[ExI] millionaires and billionaires

[Tomasz Rola]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Kelly Anderson wrote:

> Understanding the dynamics of millionaires and billionaires is, I
> think, quite relevant to the future, and here is why... In the future
> ALL of us will have what billionaires have today, except in greater
> quantity and variety. We will some day in the not too distant future,
> be able to produce custom yachts for a single use, not even
> billionaires do that today! We will be able to create our own custom
> planets in virtual reality... with creatures even the super rich would
> not be able to create today!
> 
> So what is the psychology of the super rich?
[...]
> All of these people became more of what they were before. I had the
> absolute joy of knowing Alan Ashton before he was super rich, as well
> as after... He just became more of what he was before... just like the
> rest of them.
> 
> So the take home question for each of us is "what are we?" And when we
> become more of what we are, will that be a good thing or a bad thing?

Wow, I have just finished reading your mail and it was a pleasure.

It made me thinking and even laughing at myself a bit. No, I'm not super 
rich. I just imagined myself as arrogant moron and after that, as 
super-rich super-arrogant super-moron, building me a spacious house of my 
own design, so that my numerous interests could find a place... finally.

Hah! Next time, when HR-woman asks me how I imagine myself ten years from 
now, I will have something to say at last.

BTW, Paris, if she got more money...

Regards,
Tomasz Rola

--
** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature.      **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home    **
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened...      **
**                                                                 **
** Tomasz Rola          mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com             **