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they’re genuinely trying to downplay what they have. It’s not just quiet — it’s silent. In an era of rising economic tension and class rage, a rich person’s privacy has become the ultimate commodity. They don’t want to be seen at the Chanel store.
For a long time here in the US, inequality has been treated as no big deal. "Oh, inequality is growing?," said the business leaders and economists, "Why should we care?"
This is why.
When it boils over, the lesson it will teach society will be bloody and painful.
I doubt the lesson will be learned well.
It is never learned, not because people are dumb and can’t remember, but new people take the places of both sides.
The problem I have, is that some people DO learn the lessons, even from the books and stories left over from before. It's just that the new people don't care to learn anything.
It's so disheartening.
Class politics is a learned generational institution. If I look at history I can see that technological disruption, and loss of social cohesion can dampen this.
Today in some countries, like the USA, we have a minimum of both teachers and examples that show such things are worthwhile. We have lost institutional knowledge about how to form unions, strike or protest.
This goes beyond the workplace.
Knowledge of how local municipal politics work and what is democracy is lacking. If one looks at how people vote, one sees a complete lack of awareness of vote counting or exit polls in the USA, replaced by a childish faith in some imaginary fair system that blindly picks the winners. Many great grandparents would scorn this. But there is nobody to tell the current people differently
Remember when Bruce Wayne was a millionaire?
And then a multimillionaire?
And then a billionaire?
They could always downsize their lives to be less exploitative and still live a life of leisure if they are that afraid for their safety, or better yet use their wealth to influence policies beneficial to the large majority of humans but they wont do either of those.
They just want to keep living the exact same way without consequences.
There's quite a bit they can do to stop those sentiments if they truly are afraid of eat-the-rich rhetoric.
Good, fuck all y’all, I’ll see you in hell tomorrow if I can.
So funny to be in therapy telling your friend-for-hire that you are anxious and uncertain about what to do, because the idea of living modestly and giving to the needy is not even worthy of consideration to them.
I'd be happy if they just didn't try to bleed the world dry for like a minute at least.
Don’t call therapists “friends-for-hire.” It’s a lame insult to a serious and needed profession.
I'm not sure if I should bring up the homeless vets with PTSD who'd love someone to talk to, for hire or not, qualified or not; or if I should make light of asking my own friend for hire about coping with the depression and anxiety of living in a world that the ultrawealthy have immiserated for their wealth.
The rich are worried about people hating them for being rich while everyone else is burning out from the stress of coping with living in situations that are literally depressing.
Maybe people don't need to feel better about it? Maybe the rich should be afraid and feel like shit? Maybe the poor should be angry and upset? Maybe people on the internet use humor to cope with difficult situations and being a wokescold finger-wagger about it is counterproductive?
It's a dig at the rich, not the professionals. There are a lot of kitschy "therapists" that serve the rich, they have no qualifications and may play the friend role. And then there are actual professionals, like LMFT and they'll establish a clear boundary.
In the immortal words of Good Charlotte:
They’re always complaining, always complaining. If money is such a problem, well they got mansions, think we should rob them.
Though ironically the Madden brothers ended up marrying rich.
To be fair they also said:
Talking on the phone, got an interview
With the Rolling Stone, they're saying,
"Now you're rich and now you're famous
Fake-ass girls all know your name and
'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'
Your first hit, aren't you ashamed?"
Of the life, of the life, of the life we're living
So at least they're self aware 😅
Even weirder to not be rich right now. Fuck them. They should feel it, greedy pigs.
i have a foolproof strategy to protect them. they should just broaden the target base by immersing themselves among other rich people.
and the most effective method would be making everybody else equally rich. bam. you're now only one potential target among eight billion.
my ted talk will be aired soon.
Make billionaires millionaires again.
Make millionaires thousandaires again.
Hey. No.
Well if all that money and resources are making you uncomfortable, I am willing to take them off your hands...
Emphasis on take.
Having too much money is literally the easiest problem in the world to solve.
They’re evil, selfish cunts though
They don't even realise!
Zang
Article mentions "multimillionaire." That's not ultra rich. We gotta keep going y'all until billionaires starts making such comments.
Depends on how many multis. If they are within a rounding up number, I'd say it still counts.
Multis still enable the billionaires, they’re essentially the actual middle class now so I’m glad they’re sweating
I imagine if the multimillionaires are feeling it, the billionaires already are as well. They're probably just better at keeping quiet about such things
Just FYI,
1% of US citizens have $10 million or more.
It’s not like there’s a history of killing them to make a new status quo! Maybe they shouldn’t be greedy pieces of shit and fucking over everyone else? Leeches.
Wow, shitting on their entire way of life. If tbey werent "greedy pieces of shit" they wouldn't even be rich!
Maybe you should have some fucking empathy. And also let them harvest your organs so they can have extras.
Look, who are we to tread on these special people's right to tread on billions of us? They're just living their lives the only way they know how, y'all. They're just like us!
Fear
They should be afraid. They should feel fear.
They could always fix this by sharing the wealth
Have him pass along this message to those poor scared 1%ers
Good. How's it feel to have others control your destiny? How's it feel to be scared? They love doing it to us...
It’s all from a place of selfishness for them I’m sure so there won’t be any meaningful change as a result of their fear. They deserve to feel this way but I wish it would lead to a positive outcome but they are shameless wretches so they’ll respond as we expect shameless wretches to
won't be meaningful change as a result
No, they just arent afraid enough yet.
Yea I'm not gonna feel bad for them
EAT THE RICH
... interact with people in a way that’s meaningful.
That's it. That's all you gotta do, you miserable little fuckers. Don't dedicate your life to making people sick and miserable, but rather spend it trying to enrich others (and yourself, as a side effect). Enjoy your days free of common worries and just exist alongside others from all walks of life. If you treat all people with dignity and respect, nobody's gonna line up to burn you at the stake. Well, except the fascists, but we just ignore them except for when they need to get punched.
I can't say I feel bad for them. I'm sure they have problems. But rich people problems always seem so petty when you compared them to the problems faced by people who are 24-7 stressed about whether their paycheck will cover their bills, or whether they are going to have a job if they say the wrong thing to their boss or a senior staff member. The trials that plague most of society are much more stressful than rich people problems. Just look at life expectations and you can see it. If some rich person wants to prove me wrong I will gladly let them switch places with me for a year and we can compare. Maybe I will learn something. And maybe they will understand the frame of their problems better..
Good news though, Trump is absolutely destroying the dollar so soon we'll all need wheelbarrows to carry around our worthless piles of US dollars.
Boo fucking hoo