If I were a $100b richer, I'd simply wear what was comfortable; which is pretty much what I wear now. Now if that $100b came with responsibilities which in turn came with expectations on my dress style, that would be a different story.
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