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re: Why Do People Hate "The Rich" So Much?
Posted on 4/12/24 at 2:19 pm to HouseMom
Posted on 4/12/24 at 2:19 pm to HouseMom
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If you found out today your parents were leaving you millions of dollars, would you decline the offer?
Of course not. But what does that have to do with me disliking people with inherited wealth? I find most of them unlikeable. Many are entitled assholes. That has nothing to do with turning down an inheritance.
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Posted on 4/12/24 at 2:34 pm to Corinthians420
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being wealthy is also a sin at a certain point of wealth, especially after reaching Rothschild/Bezos/Musk level
Bezos and Musk are doing great things.
I don't hate the rich but people who flip houses for their income are not my favorite especially those who routinely cut corners and essentially polish a turd.
Posted on 4/12/24 at 2:51 pm to Antonio Moss
I value labor by the end result.
If I pay jim $5 to cut and process a tree, bob $15 to build a chair, and pay $10 sally to run the front desk, then profit $20 on the chair, I got paid $20 for telling Jim, bob and sally what to do.
Some people think the value of the labor was higher than what Jim, bob, and sally were paid because it’s impossible to profit unless someone, somewhere in the chain is having value extracted.
This is, in fact, considered a very Marxist view. I don’t necessarily subscribe to it- I think the $20 I would be paid in the above scenario represents the labor performed wherein someone has to organize these people and assume levels of economic risk.
If I pay jim $5 to cut and process a tree, bob $15 to build a chair, and pay $10 sally to run the front desk, then profit $20 on the chair, I got paid $20 for telling Jim, bob and sally what to do.
Some people think the value of the labor was higher than what Jim, bob, and sally were paid because it’s impossible to profit unless someone, somewhere in the chain is having value extracted.
This is, in fact, considered a very Marxist view. I don’t necessarily subscribe to it- I think the $20 I would be paid in the above scenario represents the labor performed wherein someone has to organize these people and assume levels of economic risk.
Posted on 4/12/24 at 3:17 pm to Slippy
quote:brand new money is way worse
I find most of them unlikeable. Many are entitled assholes
Posted on 4/12/24 at 3:28 pm to BoardReader
Greed and gluttony are also deadly sins.
Posted on 4/12/24 at 3:33 pm to Scientific73
I think it’s mainly the top .001% they hate. And with good reason, because so many of them are propped up by government subsidies(your tax dollars). Government bailouts, generous severance packages that reward failure, etc…
Posted on 4/12/24 at 4:26 pm to Corinthians420
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Nothing new, the merchant class didn't like the nobility and overthrew them using their money/power.
now the wealthy class is the nobility and uses their money to pass laws to game the system in their favor.
The problem is that the merchant class, our new ruling class, are exploitative in a way the nobility was not. And they rule very selfishly.
Posted on 4/12/24 at 4:38 pm to OweO
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Not sure why this was voted down, its pretty accurate.
If it was accurate, Congress would pass a flat tax instead of the current tax laws where the top 10% of income earners paying 59% of the federal taxes with the top 1% of income earners 26% of all federal income tax.
Posted on 4/12/24 at 4:55 pm to Suntiger
quote:they didnt rise up against the Church. they rose up against a perverted, evil entity masquerading as the church. they brought truth about Christ to the world. Roman catholics do not follow the Bible as Martin Luther thoroughly pointed out. Calvin had some twisted views also.
Why did Martin Luther and Jon Calvin rise up against the Church
Posted on 4/12/24 at 5:22 pm to LSU82BILL
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If it was accurate, Congress would pass a flat tax instead of the current tax laws where the top 10% of income earners paying 59% of the federal taxes with the top 1% of income earners 26% of all federal income tax.
you think corporations pay taxes?
they get laws passed so they are subsidized by the taxpayers and rake in more profits
This post was edited on 4/12/24 at 5:25 pm
Posted on 4/13/24 at 3:33 pm to Corinthians420
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they get laws passed so they are subsidized by the taxpayers and rake in more profits
Yep. And which taxpayers subsidize them? The same ones that subsidize everything else.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:05 am to Scientific73
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Why Do People Hate "The Rich" So Much?
Rich people are the main reason I have the money I have. Likely the reason for most people having money
Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:15 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Its a means to an end, not the means itself. People are corrupted thinking more is always better.
How does this not have 100 upvotes? Well said sir.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:36 am to Scientific73
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When did this sentiment start and why does the media push this narrative? Isn't the ultimate goal in life to achieve and excel to a higher standard and with that you are rewarded? I don't know how things got so backward. Pocket watching is a sickness. Get yo paper mayne!
Short answer: because it's easier to go along with the group and show scorn for the thing(s) you secretly want but can't/don't have.
Because people, as a group, are often weak-minded lemmings. How many jumped right in line during COVID, not just doing what "officials" said, but (and most importantly) loudly and voraciously denouncing anyone who did anything other than parrot the official line?
COVID didn't come from China.
COVID wasn't man-made.
People with the COVID vaccine can't get COVID again.
People who recently got the COVID vaccine can't get COVID again.
People with the COVID vaccine aren't infectious.
The COVID vaccine is 100% safe.
Etc.
In that vein of being dumb lemmings, the vast majority of people want to be rich but aren't. Many of them succumb to the idea pushed by much of media and politics that you must then profess hate toward the thing you want but can't have, to prove it doesn't bother you that you can't have it.
This stems from the slow acclimation of the Marxist mindset of class warfare. It's much easier to blame the rich for "having more than their fair share" than it is to blame one's self or to just admit that sometimes shite in life happens that fricks you and there's really no one nor nothing to blame (ie: seek recompense from). It's also fed by the "you are a special star in the universe" philosophy we've all been fed for generations, that works with the class warfare mindset to create the belief that "I (specifically) am being kept down by x because of y". People with this mindset refuse to consider that they aren't so special that the world cares about them more than the other 6,999,999,999+ people on the planet.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:46 am to Scruffy
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How do you say that?
“Th-at”. With the a being short
Posted on 4/21/24 at 2:55 pm to bad93ex
I wonder how many small businesses have gone under because of Amazon?
Posted on 4/21/24 at 3:29 pm to Scientific73
It’s too hard for some people to become rich so they start finding reasons why being rich is evil or otherwise not desirable.
They make false equivalencies to make themselves feel better about NOT being rich
They make false equivalencies to make themselves feel better about NOT being rich
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:09 pm to Scientific73
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When did this sentiment start and why does the media push this narrative?
You obviously know nothing about world history. Sentiment has always. been there. Long before media.
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