“It was the biggest shock in my life, when I realized how horrible, soulless and without feeling the five star lifestyle is. In those three weeks, we spent all the money you could possibly spend. But in all that time, we had the feeling we hadn’t met a single real person – that we were all just actors. The staff played the role of being friendly and the guests played the role of being important and nobody was real.”
Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder, after a three-week vacation with his wife to Hawaii. He decided after that to give away every penny of his almost $5 million fortune saying his riches were making him unhappy.
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