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To: carranza2 who wrote (93793)	11/5/2007 5:18:47 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 306849

though I think I am a lottery ticket away from economic satisfaction. an interesting thing they mentioned in Richistania is how many people think they would be rich if they just had double what they now have. i have had that feeling myself for a long time, and doubling my net worth over and over never seems to solve the problem -g-. Once a certain level of wealth is reached, the psychic pressure to continue, to validate the previous success and to aggrandize it, keeps the very wealthy going. for one thing, who are their peers? they probably know people richer than themselves. so there is always something higher to shoot for. there was a priceless scene in Richistania where a lady on her 200-something foot yacht gapes in awe as a 300-footer passes them, and says to her husband: "Honey, when can we afford one of those?" another guy, already a small billionaire, took a bigger billionaire to his amazing spread in Wyoming or some place, complete with golf course. the bigger billionaire handed his buddy a piece of paper on which he'd written "$400 million"--that's what he offered to buy the place for after a round of golf. the little billionaire didn't sell, but afterwards said, "Now there's a guy who's real rich."