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kahawe on Jan 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why So Many Rich People Don’t Feel Very Rich

I think you are only really "rich" when you are making a decent (e.g. middle/upper middle-class) monthly salary without even (theoretically) setting a foot out of bed, ever.

Given the complete freedom to do a lot of things in your life without ever HAVING to participate in the rat race of daily work has got to be the ultimate freedom and should be the bar for "rich" for me.

Everyone below that is more or less well off.

jhamburger on Jan 11, 2011 [–]

You are confusing 'rich' with 'idle rich'.

gaius on Jan 11, 2011 | [–]

No, it's not that you do do that, it's that you have the option.

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