Rich and sad, or poor and happy?

[dumb_ricer]

If you had to choose between one of the two, which would you choose?


For comparisons sake lets say this in each situation:

A. (Rich and Sad) You are 30 years old, had married a woman you were very very deeply in love with, and she decided to cheat on you, tell you that she never loved you, and blew her brains out right in front of you. You also just lost your mother and father in a car accident, and you have no grandparents, brothers or sisters, and you are unattractive. When your wife died, you inherited a sum of money so large that you could never fully use all of it.

B. (Poor and Happy) Your income is limited to 7500 dollars a year, but you have to work full time and overtime to achieve that amount of money, but you get to choose what you want to do for a living and have generally good luck with things.


One side of me would rather be sad and rich as hell, (greedy side) but the other side says poor and happy would be overall better.

[x-pride]

Um, you have to much time on your hand.

[Kracka]

Damn dude thats tough. I guess assuming I could do ANYTHING I wanted for work, I'd go poor and happy. The grass will always be greener on the other side though; when you're one, you'll wish to be the other.

[awd-drifter]

option B, option A is all suffering...thats a good one though

[JET]

Definately poor with good luck. Start playing the lottery and you are set :D Even if you were poor you could go back to school and improve your lifestyle. Now if you were stuck at that level for life, it would be more difficult.

The wife thing isn't super bad. I would be so pissed at her that it wouldn't be super horrible. The parent thing would suck pretty bad, as would not having really any other relatives.

The other side of the coin, it is not possible to be happy with $7,500/yr. You cannot possibly live on that, so you won't be happy. With $12k/yr you could possibly scrape by without a car and still be in a crappy apartment.

[1slowdsm]

Oooh. That's a tough one. But I like Jet's idea about improving your lifestyle in option B. Option A would just SUCK.

[Pushit2.0]

Poverty is around 12,000 a year? I would stay happy and push myself to make more than 7500 in one year.

~John

[AJ]

I made WAY less than $7500 not to long ago doing what I choose to do... Wasn't all that great, money doesn't make you happy, unless you don't have it. Nearly destroyed the greatest thing I ever had.... it was no different than picking option A.

Fuck'em both.

[Kracka]

Poverty is around 12,000 a year? I would stay happy and push myself to make more than 7500 in one year.

~John

As a point of interest, an elementary school teacher's salary is below the poverty line if he/she is a single parent raising the kid(s).

[JET]

As a point of interest, an elementary school teacher's salary is below the poverty line if he/she is a single parent raising the kid(s).
Add in the child support though. I do agree that teachers are under paid, but there isn't a shortage of them, so the wages won't go up.