Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Money and Crime

I just stumbled upon this article:
Man Who Faked Retardation Is Going To Prison.

He got caught when he contested a parking ticket in court. He's been doing it since he was 8 to get disability, and so has his sister. The weird thing is, he doesn't know how to read and write.

I know it's tacky to jump on the Paris-going-to-prison bandwagon, and Jake may not be impressed, but she's apparently got all these plans to sell her prison diary. What I'm wondering is, why do people like that even bother to make money?

Did anyone listen to Talk of the Nation today? Robert Frank, the author of 'Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich' mentioned that the very wealthy always claim that in order to feel secure about their future, they would prefer to have twice as much money as they actually do (regardless of how much that happens to be). If you're never content with what you have, why bother working so hard to get rich?
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Ben said...

I don't know why i didn't see this post the first time around. Alice says:

> the very wealthy always claim that in order to feel secure about their future, they would prefer to have twice as much money as they actually do (regardless of how much that happens to be).

Funny thing is, that's not just true of the rich -- actually, that's what everyone says, no matter how much money they have, from the bum on the corner on up.

And if you stop to think about it, it's true of all of us, too. Imagine we got a 100% raise tomorrow -- we'd be on easy street!

August 20, 2007 at 1:40 PM

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