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ENC: The richer you are, the less you have…

The conventional wisdom: The more money you have, the better your life is.

Wisdom gained by experience suggests otherwise.

In the Ten Things to Teach & Know, one of the bits is that the more you have, the poorer you are. It looks like Alex, in the story below, might agree, as he labels winning $18 million in the lottery in 2000 as not a blessing, but a curse.

Here’s the story from CBS News:

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