40 Things People Said That Indicated They Don’t Realize How The World Really Works, As Shared In This Online Community
People have the best knowledge of what they have experienced and to be more aware of what is going on outside their life’s bubble, they have to interact with people who are different from them and to actively search for that information.
Otherwise, they might make themselves oblivious and out of touch with reality, which could make them look stupid in front of others. Ignorance is not bad in itself as it is impossible to know everything, but sometimes it is hard to believe how certain knowledge has not reached a person.
Not realizing that there are people who can’t afford a house or having gaps in general education are some things Redditors considered to be common knowledge that doesn’t belong just to a single society group, but they were wrong and told some funny and frustrating stories answering the question “What did somebody say that made you think: ‘This person is out of touch with reality?’”
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I’m a nanny and I’ve worked for some rich clients. Old money. These people know nothing about reality.
The best one I heard was this family I was working 12 hour days for. Good pay, terrible schedule. At one point I was bouncing their baby on my knee and the Mom goes “Being a mom isn’t that hard. I don’t know why other women complain about it so much”.
While her nanny is literally caring for the baby.
Pretty much any time I see someone yelling at a Starbucks or other service employee. They come into a crowded shop, wave their big $5 bill around like a high roller, then yell at a 16 year old for making their coffee incorrectly. Lame. If you find yourself to be one of the people yelling at service workers, fix your own problems before telling other people what to do.
Why should they? That kind of attitude has always worked, so why change now? When I became a manager in retail at a theme park, I was finally able to get revenge on those assholes. And I will take up for any service worker getting abused.
There are a lot of older fugly apartment buildings near the house I grew up in.
My friend at the time that lived a very privileged lifestyle, $200-300+ weekly weekend dinners with the family, timeshares over the place, skiing and snowboarding trips, etc. She was like why would anyone want to live in these apartments? I would never
I was like, people that live there don't have a choice...
Showed a parent the security footage of her 8th grader hitting a teacher. She claimed the footage had been edited. Sigh…..
My sister taught 6th grade English. More than one parent was required to sit in on their kid's classes. The kids still acted up because their parents refused to hold them accountable. The most common comment from the parents, and I use that word lightly, "We can't control him/her." When it came to the report cards, and the kids failed, they would storm in yelling that it just had to be the teacher's fault. Sure it is. No homework was turned in, every test failed. Yep, it's definitely the teacher's fault.
Me: telling someone I’m a type 1 diabetic
Rando: “you shouldn’t have eaten so much sugar as a child”
Also:
“Are you still diabetic” - P.A. At a checkup
Plus the limitless amount of “cures” people have for this incurable disease.
once got in an argument with a girl that people would rather die of starvation than eat something that's carcinogenic. I asked if she was seriously saying people would choose to starve to death over the course of a month than risk potentially developing cancer in a few years and she said yes.
I asked if she'd ever gone an entire day without eating before or knew what that felt like. she hadn't.
Billionaires and multimillionaires singing 'Imagine' while sitting in their gigantic mansions largely unaffected by the pandemic.
Had someone today tell me they are anti vaxx because 2 days after thier daughter got the covid shot she turned gay
Went to a super rich girls house, she had had a baby 2 months prior, she had nannies coming in and out maids and a literal house manager plus PAs etc. and she was bragging about how she was back at work so soon and how she doesn’t know how people can stand doing ‘nothing’ for so long.
And when the baby says "mama" for the first time, it's for the nanny.
"I'm entitled to my opinion" when presented with facts showing they were wrong.
This bothers me sooooooo much. Opinions are not facts. Facts are not opinions. You are entitled to the opinion that Nickelback is a good band. You are even entitled to the opinion that certain Presidents/Prime Ministers are good/bad at their jobs because you can narrow your opinion down to very slim frames of reference (BoJo *was* the right guy to get Brexit done (unfortunately)). But you do NOT get to opine on whether the Earth is flat or whether vaccines work effectively.
"Nobody has ever died from rationing their insulin, nobody" - My FIL. That was an odd take of his, I'm still kinda puzzled over it. People have died doing almost anything. He didn't think they died from rationing something that costs hundreds of dollars per week though.
