This would be your total lifespan, and you wouldn't be able to get around it with money.
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mouse53
Being poor you gain respect for life.
William
Then why does everybody kick the hobo down my street?
Freq-Sho
and being rick you couldn't donate a lot to help other people and do things like convert your front yard to a 500 sq foot garden to grow food for the hungry?
Lawrence
No you don't. Most people in poverty turn to drugs and crime to escape their life. Your full of shit.
JustCarefree
Tell that to every American you see.
Shanna
You're obviously not poor. Moron.
Robert Longacre
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Luna
well I'm not exactly rich... But life isn't all about money.
Allamo
If I knew I were to die at forty and I had assloads of money I would give most of it to charity, so your point is invalid.
kjhgjkgh
Shanna you are poor but wasting time and money on the internet to insult people?
Max
What's da point of a life when you live a shitty one?
Hasan Tareq
why poverty is not unlike?
bvee23
I would be the Pope..
Mathias Weigl
William seriously, you have so stupid people in your neighbourhood, if anybody does that, they should die painfully right now, while being in a weird hentai
Kim Kardashian
Why the fuck would I wanna live 80 years in frustration and depression asking myself everyday, "How the hell am I supposed to earn money for food, clothes and a home?" Also being rich doesn't justify the fact that you can be fucking generous and donate whenever you possibly can.
Oraclethingy
Being poor and being unproductive are 2 different things, an average hobo is probably a high school drop out and did nothing with their lives. For this question let's assume that you can make SOME money because you have an education. Being poor doesn't mean you forces to eat kittens' faces off, it just means you don't have a lot of money.
ZOMBIETURNIP
No it doesn't
GalacticZer0
Being rich doesn't mean that everyone will dislike you.
nasser alblooki
I dont think so
nasser alblooki
I dont think so
nasser alblooki
I dont think so
Linux1018
The reason we are rich is because we worked hard in school and have most likely gone to a revered university such as Stanford. Putting hours and hours of your time into becoming a better person and not wasting it on smoking and procrastinating is truly worth respect.
Astrid
Being poor can also make your life sad, and you would always be wishing you'd done more. Sure, if you want to be some martyr to the cause of good will like in all those different religious stories where people sell everything for some reason: then do it. But honestly, the average person wants money. NOT THAT MONEY MEANS HAPPINESS. Just that money means you'll live a lot more comfortably and be safer and more stable if you lose your job in your 40 years.
Batman
No you dont
Brian
Ya ok
Colten
@Lawrence Said the guy who doesn't know how to spell "you're". Also, that is stereotypical and untrue. If you are rich, most likely everything is handed to you. If you're poor, you probably have to work hard, possibly with 2 or more jobs, to get next to nothing. It teaches you to count your blessings.
Sam
sooo right
Fabrizio
That's a neck, mouse53.
Aleksander Rokowski
You louse life in povery, cant see the world
Azerhd
i dont even want to get older than 50
Filethecomplaint
Naaaaah it's all about dat paper.
Shannon
It didn't specify how you would turn rich. I could've turned rich from doing good deeds through rewards. And what if I gave money for the poor's benefit? Even though life doesn't revolve around just money, it's about the experiences - which involves money. And the Pope is not in poverty...
Daniel
Linux if youve gone to school for over 20 years, then congratulations, you'v just wasted over half your life! 23/40=wasted.
ronnoC
@William 'cuz their assholes
LightningleafYT
thanks for agreeing i like to have children and if your 40 in riches you have no respect only for your money. you got to earn respect. and all you rich people i feel sorry. everyone try to date you only for your money
Loc
Dude i agree the people who picked live until 40 in riches wont get respect they are gonna be dumb and mean.
CaptainCakeBlast
I want to live in 80's in poverty because living more is a rich to me
xDERAHOLLAx
@Loc you're so stupid and stereotypical - not everyone who is rich is bad
Outrageous Furball
Lived until the age of 40? It was probably an overdose
thewizerd
well you will die soon or later , but you will not gather your money after you die , so simple
ItzAlex YT
Hey it never said you couldnt invent a cure for dying tho
Ty Mercer
I will probably die at 40 anyways...
Ethan Vaughn Allen
after you die you just die nothing else just death so who cares if anyone remembers me everyone is forgotten anyway. if you don't think so name your great great great great grand mother
I'll follow the sun
"A happy person isn't a person in a certain set of circumstances, it's a person with a certain set of attitudes." Money doesn't necessarily mean happiness in my opinion.
☯Chilled☯
I'm not spoiled but the way I see I'd live fast and die young.
Ethan
Money can't buy you happiness, acts of kindness can.
el chapo da pablo
I agree man. Driving down the ghetto in a messed up car can be... I don't know, cool?
