<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>I've met several people who were at best in the lower middle</span></div><div><span>class who acted as though they had real money and </span><span>flaunted </span></div><div><span>it for those in the lower middle class or the </span><span>poor. In the same </span></div><div><span>community one of the wealthier </span><span>men in the area didn't become </span></div><div><span>wealthy until he was </span><span>in his late 50's to early 60's. You would </span></div><div><span>see him </span><span>at Wal-Mart in bib overalls sitting on the bench </span><span>by the </span></div><div><span>greeter.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>You meet millionaires all the time and likely don't know it.</span></div><div><span>I can't say I've ever met a billionaire. I think the extent of
the</span></div><div><span>rich I've ever been around is in the under 50 million range.</span></div><div><span>Most millionaires are not cocky about their money. Most</span></div><div><span>people who act cocky about money are immature and</span></div><div><span>likely wannabes in debt.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Many with money are too busy doing what they like to</span></div><div><span>change their behavior or sprend money like they have it.<var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var></span></div><div><span><br>Dennis May</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> spike <spike66@att.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 16, 2011 9:15 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [ExI] millionaires and billionaires: was RE: A Nobel laureate and climate change<br></font><br><br>Subject: Re: [ExI] A Nobel laureate and climate change<br><br>On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, BillK wrote:<br> <br>>> The super rich are money psychopaths (to a greater or lesser extent)...<br>BillK<br><br>BillK, I can accept this comment because you offer no definition of the term<br>super rich. The person with the most money is rich. If super means more of<br>the word that follows, then I have no data on people who have more money<br>than the rich, for no one has more money than the person with the most<br>money.
There are no super rich.<br><br>>...Tomasz Rola wrote: Assuming that super-rich starts from 1 billion<br>dollars, I don't think I have ever met someone from this group. So, no real<br>life experience. I could have met few who had more than a million but I<br>wouldn't call them psychopaths, even if not all would fit as cool guys,<br>friends etc.<br><br>He didn't define the arbitrary billion dollars as super rich.<br><br>Entertaining anecdote for you guys. I was at a private chess party in the<br>late 1990s. One of the guests was Peter Thiel, who looooves chess. We were<br>playing and visiting, having a good time, when the topic of conversation<br>went to PayPal, which Peter cofounded and had sold most of by that time.<br>The host asked "So Peter, how much money do you have then?" He responded<br>"Steve I really do not know. I don't know." Host: "But it's well over a<br>billion dollars." Peter: "Oh, yes
it is, but I don't know how much it is<br>really."<br><br>I thought they were kidding, but I found out they were telling the truth.<br>He acted just like everyone else. He dressed like everyone else, drove an<br>ordinary car. I couldn't tell he had any kind of money psychopathy. So if<br>the super rich are money psychopaths, super rich must be far more than a<br>billion dollars.<br><br>Our politicians toss around the phrase "millionaires and billionaires" as if<br>those two are the same thing. How bizarre! If we can span three orders of<br>magnitude in wealth and still see some fundamental similarity between those<br>two, then let us follow that to its logical conclusion. Let us define<br>anyone whose net worth is over 1 million as a millionaire, over a billion as<br>a billionaire. If there is any legitimate way to equate those two, then it<br>seems perfectly logical to me that anyone whose net worth is over
one<br>thousand dollars is in the same class as the millionaire. Why is it we<br>never hear the phrase "thousandaires and millionaires?" Why is it<br>Microsloth Word doesn't even recognize the term "thousandaire?" That puts<br>in perspective "millionaires and billionaires" ja?<br><br>spike<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" ymailto="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>