How Do You Get Like This?

most wealthy people that grew up wealthy would shrivel up and fade away if they had to deal with even half the issues that lower incomes had to deal with. personally, I hope they have to for a year. most of them would put a pistol in their mouth.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
most wealthy people that grew up wealthy would shrivel up and fade away if they had to deal with even half the issues that lower incomes had to deal with. personally, I hope they have to for a year. most of them would put a pistol in their mouth.
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You'd like to see most wealthy people put a pistol in their mouth?

I guess that wouldn't be too bad, as long as they don't pull the trigger or anything.
 
Darla said:
I agree. It's not that, it's the complete lack of any empathy for others, and the complete cluelessness about how lucky they still are, relatively speaking.

It's sick, IMO.
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Objectivism, I, me, mine, screw the rest of you...
 
Darla said:
That's fine, but why would you state "people with no money don't know how stressful it is, how do you tell your 3 children you have to pull them out of private school?""

Does anyone here understand that there are thousands of americans who have had to tell their three children they're moving from their house into a fucking tent???

HELLO???
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Thousands moving into tents ? WOW....I must have missed that news on msm.....MSNBC didn't carry that .....
 
cawacko said:
To me it's like what Oneceler said, it's about your level of expectation. Is it is stress like where is my next meal coming from or can I survive past my next paycheck? No it is not. But can it be very stressful on a person or family? Yes.

If you are a highly driven and competitive person and you are competing in the world of the 1% and you want to live in THE best neighborhood and send your children to THE best schools and belong to THE best club in town yes life can get very stressful. By this I'm not suggesting they are owed sympathy from everyone else. This is a lifestyle and stress of their choosing. But it can be stressful nonetheless and I've seen it with friends and co-workers. From the outside it looks like they have everything but on the inside things aren't good.
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See, it isn't the money that is stressing them. It is low self esteem, the need for things to replace their emptiness. It is hard to have empathy or like others when you can't do it for yourself.
 
Onceler said:
You'd like to see most wealthy people put a pistol in their mouth?

I guess that wouldn't be too bad, as long as they don't pull the trigger or anything.
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That could wipe out Hollywood and a vast majority of the far left .
 
General Buck Turgidson said:
No one disputes that it can be stressful, but to say something like this "“People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress” is . . . I don't know what it is. I have a hard time coming up with words to describe it. Being fucking poor is fucking stressful and not in the "I have to live a slightly less lavish lifestyle that I am accustomed to living" sense.
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Allow me to assist you... it is FUCKING RETARDED.

(you are welcome)
 
Onceler said:
It's interesting; I guess that's one way of reading it, but when I first read it, I didn't read it as him saying that people without money don't understand stress. I saw it more as him saying that they don't understand that people with money have stress too.

He could be meaning it like you interepreted, though....
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Interesting... I read it the way Darla did, but you bring up a valid alternate view of what was stated.
 
Onceler, and now it seems SF read it the same way I do? How do you feel about this? It's not too late Onceler...you can turn back. I know the dark side is strong...
 
Derp Derp said:
Well first I think we need to accurately define what stress is.

Stress - Noun; Definition. The anxiety that is derived when ones mind over rides the body's basic desire to strangle the ever loving shit out of some asshole who desperately deserves it.

In this context stress is truly classless as there are a lot of assholes out there. :)
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So you're starting to get it.....

Well I guess it takes a clueless mother fucker to understand another clueless mother fucker!
 
Darla said:
Onceler, and now it seems SF read it the same way I do? How do you feel about this? It's not too late Onceler...you can turn back. I know the dark side is strong...
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I can see what he and wacko are saying. Many people do view the rich as having it 'easy' and don't realize there can be stress regardless of income. No matter what peer group you belong to financially speaking, there is a certain degree of stress in the whole 'keeping up with the Jones' mentality that has a stranglehold on our society. That said, I think if that IS what the guy meant, he chose his words poorly.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
most wealthy people that grew up wealthy would shrivel up and fade away if they had to deal with even half the issues that lower incomes had to deal with. personally, I hope they have to for a year. most of them would put a pistol in their mouth.
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Well like I said earlier going through the experience of going from upper middle class to unemployed and homeless, in 24 hours, that losing all your material posessions can be liberating to the spirit in that it forces you reasses what your values and your priorities are. Before that happened I was driven for success. Afterwards I have been driven to live well. I learned that as long as you have the material resources to meet your basic needs, that the only thing that really counts are the people in your life and what you do with your life. We have a bad habit in our country of letting material wealth become an impediment instead of a blessing.
 
Superfreak said:
I can see what he and wacko are saying. Many people do view the rich as having it 'easy' and don't realize there can be stress regardless of income. No matter what peer group you belong to financially speaking, there is a certain degree of stress in the whole 'keeping up with the Jones' mentality that has a stranglehold on our society. That said, I think if that IS what the guy meant, he chose his words poorly.
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I totally agree with that. The problem is when you lose any empathy or even have an apparent clue of how bad it is for some people. How, really, really, bad.
 
Onceler said:
It's interesting; I guess that's one way of reading it, but when I first read it, I didn't read it as him saying that people without money don't understand stress. I saw it more as him saying that they don't understand that people with money have stress too.

He could be meaning it like you interepreted, though....
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He wants empathy for his type of stress, the "I want to keep my standard of living stress", but it is so very callus when peope are missing meals for him to want them to feel sorry for him.

It is insulting.
 
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