what motivates mega-wealth

Marketcake

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I just watched Smartest Man in the Room, the Enron documentary as per many suggestions from the one WF thread. Awesome movie.. its just like boiler room.. It all reminds me of affiliate marketing in ways lol

Lots of people on here are rich, fewer on here are wealthy but I highly doubt anyone is mega wealthy. So this question may be moot asking it here, but perhaps someone has read a book or maybe knows of someone who has mega wealth..

What drives these people? In the documentary over and over they say greed and money was the only thing driving them, but seriously? I can't imagine these people being motivated by just money alone when they already have so much. I dont mean just a million, where you want a car that costs 2 million. im talking fucking so much money you cant spend it fast enough. My only other guess is power, although I didn't hear that mentioned at all.

It's cliche to say, but what the fuck can they possibly spend that on? they took a trip to baja mexico to ride dirt bikes and maybe australia.. wow what did that cost, like 50,000, INCLUDING buying all the dirtbikes? You can buy thousand dollar bottles of wine, but still ... having somewhere in the amount of 100 million just seems so otherworldly to me that I cant imagine how money would ever be such a driving force in those peoples lives, and continuing on once they already have it.

What do you think. Good documentary overall.. really liked it.
 


Great documentary. As for the motivations, it varies with each person. But money does have an addicting power... like drugs. The more you earn the more you want. At least in my case.
 
Great documentary. As for the motivations, it varies with each person. But money does have an addicting power... like drugs. The more you earn the more you want. At least in my case.

its been true in my case, but ive never made a million, i assume it only gets stronger at that level because you have a taste of true wealth, but youre not quite there.. but when you have 100+ million? that seems like the taste of it would be dull by then. i guess not ;o
 
Insecurity/Fear of losing it? I didn't watch the documentary yet but I'm guessing if someone is self-made, just a thought back to the day in the trenches should be motivation enough.

^I am experiencing the above effect but I'm no where close in terms of being classified as wealthy.
 
It's a game money is only an illusion and once you have lots of it it just becomes a scoreboard but since you understand the game and are good at it you enjoy it and keep playing.
 
For one, they don't ask questions such as these. To paraphrase Hillary, they go after it b/c it's there.

One thing I've learned from wealthy people is to read everyday. I'd like to get my functional speed reading up to the point where I could read a book a day (IE under one hour) and retain information.
 
For one, they don't ask questions such as these. To paraphrase Hillary, they go after it b/c it's there.

One thing I've learned from wealthy people is to read everyday. I'd like to get my functional speed reading up to the point where I could read a book a day (IE under one hour) and retain information.

ive actually heard the same thing many times as well
 
I also saw "The Smartest Guys In The Room" about Enron, known as "The Crooked E," and it clearly was not about money with them anymore when they were taking so many high flying risks with billions of dollars. They have personality types that seek out and thrive on extreme, risky behavior. Ditto, many affiliate marketers fit this paradigm.

A Psychology Today article on the risk taker personality type:
 
I also saw "The Smartest Guys In The Room" about Enron, known as "The Crooked E," and it clearly was not about money with them anymore when they were taking so many high flying risks with billions of dollars. They have personality types that seek out and thrive on extreme, risky behavior. Ditto, many affiliate marketers fit this paradigm.

A Psychology Today article on the risk taker personality type:

Great documentary. As for the motivations, it varies with each person. But money does have an addicting power... like drugs. The more you earn the more you want. At least in my case.


Truth.

Studies have been done on this.

"The neural activity of someone whose investments are making money is indistinguishable from that of someone who is high on cocaine or morphine"

They no longer think of the money. They just want the rush of winning. Visit the casino if you want to see it in action.
 
Truth.

Studies have been done on this.

"The neural activity of someone whose investments are making money is indistinguishable from that of someone who is high on cocaine or morphine"

They no longer think of the money. They just want the rush of winning. Visit the casino if you want to see it in action.

This makes most sense of all...