What is the goal of trying to become a millionaire or billionaire in today’s society? Because there’s obviously a certain imputes for this considering there’s this exponential wealth gap where there’s this little tiny minority of people who are holding nearly half the wealth in the United States. For most people the ideal is something along the lines of “never working another day in their life” or “living close to the beach” and even living in a house big enough to accommodate dozens of people and having that all for yourself. It’s a very individualistic ideal that is trying to be achieved. Though this idea is very strongly ingrained in our culture of trying to climb the economic ladder, the end goal does not seem to be any sort of fulfillment outside of a very materialistic very limited point of view. Unfortunately no matter how big your house is…you can only be in one room at a time, and no matter how fast or how nice your car is you still have to obey the laws of traffic and be mindful of other people driving. There seems to be a diminishing return here on the amount of satisfaction one can derive from simply the acquisition of money and resources. When people think of the happier moments of life, it doesn’t have much of anything to do with the size of their house, or the speed of their car. Yes that can add to an experience but unless you bring in other people or have something to use these items for you aren’t going to derive any satisfaction outside of this novelty burst of purchasing something new, this sort of addictive necessity of wanting to use your money just to use it. While everyone seems to talk about not having enough money, no one seems to talk about being satisfied with where they are at. I believe the ideal…the actual ideal is thinking “how much money do I need in order to do whatever it is I am passionate about?”. But this obviously will vary per person, this mentality of being out for yourself is a false idea, you cant be out for yourself… your happiness is absolutely dependent on all the other people in society. Now something to examine would be that is this an authentic desire? to obtain all these items that our culture tells us will make us happy? or is this desire made up, a construct, if you will, that is created by our society.
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