Sophomore year of high school, in my biology class, this one girl got into a conversation about what causes the winter season with the teacher.
And she goes, “winter happens because the sun turns cold, right?”
Honestly, I’m still having trouble processing that one, and it’s been eight years.
Wharton students were interviewed asking what they though the average income was. 25% said 6 figures. The same question was asked at a local community college and the collective agreement was $15k
My aunt was bragging that her knee surgery cost her zero dollars because of Medicare. I said “yeah, that kind of socialized medicine is nice”. She the threatened to “take me out back and beat my a**” for saying that.
Your aunt is mentally weak, sorry. She's like the Spongebob of brainpower.
Whenever a disabled person shares their experience and a non-disabled person tells them how they can "fix" all of those problems.
I could write an entire dissertation on this. My best friend is visually impaired but has tunnel vision. She has no peripheral vision, and people tell her to get glasses, which she has, and tell her she doesn't look blind, so she must be lying. There is so much more I can say, but I am too angry just thinking about this.
Working for a super wealthy client who lived in the most expensive gated neighbourhood in the country... A Walled community, filled with old money and old political families, and he was complaining about "the elites" who the f**k do you think you are ? Joe F*****g 6 pack?
When liberals complain about 'the elite', they are often referring to the rich/super-rich. When conservatives b***h about 'the elite', they generally mean the educated. Stupid, rich, and conservative is the worst combo.
my sister, who traveled from the US to europe for the first time when she was 15 and has now lived there for over 5 years. We were talking about reasons people join the military and I mentioned a friend of mine who grew up on a reservation with very little and joined because he wanted to travel and get out of the rez. She looked at me and said “why can’t he just save up if he wants to travel?”
I’m 27 years old, grew up with most of the same privileges as her, and have never had the time or resources to leave the country. But she thought it was reasonable for a historically disenfranchised community member, growing up with nothing, to save up his money in order to leave home and travel.
When my boss said “My word is better than getting it in writing.” I can think of several instances where they’ve promised something or given their word on only to later renege on the deal.
I'm a 911 operator and had a man call 911 because the internet at the hotel he was staying at got disconnected. I told him it was not a police issue and he would have to talk to the hotel staff and/or just wait for it to reboot. He responded, "Not a police issue? This is criminal. If I unplugged someone's life support, isn't that a crime?"
Misuse of the 9-1-1 system. Let's see how you feel in a jail cell. Wishful thinking on my part.
Me, homeless at the time and working my way out of it.
Coworker: I don't know why people go on game shows for money, winning 100,000 dollars wouldn't be life-changing, anyway.
Had a coworker that noticed an item’s tag said Made in Vietnam. She’s said “ Made in Vietnam? That’s a place? I thought it was a war !! “
My husband's friend insisted on taking us to the 'best, most authentic' Chinese restaurant in town.
I'm Chinese. He's a Jewish guy who has never been to any Chinese speaking country.
The food wasn't good, nor was it authentic.
He had the most smug look on his face when he sat back and quirked his eyebrow at me as if expecting me to heap praise onto him. Anyway, I didn't.
Best part is that they aren't friends anymore (I had nothing to do with that, I promise), so now I don't have to pretend that crab rangoons are the peak of Chinese cuisine.
American "Chinese" food is good.. some places are better than others. But nothing compares to real Chinese food. My brothers fiancé is from China and her family always has big dinner parties and OMFG... I never knew that American Chinese food wasn't actual Chinese food until I ate at their house. I'm just angry that there aren't any authentic places in the US because it's so much better than what is being sold here. I don't really remember some of the dishes they made. I just remember her mother lecturing us about how Americans ruined Asian cuisines and how she's on a mission to correct this atrocity! Oh and her red bean cakes and moon cakes were amazing! I had never had Chinese desserts before. I think she made some kind of mango pudding too one time that ruined all pudding for me. Nothing compares now.
I heard someone yesterday suggest that children should operate heavy machinery to address supply shortages.
Turns out that guy happened to be the fricken prime minister.
Not that it's a good solution (or that they would have the aptitude for it), but what small child WOULDN'T want to operate an excavator?
People wonder why there isn't more eyewitness accounts of 9/11 because surely everyone just pulled out their phones?
