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Originally posted by Scootermuze
I heard good ol' Dr. Phil say, in one of his, "you set the stage for your own behavior" type things, that if you take all of the money away from a rich person and give it to a poor person.. in 2 years' time, they'll both be back in the same situation they were in before the switch.
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WOW. I bet that's true. If you gave a ton of money to a poor person, they spend it all on stupid shit.
A friend of the family died when I was a kid. It was an oil-field explosion. His wife ended up with a huge settlement (at least 2 mil, this is back in the mid to late 80's) And we all lived in a small hick town. The first thing she did, was bought a porsche and a BMW, (because the kids didn't want to have to go to school in the same car two days in a row) then she bought her house outright, and installed cable TV in each room, (including the kids bedrooms) 33" TV's for every room, and a big screen for the living room of course.
Then she decided to move to Manhatten. So she bought a condo, in manhatten. About a year later she returned back to our small town life where people knew her. Now 15 years later, she is renting a mobile home, she has no car, and she barely can scrape the $300 for rental space each month. She probably went bankrupt within 5 years. (she's been in that mobile home for quite a while now.)