Rich vs. Wealthy

United States
December 22, 2009 3:16pm CST
What is the difference between rich and wealthy people?
2 responses
• United States
23 Dec 09
I think the way I would view rich people from wealthy people as different, would be this: I believe that rich people just have money. They have a lot of money, whereas wealthy people, are people that don't necessarily have a lot of money, but rather a great deal of knowledge and wisdom. That's how I feel truly wealthy people are. They don't just have the material substance, but they have something that is absolutely priceless.
• United States
23 Dec 09
That is a very interesting way of putting it. I never thought of it that way. I may have thought something similar but not like that. I agree that wealthy not just have money but a lot of wisdom and knowledge. Thanks for the response! =]
@michmich2 (432)
• United States
22 Dec 09
That's an interesting question. I guess that I would consider someone rich who simply has a lot of money. I think that wealth involves more than that. Typically, we think of a wealthy person as someone who also has a lot of money. However, I think wealth also involves having connections, being involved in things, and having an active life. I wouldn't really consider a person to be wealthy who had a lot of money but didn't do anything useful with it and didn't have any real connections to other people. I'm not sure I'm explaining it well - I know what I want to say but it's not quite coming out right. Hopefully you can kind of see where I'm going with this...
• United States
22 Dec 09
I know what you are saying. Rich people are people who just have a lot of money but don't know how they got or just inherited it but don't know the meaning of true success (aka Paris Hilton). Wealthy people are successful people who have a lot of money but they do good with their time. Like you said they have connections and they are actually do good with the money like donating it to charity, etc...Just like a lot of the celebrities and other high people. haha