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That’s the thing. When we can’t have something, we start telling ourselves a story about how we don’t even want it and how the people who do have it are bad. And then we believe that story. Doesn’t get much more human than that.
I would love to have a billion dollars. But that doesn't mean I couldnever become a billionaire in a moral way in reality.
You can be 997 millions short from being a billionaire and you'd still be rich though.
Depends where you're getting that valuation from. I wouldn't call farmers rich even if they could technically sell everything they own and live comfortably for the rest of their lives.
But the point is that a billionaire is a whole different animal. You can be rich by every metric and still be as far from being a billionaire as a poor person is from being rich.
The way I see it, once you can live off passive income, you’re rich. I could live comfortably for the rest of my life just on the interest from a million euros. Make it three million and I’d live like royalty.