Geordie
Geordie
My few cents on this issue:
If I had a billion dollars, since I know I can only get an outcome where I am just a middle class person no matter what I will do, I will just give the hundreds of millions of dollars to any government that would accept me, in return to a place in a graduate school and citizenship too after 5 or so years. I hope I can move to either London or New York City (possibly two of the few cities on the world on par with Singapore right now in numbers of high net wealth individuals), but I don't mind smaller towns, too. Massive amounts of money would change my life, but I am determined to use it for humanity's good, not for self-enrichment. There are too many people out there who just want to stuff their pockets with money, and I don't want to be like them.
I will just pursue a PhD in some random University out there, so that I can spend 100% of the time on what I love: researching ways on how to build a more inclusive society for all. Of course you don't need, like, a billion dollars, to do this. However, since I do not have a scholarship and my grades are quite ******, I need to pull my socks up - I mean, work really really hard in whatever degrees I may do next.
Other than that, I resign my fate - with a job, I will be in middle class. Without a stable job in long-term employment, however, my fate would be like most people on our planet, we will all be 'the 99%' or whatever they call it. Plus, it is quite absurd to pay hundreds on a pair of shoes that without the logo, would just have a price of $30 (King_Oni, I remember, mentioned about this trend somewhere), and it is also ridiculous, in my opinion, to pay a crappy house for $300,000 when we could not really afford the house, like say we could only afford $70,000. (info from Flinty)
What works? Technology, investment in the future, infrastructure (e.g. high speed rail and high-speed fiber optic network) work - bureaucracy and regulations do not. In addition, we need to spend more on social support to families and people who need a hand out and up in life.
If I had a billion dollars, since I know I can only get an outcome where I am just a middle class person no matter what I will do, I will just give the hundreds of millions of dollars to any government that would accept me, in return to a place in a graduate school and citizenship too after 5 or so years. I hope I can move to either London or New York City (possibly two of the few cities on the world on par with Singapore right now in numbers of high net wealth individuals), but I don't mind smaller towns, too. Massive amounts of money would change my life, but I am determined to use it for humanity's good, not for self-enrichment. There are too many people out there who just want to stuff their pockets with money, and I don't want to be like them.
I will just pursue a PhD in some random University out there, so that I can spend 100% of the time on what I love: researching ways on how to build a more inclusive society for all. Of course you don't need, like, a billion dollars, to do this. However, since I do not have a scholarship and my grades are quite ******, I need to pull my socks up - I mean, work really really hard in whatever degrees I may do next.
Other than that, I resign my fate - with a job, I will be in middle class. Without a stable job in long-term employment, however, my fate would be like most people on our planet, we will all be 'the 99%' or whatever they call it. Plus, it is quite absurd to pay hundreds on a pair of shoes that without the logo, would just have a price of $30 (King_Oni, I remember, mentioned about this trend somewhere), and it is also ridiculous, in my opinion, to pay a crappy house for $300,000 when we could not really afford the house, like say we could only afford $70,000. (info from Flinty)
What works? Technology, investment in the future, infrastructure (e.g. high speed rail and high-speed fiber optic network) work - bureaucracy and regulations do not. In addition, we need to spend more on social support to families and people who need a hand out and up in life.