B***h please. Back in 2001 most people were still using 35mm film cameras, camcorders were usually VHS and digital ones were not cheap in the slightest, and the US was behind the curve on cellular technology anyway. I was in the US a few months before 9/11 and even in New York people didn't understand what SMS was let alone had a phone compatible or were using it.
How is there an amount of eyewitnesses of 9/11 that makes people wonder why there isn't more? I mean, i'm a stupid alt-left radical commie anti-America extremist, but i think that if the tallest buildings in the city had a passenger jet aircraft fly into them and turn into a dust cloud of smoke and non-melting steel beams, i'd notice it.
A friend of mine in college was absolutely shocked when I and several other friends pulled out our childhood/hometown public library cards at dinner one night. She could not fathom that all of our families went to the library regularly when we were growing up and that this is an extremely common experience for a lot of people. When I asked her what she did when she wanted to read books growing up, she said "My family just bought them all."
One of my dreams. Own books. I have been able to acquire books and will keep those that I want to re-read. All others go to the library.
You can get books for cheap at thrift store stores, library sales, and Half-Price Books sometimes. I’ve got a huge amount of books and the vast majority of them cost less than $3 each. Lots of them were free or less than $1.
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I have a lot of books that I've collected throughout my adult life. They are precious to me. I had a friend named Sam who was an avid reader. He came from a wealthy family. He visited me and my husband at our apartment. We had a small "library" where we kept books. He was mesmerized. He picked up one of the books and was walking around with it. I watched him and it was clear he planned on taking it with him. When he was leaving, I said, "Can you give me back the book you took, please?" He played it off like he didn't realize it. I replied, "So you normally go into people's houses, pick up a book, and walk out with it? GTFO of my apartment."
That's so pathetic... I had such behaviour... Also people who give books back in bad condition. I am now point blank in this... I am not giving anyone my books...
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That's sad! How would she ever be exposed to new ideas? I love libraries and bookshops equally. But libraries have that extra edge in knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Books about science, music etc that you don't find in bookstores anymore.
And libraries have human interaction with like-minded people. And book clubs, story time for children, community information... I love my library.
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My mom was poor, but we never went to the library. We did love to read though. The library in our town was too far to drive to easily. We had a lot of books, all bought from thrift stores, garage sales, and used book stores. We'd trade in whole bags of books at the used book store and use the credit to buy different ones. Now that I'm an adult, I go to the library every week!
When I was house shopping I forgo a chance at my dream house because there wasn't a library anywhere nearby. I now live in a house within walking distance of a library, and there are 4 branches a short drive away. I frequent them all. A different kind of dream house. I'm happy.
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I grew up with a family library at home. We had a whole room filled up to the ceiling with books and I still loved going to the library
Me too! I often took out the maximum number (30 I think) of books at a time, because my dad took us there regularly. Most of the ones in our library were picture books or ones mum or my grandad had growing up.
Load More Replies... okay but this i dont understand...my family went to the library like 3 times a week and checked out 60+ books each time (we have 6 ppl in the family) and we only buy the ones we REALLY REALLY love...i dont understand people who buys books randomly
I do this as an adult with video games. Local library is fairly up to date with newer releases, and I'd much rather try out a game for a few weeks at a time than pay easily 60-80 for something I don't know that I like, yikes!
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I haven't been to the library, since I was in college. The nearest one is 30 minutes away. And I like to reread books, a lot. Books are my ONE indulgence. I don't drink, smoke, do drugs, eat out, go to movies...so, I figure, as vices go, it's not a bad one.
A public library is full of so much more than books! So much adventure to be found and so much fun to be had. EVERYONE should have a library card and take advantage of all of the tools they offer!!! I buy books all the time, but I also donate a ton and take a ton out from the library - I usually just keep books from my favorite authors or books in a series so that I can re-read them or share them with friends.
Me, my Momma, and sister, want to turn a room in our house into a library
I bought a big book that was a former library book. One day a friend saw it and commented that I should bring it back to the library. When I told her I had bought it at a used bookstore, so it was mine. After she had gone, so was the book. When I asked her if she took it, she said she brought it back to a library where it belonged.
Oh man. And that library is just going to put it up for sale again.
