When I picture a millionaire, I picture a person in their fifties or sixties, dressed very nicely and retired from their long, hardworking life, but Daniel Cates changed that image for me. Daniel Cates is twenty one years old and is a multimillionaire from playing online poker. I think Daniel has become so accustomed to living with millions of dollars that he doesn't realize exactly how insane that is. After winning another $30,000 from playing, Cates apologized to Jay Kang by saying that he "would be playing bigger, but it's been a rough week". Cates is so used to playing with high prices that he feels bad if watching him win only $30,000 is "boring". Growing up, Cates played video games nonstop, which is why he is such a talented online poker player in his early twenties.
Even though the world makes being rich such a dream for most people, I think being that rich deteriorates a person's life, rather than builds it up. Having millions of dollars makes people selfish and their motives for anything they do in life are for their own self-seeking desires. Daniel Cates' case is very unusual because he hasn't won all of this money by working hard, or by figuring out a new creation in the science world, it is simply from being talented in an online game. Also, from making all of his money on an online game that he plays all day, what is he using that money for? His whole life is consumed with online poker; therefore, he has no time to have an actual life.
This is a nice response, Kayla. You pick out some of the same quotations that struck me, too.
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