Better or Worse

I have been trying to decide, in these trying times, if it is better to have never been that rich, so the "hard times" seem like the "all the times", they just never get that much better, or is hitting the economic jackpot, then dropping off to the Madoff induced poverty of WalMart greeter, and dreaming of the central park east Robber-Baron apartment, the servants and the snotty better than attitude. The bitterness seems more bitter to have had, and then not to have at all. I guess it is the less is more, until you get more, then more becomes more than less could ever hope to be.