Schopenhauer’s “The Wisdom of Life”: Poverty is not terrible, what is terrible is the limited “cognitive level”

Schopenhauer’s “The Wisdom of Life”: Poverty is not terrible, what is terrible is the limited “cognitive level”

The lottery player bought a lottery ticket and won 9 million pounds. After 4 years, he became an alcoholic and had to live in a relative’s house. This is a true story that happened in the UK. In 2005, Keith and his wife won 9 million pounds in the national lottery, which was a huge sum of money at the time.

Keith, 54, works in a bakery, his wife Louise works in a law firm and has a 14-year-old son. The family lives in a semi-detached house.

In June 2005, the couple won the lottery, and Keith’s life changed drastically.

Moved from an old house worth 160,000 to a new house worth 500,000, spent hundreds of thousands on horse racing, bought a BMW for 60,000, bought a house in Cheshire for 1 million, and spent 15,000 to hire A gardener to take care of it, and paid another £25,000 to hire a driver. This is not enough. He loves football and bought the president’s box for the Aston Villa football team!

“Without a normal life, I started spending money, spending money, spending…