Great wealth causes as many problems as it solves. It comes with paranoia and fear: fear that you will be targeted by those who want to steal it; paranoia that people only want to know you because of it. It can deprive you of the purpose that gives life meaning and not having to work means that you might never discover what you are best at. At its worst, it can cut you off from ever being challenged. Too often people stop developing as people once they become very rich (or very famous).
Indeed, I have long felt that all young people should spend a year or two working as celebrity interviewers, in the way that they once did National Service. It would teach them
