The definition of being wealthy

[EternalOptimist]

Most posters are confusing wealth with quality. including me.

maybe thats right, after all, its easy to imagine scenarios where you have unlimited wealth, but cant use it.

Imagine you were a chillean miner and you won 133 million on the euro lottery. wouldnt be much use would it ?

[SupremeSpod]

Most posters are confusing wealth with quality. including me.

maybe thats right, after all, its easy to imagine scenarios where you have unlimited wealth, but cant use it.

Imagine you were a chillean miner and you won 133 million on the euro lottery. wouldnt be much use would it ?

Ah, the 6ft chopsticks analogy...

[Lumiere]

* $2-4 million: The comfortable poor
* $4-10 million: The comfortably off
* $10-30 million: The comfortably wealthy
* $30-80 million: The lesser rich
* $80-150 million: The comfortably rich
* $150-200 million: The rich
* $200-400 million: The seriously rich
* $400-800 million: The truly rich
* $800 million - $1.998 billion: The filthy rich
* $1.998 billion and Above: The super rich

[gingerjedi]

I know how this hamster feels.

[EternalOptimist]

It's true gj, these rascals hide stuff in the wheel. Instinct I suppose.
my Dongo fills his with the contents of his food bowl, so the noise contravenes several noise abatement acts of parliament. he makes more noise than a skeleton break dancing in a biscuit tin.

[milanbenes]

This leaves us with a definition which is rather fragile, and rightly so; some misfortune like an accident in the car, a sudden and destructive illness like MS, or losing one's job could leave anybody in a very sticky situation; you'd possibly also find, if you suddenly fell down the socio-economic tree, that many of your 'friends' would desert you.

Agree with a lot of statements on here, Spod's as well

but Mich strikes a chord with the car scenario

and this is why, we should all be driving the biggest and safest cars we can afford and not the cheapest or most fuel effiecient cars

Milan.

[d000hg]

Even the poorest people in this country are relatively wealthy, if only they'd compare themselves to folks in Darfur or Bangladesh instead of Posh and Becks they might realise how lucky they are.

Are you wealthier as a street urchin in the UK than India? Maybe a bit, but then they probably won't risk death from exposure.

I wonder if there is a league table of "best countries to be homeless in"...

[milanbenes]

on the contrary,

one of my Bob colleagues explained how in India, the richest man in India is infact the man on the street with no money because he wishes for nothing

Milan.

[Mich the Tester]

* $2-4 million: The comfortable poor
* $4-10 million: The comfortably off
* $10-30 million: The comfortably wealthy
* $30-80 million: The lesser rich
* $80-150 million: The comfortably rich
* $150-200 million: The rich
* $200-400 million: The seriously rich
* $400-800 million: The truly rich
* $800 million - $1.998 billion: The filthy rich
* $1.998 billion and Above: The super rich

* Pretending you're richer than you are: The phallically challenged

[MarillionFan]

* $2-4 million: The comfortable poor
* $4-10 million: The comfortably off
* $10-30 million: The comfortably wealthy
* $30-80 million: The lesser rich
* $80-150 million: The comfortably rich
* $150-200 million: The rich
* $200-400 million: The seriously rich
* $400-800 million: The truly rich
* $800 million - $1.998 billion: The filthy rich
* $1.998 billion and Above: The super rich

Where's Richie Rich???