Do rich people and their immense privilege bother you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What bothers me is the gold digging women, whose main accomplishments in life are marrying a rich man and popping out 3 or 4 kids, acting like they are better than everyone else.

+10000

Rich men work hard. Rich women mostly just marry these men and live in luxury. It’s these women I can’t stand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If wealthy people give to others, they don’t bother me at all. Selfishness and greed bother me.

+1 - it’s their duty to give if blessed with wealth !!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I learned that Oscan nominees will receive goody bags worth 100k tonight. I understand that they’re hard working and deserve their success and riches but I think 100k in gifts for already very wealthy individuals is so excessive.


I grew up middle class but my parents made a lot of sacrifices to send me to a private school with Uber rich kids. That was hard. Just seeing how easy life was for them and how privileged they were.

I don’t know why I feel almost...resentful? Even though of course it’s theirblife and they should enjoy it. It just bugged me how they were in a bubble and assumed their life was normal.

The "goody bags" should be taxable income:
https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2016-02-09/the-taxability-of-oscars-gift-bags

I am officially more interested in the goody bags than the Oscars themselves.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It only bothers me when the wealthy, privileged person thinks he/she is going through the same thing that I am when he/she clearly is not. EG, the mother with three nannies (including a night nurse every single night) tells me how she understands how tired I am with a newborn when she gets a full nine hours of sleep every night.

Goodie bags at things like Oscars do not bother me one bit. They are marketing tools for their products. "Deserving" has nothing to do with it. The companies who give that stuff for free are expecting a return on their investment.

Basically this. Nothing is for free.

+2

[Anonymous]

I don’t mind wealth. Wealth is great; luxury is great if that’s what you want.

It’s the all consuming greed that is destroying this country.

Squeezing your workers for the absolute maximum with minimum benefits; lobbying for deregulation that will hurt the environment when you already have a healthy profit. It’s airlines nickel and diming passengers when my ticket was $200. It’s millionaires lobbying against the estate tax.

Poor or middle class people can be greedy too; they just have less individual power to destroy things. It’s people abusing the LL bean returns policy until it went away.

There’s less and less social cohesion and less of a sense of duty towards our fellow citizens.

[Anonymous]

Many rich people have problems that money can't solve - with misguided kids, bad health, business problems, marriage problems. Money is the root of all evil- it multiplies the problems in your

[Anonymous]

Maybe I’m in the minority but I just don’t feel this way. I grew up poor, now make more money than I thought possible, and have always viewed the wealthy as people who have something I can learn. I’m not at all like the cynical pp who thinks that only the wealth can get/stay wealthy. Really rich people are an inspiration.

[Anonymous]

Most very rich people have done immoral things to become wealthy. I don't envy people like that. I have things that they don't.

- my wife loves me not my money
- I have had one wife
- I know who my true friends are and aren't
- my kids have a good work ethic, responsible and respect a dollar
- no one has ever tried to sue me
- no one hates me for screwing them over
- my customers are happy to see me
- I sleep well at night

I am rich in life.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only rich/wealthy people who annoy me are the ones who believe everyone could have what they have if they just "worked hard enough". That type of lack of nuanced thinking bothers me in anyone though.

What about the people that did make it themselves? Came from nothing, worked for it, and succeeded? Why can’t they feel that way, it worked for them, it can work for others.

A lot of it is luck, and people who think like that have no gratitude. Most people are working very hard and still don't make it. Most people don't change income classes in their lifetime, no matter how hard they work. It's much, much more difficult than you might think.

No one said it was not difficult, but it can be done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most very rich people have done immoral things to become wealthy. I don't envy people like that. I have things that they don't.

- my wife loves me not my money
- I have had one wife
- I know who my true friends are and aren't
- my kids have a good work ethic, responsible and respect a dollar
- no one has ever tried to sue me
- no one hates me for screwing them over
- my customers are happy to see me
- I sleep well at night

I am rich in life.

I started out with nothing and built a business that has made me wealthy. I can check the same boxes you posted.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only rich/wealthy people who annoy me are the ones who believe everyone could have what they have if they just "worked hard enough". That type of lack of nuanced thinking bothers me in anyone though.