Kahekili_Stokes
Srsly!?
sonic
no maybe
Mr.PoopyButthole
I agree rich people never know struggle because they just buy they're way out of it
Kenny
live until '40'. I am just going to say its 40 billion years since nothing states years after it. And if thats not gonna work i can just say i can not get any older then 20. (after that point i just have no birthday)
jojo
no that is incorrect
david
if Cigarettes are a drug it it's gonna bad
AK47
Money is everything. You have like nothing when youre poor
conner
im preety sure you mean the oppisate of what you just said.
Patrick
Being rich would be so clutch.
4chan
We be pimpin.
Gnawsh
What if you donate all the money and eventually you become poor?
plasmapotato
I would've said that if I came here first... :-)
plasmapotato
u know the whole clutch thing
Ellie
Agreed....^^^xxx
goodguy123
I agree
nig machine
Your a dumbass retard
goodguy123
What the hell is your problem nig machine
justokay107
I would rather live longer
Hermoine Granger
We could find a cure for cancer and shit
wonderbung
Many people live below the poverty line but still have wonderful lives. Being rich doesn't guarantee that you will ever fall in love, make true friends, start a family, or be happy at all.
Shanna
I already have a husband I love more than anything have true friends and have a beautiful son. The only thing missing is being rich so yea being rich and only living till i'm 40 would be worth it because i'd be able to make my son and my husbands lives a BILLION times better than they are now being poor as fuck. Being rich equals happiness 9 times out of 10 my friend and only rich people think different.
Darcy
That is right
Spencer Reese
@Shanna Would your son rather have inheritance over you for 40 more years? I guarantee your husband and son care more about you than your money, their lives would not be better.
Jacob
Well, Shanna, rich people would know. What the studies say is that while serious poverty does make people less happy, rich people are no happier than normally endowed people. Of course the answer to this depends on exactly how poor you would be, but unless we're talking starvation, life is worth much more than whatever money.
Joaquin Perez Prieto
You could at least spend all of your money in the cure for cancer before dying
AlbinoEverGreen
Money can buy happiness in nutella form argument is now invalid.
[deleted]
No it doesn't guarantee it, but neither does being poor, you just get worse living conditions. Keep in mind if you're really poor you would go hungry most of the time and probably be malnourished. You would also have less spare time since you must use this on trying to get food/earn money, which means you have actually lesser chance of finding friends/love.
xDERAHOLLAx
Living in poverty does not guarantee that you will ever fall in love, make true friends, start a family, or be happy at all.
AddictionZ
Who needs love or family when you have money.You can buy whores.Money=Happiness.
omax
well being rich doesnt make you happy , but it can be a reason of your happiness if you used it well and helped people with it , and it would be easier to make the world a better place for many people
Blazephlozard
Living until 80 as I am now would be fine, but poverty is another matter entirely, I don't want 60 years of struggling for food, probably being homeless, having no entertainment...
GareBear
Crap, I'd rather die young and happy than old and sad.
jazzhands
The American "worship money, die young" mentality is disgusting.
Max Miller
and where are you getting the fact that everyone who picked red is american?
Tyler Somers
I'd rather live my life happy than slowly watch my self die in sadness.
ramsT&F
Either option is being greedy, it's just as bad to wish for immortality as it is for endless riches
Jacob
Tyler: money does not make you happy. That's a statistical fact.
Dinca Catinel
So does that statistical fact also say that poverty makes you happy? What's the point in living 80 years for nothing?
KakaKarrotCake
Any point you use again being rich can be used against poverty. I'd rather have a lot of money that i can use to help people instead of having no money and do nothing but be in poverty hoping to get out of this money challenge i'm facing. You cannot switch out of either options, it's either permanent money or 2x more life but the life is 4x worse due to permanent poverty.
Ian
Smart investments, noone says you have to live without riches after your 40s...
Emily Spicer
It implies that you die at age 40.
Jacob
Actually it explicitly states that.
JForrestQ
Death should not be feared, but accepted as a fact of nature. You could use the money to finance worthy causes and gain more meaning in life rather than participating in "a miserable desire of a little more life." (Quote from the Crito, written by Plato, spoken by Socrates)
[deleted]
I agree, but still I would be scared if somebody came to murder me. Its just in our nature, animals are scared of it and so are most humans
rando
i'm poor, and it sucks.
Kelly Mckinnon
if ur so poor, how can u afford technology? thats not even cool to joke about
SunnyCrapCake
Kelly, he didn't say HOW poor. I have a friend who is quite poor, but he does sometimes have Internet, and he got a computer of a friend.
Erto
In my eyes being poor is equavilant to being homeless or barely having the means to get by.
Sherman Witcher
@Kelly stfu
Lawrence
Being rich opens up the world. You can travel and experience so much. When your in poverty you cant do shit. And people who say the best things in life are free are full of it. I challenge anyone who truley believes that to quit their job and try and live a happy life as a bum.
mouse53
these comments just go to show we all think differently.. I don't let money or riches control how I live my life, life is what you make of it, or making the best out what you have, not having the best of everything. how does that go? Money can't buy you love or happiness.
Lawrence
Yes it can. Through massive donations to less fortunate you are loved and admired by those you help and money can buy amazing experiences, holidays and peace of mind.
