I've been on both sides and really, when you make more you just spend more. It's kind of weird. Paying your bills is not that difficult in general unless you persistently spend more than you make. In that case, you have a mental illness you need to address. Or admit to yourself, finally, that pumping gas or working retail isn't a real job for a grown up.
It's not like the Earth needs to be burdened with more crap from Walmart stuffing your closets. Or that a couple needs a 5,000 sq foot home and all the resources it takes to build it and maintain it.
Winning the lotto would be fun but I would end up giving it all away. Maybe not all. But there is a 'money footprint' that the average human does not need to exceed. Ego tells us we should strive for that kind of excess. It tells us that it's not bad, it's "success" incarnate. Ego, in my opinion, does enough damage if unchecked.
The finer things in life aren't the cars, watches, status designer clothes and bags and homes and boats. If you still that those things define "the finer things in life," you have some evolving to do. You will. Eventually. In this life or the next.
Jennifer
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