People with huge, most often billions of dollars, can also be divided into "rich" and "poor."
The first ones get maximum pleasure from their money, and not necessarily rushing them left and right. For example, Norwegian billionaire Olaf Thun lives very modestly, but he directs all his money without a trace to help people - and therefore is happy. The latter are very similar to the famous literary heroes: the Covetous Knight A. Pushkin or Plyushkin N. Gogol.
“Poor rich people” do not receive any happiness or the slightest pleasure from their money; rather, on the contrary, it is a trap that deftly caught them in the snare of poverty and eternal suffering. Here are the most famous "Plyushkin" in the history not so distant from us.
Henrietta Howland "Getty" Green
This brilliant financier of past centuries (1834-1916) was also called the Witch of Walt Street. Henrietta died at 82, leaving a fortune equivalent to US $ 20 billion today. However, during her lifetime, she dressed like a simple servant, rented the cheapest apartments and even heated her porridge on a radiator so as not to waste money on using the stove. And this despite the fact that she owned entire neighborhoods in Chicago.
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Her son's leg was amputated only because the stingy mother had been looking for a free hospital for him for several days. And even Henrietta's death was an example of her pathological greed: an elderly woman suffered a blow when she learned that her cook had paid a little more for a bottle of milk than usual …
John Paul Getty
One of the most famous oil magnates and richest people of the 20th century was John Paul Getty (1892 - 1976). At the same time, he was so mean that he wore the cheapest clothes, and constantly wrinkled, because he did not want to spend money even on an iron. There were street telephones in his house, so that the guests themselves paid for their calls.
But the most egregious example of this innate greed was the tragedy with his beloved grandson. The young man was kidnapped by robbers who demanded a ransom of $ 17 million from the oil tycoon. And although John Paul Getty had billions, he bargained with the robbers for a long time, eventually buying the boy out for $ 3 million. And although the grandson was apparently released, however, due to the greed of his grandfather, he received many injuries from the bandits (they sent his grandfather either the cut off ear of a young man, then fingers), and therefore soon became numb and blind, eventually dying in a wheelchair …
Ingvar Kamprad
Some researchers also refer to the “poor rich” as the founder of IKEA Ingvar Kamprad (born 1926), whose family fortune today is estimated at 40 billion US dollars.
All his life, he dressed modestly, ate at the cheapest restaurants, stayed in inexpensive hotels, and flew on airplanes as an ordinary economy class passenger. And he did so in everything. In his house, even all the furniture from his native IKEA company. And although one can see in this simply the modesty of a multimillionaire, the fact that Ingvar Kamprad leaves his native Sweden for Switzerland in his unwillingness to pay taxes to the state speaks of the opposite - of his pathological stinginess. Many people think so …
Although … today this very thrifty man handed his business over to his children, and, apparently, they do not follow the example of their father, that is, they do not want to live in poverty, while having billions …