I'm sure that at some point of everyone's lives we say/think the phrase 'if I was rich...' or similar.
My question is, do you think life becomes more boring when you don't have to struggle for anything?
Suppose you're the son/daughter of a multimillionaire businessman. You never had to do much to get any books, records, trips, electronic stuff, video games, etc you wanted, 'daddy' would always give them to you.
You also don't have to study your ass off to get a good job, you'll inherit daddy's company when he dies and will always have a good job, despite how lazy you may be.
If you're caught with drugs or drunk driving, daddy can always get you out of jail without any complications.
Of course that it sounds good to have almost anything you want, but to me life loses its meaning, the struggle is the best part.

Mixed blessing.

On the one hand, if one's life is simply a struggle to get by, what's the point. On the other hand, what's the point of sitting on your ass.

I figure, I'd like stable employment which gives me enough to survive, and that little bit extra so I can enjoy my time off. I don't want to work my ass off to be rich, I'd rather be happy than "successful" in traditional terms. I don't have the stomach for the backstabbing and the hard slog, and the always being on the market for a slightly better opportunity to jump ship... You know what I'd like to be? I'd like to be a guy running cables on a soundstage in Vancouver. Sigh.

I think plenty of people who have inherited vast sums of money have gone on to have become great philantropists. And really if you are rich then philanthropy is the only reason not to tax you back to merely comfortable.

I also think that most people are kidding themselves if they think they'd rather be "comfortable" while earning every penny than just falling into wealth because of birth. Think of all the good you could do.

I think I would love to be rich. I enjoy learning and studying but the barrier is always cost. I would love the opportunity to be able to afford and get into the best schools in the world to learn from the most esteemed people in the fields. Instead of studying economics and journalism and getting out in 4 years because I need a job I might have stuck on my original path as a biochemistry major and then go into med school or get a PhD. or two. I there is the possibility that my personality would be completely different if I was rich, but if the person I am now became rich I would do so much that I cannot do in my current financial state.

My list of things I would do instead of sitting on my ass

-Get a few undergrad degrees and a couple PhD's
-Open a research/counseling center for people with depression or manic-depressive (bipolar) disorder. (It runs in my family, although I have yet to be formally diagnosed I occasionally show signs)
-Start an independent video game development studio and learn how to design and program games
-Actually design and commercially release a game
-Run for public office
-Become actively involved in various charities in capacities beyond just being another benefactor
-Create and write for my own magazine

Those are just a few things I would want to do once I don't have to worry about generating any income or providing for myself.

I wouldn't mind been rich, though that depends what level of wealth we are talking about. I'd certainly be happy with money to pay the bills, put some aside, invest it and occasionally spend it frivilously. Screw living on struggle street...sure having to struggle can build character through adversity but who seriously would rather struggle than be rich?

I honestly have no idea what it's like to not have any money. I grew up in a nice upper middle class family, and my mom and dad had worked their asses off to get where they are now (although my mom already came from a very well off family, that didn't quite go for my father). Although I've saved a lot of money by doing all sorts of menial jobs for the last four years, they even offered to pay for university books and all that crap.