【有文稿】假如你中了1亿奖金彩票？

W: This week has been an interesting one for the lottery. Massive prizes went unclaimed in China, the US and the UK. The US prize has now gone up to a world record size, more than a billion, am I correct Brian? [BK: That is correct.] That is intense. Brian, if you get that lottery ticket, what are you doing with it? BK: Pay off – I have some college debt, that would be nice to get rid of. Help out my family with other debt they have, invest a ton of it very safely… LW: Boring! Shaowen, what would you do [LSW: How much, how much?], you’re getting a billion, what are you doing? LSW: The livelihood of my family, the children, and the rest keeping it in an account. LW: Nothing, no Lamborghinis [BK: No, no, no, no], nothing, nothing excessive? BK: No, no, no. Do it for us, Lincoln. LW: No, well, what you gotta do first is, there’s a way to this and, be winning it, you can’t just win it and do all of those things. I feel like you have to do one – at least one ostentatious thing, just to, you know, just to be that guy. BK: And what would it be for you? LW: I – probably a Lamborghini or something, I don’t know. Or a really big vacation, to an island somewhere, and then after that I’ll do all of the things you mentioned. BK: Okay, so just want to get it out of your system? LW: Just want to get it out of your system – buy a ridiculous car or go on a ridiculous holiday. LSW: I’ll be still myself. LW: You’re still yourself, but you can be yourself in a Lamborghini. Think about that. LSW: No, I don’t need a Lamborghini. LW: But maybe I’m mistaken, Brian, ‘cause some people do kind of go down, they don’t necessarily handle wealth well. BK: Right, exactly, just like you said. But it’s not just that. Like, if you have an actually – they’ve figured out that, when you win the lottery, yeah, you get a ton happier because, you know, oh my gosh, so much money. But your happiness level actually returns after a few months to what it was beforehand. So you might now be rich, but if you were unhappy before you’d just be rich and unhappy. LW: So if you were happy before you got rich and then you got rich you’d just be happy afterwards. So… BK: Yeah, and you’ll be happy with more money, but, I think I’m gonna quote – this is horrible here but, “more money, more problems”? LW: Wow, you’re quoting Notorious B.I.G. That’s a very interesting quote there. BK: It is. But honestly, that does seem to be the case here. And it’s not just winning the lottery – they talk about if young people in their twenties or thirties get inheritance, it does the same kind of thing. You talk about pro US football players, when they suddenly sign a huge contract, get tons of money – if you’re suddenly rich when you haven’t been, that is just too hard for a lot of people to deal with in a rational way. LW: That’s interesting that you mentioned that. And Chris Rock actually, the famous comedian, once said that “mo’ money mo’ problems” is actually the best song in the world that most people don’t understand, because that’s actually the truth, is that the more money you have, the more money you have, now you have to, well, now I can’t lose. BK: And so a lot of people think that, you know, what you’ll just be you with lots of money after win, but what it seems to be is, you suddenly go from being whoever you are to “that guy who won the lottery”. And that’s just your identity now. LSW: And one more point is that easy come, easy go, right? If you say work hard and earn the money, you’ll be careful of how you should spend that. If it’s easy money, you tend to go quickly spending those on luxuries items, even unnecessary items. That’s why we see, live a normal life and the happiness in achieving success is in the process of achieving it.