What Would You Think About?

A friend of mine posted a link for a $3 trillion shopping spree the other day. Be warned, the point of the website is to promote an anti-War and anti-Bush sentiment, but if you are a Bush supporter maybe you can put that aside and give it a try anyway. It is interesting to see how far money goes when it's that much money. Incidentally, I bought the Cleveland Browns. Picked up the Hope Diamond too. Maybe it won't jinx us.

I discussed this link with another friend of mine, who was inspired to pose this question: What would you think about if you didn't have to think about money?

Most of us have to think about money a lot. We have bills to pay, and unexpected expenses come up all the time. In the back of our minds we have to be thinking about our own retirement (ha!) sometime in the future, and the cost of an education for our children. It's a simply a fact that you have to have money. Next to water and air, it's the primary thing you need to ensure survival.

But if you were one of those people who were born into or stumbled into wealth, or if your career had been unexpectedly profitable and you never had to give a thought about a place to live or food or clothing or the like, what would you think about? Not having to think about money means there are dozens of other things you don't have to think about either, so what do you put your mind on when it is free?

I detect a lot of anti-wealth sentiment in this country sometimes because I think there is some deeply-held conviction that "the rich get richer" simply because they fix the system for their own benefit. I'm sure that happens. But I submit to you that the rich may get richer because they don't have to think about those ordinary things, and their minds are free to envision and create and start new things, and their existing wealth allows them to finance those ventures successfully.

So...what would you think about? Or do? It's hard to get started, isn't it?