Very correct MSO, there was a special on lottery winners, and only about 5% of winners end up with something close happiness. It's not just the hard work of managing money, but the psychology of it. We have this consumer need to spend to fill a hole inside of our psyche that comes from a lack of spiritual purpose. We shop, spend, and trade to fill this imaginary need. We feel like if we had all of the means to fill this need, that we would be happy, but in fact it makes us crazy. The show explored all of these people who were doing crazy things with their life after the lottery and how it ruined their lives.
I wouldn't wish the lottery on anyone.
Even the ones who managed to come close to being happy, looked to be in desperate need of something else.
Inheritance also does this to people. My first roommate in college had a granddad who owned a private bank in town. He prepped all through college for being wealthy. Business classes, etc... and, when his granddad died, the wealth drove him crazy, and all of his siblings and cousins. They all now live in their own trailer park created on their deceased granddad's land, with trashed Mercedes and Jags rusting away. They've busted a meth lab on the property last I heard.
This is not an uncommon story. I have met very, very few wealthy people who seemed to have true joy in their hearts.
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