My generation as a whole, wants exactly that. While growing up, people my age all were seeing those who were retiring at 55 to 60 and started to make plans of retiring at 40 to 50. The stock market was going nuts and the pyramid that was building riches seemed like it couldn‘t be stopped.
Then something happened that always happens. The pyramid got saturated and those in early got filthy rich and the others didn’t. The problem is they bought a piece of paper. It’s only worth what someone else wants to give for it.
That brings us to our next Proverb I’m writing on which is:
Proverbs 28:8 – 8 He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest
amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.
Bottom line is dead men spend no cash.
Those who say that it’s better to burn out than to fade away are short sighted and in for a rude awakening.
Eventually somebody else is going to get that amassed wealth and either blow it on themselves, become equally as greedy, or shares it with others. The bad thing about the one that becomes equally as greedy is whoever taught them that, gets to answer for that life as well as their own come accountability time.
For the one who shares it, hopefully it will be in the name of the Lord. To share it in just your own name still misses the opportunity to glorify God.
The peeople that blows it on themselves, help out the economy and thus helps someone less exorbitant in their wealth. The bottom line is it always comes back to the same issue and you can play out the fantasy in your head. Exorbitant wealth never fulfills, but only consumes. It all stays behind and you move on. Where to?
The answer to the that is worth more than exorbitant wealth.