The American dream is the dream of the asleep.
The dream is be rich and then be happy for the rest of your life.
That dream is a lie.
Learn to be joyful with what you have first. If you can't do that all the money in the world will not make you happy
Yes, I get it.
We are taught that our version of success is more money. So keep working striving for more no matter how much you have. Because if you keep working you keep paying taxes.
Um, no. YOU are missing the point. A net worth of ten million dollars isn’t this Scrooge mcduck amount of wealth that you seem to think it is. That’s a god retirement account, life insurance policy, and prudent purchases after SIX DECADES of hard ass work well past retirement age.
There’s nothing hypocritical about it: he work his ass off for what he earned. The man was still doing stand up in his 70s.
buddy, I'm not sure what your point is, other than to believe a net worth of 10 million dollars by the time he was 80 makes him "rich" and deserves a negative connotation.
The real question you should have been asking is what his net worth was when he made those statements. Even then, so what? He's pointing out the game is rigged. Calling him a hypocrite because you think a net worth of 10 milllion puts him in the same class as a multi-billionaire deep-state asset doesn't advance the cause a single bit. It just makes you sound jaded.
"OmG hE WaSnT ThAt RiCh is not the fucking point. Nobody is claiming he's one of ((THEM)), but that doesn't mean he wasn't "living rich" or didn't achieve the American dream."
He was a comedian. It wasn't meant to be taken literally. He was pointing out the hypocrisy in the system, and the club and just how screwed up things were, back then even.
The American dream is the dream of the asleep. The dream is be rich and then be happy for the rest of your life. That dream is a lie. Learn to be joyful with what you have first. If you can't do that all the money in the world will not make you happy
Yes, I get it. We are taught that our version of success is more money. So keep working striving for more no matter how much you have. Because if you keep working you keep paying taxes.
Um, no. YOU are missing the point. A net worth of ten million dollars isn’t this Scrooge mcduck amount of wealth that you seem to think it is. That’s a god retirement account, life insurance policy, and prudent purchases after SIX DECADES of hard ass work well past retirement age.
There’s nothing hypocritical about it: he work his ass off for what he earned. The man was still doing stand up in his 70s.
buddy, I'm not sure what your point is, other than to believe a net worth of 10 million dollars by the time he was 80 makes him "rich" and deserves a negative connotation.
The real question you should have been asking is what his net worth was when he made those statements. Even then, so what? He's pointing out the game is rigged. Calling him a hypocrite because you think a net worth of 10 milllion puts him in the same class as a multi-billionaire deep-state asset doesn't advance the cause a single bit. It just makes you sound jaded.
"OmG hE WaSnT ThAt RiCh is not the fucking point. Nobody is claiming he's one of ((THEM)), but that doesn't mean he wasn't "living rich" or didn't achieve the American dream."
Even bigger WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH
You’re not wrong but there are two issues here being conflated. Imagine that!
He was a comedian. It wasn't meant to be taken literally. He was pointing out the hypocrisy in the system, and the club and just how screwed up things were, back then even.
Context matters...
So he had a house in Brentwood. So what? He earned money from being a comedian. I don't get your point of showing his old house.