Why Don’t More People Want To Become Billionaires?

R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness · Dec 6, 2023 · 9m

Becoming a billionaire is absolutely possible as a normal person. There is just two things: Invest a significant portion of your income, and do this for 90 years or more. When I show people this, the response is “why don’t more people want to become billionaires?” Yes this is a very long-term perspective and investing diligently for a long time is hard. It is interesting to me that most people see that is outside of their possibility, and speaks to our own humanity. Why is it that normal people feel negative emotions to billionaires? To me, this is an interesting artifact of what it means to…