Friday, June 12th, 2009

[Billy's Little Trip]

Question of the day: Would you rather be rich or famous?

[Märk]

qotd: yes

[Paco Del Stinko]

Rich. I wouldn't care if anyone knew who I was/am. Wa-zaam!

[fluffy]

Money can easily lead to fame, but fame doesn't necessarily lead to money. In the end I'd just rather be happy. (And not having to worry about a source of income is one way to be happy.)

[JonPorobil]

Money can easily lead to fame, but fame doesn't necessarily lead to money. In the end I'd just rather be happy. (And not having to worry about a source of income is one way to be happy.)

This.

[rone rivendale]

QotD: Money. Fame is good, but too much of it can ruin your life.

[inevitableguy]

QotD: Well, I hate 99% of the population, so I don't know how I'd deal with them pestering me all the time. So, yeah, I'd go with the money.

[Reist]

qotd: rich. then I'd have enough money to become famous and rich at the same time.

[Eric Y.]

I thought the question was an either/or situation. Why does everyone want to cheat and say both?
Well, admittedly and understandably a certain amount of fame and/or noteriety does seem to follow a particular degree of richness.
For this reason, I would answer -- rich, but only to the extent where I can live comfortably without ever feeling stress over money, but NOT to the extent of having any kind of fame. Money good, people mobbing me every time I walk into a 7-11 bad.

[fluffy]

I think so many are choosing that because it's a ridiculous false dichotomy, and not that many are really taking fame from richness, just pointing out that they could be famous if they were rich and thus wanted to keep their options open for fame.

[JonPorobil]

It's a very false dichotomy.

If you're famous, it's pretty easy to capitalize on that fame to earn some cash. For instance, it's a lot easier to pitch a book and earn an advance on it if people happen to already know who you are.

If you're rich, it's pretty easy to spend a lot of money on some kind of stunt to make yourself famous. Depending on your definitions of "rich" and "famous," you could buy a professional sports franchise, buy a restaurant, buy some studio time to record an album, buy some ad space in a newspaper to pontificate controversial viewpoints, buy a Superbowl ad, or commission the creation of the world's most superlative instance of something.

So yeah. In the incredibly unlikely situation where I'm offered fame or fortune, but only under the condition that they be treated as mutually exclusive, I'll most certainly choose fortune.

[Caravan Ray]

Yeah - it's a pretty crap question.

I'll fix it for you:

Question of the day: Would you rather be rich or famous? Or hung like a donkey?*

(especially a particularly well hung donkey, you know, the one that other donkeys look enviously at)

Personally, I'd like to be hung like a zebra. Simply because everytime anybody used the expression - "...take a look for yourself....it's right there in black and white!" - you could be going - zzzzzzzzip......thlunk

[Billy's Little Trip]

zzzzzzzzip......thlunk[/i]

So that's how you spell that sound.
....now if you'll please excuse me, I need to go talk to a man about a zebra.