2007-01-19 23:36:36 · 16 answers · asked by chandramouleshwara g 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Excuse me, can you repeat the question please (with some punctuations)?
2007-01-19 23:54:29 · answer #1 · answered by TJ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People lose sight of what they really have. At first, a million dollars seems like a lot. Then, they start making more money and because of that, their lifestyle starts becoming more expensive. So, they desire to have more money than they are spending. After awhile, a million dollars starts looking like pocket change and doesn't satisfy anymore.
Also, these kinds of people get caught up in 'keeping up with Joneses'. They feel compelled to outdo that other rich person or move up on the social ladder.
Or sometimes, it just becomes a paranoid obsession. They think that if they stop making more money that somehow they will lose what they have and become poor. It's easy to step up to a better lifestyle but really hard to step down to a poorer lifestyle. Some people are terrified of this thought and so they start slaving away to build the biggest pile of wealth they can.
And some people? Well, they're just plain greedy or power hungry.
2007-01-20 07:45:55 · answer #2 · answered by Rico Suave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People accumilate wealth for a very strange reason. Just to show the world that they have got wealth. This is an inferiority complex. And now the time to show the world that they have money and plenty of money. These same people are unable to spend on themselves or their families. They will all die some day, leave all this money for lawyers and some relatives to fight over. People who accumulate wealth and money are the cruellest people on this earth and need to die before they make any money or die at 150 years or later without causing their blood relatives any problems.
2007-01-20 07:53:36 · answer #3 · answered by Kool-kat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they've come from a poor background, it will be fear that motivates them to keep accumulating wealth; that is, the fear of ever being poor again.
In other situations, and I guess in all for that matter, people tend to collect and hoard; they tend to want the next level of greatness: power over other men-- and what better way to accomplish this than to accumulate more wealth?
2007-01-20 07:54:54 · answer #4 · answered by miss_ursie_la 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because no one seems to have any sense.....if they did we would have a peaceful world...we would work for each others benefit and everyone wuld have what they need....
aside from that it is exactly what the gov wants you to do...they want you to me enslaved in their little game to keep their ecomony going.....If the people figured this out and took control of their own lives the government wouldn't know what to do......what do you really need in life....a home....food...water....clothes...our relationships with one another.....really and truly not much more all this other stuff takes away our freedom....we are like that movie The Gods Must Be Crazy where the empty coke bottle is dropped into a primitive village from a plane and only misery ensues from this one object....
There are people who understand that all this stiff and what is being done to us is only a form of enslavement but we seem to be just a small minority
2007-01-20 09:14:05 · answer #5 · answered by kardea 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a natural instinct, we got to save our nuts in case of famine.
Some people have abnormal fear of ending up with nothing so they are ruthless at their acquisitions. This is a side effect from infant traumas that resurface after puberty. This kind of greed is a product of the environment, Mostly in countries that allow neonatal circumcision, like USA, Israel, and oil rich middle eastern countries.
2007-01-20 08:09:55 · answer #6 · answered by fred r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does Bill Gates say enough?. Man is greedy and wants to rule the world. Basically, all the top guys are one and the same. They want just slaves.
2007-01-20 07:53:15 · answer #7 · answered by liketoaskq 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I swear. Yahoo needs another 'flag' button with a big G/S on it for GRAMMAR and SPELLING.
Your sentence would not make it past a third grade English teacher.
Sorry, but it's the truth.
2007-01-20 07:42:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no doubt the people who accumalate vast amounts of wealth are good at what they do , but on whose back does this work fall?
2007-01-20 08:19:12 · answer #9 · answered by jo jo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Money is the world's Greatest addiction
and as the substance at the center of ANY addiction
--to the addict-- more is NEVER enough !!!
2007-01-20 07:49:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greed !!!! What else ?? It keeps them spurring on to accumulate more and more & more ...... so much so , that they have no time to ''enjoy'' the fruits of their labor.
2007-01-20 07:51:08 · answer #11 · answered by PnkFlr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