OK I am in my mid 30's now with a family. We do OK, own a house, good jobs, good cars etc.
I have tried to live my life with consideration for others. It makes me feel good to do good or something random for someone.
I don't like taking favours from people and I try to be self sufficient in all that I do.
My point is and that grates on me is that overtime I see so many people that are rude arrogant turkeys continually come up and do extremely well.
They are always nice to those that they need to or that can help them to get ahead be but plain out rude wan%^$# to people they don't see can help them.
Another example is the guy in the new Merc that pulls out into traffic without acknowledging people or using blinkers. Even tooting your horn does not elicit a response. The guy simply does not care about you or what you think. Is this a reflection of his entire approach to life? Do what you need to do and screw others??
The question is: To become wealthy and progress in life do I need to forget ethics, manners and consideration for others and become self consumed and only ever focussed on my self??
if you own your own house outright then i'd say you are doing better than ok.
you are worth a packet.
if i owned a house i'd sell asap,rent and then wait till property prices collapse as they surely will.
wealth and progression in life don't necessarily follow each other,just ask japie.
becoming over focussed on materialism at the cost of knowledge is what they want.
good health is the most valuable asset anyone will ever own.
patrick.net/housing/market.html
What about all the wankers in POS commodores that change lanes-brake-change lanes-tailgate-brake-flash lights-change lanes?
You hardly have to be rich to be arrogant.
I exercise my sovereign right. The great unwashed shall yield when I am driving my Merc.
Not spending money is the key to wealth.
I know a few rich people who are tighter than a nun's nasty. Not hard to be richer than everyone else when you won't buy a round, will reuse 1 teabag for a week or do the x-mas shopping at the $2 shop.
Makes me laugh to see that people with much less money who don't spend all day bean counting twice as happy.
Not paying tax is the key to wealth in this country.
Family trusts, negative gearing, undeclared income, leasing through shelf companies etc is the way to go.
So I suppose you've got to be pretty arrogant to rort the system and then want to have a say in how it is run.
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{and let them get the same buzz}
The one thing I did find when working in rich areas was.
People that were wanner-bee "richie riches" were arrogant and just plain ugly
and People that were born into money were snootie but not arrogant or nasty or ugly in dealing with the general public.
I do believe in England there is far more class distinction there and more arrogant wanner-bees that try to crawl up out of their class to the next level.
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The "eye of the needle" refers to an ancient entrance into old Jerusalem that required camels to be unloaded in order to enter. Difficult but possible...
And here I was thinking that "camel" was a mistranslation referring to rope made from camel hair.
www.angelfire.com/wy/Franklin4YAHWEH/camelthroughneedle.html
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ignore them , If you do good and it makes you feel good, keep it up , a good work ethic and and an attractive accountant (wife) will allways put you in front
Petermac.
"if i owned a house i'd sell asap,rent and then wait till property prices collapse as they surely will."
I thought this same thing about seven or eight years ago .. and did sell it ,the same house is now a couple of hundred k dearer.
If our population increases as some polys want it to , house prices may keep going wfk?
