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Morgan Housel

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Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

There's a different flavor to this.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

I met – I did some work for a family many years ago that they were – they're multi, multi billionaires.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

And it was the grandfather who made all the money.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

And I was working with the grandchildren who were mostly like probably 18 to 25 years old, let's say.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

And I was there to teach them about some money stuff.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

And one of the things they said, because the other element here was all of these kids were very good looking.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

The guys and the girls are extremely good looking and they all have access to unlimited money and live unbelievable lives.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

One of them had a helipad in his backyard kind of thing.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

Just unbelievable quintessential billionaire children.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

And one of the things they brought up was how hard it is to date.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

And they said two things.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

One is it's almost impossible to find someone who can just look past the money and actually like me for being me.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

The other thing is that if the relationship progresses long enough, basically the family's lawyer pulls the boyfriend or girlfriend aside and says, if this relationship gets to a proposal, you will be met with the most ironclad prenup that has ever existed in the world.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

And after that meeting, so many of the boyfriend and girlfriends are like,

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

I don't know.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

I don't know if this is what I wanna do.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

And so you have these very good looking,

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

19 year olds with unlimited money and they're almost undateable.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

It's like, and so this, this, that's like a, a, a tiny violin thing, but the social pressure, I've called it social debt.

Modern Wisdom
#1055 - Morgan Housel - Mastering the Art of Spending Money

There's a social debt that can hang over having a lot of money.