Jacob
You do realize that if you 1. get a lot of money, 2. give the money away, other people in general aren't getting any richer? Of course if you got all your money from the mafia and/or the richest 1%, you really would make a difference, but the question doesn't state that.
Treelady
You can definitely travel without tons of money. Even in poverty, if you used all your resources towards traveling. I believe you would get very far.
[deleted]
I agree. I can't possibly understand how I could be happy if I went hungry for the vast majority of time and were freezing every night because I had to sleep on the streets. As well as having much less actual spare time since I must use this time on trying to survive, you would actually have less chance of finding friends and lovers like most people are so worried about...
pirate
being rich doens't solve all your problems and you can be poor and happy, so...
Shanna
i'm poor and the only thing that could make me happy would be money. your obviously rich...
Käsefleisch
Being rich also doesn't solve problems at all. And you can be poor and hated
BonerInMyMouth
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invisiblesun
who wants to get old anyways?
BonerInMyMouth
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RYAN
lol so true!
Powerpython
Wow. Too many people are way too materialistic.
pleaseimbeyonce
I so agree... just shaking my head at most of these comments.
De3ertf0x
poverty isn't homelessness
BonerInMyMouth
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Bean the mouse
Life is more valuble than money.
Luke
Growing old is kind of a big thing for me... Our lives are already so short... Riches can't buy half my life.
BonerInMyMouth
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Dalton Brown
i'd rather live longer than richer
BonerInMyMouth
and i'd rather have a big long cock shoved up my bumhole
killmenow666
who the hell wants to see their prime slowly drifting away?
Brendan
I could experience more in 10 years of riches than being poor let alone 40 of those years.
StoopidPotatoSecks
Only 80???
BonerInMyMouth
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Joe Lee
Its ok ill just give up my money later to someone else.
massimo
if you will live to 80 you will get to marry some wealth bitch and DANG! you life twice!
Kate H
40 years very well lived
PowerRainbows
use the money to travel and actually live a little or be poor and never get to do anything? easy choice yo
alkez
I could focus all my time into just being happy and improving skills I like instead of working; this is potentially 24 years of no work for me.
TacoWolf
Why!? seriously people; the fuck
KBLEGEND
Sex or kiss
KBLEGEND
Rectu
bullfrog098
Your rich and you can donate money for stuff that help you live longer
bullfrog098
Good point
Asymtionc
Not to be the smart guy here, but it does state that you'd live until 40, no matter what.
chim
Poverty is hard. However, if I live 40 years to the fullest, with money and support, it might just be worth it.
Pecola1
Till 80 in poverty then retire... in poverty? Or suddenly get a job and work for the rest of your life? Or just win the lottery? Not specified, so it's just what would normally happen. Eg, still in poverty. Live until 40 in riches, then afterwards, same thing. Continue in riches. I would spread the wealth, to all those who pretend it's greedy to make money.
nikosdomain
My dad makes alot but doesnt spend on anything, anything
[deleted]
I think the quality of our life matter more than the length. You can't possibly have a good life while being really poor, but being rich gives you lot of opportunities thus better chance of a good life
Poopyman
you arent thinking about how long you will live just more in a far away plain biome with nothing there, then grow your own crops andmake your own home
TardytheTurtle
it's not about how long you live, it's about how you live
Heavensarcher
Living in riches you can get more out of life in a shorter amount of time. You know, help others, travel etc. etc.
Jerry Jerryson
I'm not really sure I want to live much past 40 anyway.
CthulhuForPrez
What if your dead before you reach 80?
LittlePastelPolaroid
I'd much rather live longer and have a value for the life I live, then possibly be vain and ungrateful.
brg
Poverty doesn't mean you cant enjoy life. If you died at 40 you were or likely to have spent your fortune on drugs or whatever killed you.
suborb24
I would much rather stay alive as much as possible cause what awaits me in the afterlife is way more important than having some green fucking paper.... retards
suborb24
So being poor is bad? Ok assholes
Lizzie_chan
You guys realize that not all people with lots of money are a bunch of jerks like you see in the movies! Maybe some can be cough cough Donald trump cough cough. Would you really rather live without enough money to buy the proper food and clothes you need for 80 years then have money??? If you really think your going to turn into one of those movie characters then donate money to charity. This question has nothing to do with your happiness!!!! You could be happy when your rich and NOT because of the money. Stop being so stereotypical!
Senpie
Quality over Quantity..
Josh456
Living in riches until you're 40 doesn't mean you will be poor afterwards.
Sherman Witcher
Lol who wants to be old
Eric Due
some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80!
KBLEGEND
Sorry
KBLEGEND
No
haley
rather be poor that a asshole
Hannah Rose
You can be in poverty and still be happy. Money doesn't buy happiness
Asymtionc
That is a true fact there.
JohnTheBeast
Well money pays my internet which makes me happy BOOM money CAN buy happiness! But hey your opinion is your choise its not like i hate thetyou chose differentely!