Hell no, bringing down you 1%ers back to earth is much more fun. And not to get philosophical...but what is more? Financial success? Personal reputation? Personal fulfillment? Name recognition? Being able to look back and see how much you've accomplished only 14 years after moving to this country with a family who only brought 500 dollars with them? Being able to look back at high school and think of all those times that you were pressured to drink or smoke with your buddies, and you never gave in? Being able to have played a large father role for a much younger sibling when one parent was having an affair, and the other was at home trying to cook meals for her brother who had just moved to our house at the age of 26 from Europe after discovering he had cancer? Being able to balance school work, and nailing Honors with Distinction and getting a scholarship offer from Johns Hopkins University all while having to stay at the Cross Cancer Institute with his uncle for 7 hours during school hours (yes, missed those school days entirely) just so someone could keep him company while his father and mother tried bringing home and fundraising enough money to cover 3 years worth of chemotherapy for a non-Canadian citizen who had no healthcare coverage whatsoever? Being able to maintain good spirits, optimism, and good faith throughout this 4 year span, and have people tell him that they wish they were as happy as him, lived as happy as him, or wish 'they were blessed with the same awesome upbringing' that he was raised with?
And you have the nerve to tell me that I've done nothing? Of course, as of this point, Im just a sophomore with a steadily climbing GPA at the unripe age of 18, and with a bank account more broke than the most pathetic of jokes. But such is to be expected from a first generation immigrant.
But yes, you're right. I guess you have more money than me. Maybe your wife is a babe, and your Ferarri was probably around the same amount of money that my parents still have left on their mortgage. Still, you'll be hard-pressed to find a happier man, and a man who isn't willing to work harder tUo succeed not just in acclaiming wealth, but acclaiming and utilizing all of the wonderful gifts I have been blessed with in my life.