This is what being rich means to me.

[steveclough@metalhead.club]

@lothcat Yes - broadly concur. To me, being rich would be about hearing someone is struggling, and saying "What can I do to help? Do you want to come and stay for a week? Can i order you something?"

It is always about helping other people, in their own crisis. Providing support for people who need it.

And - longer term - looking to see what I can do to make peoples lives better. Can I buy up properties to rent, at low rental? Can I invest in peoples companies?

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@lothcat A roving philanthropist helping in big and small ways.

[russsharek@mastodon.art]

@lothcat

I had a partner years ago who used to tell me that their goal was to have slightly more than enough, so they could afford to be generous.

Their wisdom stuck with me far after we parted ways.

[valentine@flickering.style]

@lothcat Yes. This.

Rich enough to buy art from my friends, and pay more than they're used to asking.

And rich enough to know I can walk out of most ordinary bad situations.

[moonshine_fox@meow.social]

@lothcat exactly this yes! I want to be wealthy enough to be comfortable and help out people

[fuzz_ra@kind.social]

@lothcat

It's not easy to explain to people who don't think that way that most people think that way.

[damaru@merveilles.town]

@lothcat welcome to the 1%

[fennek@bark.lgbt]

@lothcat THIS. I want to be rich enough to enjoy life and not be worried all the Time if I can pay the next bills.
Rich enough to afford healthcare.
Things everyone should be able to have!

[rosalux@tooting.ch]

@lothcat this is very true and very touching!!

[er4z0r@chaos.social]

@lothcat Amen! Exactly that!

[grob@mstdn.social]

@lothcat *and high confidence that it _stays_ that way without permanently having to slap "the cutting tool" out of neoliberal politicians hands

[chiffchaff@tech.lgbt]

@lothcat It's odd how very rich people seem often to be thinking about money all the time, and worrying about it, and having to step out of things to deal with it., and having opinions on it. It seems weirdly like being poor.

I think there must be a sweet-spot somewhere. Being rich should mean not having to think about money because you've enough.

[marence@urbanists.social]

@lothcat
I want to be rich enough to buy art from the coffee shop walls, and get a CD from the bands at shows.

[hastur@masto.hackers.town]

@guigui3000 @lothcat
Common sense...

[nilsmielke@det.social]

@lothcat Count me in!

[ailurocrat@scicomm.xyz]

@lothcat yes to sharing, yes to community, yes to compassion, yes to mutual aid, NO TO BILLIONAIRE GREED. We need to collectively build a world where no one is turned away for lack of funds.

[pirjapaa@mastodontti.fi]

@lothcat

Exactly

[denisbloodnok@mendeddrum.org]

@lothcat "Money can't buy happiness, but it sure can buy off misery"

[calcifer@masto.hackers.town]

@fennek @lothcat no one should have to ever worry about affording healthcare. That’s a deep failure of a society, to create any place where the chief worry of being sick or injured is financial.

[calcifer@masto.hackers.town]

@chiffchaff @lothcat very rich people don’t think about money all the time; that’s a thing that happens to people who are rich but desperately want to become very rich.

The very rich literally hire people to worry about money for them. It’s very strange to watch.