▲ 1291 ▼ Rich people don't understand us at all. (thelemmy.club) submitted 2 days ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/workreform@lemmy.world 174 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Blurntout@lemmy.ca 74 points 2 days ago (2 children) We are the collection of all of “our” choices. Even the ones we made before we were born by people we’ll never meet lol permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 39 points 2 days ago* (2 children) They genuinely believe their familial history and it being the reason they’re rich or privileged enough to become wealthy is their own doing, that they actively participated in creating that opportunity and they’ll call themselves a rags to riches success story for investing a small inheritance or loan of a million dollars into hundreds of millions, saying it was all grind and sheer willpower. They think everyone who didn’t do that is dumber than they are, and then they’ll tell you all about their neat ideas on how scientists and experts are wrong and how all their boys at the private country club told them the real truth about health and economics and women and the poor and anyone who doesn’t believe it is a sucker and deserves it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] No1@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago It's the same as divine right of kings and queens That it's God's will that they are the monarch, they are not bound by normies laws etc, and everything they do is blessed by God. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago We have failed, as a society, to educate them that there is any other truth to this permalink fedilink source parent [–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 child) Just choose to be born healthy to a rich family. DUH permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 days ago permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 39 points 2 days ago* (2 children) They genuinely believe their familial history and it being the reason they’re rich or privileged enough to become wealthy is their own doing, that they actively participated in creating that opportunity and they’ll call themselves a rags to riches success story for investing a small inheritance or loan of a million dollars into hundreds of millions, saying it was all grind and sheer willpower. They think everyone who didn’t do that is dumber than they are, and then they’ll tell you all about their neat ideas on how scientists and experts are wrong and how all their boys at the private country club told them the real truth about health and economics and women and the poor and anyone who doesn’t believe it is a sucker and deserves it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] No1@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago It's the same as divine right of kings and queens That it's God's will that they are the monarch, they are not bound by normies laws etc, and everything they do is blessed by God. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago We have failed, as a society, to educate them that there is any other truth to this permalink fedilink source parent
[–] No1@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago It's the same as divine right of kings and queens That it's God's will that they are the monarch, they are not bound by normies laws etc, and everything they do is blessed by God. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago We have failed, as a society, to educate them that there is any other truth to this permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 child) Just choose to be born healthy to a rich family. DUH permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 days ago permalink fedilink source parent