If the Shoe Fits: are You Addicted to Wealth?
by Miki SaxonA Friday series exploring Startups and the people who make them go. Read all If the Shoe Fits posts here
This is a short post, because I want you to read the longer one at the link.
In an opinion piece, Sam Polk, a former hedge-fund trader and current founder of the nonprofit Groceryships, talks about wealth addiction.
Wealth addiction was described in 1980 by the late sociologist and playwright Philip Slater, but Polk speaks about it from a been there/done that perspective.
I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was addicted.
Read the post, then look in the mirror and ask yourself if you are or are getting addicted.
Wealth addiction isn’t a case of wanting to get rich; it is a case of nothing is enough.
And it applies to more than money—from followers to titles to trophy relationships and everything in-between.
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April 1st, 2015 at 3:43 pm
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