Orders of magnitude
A thought occurred to me today regarding money, one dealing with orders of magnitude.
How much more money would it take to alter the perception of what “a lot” means?
For example, for me $1 is trivial. The next order of magnitude up is $10. Being honest, that’s not what I would consider “a lot”.
$100? Now that’s starting to be in the territory of “a lot” for me. That said, if I suddenly made enough money for $100 to be my “new” $10 threshold, I don’t think that my life would be all that much different. $1000 would still be “a lot”, and the type of goods that I tend to associate with excessive, hyper-affluence tend to be in the $1000 & above range. That’s not to say that I couldn’t find lots of cool stuff in the $100 to $999 range, but I think you get my overall point.
No, I don’t think that a significant mindset change would occur until I made enough money to treat $1000 like I currently do $10. That would mean that getting a high-end plasma/LCD HDTV would feel like dropping $30 or so does right now. And THAT is a change in worldview.
If $10,000 felt like $10… well, I can’t even imagine what that would do to my perceptions of value and propriety.
Extreme wealth, and the desire for it, truly is a dangerous temptation.
-ghp
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