Edit: Please read the post before responding. It's important to the context of the question. You won't be able to answer the actual intended question otherwise.

I get that the title doesn't at first glance sound like it's related to being an HSP, but let me explain.

I'm not talking about the idea of wanting to be rich for yourself. Obviously everyone would like to be financially comfortable, able to afford what they want and never have to work again. But that's not what I mean here.

Today I was watching a political Youtube show. And there was this person who called in and talked about some heart-breaking trouble she was going through. And she had a go fund me. All she needed was a few thousand dollars.

Now, for me, that's a lot. Especially since I'm currently unemployed. I could never afford to give anything close to that. But for truly rich people, people who have tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars, that's truly nothing. They wouldn't even notice if that amount of money suddenly disappeared from their bank accounts.

And when it comes to stuff like this I always feel frustrated. And I always wish that I was rich, so I could just swoop in and give this person 6.000 dollars or something.

And I feel that way a lot. When these charities cross my social media feed or something. I feel so frustrated that I'm poor, and I wish that I was super rich so I could give all of these people all of the money they needed. I don't want people to not be able to afford life-saving treatment, to have to stay in abusive relationships, for street cats to have nowhere to go or nothing to eat, for people to die of starvation.

It bothers me a lot that these things happen.

And I wish so much that I was rich and powerful so I could help all of these people.

There's so much bad and there's often so very little I can do about it. Whereas if I was a billionaire I could help so many people.

Does anyone else here ever feel that way? That you wished you were rich, not because you want a yacht or something, but just because you wished you had the money to help people?

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm mostly asking this question because I was curious whether any other HSPs feel similarly to me. Where you want to be wealthy specifically to help others and are sometimes frustrated that you're not.