still want more money....? Isn't that really enough to be set up for life?
2006-10-12 12:04:10 · 20 answers · asked by triptipper 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
I did not say that everyone would be happy with a life like mine... I just find it inconceivable that someone with 100 million would not feel an ounce of shame about such an extravagant lifestyle.. and this question has arisen as I came across a programme called Cribs and was astounded by the ostentatious lifestyles of some of these celebrities.
I know myself and I could never accumulate such wealth and feel just fine about it whilst there is such poverty in the world...
2006-10-12 12:29:10 · update #1
What difference does it make to you?
2006-10-12 12:11:18 · answer #1 · answered by spongeworthy_us 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For the same reason someone with £100 wants more, and someone with £1000 wants more and so on. Whatever you earn, you spend, in most cases. So if you earn a million pounds in a year, you'll probably spend a million pounds and therefore need more. These celebrities have a different lifestyle, but find themselves in the same position as you and me at the end of the day. If they want to buy more stuff, they need more money. It'ls just "stuff" to you and me is a video game, some jeans or a take-away, and to them it's a yacht.......
2006-10-12 19:07:45 · answer #2 · answered by Andy B 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do think the sums of money that celebrities are reported to have is somewhat excessive. I agree that if they have earned their money they are entitled to keep it, but when it gets to hundreds of millions or billions then it should only be humanly right to give it to a deserving cause, and I also know alot of celebs do give alot away, but when i read of someone dying because there isn't enough money in the pot to pay for their treatment, it makes me sick. I suppose there is no solution but I can say with certainty that after looking out for my friends and family I would give the rest away to charity or build a hospital, something for the good of all. That would make me happy.
2006-10-16 06:18:38 · answer #3 · answered by jacquikuk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your assuming that everyone would be happy with a life like yours in which they all make 100K per year, and therefore thats all they need.
I think that you will find that most people that earn millions per year spend millions per year. Even they have to have a budget.
They allocate money to charity and local causes.
They fly on private jets instead of commercial flights.
They trade in their 2 year old car for a new car.
All of this to say that everyone spends within their means.
If you made 200K per year, I doubt that you would spend as if you only earned 100K per year.
Some people just have bigger means than others.
That is the way things are and that is not going to change for a very long time.
2006-10-12 19:16:48 · answer #4 · answered by creskin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you're asking in Pounds, rather than Dollars, so i assume you're in the UK, where taxation rates for millionaires can go as high as 95% - "should 5% appear too small . . .", I can see why they'd want to accumulate more. As for Tax Exiles and others, I really can't answer, as I'm in the lower end of the 85% of the American public, who control only 20% of the total money . . . 70% of American wealth is in the hands of the richest 2% of the population.
2006-10-12 19:12:51 · answer #5 · answered by World Famous Neffer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These so-called celeb's are so out of touch with the real world. They live in their materialistic superficial enclaves, they believe to be reality. Reality is in fact light years away from their spoilt insular world.
To demand more wealth for staring in the latest Hollywood blockbuster is just obscene, when you consider the millions of dollars involved nowadays. However, can you blame them? If WE the public didn't idolise them, if we didn't watch their films, buy their books, glossy magazines etc...then they wouldn't be on the pedestal we put them on in the first place.
They're set-up for several lives never-mind this life. We would all do the same in their position, such is human nature.
2006-10-12 19:07:56 · answer #6 · answered by Bont11 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It also raises the question of why these people are lionised for been entertainers . Whats so great about being an entertainer -what do you really create that pays so much in a world where people are living in absolute poverty?
2006-10-12 19:46:59 · answer #7 · answered by biker_mouse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all about the ego. They can't give up the fame and the trappings that come with it. If they stopped making movies, records etc they would soon fall from the public eye. The fame and the adulation is their main motivation.
2006-10-12 19:14:21 · answer #8 · answered by little_jo_uk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at objectively it is like a form of mental illness, but we all need a purpose in life and many people derive that from what they do, hence the desire to keep working.
2006-10-12 19:14:23 · answer #9 · answered by strawman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
greed mainly and for there egos but isnt it funny how these same celebrities will go on charitiy shows children in need ect.. and then ask us the general public to give our money they oculd give a few million and they wouldnt even notice thats what really makes me sick
2006-10-12 19:13:16 · answer #10 · answered by bryony_ash83 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would be happy with 1 million even.
I don't know. They are greedy. They should give some money to me. That is what they should do.
2006-10-12 19:17:11 · answer #11 · answered by Sarah* 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