Winning too much $$$ a curse?? Powerball Winner broke.

[Joe O]

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I think we're all overlooking the fact that this man allegedly blew $113M in roughly 4 years? How is this possible? I don't care how financially retarded you are. It's one thing to blew through a few million in a couple of years because you don't understand how to handle money and blew it on hookers and some bad life choices, but $113M is an absurd amount. That's a life-changing, I-never-have-to-work-again-and-neither-do-my-grandchildren amount of money.

Something else is going on here. This is impossible to believe.

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[jetfish]

Warren Buffet had a great quote. Paraphrased-

Rich people are obligated to leave their children enough money that they can do anything, but not so much money that they can do nothing.

I think that's a really cool point of view on the whole, rich-without-earning-it yourself kinda thing.

[blutarski]

I read that Buffett gave himself only a 100k a year salary, no matter what his net worth was.

[mbishop]

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If you are interested in this guy the Washington Post did an excellent feature story detailing the win and its awful consequences for their magazine in 2005.


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So they guy went bust and managed to mess with the Washington Post magazine? That sucks.

KJS

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Very nice

[LandonM]

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I read that Buffett gave himself only a 100k a year salary, no matter what his net worth was.

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The guy is worth a kajillion dollars, and lives in this.

[Eegs]