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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:27:40 PM EDT
[#1]
Well some say I am, but I sure don't feel like it.
 For me, rich would be being able to spend whatever you want on whatever you want. That would mean pretty much any house you like, or more than one, any car, rv, etc.... |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:28:18 PM EDT
[#2]
me
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:29:09 PM EDT
[#3]
Living the lifestyle that you want and not having to work. My definition anyway.
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:29:18 PM EDT
[#4]
There are different levels of "rich." Just like there are different levels of beauty.
Let that stew for a second or two... |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:30:16 PM EDT
[#5]
I'm rich. Rich in personality that is.
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:31:23 PM EDT
[#6]
you mean I is boo-ful? |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:32:36 PM EDT
[#8]
 $100,000 out here won't do dick for you. You'd need 10x that if you want to live in one of the better neighborhoods, send the kids to private school, etc... |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:33:10 PM EDT
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Your savings earns interests at a faster rate than you can spend it.
I once read about a Saudi prince who made $50,000.00 a day in interest income alone. That's rich. |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:34:08 PM EDT
[#10]
That ain't rich lol, if it was a lot of rich assholes would be on this board. :) |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:34:14 PM EDT
[#11]
There’s Bush rich (millionaire) and Kerry rich (Billionaire). But seriously Hillary said that there is no reason for anyone to make more than 35 thousand a year. Except of course for politicians. They rule over the stupid people and keep them from killing themselves so they are worth it.
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:34:21 PM EDT
[#12]
being able to buy whatever the fuck you want anytime you want to
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:34:54 PM EDT
[#13]
You're worse than John Kerry! He defines the rich as people who make >$200,000 |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:35:11 PM EDT
[#14]
Someone with a 1600 square foot bathroom
I am very rich, plenty of friends at home, temple, and work who I can count on. After 23 years of being a gypsy I've been given the chance to settle down and have made a good network of dependable and honorable friends to enjoy. |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:35:52 PM EDT
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I must be rich, I bought me two new hummers, a 22 oz & 26 oz eastwing at lowes @ $29.00 each...
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:36:25 PM EDT
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In todays language, rich equals secure. This is why class warfare is so effective. It taps into the jealousy of the insecure.
Humans are basically spiteful. The minute the 1st one of your group of friends stared making money post education, he all of a sudden became a target for the rest of the group. Oddly, the group was never upset when everyone was driving crap, living off pizza, and living 10 to a house. People only get upset when someone does better... This is why the 'downtrodden' often like communisim. It makes everyone a serf. |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:37:23 PM EDT
[#17]
+1 Well said. |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:38:06 PM EDT
[#18]
I forget which Roman it was, but he felt that a man was not truly rich unless he could raise his own army. He did, and went to war against the Perisans I believe.
Immagine being able to afford the soldiers, tanks, aircraft carriers, and such it would take to do this. Now that is rich. |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:39:59 PM EDT
[#19]
He said $60,000 |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:42:11 PM EDT
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lot to be said here. BTW, whadda you got against pizza, anyway? |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:42:26 PM EDT
[#21]
Rich.... having enough of what makes you happy, secure, and content, to make you happy, secure and content.
When you call someone else 'rich', it's usually because you believe they have enough to do it for you. For most of us though.... there is no "enough". |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:44:19 PM EDT
[#22]
+2 Well Said Also, everything is relative! |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:44:19 PM EDT
[#23]
it depends where you live. right now 30-40k is a lot to me.
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:45:05 PM EDT
[#24]
1 million in spending money?
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:45:06 PM EDT
[#25]
Being satisfied with what you have!
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:45:08 PM EDT
[#26]
ITS RELATIVE
you can only compare to the position of the observer. |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:46:26 PM EDT
[#27]
I'd be happy to be able to afford more than a couple toys a year... I'm pretty much paycheck to paycheck... student debt is a beotch!
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:46:30 PM EDT
[#28]
To me rich means someone who does not have to work and can still maintain a lifestyle better than mine. I am not rich in any sense of the word with child support of 1200 a month and a 28% tax bracket I am pretty strapped.
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:46:33 PM EDT
[#29]
To me, if you're happy with what you have and have someone to love and love you in return, you are the richest person on earth.
