Rich Boredom/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character finds the life he can live as a rich man is very boring.
 * Straight: Hubert receives enough money to support himself for life from his uncle, and finds that having no job leaves him bored.
 * Natalie's parents shower her with everything so she never has a need, but she finds life in their mansion dull and meaningless.
 * Exaggerated: Jeremiah gets a surprise inheritance making him the richest man in the world and is suicidal within a week.
 * Downplayed: Daisy no longer needs to work three jobs but is doing well with just one. She finds it hard to think what to do with her new free time.
 * Justified: ???
 * Inverted: Yvonne enjoyed her life of parties and shopping, but when her father lost all his money, she found doing housework and menial jobs deathly dull.
 * Subverted: Martin acts bored about his wealth, but it proves to be a way to con those who try to get him to play them money for exciting things.
 * Double Subverted: He really was bored, and finds con games to be the most interesting thing he can do.
 * Parodied: ???
 * Zig Zagged: Werner has volatile moods and his feelings about his riches change from day to day.
 * Averted: None of the characters' financial situation is ever mentioned.
 * Enforced: "I want to teach children a lesson about the emptiness of materialism."
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: A dying rich villain makes Sandra his only heir out of a convoluted form of spite.
 * Exploited: Georgiana targets rich men for her con, because she knows some will be bored enough to take her up on it.
 * Defied: "I may have won in the lottery, but I'm going to keep my old job and take up some new hobbies too."
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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