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There’s a plethora of books on the market today telling us how we can become millionaires. We’ve all seen the middle-aged suited men on the front covers with their confident smiles, and they all look trusting enough. So if the books are being bought, why aren’t there more millionaires around today? Is the millionaire status in need of some positive PR maybe?

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Not only do I not know a millionaire (at least I’m pretty sure I don’t), I don’t even know anyone who professes to want to be a millionaire. I’d like to think that I’m getting to see the whole picture where desiring material wealth is concerned and that my friends and family really don’t want it, but maybe that’s just what I’m seeing on the surface.

We’re told that coveting material wealth is wrong, that it’s vulgar in some ways, and that’s never been more prevalent in today’s caring and sharing world. We’ve never been more aware than we are today of the plight and suffering of those living in countries where life is so very different from what we know here in our comparatively privileged western world.

So being rich is unfashionable, and its vulgar tag has probably never been as big and bright as it is today. But perhaps that vulgar tag is being used in a stereotypical way inferring that those who do have huge sums of money spend it all on vulgar items such as planes and speed boats. There’s also the notion that if someone is absurdly rich then someone somewhere has had to suffer in the process, that a person’s acquisition of wealth has left a lot of people poor—a sort of “see-saw” in the playground of materialism. Again, it’s perhaps a stereotypical view of wealth, or of those who attain wealth, but could it be one of the obstacles that stop us striving for the millionaire status?

The closest most of us will ever get to becoming a millionaire is playing the lottery. But there’s even a black cloud hanging over the prospect of millions falling into our lap via this route. We read the horror stories of the happy couple who won a fortune on the lottery only to find a year later that they’ve lost it all, as well as their friends and family, and even their love for one another. Admittedly stories such as these sell newspapers, and no one wants to read about the guy who lives a peaceful and contended life in the Bahamas on his lottery win. The contented millionaire is perhaps just a little too much for us to stomach!

Although I don’t know any millionaires, I did once know a man who was very rich (in fact, thinking about it he might have been a millionaire). But again, talking of stereotypes, he didn’t own his own plane or speed boat. He did own his own very big house though. He wasn’t ostentatious in any way. He made his money in property, as a lot of people do nowadays. I discovered, over the course of some months, that he regularly donated money to Amnesty International (quite substantial sums of money), which to me seems a very good use of it. However, being able to donate money to a worthy cause is perhaps not the motivation that is going to drive the majority of us to become millionaires, unfortunately.

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