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I COULD choose fame without wealth if it were the right KIND of fame.
By that I mean Gandhi/Nelson Mandela fame rather than Big Brother/Star Wars Kid type fame.
Wealth can be tricky too. I'd want to know where my money came from and if my wealth was directly responsible for something morally reprehensible in this world, I'd be unhappy.
If I were, for example, to go into academia, I would not be wealthy. But if, as an academic, I then got the chance to one day help draft or somehow attach my name to a new constitution for the future Republic of Australia, I'd be pretty damn happy.
I consider something like that to be a variety of fame, even if you don't hear about those kinds of people on the news.
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