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People with huge, most often billions states can also be divided into “rich” and “poor.”
The first receive maximum pleasure from their money, and, not necessarily rushing them left and right. For example, a billionaire Norway Olaf Thun lives very modestly, but all his money without he directs the remainder to help people – and therefore is happy. Second very similar to famous literary heroes: The Mean Knight A. Pushkin or Plyushkina N. Gogol.
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“Poor rich” do not receive any happiness from their money, nor the slightest pleasure, rather the opposite, is a trap that is deftly caught them in the snare of poverty and eternal suffering. Here are the most famous “Plyushkins” in a story not so distant from us.
Henrietta Howland “Getty” Green
This ingenious financier of past centuries (1834 – 1916) also called a witch from Walt Street. Henrietta died at 82 leaving a fortune equivalent to today’s 20 billion dollars USA. However, during her life she dressed like a simple servant, took off the cheapest apartments and even heated oatmeal on a battery, so as not to waste money on the use of the stove. And this despite the fact that owned entire neighborhoods in Chicago.
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Her son’s leg was amputated only because the mean mother For several days I was looking for a free hospital for him. And even death Henrietta was an example of her pathological greed: the elderly the woman had a hit when she found out that her cook had paid for a bottle of milk is slightly larger than usual …
John Paul Getty
One of the most famous oil tycoons and richest people of XX century was John Paul Getty (1892 – 1976). Moreover, he was so stingy, that he wore the cheapest clothes, and constantly wrinkled, because he didn’t want to spend money even on an iron. In his house stood outdoor telephone booths, so that guests pay their own telephone conversations.
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But the most egregious example of this innate greed has become tragedy with his kind of beloved grandson. The youth was kidnapped by robbers, demanding a ransom of $ 17 million from oil tycoon dollars. And while John Paul Getty had billions, he has long bargained with robbers, buying the boy in the end for 3 million dollars. And although the grandson was kind of released, however, due to he received many mutilations from the bandits (they sent grandfather is now the cut off ear of a young man, then his fingers), but therefore he was soon numb and went blind, eventually dying in a wheelchair …
Ingvar Kamprad
Some researchers refer to the “poor rich” and the founder IKEA Ingvara Kamprada (born 1926), family condition which is currently valued at $ 40 billion USA.
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He modestly dressed all his life, ate at the cheapest restaurants, stayed in inexpensive hotels, and flew on airplanes as an ordinary economy class passenger. And so did to everyone. In his house, even all the furniture from the native company IKEA. And although in this can be seen simply as the modesty of the multimillionaire, however the fact that in unwillingness to pay taxes to the state of Ingvar Kamprad in his time leaves his native Sweden for Switzerland, speaks of the opposite is about his pathological stinginess. So many people think …
Although … today this very thrifty person handed over his business children, and, apparently, they do not follow the example of the father, that is, do not want to live poor, while having billions …
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