A controversial perspective is that the daily work routines of the wealthy and billionaires can, in many respects, be significantly more stressful than those of the average worker.

The job will be stressful

but they don’t need to continue it to survive

they have the network and infrastructure that most working people don’t

they don’t have the distractions that having a low income brings

their remuneration isn’t proportionate to the value they bring

so in short - you are wrong

Would you like MN to write your school essay for you, OP?

There's a big difference between a 'wealthy' business owner and a billionaire.

The title was a bit like an essay.

I'd like to know this to , also which Wikipedia pages?
The idea of someone doing research and using Wikipedia as a foundation stone is really laughable.

So multi faceted.

Yes CEOs have a lot of responsibility and that doesn’t switch off after work hours, compared to e.g. a more manual job that you do the hard work in the hours but don’t bring it home. High compensation in part compensates for this “round the clock” responsibility.

But low wages for hard physical work and being in poverty adds so much stress to life so not easy to say CEOs will objectively be more stressed.

Then add in that mostly to become a CEO you go through so much personal and professional development that helps you learn to manage the stress - you’ve been in a similar challenging situation before and seen the resolution - so actually most don’t feel as much stress than a less experienced person would with the same decisions.

billionaires do not equal CEOs though.

Do you realise the The Big Bang Theory is a AmAmerican sitcom , not a debate show.

Go and listen to The Moral Maze if you want to interesting debate .

You may not be aware of this but stocks and shares can be sold and thereby converted to cash in the bank.

This, with bells on.

Of course they would. They'd just be working for someone else. Other employers would fill the vacuum.

The average billionaire may have a life more stressful than mine. But if I’m earning £80k/year and they’re earning millions their life isn’t 20-30x more stressful than mine. The fact that my cleaner makes £30k/year probably doesn’t make my life 2-3x more stressful than hers- her husband was a drunken gambler who abandoned her. I imagine it’s probably MORE stressful. Doesn’t mean she should make more money than me.

im not arguing against the existence of billionaires, they’re an inevitability of any system that uses capital- however they do have a moral obligation to use their wealth for good and charitable causes. Anyone with any money has an obligation to do good with their money.

Very late contender for Most Entertaining Facetious Reply of 2025.

Mine too … would you like to share my tiny violin ??

What the fucking what now?

No the poster is describing a worker- a foot solider to the billionaire.

as have been frequently pointed out, being a worker is nothing like being a billionaire.

just think for a sec- if Elon musk is so busy and stressed running his business how did he manage to abandon it for 5 months to run DODG?

But have your billionaires ever had to teach Shakespeare to a bottom set yr 9 on a Friday p5?

With a wasp in the room that you can hear, but not see.

And a kid with terrible flatulence.

And a kid whose sister everyone fancies walking past.

And slt doing drop ins.

Cannot have both? You mean we have to have either poorly-constructed English or have AI?

Why can't we have well-written English?

Unless - oh! - unless you mean the choice is between poorly-constructed English and AI when the poster is you? Right. Then it's a one-or-the-other.

Okay. Can you give us a few minutes to talk that over among ourselves and get back to you?

I think this really muddles two very different things. Being well paid and being a billionaire are not remotely the same experience.

No one becomes a billionaire through hard work alone. That kind of wealth only happens through systems that extract value at vast scale, whether that’s underpaid labour, exploiting resources, or benefiting from political and economic structures that funnel money upwards unfairly. There’s also a big difference between earning money by working and having money make money for you. High earners are still selling their time, skills and energy. Billionaires typically aren’t, their wealth grows passively, often completely disconnected from effort or stress.

Exactly.

Stress that you are in control of is a positive driver that spurs you on.

Stress you have no control over is extremely negative for both physical and mental health.

Now... Let's think how much control Elon Musk has over his life before we break out the teeniest of teeny violins.

Did anyone else read the title and want to shout "PARKLIFE!"?

No? Just me then. I'll get my coat....

Having said that, whilst not a billionaire, I do have a senior management role, and it is more stressful than the roles I've had on the way up. I'm always on call, expected to be able to answer questions on basically anything in my department, take responsibility for my, and my employees decisions.

I'm in IT, so if something important breaks, or works incorrectly, it can take down the whole business.

yeah - it's a ball game where you take out a loan using those stocks and shares as collateral and live very well without paying any income tax on that loan....

No, you need to understand you don’t know one.

im a complete stranger- do you know what drives me? What stresses me out? What I thrive on?

of course not. So how could you know what drives a billionaire and what they find stressful?

you’re very grandiose- I think AI has probably been reinforcing your ideas

You could just think a bit harder and put some more effort into wording it.

I think if you thought about it a bit more, you might be able to see a big difference between a billionaire's work routine (more control over their working hours and an ability to delegate to multiple underlings, no physically hard labour not having to schlep to work on crowded public transport, staff to make them a delicious healthy breakfast, clean their house, do all their home admin, chauffeur their children to school, being able to afford eat out whenever they want, etc etc etc)... and a minimum wage worker doing long hours but with none of that stuff. I mean come on...