How the well-heeled lose their capacity to help us stay ahead - M.Gladwell

[Confuseous]

When Canadian writer Malcolm Gladwell (author of Outliers etc) recently spoke to a roomful of Wall Street hedgefund managers, each of whom earned US$50 million a year, he decided to mess with their minds.

Mr Gladwell was then researching just how much money was enough for these financiers and their families to feel fulfilled. He recalls: "I didn't know what the right figure was for 'enough' but I told them I did, and said they should be happy with US75,000 a month.

"Now, each of these guys makes US$75,000 in the time he takes to walk from the water cooler to his office. So imagine their faces when I told them US$75K was enough."

He then muses: "When people get too well-heeled, they lose the capacity for certain action on certain ideas to stay ahead."

Rings a bell?

 

[johnny333]

I wonder how much LKY gets each time he goes to the toilet

 

[Cruxx]

Fucking socialist. You have a computer. You have a TV. You have a mobile phone. And yet, children in Somalia don't even have food. When is it enough for you? Fucking socialist. :oIo:

 

[hairylee]

Fucking socialist. You have a computer. You have a TV. You have a mobile phone. And yet, children in Somalia don't even have food. When is it enough for you? Fucking socialist. :oIo:

Somalia situations were force upon them by the warlords. If you want to compare then maybe Bhutan would be a wiser comparison.
Please mind your language. People are just stating their opinions and have not antagonise you in any particular way.

 

[kingrant]

If a computer, a TV and a mobile phone is enough for you, why do you need $50 million a yr? Somalia is starving because of fuckers like you.

Fucking socialist. You have a computer. You have a TV. You have a mobile phone. And yet, children in Somalia don't even have food. When is it enough for you? Fucking socialist. :oIo:

 

[Cruxx]

Somalia situations were force upon them by the warlords. If you want to compare then maybe Bhutan would be a wiser comparison.

Irrelevant. The point I was making is that one man's excess is another man's essential. I may be anti-PAP but I do not begrudge them their wealth and greed at all. Greed is good.

Please mind your language. People are just stating their opinions and have not antagonise you in any particular way.

I'll check on my language the day you stop ridiculing the christian name given to LKY by his grandfather. I make no apologies for my contempt towards socialists or anyone of a leftist bent, just as you have every right to make fun of LKY.

 

[Cruxx]

If a computer, a TV and a mobile phone is enough for you, why do you need $50 million a yr? Somalia is starving because of fuckers like you.

When did I say it's enough? Tell me, how much have you donated to the poor in Somalia thus far? More than 1 cent, I hope.

 

[hairylee]

[QUOTE=Cruxx;814237]Irrelevant. The point I was making is that one man's excess is another man's essential. I may be anti-PAP but I do not begrudge them their wealth and greed at all. Greed is good.

Nobody begrudge nobody for their wealth at all. Nobody begrudge Steve Jobs for his wealth cause he earned it through his own talent and not by taxing people from position of power.

I'll check on my language the day you stop ridiculing the christian name given to LKY by his grandfather. I make no apologies for my contempt towards socialists or anyone of a leftist bent, just as you have every right to make fun of LKY.[/QUOTE]

What have I done to ridicule someone's christain name. Even if I did in what way have I offended you or your grandfather.
I am calling myself hairy because I have a very hairy chest.
Not many chinese men have hairy chest. Many cha boh stare at my chest whenever I go bare chested. I got many free fucks because of it.[/