A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Difference between revisions

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** Many stories of people who lose everything they won in the lottery usually stems from the fact that the sudden wealth overwhelms them and they start to spend everything, not realizing that even several million dollars is not infinite. What's worse, some of them get so caught up the fever that they blow through not only their lottery winnings, but all their original savings as well.

* The documentary Reversal of Fortune involved giving a homeless man $100,000 in cash and seeing what he did with it. It was gone within 6 months, and indeed he wound up in even worse financial shape then he was before.

* German actor [[Klaus Kinski]] typically starred in a successful movie, then spent all his salary on partying with friends, expensive clothing and 5-star hotels (and drugs), resulting in him becoming broke after a short time. After he had to live in a run-down single-room apartment for a few weeks, he often resorted to phoning his old friend [[Werner Herzog]] once again to ask if he had any more film roles available. Rinse and repeat.