Money Magnifies Problems and Solutions

Wealth has the power to uplift a person and empower their pursuits, but it also can come with a dark side

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In my day job as an estate gardener, I work for a number of extremely wealthy individuals. Many of these people utilize our services because they are interested in having a well-maintained ornamental garden but don't want to do the heavy work themselves.

For the most part, the clients we deal with are friendly and respectful folks who happen to have an abundance of money at their disposal. In being exposed to this sector of the population, I've noticed that these people also deal with psychological issues that are dramatically different from the 'average' person.

Whereas a primary stressor in most people's lives happens to revolve around monetary concerns, uber-rich people deal with a set of concerns that illustrates how different their existence is from 99% of the population. When there is no real concern of ever having to worry about money, it is interesting to observe the kinds of things these individuals deal with.

The inane, irrelevant, and trivial becomes unnecessarily significant

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Remove the need to have to worry about paying the bills and you replace traditional concerns with ones that an average person wouldn't have the luxury to become stressed out about. I've experienced clients who are worked up about the silliest things, such as how high their perennial grasses are cut or if the gardeners are visible to them at particular parts of the day.

If a person is neurotic or has unresolved emotional issues, wealth can magnify these factors to absurd degrees. History is rife with examples of royalty who had subjects killed for the most insignificant miscues.

While I haven't experienced the wrath of the rich to anything close to this, I have witnessed examples of how wealth can further impact a person's ability to relate to their common man.

If you haven't dealt with anything close to the problems that most people in our world face, your degree of empathy is significantly reduced. And if you made little attempts to be empathetic prior to accumulating your wealth, it's highly doubtful being rich would make this a reality.

Wealth heightens what already is there

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Having an abundance of money does not inherently mean a person will become a callous, coldhearted, shallow monster. I'm certainly not someone who believes having a lot of money is somehow immoral or evidence of a person committed wicked deeds to accrue their wealth. In fact, a large amount of the wealthy individuals I've interacted with are decent and kind-hearted people.

A generous and giving individual will likely amplify these qualities with an increased amount of monetary resources. But a narcissistic and cold person will have these aspects of their personality magnified. Give a bastard a ton of loot and they're likely to become a bastard with more shit to throw.

The concept that money changes a person is somewhat inaccurate, in my opinion. I don't believe money necessarily alters a person's virtues or morals, it merely appears that way because a person's flaws or positive attributes were less apparent with less money to fuel their pursuits.

Money is a form of energy. Much like gasoline, without a flame to ignite the fuel, it is not a raging fire in and of itself. It needs the spark of a personal defect to become an evil manifestation in the same way that it needs a caring, positive intention to become a force for good.

Wealth won't solve problems, it will only enhance what already is. If you want a sneak peek at what your life would be like with a barrel of cash, reflect on what you're already doing and focusing on.


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