What about the people that did make it themselves? Came from nothing, worked for it, and succeeded? Why can’t they feel that way, it worked for them, it can work for others.

Those are few and far in between. Basically the myth of rags-to-riches is dead because if you don't have superior upbringing and schooling in terms of access to the best schools, tutors, and connections the door to immense wealth is already closed. Bygone are the days of striking it out on your own and making something out of nothing.

And here come the excuses....

Plenty of people that grew up poor, and did not go to college make it. Most small business owners seem to have figured it out. You think every person that owns a restaurant/dry cleaner/car dealership/whatever grew up privileged?

Except working hard is no guarantee. Take Shaun King, the journalist in NYC. He is married, his wife works, he’s pretty well-known, has 4 jobs, and just tweeted that he can’t afford to buy a house where he lives (Brooklyn). If you didn’t get a pretty serious leg up, you can’t afford to truly accrue wealth (through property, the markets, etc) because you just aren’t starting from the same place as someone who inherited their riches. Or, even beyond ‘riches,’ someone who didn’t have to pay for college. Or who had parents who paid their car loans.

2 of his “jobs” are Activist and Pastor. He has 5 kids, makes $300k per year and is bitching he can’t afford a $1.2mm house. That’s your example?

[Anonymous]

Keep in mind that with goody bags, most of that stuff will trickle down to the non-rich people in the celebrities' lives. Their managers and make-up artists and nannies and household help. The celebrities already have the money to buy all the stuff they want and will only keep the things they find particularly cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most very rich people have done immoral things to become wealthy. I don't envy people like that. I have things that they don't.

- my wife loves me not my money
- I have had one wife
- I know who my true friends are and aren't
- my kids have a good work ethic, responsible and respect a dollar
- no one has ever tried to sue me
- no one hates me for screwing them over
- my customers are happy to see me
- I sleep well at night

I am rich in life.

I started out with nothing and built a business that has made me wealthy. I can check the same boxes you posted.

Then go run your business and stop wasting time on here being a smug asshole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe I’m in the minority but I just don’t feel this way. I grew up poor, now make more money than I thought possible, and have always viewed the wealthy as people who have something I can learn. I’m not at all like the cynical pp who thinks that only the wealth can get/stay wealthy. Really rich people are an inspiration.

Oh please!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. In high school I was friends with three girls named Allison, Stephanie and Heather.

Heather was beautiful and had the coolest clothes, everyone wanted to be friends with her, she was tough, her mom was pretty and cool, and had a gorgeous older boyfriend who sent her flowers at school. I became friends with Heather and found out that her father killed himself when she was a baby, when she tried to talk to her mom her mom ignored her for the mom's boyfriend, she felt stupid and her boyfriend was abusive.

Allison was very rich. She lived on the same street as Howard Stern, she had a housekeeper, she had a lovely life. Then one day Allison started crying in health when we were talking about eating disorders. She cried so hard the teacher excused her, and then excused me and another friend to go help her. Allison told us her mom had an eating disorder and she was scared her mom was going to die.

Stephanie was also very rich. She lived in the Hampton in a mansion. She had every single thing I ever even thought about wanting, let alone asked for. Stephanie's mom overdosed on cocaine and died. Stephanie's dad gave her mom the coke. Stephanie still lived with her dad.

My best friend in high school was Jen, who shared a room with her sister. Their older brother lived on the couch, and Jen's mom was a school custodian. Every single time I went over there, there was a lot of laughter and food. Once we had to go outside and help push Jen's mom's car down the block because it had died. I asked why they didn't just call AAA. They couldn't afford it.

So no, I'm not resentful of rich people getting expensive things. Objects don't mean everything. These people don't all have glamorous perfect lives just because we see them in pretty dresses smiling. I know that they might go home and get beaten or cry themselves to sleep because they're worried about a family member or missing a parent or whatever other problems are plaguing them. Beats headphones won't solve those problems.

And there are lots of rich people with lives full of love and happiness.

Not every rich person has some dark secret lurking in the background.