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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it surprising that successful people prefer to hang with other successful people instead of the poors? [/quote]

Everyone I know makes 1M+. You 200k slummers are the poors in our books.[/quote]
And I live off my investments. I don't care to hang with "the workers." Ick.[/quote]

You're obviously being sarcastic, but this is really how the world works you know. It shouldn't be that way, but that's how it is. Seven figure earners think the rest of us are poors and people living off investments think everyone who works is a loser. How is this surprising to people? You're incredibly naive if you are shocked that rich people have no empathy for others.[/quote]
....except that posters above weren't talkimg about "rich" having no empathy for others. They were saying that they, earning $200,000, think it UNHEALTHY to emphasize with those earning $50,000 - and that they sure dont hang around people who earn so little, or even know anyone who earns so little.

People who think that way are  nouveau riche snobs. I personally know a few old-money people in their 40s, from families worth $100 million, and they have friends from all walks of like. It is only the young people (often new law firm assoxiates) who are so impressed with the money they're earning that they consider others who followed careers that pay less (and that would be most of them) beneath them and choose to isolate from them.

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