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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor
If the discussion is about perceptions of relative monetary wealth, to walk in and say "oh yeah, well I'm "rich" without money" is not only obvious, trite, and beside the point, but it also stops the conversation dead, the inference being "I don't care about perceptions of relative monetary wealth."
My two cents - and only because it happens every single time this sort of thing comes up.
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Actually, I think that pointing people out as trite is
more likely to stop the conversation dead (at least from the trite-ee's point of view.)