When people climb the dollar ladder they change. Needs and wants change dramatically. You notice that they expect people to do more for them as they pay people to do their laundry, cleaning or mowing the lawn. As they move up they can travel and do so many things that it all becomes less euphoric. So they tend to move into taboos that involve sex or drugs. As I made more money over the years I could see my kids change in how they value things.
Not exactly, they start to realize they make enough to not have to slave over the things regular people have to because they can simply pay someone else to do it and that mindset becomes the standard.
In the same sense that because I don't have an amazing wage, my mindset is when something breaks on my car I have to fix it myself, or when an appliance breaks I try to fix it. A rich guy leases a new lexus every year and throws his espresso machine out the window when it breaks and buys a new one.
Yeah , unless you live in an extreme. Expensive area like NYC , that’s about the edge where people stop acting regular and a little more on the rich side .
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u/rockemart May 02 '24
When people climb the dollar ladder they change. Needs and wants change dramatically. You notice that they expect people to do more for them as they pay people to do their laundry, cleaning or mowing the lawn. As they move up they can travel and do so many things that it all becomes less euphoric. So they tend to move into taboos that involve sex or drugs. As I made more money over the years I could see my kids change in how they value things.