Hard To Be A Millionaire

If that's true, it must be even harder to be a multi millionaire, nigh unbearable to be a billionaire and if you're a multi billionaire you might as well give up on life altogether... Millionaires complaining about how hard it is to live with so much money, that's just an insult to all those hundreds of millions who have to live paycheck to paycheck or worse.

Still, Jennifer Risher thought this was a good moment to publish a book doing just that; complain about how it's not as easy as it looks from the outside to be worth many millions of dollars. The book's titled We Need to Talk: A Memoir about Wealth and is marketed as an attempt to start a discussion about money, which is a taboo subject according to the multi millionaire author. Yeah right, a taboo subject when you have a lot of it, for sure, but for the working poor it's a subject that's being discussed in a negative way for at least the past half century.

"The book is an honest, personal story that explores the hidden impact of wealth on identity, relationships, and sense of place in the world. Too often, we link net-worth to self-worth and keep quiet about how our finances make us feel. Money is a taboo subject. The author hopes We Need to Talk becomes a catalyst for conversation that demystifies wealth, gets us talking on a personal level, and confirms we are ninety-nine percent the same."
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It is true that relatively poor people who suddenly become very rich, like lottery winners, often lose their way in life and slide down a deteriorating path of increasingly unhealthy and self-destructive lifestyles. But that's only true for those poor people, who statistically already lead much unhealthier lifes than the well off; their sudden riches cause them to spend extraordinary amounts of money on the unhealthy stuff they're already used to consume. It's not true for those who already lead a fairly balanced life. What makes this book even more of an insult is the fact that Risher is a textbook example of how most millionaires are born: she was just lucky, had some money to start with and was just in the right place on the right time, just like it says on her own website:

"When Jennifer Risher joined Microsoft in 1991, she met her husband, and with him became an extra-lucky beneficiary of the dot-com boom. By their early thirties, they had tens of millions of dollars."
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When they've stumbled upon their riches though, these extremely lucky people go off on rants about how they deserve all this money, about the myth of meritocracy. Some of them are so lucky even, that they stumble upon the presidency of the United States of America... I haven't read this book, and I advice nobody to buy this book. I'll leave you with a video from someone who effectively shows the frustration I feel about this complaining multi millionaire...

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