BUBBLES said:
Does it help to be tight when you know its for a car you adore or when you are with one foot in your grave and the other on land if you claim to be wealthy?
Being economic Hiatussin is having one car no more if you REALLY want to be economic.
By your logic anyone who can afford to, should stop working. after all why be tight or work hard when you won´t spend all your money before death?
What about simply wanting the best for the business you´re in?
What about founding a dynasty?
What about setting a precedent for your kids?
I´m exaggerating your statement a little but I will still use it to rant my rant.
This is where the word "snob" came from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snob - "sine nobilitate", people of no nobility, nouveau riche, from the time when non nobles first got rich. They don´t have a history and don´t think about their family´s future. That way they can afford to buy all sorts of devaluating showwy crap that makes them feel higher, but they´re fooling themselves.
This is so typical of when people chastise the super rich, for being tight, or working too hard. They say- he could live in idle decadence till the end of his days, and his kids too.
This is why those people will never reach such a point. Because being idle and decadent/arrogant is what they really want. How many super rich people are there that go around pissing in peoples faces over it? Paris Hilton maybe... 99.9% don´t. Although a big part of people WOULD, if they had that money. Those who have the brains, guts and work ethic to get there are of another personality. This is part of the intrinsical morality of the free market
Now of course there is the big, evil, rotten, demonic, cursed death tax law. You can evade it if you´re clever and start planning early enough though.
LOL. God I have something to live up to with these views.