Rich or Famous?
By bikespot
@bikespot (483)
Canada
December 30, 2007 9:25pm CST
If you had a choice to be either really Rich or Famous what would it be?
Could you handle what the media does to Famous people? Take for example Brittany spears and other people like Paris hilton. Sure we all know them but we know a lot about them on how bad they are. For some reason people like to feed off them. In my opinion i dont care if your famous. I will never give someone respect just because they are famous. Some people get to much attention and what have they done??? Nothing, take for example Paris hilton.... what has she ever done to help or do something other than entertain us with her stupid acts? Shes one person in the world that if she didn't have the money she has would never survive.
I wouldn't want to be famous at all. What do you guys think?
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15 responses
@sacmom (14192)
• United States
31 Dec 07
I would rather be rich then be famous any day. I love my privacy too much and I would hate to give it up all because of being famous. Being rich can't buy love (true love anyway), though it can buy a lot of other things that can normally be out of ones reach. It would be nice not to have to worry about money and just enjoy life with my husband and kids. :)
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@janisspaggiari59 (656)
• United States
31 Dec 07
I wouldn't care to be famous but I wouldn't mind being rich so I could do some good in this world.What a joy it would be to make a difference.The wrong people always win the lottery.People that just squander it and make people's lifes miserable or the greedy most times win the big money.I would love to hear stories of ordinary people striking it rich and then most of it going for things that would really make a good difference.
@sanyatiesto (14)
• Hungary
31 Dec 07
Both of them very danger....I prefer want to be rich (a bit) because it needed to life...Famous people are just people too!!! To respect them they have to do something really respectable, not just they born and famous...to me!
@mychattime (1013)
•
31 Dec 07
There is no way I'd want to be famous, rich would be ok, but not to rich if you follow. I wouldn't be able to cope with being famous although saying taht some people are rich and famous and aren't always in the papers or on the news, I guess it depends how you deal with it, Paris Hilton is just plain stupid she loves all the publicity even when she went to prison etc. To be honest I probably wouldn't recognise amany famous people if I passed them in the street. Rich is better in my opinion!
@DuoMaxwell (953)
• United States
31 Dec 07
Nuh-uh! I would rather be RICH than famous. If I were rich, I would concentrate on creating a much more comfortable, luxurious lifestyle for MYSELF, that means that before I become famous, I want to become RICH first.
I'd invest some of my earnings to create more value to others, and that means through my inventions and ideas. I have a whole lot of ideas in my mind, but I have no money to implement them. Luckily I always buy notebooks to draw, describe and scribble them down just in case.
When I am really rich, then I can give myself a much-
needed "upgrade", not just for my whole body, but since i'm a technology person, I would buy myself a better laptop and desktop, an LCD monitor that doesn't go monochrome (one color) every time I try to plug it in, storage facilities for my items, a scanner that's fast and displays clearly everything that I scan, anything that can help free up the clutter in my life.
When I am REALLY rich, THEN i'll decide if I should become famous or not. This is an option that only I can decide because of this reason only:
If I were to be rich AND famous, and I decide to donate money to a charity of my choice, then the media just might have a field day with me and my newfound wealth, and thanks to the media, most of the poor people will want me to hand them money, and they just won't stop. It's as the proverb says:
"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and he eats for life."
So if I were to be rich or famous, I would rather be rich, because i'd prefer to be wealthy in the shadows of anonymity (of being unknown) for as long as I possibly can, and because I want to live the good life without any interruptions and hassles of the outside world.
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@nengs10 (3180)
• Philippines
4 Jan 08
I would like to be rich. That's more practical to me I think. I want my life to be private. And with my family, we wanted to live a normal and orderly life.
@bikespot (483)
• Canada
6 Jan 08
Nobody seems to want to be famous. I'm amazed, i guess after everyone seeing what it is like to be famous they see that famous is not so great after all.
But in some ways i think famous might be better, i'm not talking about bad reputation famous. Someone who has done something good , then you will have friends and respect from others.
So in all i think this was way to easy of a question. I dont think many people saw my other comment but how about.
Poor vs Famous
Now what would you pick?
@CoffeeAnyone (3210)
• Canada
1 Jan 08
Rich of course. Famous can't really be any fun at least not for me. I just cannot see the positives about being famous would out weigh the negatives. Rich on the other hand would do me just fine.
@cartoon4umaniacs (1648)
• United States
10 Jan 08
I would rather be rich than famous...gosh look at Michael Jackson and MC Hammer they were once famous and still are and are going broke like a joke...rather have the money to survive and enjoy life rather to be famous and live like a rat not saying these two people are living bad but just saying I would rather choose to be rich...
@mrsjbelle (1640)
• United States
31 Dec 07
I would love to be rich. Never famous. I don't want people in my business all the time:)
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@sassygirlanne007 (4517)
• United States
1 Jan 08
That one would be hard for me because I have always wanted to be famous and I have always wanted to be rich. But I think I would have to choose to be rich because I don't know if I could deal with the drama of being famous.
@babykeka80 (2084)
• United States
1 Jan 08
I would definitely chose to be rich instead of famous. I cannot believe this but I said that Paris Hilton thing almost word for word before. What is really sad is how society reacts. I had to watch tv all day at work because of people watching them take her back to jail. If you were famous because you did something great like cured cancer then ok but most of them are famous and do nothing but act ignorant.
@kdhartford (1151)
• United States
1 Jan 08
I definately would rather be rich than famous. I want to be the gys behind the scenes pulling all the strings. I would much rather be unknown and comfortable than known and under the spotlight.