Would you feel rich if you had $7 Million dollars?

Yes I agree with you. It seems ridiculous when you consider that you or I could live for the rest of our lives comfortably on seven million dollars. You have to look at it from their point of view I guess. They are thinking

"How shall we live on only seven million for the rest of our lives when we spend a million a year now.." That would only last them seven years and they are of course planning on living without diminished circumstances. They would never be happy to live like we live.

For example I have a cousin who is quite wealthy and lives on a million a year at least. She owns six dogs, keeps horses, has ten acres of manicured lawn, and a mansion with six fridges and two full kitchens with four dishwashers, a library, a swimming pool and a tennis court and six garages all full. She plans on living in this manner for the rest of her life I would assume. Or she would like to.

She wouldn't consider living as my family lives in a three bedroom split level with seven people, no garage and a kitchen that has only one fridge, dishwasher, and microwave, and stove. I own used cars, and my husband can't think about retirement. I care for a handicapped child full time. I won't be retiring either. A third of my and my husbands income go for medical bills. We live simply but we could go even further and forgo some creature comforts.

Furthermore there are plenty of people who live with less than we do and know no different. They are happy with just a radio and hopefully the basic appliances like a washer and dryer, fridge and stove. They have wood stoves to keep them warm in the winter. Many of them buy expired food to live on. I know this because I know some of them. Some I know have something called a composting toilet and septic field rather than have a sewer bill. They don't answer questions on here because they don't own a computer and couldn't get service in their area of the U.S.A even if they did. Yes you can live very simply indeed.

But those "Rich" people would never be happy like that. They would think themselves terribly misused if they had to live without their six cars and their two kitchens. What no swimming pool oh gasp! No snow blower? What do you mean you can use a shovel? What shall we do.

No, I wouldn't feel "rich" if I had 7 million dollars but it's just a personal thing. I would feel secure maybe...I just think to be truly rich is to not have to worry about money and 7 million dollars isn't enough to make paying for your children's college not a bit of a burden.

I don't think there's anything wrong with this perspective and I really take issue with the way you assert these people are "robbing from the poor" (??) when the company's lots of millionaires own create hundreds of jobs and provide useful products. I also think it's ridiculous to assert that Americans with no retirement are somehow completely innocent in the process (plenty of people in my family have saved for retirement on 35,000 a year while supporting children...it can be done) and that these people live in the woods (??) I'd also like to point out that most millionaires work AT LEAST the equivalent full time job and often 70+ hours a week. Most of them are hardly lazy.

You should also take into account that in a city like New York, 7 million dollars doesn't go half as far as it would in say rural Nebraska.

If they can't live of of the investments and property holding of 7 million then they need some investment counseling. I wonder if anyone of these poor people ever give to charity for any other reason then the tax break

I think "rich" is when you can live a better life than you have now, without working, and know that you'll not run out of money before you die... and there will be money left for your heirs.

The key there is "better life than you have now."

I love you people.

No. The best part is that you don't understand why they don't feel rich. Sure I don't feel sorry for them but I do empathize.

Give it to me and we'll find out.