get rich, someday

I've never been much of a materialistic person, perhaps that is why I've always been a relatively poor person, at least in terms of monetary wealth. Perhaps it's a character defect, I don't know. What I do know is that lack of money can be hazardous to one's health.


Here are ten traits of the filthy rich that I might want to develop. Perhaps you might want to work on them too. Heck, we might want to work together. There may be some virtues of mob psychology, positive mob psychology. You can find the original article here.

priorities

While congress works out deals to ensure that the rich get richer and everyone else gets screwed other pressing matters remain unaddressed.
It should be clear to everyone by now that we live on one planet which is one giant interconnected environment that is becoming dangerously degraded by one species (people) with a seemingly insatiable demand for consumption through a flawed system we call free market.
Rather than address important issues, the congress will distract itself and the public with don't ask don't tell trivialities. It's a waste of time and energy, two things we're running out of. Besides having the guts ripped out of the US manufacturing sector, we have helped to create two hungry giants that now compete for dwindling energy sources. Perhaps you'd care to read about China and India's Growing Energy Rivalry....you probably should because the better educated we are, the better we may fair. China is the world's most populous country and therefore has a significant impact on the rest of the world. Yikes, look at what development has done for them.

Equality

It's been said that money is the root of all evil. We know that's not true and evil has been around longer than money. Unfortunately we now have a global capitalistic system that makes money seem to be the measure of all things.
There are practical remedies, but they appear to be harder and harder to implement here in the USA. Someday perhaps we shall see that we are one humanity living on one planet with one economy....Gordon Brown seems to understand, you can hear and watch him here.