how rich would you need to be?

[Alpo]

There's an online story.

 

The hero has somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 million dollars. He has bought this three-story building downtown and had it retrofitted into a house. The parking lot has been repaved with cobblestones - it's no longer a parking lot, it's a courtyard. Apparently when you spend $20,000 on the parking lot it can no longer be a parking lot - and there is radiant heating underneath the cobbles so that he won't have to shovel snow. It will melt when it lands.

 

The one night in December he is checking the security cameras and see somebody sleeping against the fence. He figures it's a homeless guy trying to suck a little heat up from the courtyard. It's 20° with a 12° wind chill. So he goes out to bring the homeless guy into the garage, which is heated and dry. And he got a couple of blankets. And he thinks - worse that can happen is the old street veteran steals a few tools before he leaves in the morning.

 

Does not seem to be worried that homeless guy will steal some stuff.

 

Then we have this video clip.

 

 

They're rich. And she asked her husband, "You think he'll steal anything?" And the husband nonchalantly replies, "we'll know in the morning".

 

Again - ain't that big a deal.

 

Now me - everything I got I work for and I busted my butt for, and I wouldn't be that calm at the idea of somebody stealing my crap.

 

But maybe if I had 50 million dollars.

 

So how rich you think you would have to be before the thought of somebody stealing your stuff wouldn't bother you too much.

[Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428]

Never be rich enough to be OK with somebody stealing stuff.  I would definitely be the first guy in line to be giving stuff away, but never steal from me.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Depends….

 

man do folks misunderstand cobblestones.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

45 minutes ago, Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 said:

Never be rich enough to be OK with somebody stealing stuff.  I would definitely be the first guy in line to be giving stuff away, but never steal from me.

I have given away a lot of things, but someone stole 13 guns from me while we were moving.  That was 40 years ago and I'll shoot that SOB in front of witnesses if I ever find him...after I make sure he's the one.

[Texas Joker]

If you have a problem that can be solved by writing a check you don't have a problem you have an expense.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Here’s a comparison. Consider Larry Ellison, more money than God and half as much as Elon.  Suffice it to say, he’s not worried where his next meal is coming from even if he‘s not rushing to pick up the check.

 

‘Bout 50 years ago there were “database wars”. Whose db was faster?  We Started out at ‘1 transaction per second’ and after a few years thousands/sec. Tests got better defined and harder as all the products got better. At one time Oracle sold its database with this proviso that the customer must never publish performance comparisons. One midwestern college professor failed to read the fine print and published such data. Larry went after him as if his dessert had been stolen, had his legal team literally destroy that professor.

 

[PowderRiverCowboy]

50 million I would not be living in a city anywhere close to people . 

[Blackwater 53393]

Couldn’t have enough money!

[Alpo]

2 hours ago, PowderRiverCowboy said:

50 million I would not be living in a city anywhere close to people . 

He's going to college. Once he graduates he's going back to the town he grew up in, where he is bought a hundred acre spread and is going to have another house built.

 

If you are interested,https://storiesonline.net/a/Refusenik

 

This is a two book thing. Human Phoenix runs from the age of five to the age of 17 when he enlists in the Marines. Human Male picks up 4 years later when he gets discharged and goes to college.

 

I've read both of these several times. I think they're good. The other book he has here - it's sort of strange.

[Sedalia Dave]

6 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Here’s a comparison. Consider Larry Ellison, more money than God and half as much as Elon.  Suffice it to say, he’s not worried where his next meal is coming from even if he‘s not rushing to pick up the check.

 

‘Bout 50 years ago there were “database wars”. Whose db was faster?  We Started out at ‘1 transaction per second’ and after a few years thousands/sec. Tests got better defined and harder as all the products got better. At one time Oracle sold its database with this proviso that the customer must never publish performance comparisons. One midwestern college professor failed to read the fine print and published such data. Larry went after him as if his dessert had been stolen, had his legal team literally destroy that professor.

 

 

Did it to make an example of what would happen if anyone else violates the EULA.  Some things if not defended vigorously when small will end up costing 100 times as much to defend in the long run.

[WD Farren]

Being well off is having a low Expense:Revenue ratio.

This is one of the principle reasons we don't move out of CA.