...make $500,000 dollars in a year?
(This, as I see it, is the biggest problem that pervades our society. Half a million is successful no matter how you look at it. How can someone view that situation as a "failure," or "decrease" in success, if both are "successful"?)
Success is success...in any amount...agree or disagree?
2007-09-22 12:21:57 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The problem lies with judging ones worth by their paycheck in the first place.
2007-09-22 12:39:34 · answer #1 · answered by gldnsilnc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The issue is that you have set an 'objective' value to success. If inflation were to take hold, that same 500,000 could be worthless and making this amount of money would be a failure. (If we chose to judge ourselves and others in this way.)
Success is subjective. While you set for us what you consider to be successful, other can and will disagree. For someone in the caste system in India, earning 10,000 is success. However, for someone born into a wealthy family, 500,000 would be a huge failure.
I would be curious to know how you set this dollar value to mean success. 100 years ago, success could have meant a fraction of this amount.
2007-09-22 19:41:22 · answer #2 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not speaking for myself, but look at the Enron guys. Richer than Midas, yet felt the need to cheat all those people, so they could have more. Different people have different views of the definition of "success". I would be happy to make 50 grand a year....I would consider myself successful. Or making a modest living, but doing something I absolutely love. Another success. Greed is what drives some people, some to the point of breaking the law.
2007-09-23 01:45:28 · answer #3 · answered by cyndi a 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agree completely. If I made a million a year for 3 or 4 years, I'd have most of it socked away in a fully tax-sheltered retirement account at around 4%. That'd be 120 to 160K per year (and the magic words are -tax- -free- âº) and I could live quite nicely on that if I never earned another dime âº
Doug
2007-09-22 20:18:02 · answer #4 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Big success is bigger, no doubt, but a half a million is far from poor, and as such should be considered successful-- unless you had to close a factory or store and unemploy a hundred or fifty or twenty people... that would pinch, wouldn't it?
2007-09-22 19:34:40 · answer #5 · answered by LK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Success has never been equated to income levels in my thinking. Rather, success is getting up each day, looking in the mirror and liking the person I see........
2007-09-22 21:25:01 · answer #6 · answered by Patricia D 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully I would have invested the few million wisely so that when I got bumped back to 500,000 it wouldn't make much of a difference in my life....
2007-09-22 20:35:25 · answer #7 · answered by mamapoulette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely, I went from $40,000 down to $12,000 (due to my own fault) and I felt like a failure. No amount was ever enough. I even took to cleaning rooms after work so that I could feel like i was attaining something. never mind that my fiance makes hundreds in a day. He had to remind me, "What are we hurting for?" "Aren't the bills paid?" "Are you hungry?" in order for me to get a grip and chill out. I still have to remind myself those 3 questions when I feel like I am a "loser" cuz I lost my career.
2007-09-22 19:30:27 · answer #8 · answered by shallytally 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't at that amount!
2007-09-22 19:46:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't get no satisfaction...
2007-09-22 20:35:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