--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote: > the > > > > > Anyone here think they could live in FF for even a year and be a rich > > TB? > > How rich? I know one person who lives in FF in a trailer in Utopia > Park and has at least a six figure net worth. He keeps his mouth shut.
Six figures ain't rich by today's standards....unless you mean SEVEN figures and he's worth millions. Just about anyone on the east or west coasts has a house worth $500,000, so a million "goes fast." Have you enough intimacy with him to ask what kinds of pressures individuals and the TMO put upon him for a handout? I knew, say, 20 rich dudes ($10,000,000 net worth +) in FF well enough to say I had a rudimentary grasp of their personalities, and, 100% of them had been crammed into an uptight defensiveness because of the pressures, and most of them could immediately see if someone was approaching them for money and brush it aside quickly. Like, "all my investments are set for the year," like that. Most of these guys were rude, abusive, haughty, and agog with entitlement that they felt their net-worth bought them -- pampered into it by the TMO, ya see? They, each of them, could, however, pretend to be nice and fool you every time, but watch the shift when they catch you looking at that lump in their back pocket. Rich man eye of the needle sort of thingie -- it just seems to come with riches that one's personality gets annealed by the challenges into a harder less forgiving taut humorless wary presentation. Anyone here want to sing the praises of those in FF who are rich and still somehow are nice folks? Behind the curtains of Oz, all those I knew could be seen acting without their typical masks, and they were as human as human can be....that is, susceptible to power-insanity. To me it's like the rich have all this power to solve problems but they are so beset by the immensity of the poverty all around them that they collapse into a POV of: "Why bother to engage the masses since they can easily sap one of every penny and the world will still be unchanged?" They don't seem to respond to that story of the man on the beach throwing back living fish that had gotten stranded on the beach by a rogue wave, and some other guy says, "Why bother, you can only toss but a few back and what do they matter when thousands are going to die despite your efforts?" The man replied, "It matters to this one!" as he tossed another fish back to life. I don't think I would be a very nice rich person either; unless, maybe I'd survive it if I went underground and wore old clothes and drove a beater and had only superficial relationships, but also had an ear to the ground for places where a splash of coin could do some measurable good. Stealth giving might be the formula to keep the ego in check, cuz once you're spotted on the poor's radar, they shift their POV about you, and there goes intimacy, trust, etc. And you will be praised consistently until your ego is a blimp. I've been the recipient of a rich person's stealth from afar. This person heard about my plight during one of my lowest financial moments in life. Cut a $1,000 check and gave it to a friend of mine and swore him to secrecy, and he wouldn't tell me who gave the money. So it does happen out there. These are the kind debts that one can only pay by passing it forward, yes? Edg
