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Originally Posted by westopher
They can't keep going forever. Money is a finite resource.
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The most logical thing I have heard when discussing this; Money is finite. Wealth however is not.
We've had the conversation of paper rich vs actually rich in this thread a dozen times.
The conversation of money and it's total economic reach is one that's almost all speculation. Nobody actually knows how deep this economic system we have created is, there is so many cogs and wheels, and so many different players, it's an intricate thing.
You could say that because there is a finite amount of raw materials on earth, and therefore we could reach an economic peak as we approach utilization of all that material, at which point transfer of wealth would only occur on recycling of material. But this will never happen, we will die off long before that, or we will flee this planet and inhabit another one.
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Originally Posted by CivicBlues
Doubt it, the way their nesting instinct is showing and (if I may be tad racist) her ethnicity they'll probably be popping out 3-4 kids within 10 years. She'll be lucky to even get a chance to fit out the front door before saying to her hubby "we need a bigger place!" and finding out they can only afford in the outer 905 area code.
I on the other hand, while a decade older, have lived a full life and could die happy tomorrow. Done the Europe/Caribbean/Asia travel thing at least once a year and own property to boot without parental help. I'm not rich, and earn a middling salary. How do I do it? I don't overextend myself like these 2 idiots. #sorrynotsorry
p.s. If you think being gifted 500K is the same as earning it you're no better than the garbage we see on TV every day like Kim Kartrashian.
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Jesus that's a whole lot of terrible right in a row. I'm not gonna touch the kids thing, except to say that just because you may not value having kids doesn't mean it isn't some other people's dreams to have a family and care for them.
I'm only going to comment on the last item about being gifted 500k. You mean to tell me that Alex Aguila and Nelson Gonzalez who started Alienware based on a $10,000 gift they received, didn't earn the $100 million they sold the company for in 2006?