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:47:49 PM EDT
[#30]
As good a definition as any. |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:47:58 PM EDT
[#31]
I make more than that and I am not anywhere near rich . . . |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:49:59 PM EDT
[#32]
Healthy, healthy marriage, healthy kids.
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:50:03 PM EDT
[#33]
Per year, then you're talking. But a million isn't that much money in todays world. It could wipe your debts away (specifically a mortgage), produce some temporary luxuries, and provide a good foundation for the growth of wealth. But the days of being able to retire and live well on a mil are long gone... |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:51:08 PM EDT
[#34]
That and $0.50 will buy you a cup of coffee |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:51:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:52:00 PM EDT
[#36]
yo G' you aint got bling till you straight ballin!!!!
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:52:48 PM EDT
[#37]
All the money in the world will not buy your happiness.......
but it will let you pick your own misery.
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:53:34 PM EDT
[#38]
Anyone who thinks that an annual household income of $100,000 is rich, is a fool.
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:54:09 PM EDT
[#39]
According to the people who work for me, I am.
5 years ago, if you had told me what I'd be making today, I'd have told you that would make me rich. Funny thing is, even with what I make, I still can't afford to buy a house in South Florida. |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:54:27 PM EDT
[#40]
Reminds me of a bit of wisdom via Bugs Bunny: "Iron bars do not a prison make....But they sure do help, eh Doc?" |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:58:19 PM EDT
[#41]
My goal is 200k post taxes in Arkansas. That is about 4,000 a week. I think I can live quite nicely on that, and I don't think it is too far off. I decided on Neurology which makes significantly less that what I had chosed prior, OB-Gyn (or OG-BYN as Kerry likes to call it). All of the obgyn docs were offered 200k+ right out of residency this last year. Hopefull, I will be making 150+ in 4 years.
After I pay off my 125k in med school debt, I will be a happy camper. I think I deserve some class IIIs then. tony |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 6:58:59 PM EDT
[#42]
depends on where you live: for example 100K in turkey would easily make you a millionare many many times over. 
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Posted: 10/11/2004 7:01:11 PM EDT
[#43]
Kerry says I'm rich, and he pays less than 15% in taxes. Screw him.
Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas... |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 7:03:38 PM EDT
[#44]
Kerry and the d3mz define anybody that make $25,000 or more a year as rich.  Tax the rich! BigDozer66 |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 7:06:48 PM EDT
[#45]
Many poor people are happy. Many wealthy people are very unhappy.
Debt free and having enough cash to afford beer, along with not having to work too hard and having to do some planning=rich 
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Posted: 10/11/2004 7:08:17 PM EDT
[#46]
You would be amazed at what $100,000 per year in N.E. Arkansas can buy you. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure a dumbass making $100,000 per year that is in debt for $10,000,000 doesn't consider themselves rich. That is why you will see people sell a house in California for a million $ and move here and buy a better house and some land for about $250,000. |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 7:08:17 PM EDT
[#47]
In terms of money-
Here in the PRK, you are no rich unless you are making a good $5 million a year. Yes, you read that right. Since houses here can hit near a million very easily, you get the idea. Well off here is $500,000 In another state, $500,000 a year might be rich..it's all relative. However, no matter how much money and toys you have, you can still be unhappy. Look how many rich people turn to drugs, drinking, etc...they are not happy despite having loads of cash. |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 7:08:38 PM EDT
[#48]
My point exactly. |
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Posted: 10/11/2004 7:09:14 PM EDT
[#49]
MC Hammer went broke making $37 million a year.
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Posted: 10/11/2004 7:09:54 PM EDT
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To make it on the Forbes richest list this year I believe you had to have at least $ 750,000,000 (yeah, seven hundred fifty million) in net worth. John Kerry's wife was at the bottom of the list and the only non-billionaire that made it.
I think that if you had at least $100,000,000 you would be set. Without that kind of money you could easily run out living the high life, buying jets, yachts, estates, etc. Sure you can make do with less, but is that really what being rich is all about? There can't be that many truly "rich" people in the world since they only make so many Rolls Royce and Bentley's every year. Rich doesn't make you happy, or solve all of your problems. Everyone has their own set of adverse circumstances to deal with. Richness doesn't make you secure either as you cannot buy even 1 minute of time and you have so many more things that only complicate your existence. |
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