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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

American Millionaires

There are 9 million millionaires in the States. According to this article at Slate, there are five different types:

"Thrillionaires - conspicuous consumers"

"Coolionaires - rich aesthetes"

"Realionaires - practical, unassuming, hate to spend money unnecessarily"

"Wellionaires - splurge to make sure they look good, feel healthy, and stay in good shape"

"Willionaires - used to be known as Old Money"

If and when I make my fortune, I'd like to think my midwest values would kick in and I'd become a 'realionaire' but if I look into my heart, there lurks a 'wellionaire', up for every kind of massage and new age therapy.