--- In [email protected], new_morning_blank_slate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > I was just reading in the Times about Richard Grasso, > > who, making $12 million a year, went through all kinds > > of contortions to obtain his $140 million retirement > > package. > > > > At some point in the accumulation of wealth, money > > ceases to be a medium of exchange and becomes something > > entirely different, having to do, as Bhairitu suggests, > > with ego and power. Your attitude toward it changes > > in a way that makes it literally impossible to empathize > > with the person for whom, say, fresh blueberries are > > a luxury they can't afford. > > > > You no longer have to make choices based on what > > something costs. Money becomes an abstraction with no > > practical consequences in terms of what you do with it, > > except those that have to do with how much *more* of > > this abstraction you are able to accumulate. > > > > When rich people talk about money, they're talking > > about something entirely different from what poor and > > middle-class people mean when they talk about it. > > They might as well be on different planets. > > Your speculations of how others', or perhaps your own, values and > motivations may change with substantial wealth is simply speculation > -- not a well reserched set of studies developing a concensus view > of researchers on this issue. Same with my speculations.
<snore> <snip> > It appears you are confusing correlation with causation. There > certainly is some degree of correlation between (often sudden) > wealth and shallow values among some nouveau riche. I don't believe I said anything about "shallow values." You might want to go back and read what I *did* write again. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
