Rich Boredom: Difference between revisions

Money [[Lonely At the Top|makes you lonely]], [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense|foolish]], or even evil, but worst than any of these: since you can buy anything, including having people do everything that needs to be done, you are bored, ''bored'', '''bored'''. There are no more challenges in life. You don't have to work. You don't have to keep house. [[Idle Rich|You don't, in fact, have to]] ''[[Idle Rich|do]]'' [[Idle Rich|anything.]]

More proactively, the [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]], [[Gentleman Adventurer]], and [[Gentleman Thief]] all often turn to [[In HarmsHarm's Way]] to escape. Other characters may turn to charity works, travel, writing books, scholarly work, or other ways of becoming [[Non -Idle Rich]] to avoid this problem. The [[Upper Class Wit]] may be warding it off with his observations. Expect it to be a feature of any [[Gilded Cage]], though.

Not all the [[Idle Rich]] are bored; the intelligent, the well-intentioned, and those with a lot of energy may be alone, and the family may regard their boredom as silly, or at least recommend shopping as an infallible antidote. Those who like idleness will often clash with [[Non -Idle Rich]] in their own family.

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