MAKE MONEY, BE STRONG, THEN WHAT

A life goal is to make money?

If that’s the goal, and you accomplish it, what kind of a life to you have?

Now you can relax and slow down?

That’s not what billionaires do, so why would you?

They’ve made their money, and continue to make more money.

Maybe there is a plan among the rich guys, the guys in the billionaire club, to help the rest of us, and I haven’t seen it?

If you’ve seen it, let me know.

With a billion dollars you could spend a million a day for a few years.

Who knows how to spend that kind of money?

I don’t, and it’s my fault.

A million dollar house? No thanks. Why?

If you buy a million dollar house, and up, you’ll have neighbors with million dollar attitudes.

Even at a million you don’t get to do that and get away with it.

Besides, you’ll be moving sooner than later.

There’s always someone willing to ruin their dream by enabling their inner child to run amok.

What’s worse than some old guy on his fourth wife and third childhood collecting all of the toys and fun he missed out on while he was poor.

This is a guy who sill never have enough, and if he’s your neighbor he may look at the property line as a suggestion.

After he grabs your land you’ll try to get it back and learn more about them than you ever wanted.

From shyster, to shylock, to retired pimp-master, his wealth comes from that side of the track.

The first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, used to gave away dimes to people he met, which today is about a buck fifty.

I used to think he was cheap. Maybe not?

Andrew Carnegie is credited with building over 2500 libraries with his donations.

Today’s rich guys could make a habit of giving away a buck and a half to look good.

They could target all of the Carnegie libraries for upgrades and add a few more to the list without going broke.

Investing in education is a winning move. A smarter country is a better country.

Why won’t some deep-pocket person step up and pay off student loans?

Here’s why:

 

Americans owe $1.74 trillion in federal and private student loan debt as of the second quarter of 2024.

That’s down 0.96% from the second quarter of 2023

 

Family Money

Some people are born into money.

After that it breaks down into being useful, or being bored.

The useful parts are libraries and schools and an extra buck and a half of spending money.

I hears an interview with Shaq O’Neil talking about his kids saying, “We’re rich.”

Shaq’s response was, “We’re not rich, I’m rich.”

Followed by his lament of living alone, being alone, and his struggle with loneliness.

Money won’t solve any of those problems, which brings me to this:

If a screw-up comes into money, they’ll be able to screw-up on a more spectacular level.

With sympathy for addiction and treatment, a coke addict with unlimited funds can buy unlimited cocaine.

If they hit it hard enough, they might start listening to advice on how to cultivate and process cocaine, buy a submarine, and ship out.

Arnold is a money guy from movies and body building fame.

Good guy, good family, all set.

Except he slipped in with their housekeeper and produced a little Arnie.

For that he exited his marriage, but he’s not complaining like Shaq.

A generation younger, there’s Ben Affleck fighting the good fight.

A Hollywood legend with enough in the bank to live as large as he wants, he chose booze and gambling over wife and kids.

At least that’s my take. I’m sure there were other thing in his wallet to choose a poor quality of life over family.

Like other men in his orbit, he looked back for answers and found J-Lo.

Not soon after they married we got to see his miserable face over and over. I try and copy it, except I’m not miserable.

After the misery increased, he decided he didn’t want to stay married, with this ex-wife calling their time together less than ideal.

If there’s enough money in a family to keep things moving forward, but a loose screw in the old man, bad things happen.

They happened to Bezos, Musk, and Gates.

Is that what happens when you marry a billionaire on the way up when they’re still working things out?

The women get dumped while the guys wrap themselves in catnip for the kitties?

 

Take My Advice At Your Own Risk

Increased education includes exposure to different cultures where multiple marriages are the norm.

Or one wife and several lady friends are the norm.

If you’re a billionaire you can afford to house and clothe a stable of girlfriends on the sly.

Whether only in America, or like a seasoned sailer with girls in every port, no one is satisfied for long.

One women wants to be an opera singer, another an actress, another your wife, but you don’t want anything to change.

You don’t need to watch Citizen Kane to know how it all turns out. How does it all turn out?

Rosebud. That’s your hint.

Just remember, people change and want something different. You, me, the billionaire in the news.

And their women just want to be useful with their share.

 

MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, billionaire and ex-wife of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, just donated $640 million to 361 nonprofit groups out of a pool of over 6,000 applicants.

This latest round of donations went to nonprofit groups from the arts, education, affordable housing, public health, diversity and immigration — and varied in gifts from $1 million to $2 million.

It’s not a dime, or a library, but from the looks of things, the former Mrs. Bezos is going the right direction.

Making a better world may not matter as much when we’re warm, fed, and cared for, but there is always more to do.

This is my contribution, a blog post from a blogger, but not just any blogger.

I’m well trained in the communication arts, physical skills, and mental acuity; my suggestions don’t have a hidden meaning or nefarious intent.

My health and wellness advice comes from experience; my acuity comes from concentration and focus.

If you know of other helpful ideas, leave a comment.