It’s the human condition. Why do people outside of L.A. hate the Lakers.

I’m not rich, but I’m decently well off. It is fricking hard in my business to even make a living let alone be successful and comfortable. My line of work is the kind of thing where that can change at the drop of a hat, so maybe I will be rich one day, but even if I’m not, I don’t hate rich people. I wish I had their money, but I see how hard they work. Most rich people I know had an insane alien-like work ethic, good ideas, unheard-of self motivation… etc. You have to see that in action to really understand what it takes. My orthopedic surgeon friend makes a million a year (on the low side) with his own practice, what people don’t see is the fact that he was working 120 hours a week basically for free for a couple years, while he was dead broke, right out of an Ivy League med school which took forever and is pretty much impossible for 99.99% of people.

There’s this oversimplification with the younger crowd that CEO’s / business owners just “lucked in” to their millions and now they just sit at a desk and play video games. They look at guys like John Schattner and basically force him out of his own company for being “racist” not realizing he made his own recipe with used restaurant equipment that he spent what little money he had to get. I talked to a guy once who called Trump a trust fund billionaire because he got that 3 million dollar loan from his dad or whatever it was. I said, you know he’s a billionaire now, though, right? I know he got more money after his dad passed away, but this dude I was talking to actually had the audacity to say if I gave him 3 million he’d become a billionaire too. There are people who really do think that.

Some people have advantages that put them in a better position, but the people who aren’t rich can’t comprehend how hard it is to actually be successful and be rich, so instead of learning from them and trying to lift themselves up, it’s much easier to tear them down.