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Originally Posted by the truth

absolute power corrupts absolutely...I guess as long as you have enough money to be healthy and take care of your family , do you really need yachts and sports cars? ..another way to look at it is ... you could feel sympathy for some megalomaniacs who spends his/her every hour every day trying to build and protect his/her empire....paranoid suspicious untrusting about everything and everyone.....always looking over your shoulder for your enemies and their weapons.....you my be better off living the life of a hobo, if you've got nothing you've got nothing to lose

What is "true" security in this world, though? You might have enough money to be healthy and take care of your family today, only for your whole country to crumble tomorrow. The only way to be truly secure in this world is to have so much money that you could live the rest of your life out comfortably, in any country of your choosing, without having to do another day's work. So, be a multi-millionaire in multiple currencies or in valuable collectable assets with global appeal (i.e. not property, unless it's spread across multiple countries).

The scary thing is, that most of the leaders or potential leaders of these countries fall into that category. They are personally "safe", no matter what happens.