Aren't there any middle class people hosting radio shows?
I know that the good talk radio personalities rise to the top and with that comes a bigger paycheck. I just wish they'd do a better job of maintaining the illusion that their lifestyle is more like mine. Just my opinion, that's all. I put up with them, ignore the parts I want to ignore, change the station when necessary, and everything is copacetic.
I've never aspired to wealth because it seems to me that people who have lots of money also have lots of worries to go along with it. You buy a boat and you get a whole slew of problems to go with it. You buy a big RV, same thing, storage, repairs, license, insurance, fuel, water system freezes and bursts a line in the winter, and on and on.
If the stock market has a bad day, I lose maybe fifty bucks. If I were loaded, that same bad day on Wall Street might cost me $5000, or $50,000, or $500,000. That would blow my mind. I realize that it's all relative as a percentage of your nest egg, of course.
I don't like to worry. I don't like headaches. I decided a long time ago to live my life by the KISS system (Keep It Simple, Stupid) because that method worked well for all the people I grew up around and admired during my formative years. I come from simple folk, not stupid mind you, just good, down to earth country people, and I'm proud of it.
Of course, there's always the school of thought that says that if you have enough money, then you have nothing to worry about. But alas, I couldn't live my life like that. It's too cutthroat for me, too competitive. I'm not wired that way.