Looking rich vs. being rich

If you could choose one of the following which do you want?

1) Look rich when you're actually dirt poor.
2) Look dirt poor when you're actually some millionaire/billionaire.

What a peculiar set of choices

Actually, the first is lose/lose* and the second is win/win. How queer.


_{* Unless you are a tool.}

Looks are important, even more than food or shelter, so I'd have to go with 1

>>4
That's quite a shallow worldview on life.

Neither.  I don't need nothin.  I am what I am and that's all that I am

>>1
I choose neither. Don't get me wrong, I don't dress like a bum, but it's just something that's not that important to me.

>>5
LOL. I'll let you in on a little secret, kid: Everybody judges everything on looks. Everybody lies and cheats. Everybody is selfish and self absorbed. Society has been structured to weed out the gullible and emotional by paying lip service to the exact opposite of what you actually do. The ones who really do act on the lip service are the gullible and emotional patsies, doomed to forever be used and abused by those who know that being "good" is entirely about appearing good. After all, to succeed and gain power in this world you have got to prioritize looks and image and you've got to be selfish, what's the point in being good if you have no power to be good with? Only the ruthless and selfish ever get to be in a position to be good.

I'd look poor so no one would ask me for money.

>>9
If you know that someone is about to ask you for some money a trick that I do is to ask them first if you could borrow some money. Works a treat on bums. When you see one of these smelly fucks come up to you just say "Hey mate, got any spare change I could borrow for the bus? I really need to get home. No? Well ok, thanks anyway" and then just walk sprightly away. This leaves them confused and by the time their alcohol damaged brains have figured out what just happened you are already gone.

>>10
I just shuffle and look despondant when I go past them as though I'm on drugs too.
I'm going to add your bit to my reportoire though.

>>10
haha thats class

>>10
i need to do this more often

>>10
Done this today. Shit feels good, and the hobo spit on my face.

>>14
Teehee