2006-09-23 12:33:13 · 15 answers · asked by Dave 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I've met wealthy people who were stingy and wealthy people who spent every penny they had and wealthy people who loved to donate to worthy causes.
It takes all kinds.
2006-09-23 12:38:37 · answer #1 · answered by Ginger/Virginia 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have worked all my life and still don't have a dime. Well that might be a little bad but for as long as I have worked, I ought to have more.
I don't think that people become stingy but I do think they become very arrogant and overindulging sometimes. It is alright for a person to have lots of money. Just don't ram it down the throats of those who don't. I am happy for a person when they don't have to worry what grocery to buy or how much gas they can afford to put in. I am happy for them.
I wish I would have done better with the money that I have earned over my lifetime. But then 20/20 is always hindsight.
2006-09-23 19:45:41 · answer #2 · answered by whenwhalesfly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not money you have earned. That doesn't make people stingy. It is money that was not earned and was given. That it what makes stingy people.
The answerer below has it. They had to earn it and respect it just like they said. People who don't earn it don't respect it because it was given to them.
2006-09-23 19:37:06 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I knew someone who delivered pizzas as a summer job in college and said there was a direct correlation between size of house and tip. Bigger house the pizza went to, the less the tip.
The most generous states have statistically over and over again been proven to be the poorest.
So I say yes. Not as a fast and hard rule, but yes.
2006-09-23 19:53:41 · answer #4 · answered by morelli26 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stingy implies that I am not willing to part with it. It also is a term used by liberals when you do not give enough of it away to their causes.
I have had my income grow a lot in the last few years. I am grateful for that. I always look for great value in what I buy. I buy stuff that will last. People who work hard for what they have respect it. They do not just throw it away on some impulsive buy.
2006-09-23 19:37:45 · answer #5 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Oh, yes, most definitely!
You see:
1 - It takes a certain genetic make-up to earn lots of money,
2 - That same genetic make-up subsumes the stinginess gene, and
3 - Ergo, to earn lots of money is to be stingy.
Logical and commonsensical, too, no?
2006-09-23 19:40:29 · answer #6 · answered by Walter Ridgeley 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I actually give more money away when I have lots of it but I spend less on myself the more I have. It is kind or weird. When I am broke I spend money like crazy, when I am sitting on a couple grand in the bank I don't spend much.
2006-09-23 19:47:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO!!!! You might be a little stingy at first, but as you start making more money than you can spend, then you start giving it to your churches, to charity and maybe investing your money to hospitals and Research Centers.
2006-09-23 19:38:56 · answer #8 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
On the contrary. The more money those rich republican and democrats earn, goes right into the pockets of the umployed in taxes. How generous of them.
2006-09-23 19:38:12 · answer #9 · answered by Got pretzels? 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It seems to me that the wealthier people are mostly interested in making more money. Their greatest fear is losing some of what they have.Yes,some give donations,but their motives are often related to tax write offs. Poorer people are more likely to sacrifice to give to others what they can to help others in need.
2006-09-23 20:00:11 · answer #10 · answered by blindogben 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