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Old 09-17-2019, 02:01 PM
 
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I'm sure there are people who experience a "well off" life at some point. But...there are usually trade offs.

I still believe that everyone alive has challenges.
Well everyone has challenges and that their parents are going to die and they’re going to eventually get sick and things like that. But there are people who have much easier lives and lesser challenges. I know many people who I think have had great lives and much easier lives than mine. And mine is pretty good compared to many.
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Old 09-17-2019, 04:32 PM
 
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Hm... yes, of course... isn't that obvious? the whole 1% layer of society. they have money they don't know what to do with and it seems that their only worry in the world is how to get even more money and screw the rest of the 98% up even more.
That's so stupid. Do you people have an easy life just because they have money? Do you think money solves everything? Steve Jobs probably didn't think so.
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Old 09-17-2019, 04:48 PM
 
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I knew a woman who inherited millions from her father and mother. She worked one year in her life, hired people to do everything for her. Yes she had it easy.
Lots of people have had lives like that. The hardest part of their day is deciding what to eat for dinner, not sure how the op is wondering if anyone has ever lived an easy life.

The rich make up bs sayings like "everyone has a hard life" blah blah blah. It's all bs to keep the masses from revolting.
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Old 09-17-2019, 05:47 PM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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It's a fair point. They say that money can't buy you happiness, and maybe that's true, but it sure is hard to be happy if you don't have enough of it to get by.
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Old 09-17-2019, 05:57 PM
 
Location: Avignon, France
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It's a fair point. They say that money can't buy you happiness, and maybe that's true, but it sure is hard to be happy if you don't have enough of it to get by.
Ha! ...People who say that money can’t buy happiness.... simply don’t know where to shop?

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Old 09-17-2019, 08:14 PM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Ha! ...People who say that money can’t buy happiness.... simply don’t know where to shop?
There are other sayings.


Money isn't everything. But no money isn't anything.


Money can't buy love. Sure it can. Wealthy men with trophy wives do it all the time.
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Old 09-17-2019, 08:28 PM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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I am unable to comment ...the question is too deep.
We have to consider many past lives.
A person can be highly evolved and come here, choosing, to be blind...
Being born a princess can mean so many different things...because the next life could be a pauper.

Paramahansa Yogananda said he learned more being a mother with many children in poverty, than he did
meditating in caves of the Himalayas....as a yogi.
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Old 09-17-2019, 08:34 PM
 
Location: Avignon, France
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I am unable to comment ...the question is too deep.
We have to consider many past lives.
A person can be highly evolved and come here, choosing, to be blind...
Being born a princess can mean so many different things...because the next life could be a pauper.

Paramahansa Yogananda said he learned more being a mother with many children in poverty, than he did
meditating in caves of the Himalayas....as a yogi.
I am going with the here and now...
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Old 09-17-2019, 08:53 PM
 
Location: Avignon, France
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There are other sayings.


Money isn't everything. But no money isn't anything.


Money can't buy love. Sure it can. Wealthy men with trophy wives do it all the time.
Perhaps, but none as cliche as “Money can’t buy happinesses”.
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Old 09-17-2019, 09:01 PM
 
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I always hear "no one has an easy life", "everyone has struggles even if the struggles are invisible". etc etc....but I wonder if that's the case?

Human life is in a way a balance of your birth lottery along with choices. Some people are born into fortunate circumstances and make good choices. Other bad choices. Some born into really bad circumstances and don't seem to make too many choices that benefit them in the long run.

I just think if we can point to someone who has it really bad in many ways (blind and deaf kid in a third world country in the middle of a famine), someone who suffers physically, emotionally, etc.. Couldn't there be someone the exact opposite (healthy person born to a well off family with enough street smarts to navigate life and won't ever risk homelessness, loss of loved ones too soon, financial debts, worrying about paying the bills). Someone who's life would look on the surface, really easy?
You worry about some kids in third world countries. but that situation is already coming to USA also sadly. The number of struggling people is creeping up slowly but surely.

Answering your question, every home in my area has a Tahoe/Escalade and a truck. And kids disappearing from school often for vacations. Guess that says something.
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