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I admit, I am one of those people who buys books rather than going to the library. It's how I was raised, long before Amazon. Small bookstores need the revenue, and sales $$ affect how much an author will get for their next book. Now I buy my books from Bookshop.org, where sale proceeds go to independent bookstores.
In all fairness, I came from a town so small and bankrupt that the only business was a meth lab. I got to go to a library maybe twice, a 40 mile trip. If I wanted to read a book, I had to save up and buy it. Generally, I just read whatever I could borrow from family.
That's a fair reason to avoid the library. I hope your family had a similar taste in books as you :)
Load More Replies... I go to my library to rent books, cd’s and dvd’s. F**k Netflix and Spotify!
Yes, the dvds have been particularly helpful to me at times where I wasn't earning much.
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I am a love-lorn bookworm. I have a collection of books, but mostly ones I got a garage sales, school books, or ones I absolutely had to have and read 20+ times. Going to the library was always so magical for me. Books were everywhere, and just waiting to be read. The greatest part was that they weren't outrageously priced!
My comment was down voted, let me explain: In libraries children are allowed to roam the shelves and look at everyting that is interesting. There are trained librarians who talk to the children and guide them in finding things the child will enjoy. In school libraries the children come without their parents, so the parents can't "censor" what the child borrows. In public libraries the parents will follow their children, but librarians guide the parents just as much as th echildren in the coice of good literature. In bookshops there is a more limited selection of books, often only the newest and most popular. To be honest, most employees in book shops are more interesting in selling than in guiding people through literature. My original comment: In other words: Until she was a teenager or so her parents decided what she was allowed to read. Of course she could grab a book that looked interesting in the book store, but mum/dad/the one with the money decided if she was allowed to have it.
If children are allowed to read about things that interest them they develop a love of reading. That's what a good librarian does for children. (Teachers & parents too) People that love to read are lifelong learners.
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That's just so... sad. I can't even imagine- I practically grew up in the public library. I was asked to read to the other kids during storytime when I was, like, 5 or 6. My sister, nine years older than me, introduced me to YA and adult fiction starting when I was 8. That was when I discovered J. R. R. Tolkien, Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton, Jane Austen, Dickens, and so many more. Plus, I was lucky enough to have a mom who read to me when I was a baby and tons of books at home, a library which has grown and shrunk over the years (a lot of shrinking, unfortunately, thanks to the constant moving our family did), but which now spills out of six 6' tall IKEA bookcases. Even with all that, I can't imagine a life without a public library.
I know a friend who found out the community library had a book borrow limit
The library was my single Mother's salvation on Saturday afternoons & helped foster my lifelong love of reading. We're in the process of moving & I was able to whittle my book collection down to less than 1,000. My movers will still not be pleased by the 38 boxes I have left.
Born and raised in a village of 370 people. We have never had a public library. I can assure you that growing up in rural communities, unless school was in session, you had to buy your books. These days we drive 45 minutes to the nearest public library so our family has access to a decent selection of books. We also pay for our library membership.
Just wanted to add, that the majority of our books were purchased from garage sales, thrift stores, and the occasional book fair we had at school. Kids in town traded books back and forth as well as our parents. And we learned to take care of and appreciate the books we had. They are still in very good condition and our daughter has enjoyed reading them herself! 😍
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Yes owning your favorites can be nice, but there's magic in bringing it back in hopes someone else gwts to share the experience as intimately as you did, then can always look for it again, I miss video stores too! 😥
I have over 2000 books in my library, my kids have over 2500 in theirs. You see, I still use libraries, and I am poor, but you can buy books from thrift stores, discounted prices, and even for free from searches online. You don't need a lot of money to buy books, just time and effort. I also request books as gifts. I have to say, sometimes, this is a level of joy I feel blessed to have. My kids like the library but we love our books. With 5 kids, we have books for all ages and yes, they get worn and I have to throw them out... But I have to say, nothing beats happy smiles on kids faces
I love books but I do not want to own some I have had to use for school.
Most people these days can't read anything longer than a short paragraph without bitching about it..
We did both! I was such a voracious reader as a kid, I was perfectly capable of going through at least one book a day. Not only would that have been expensive, we couldn't have stored them all, LOL. It just made more sense to load up at the library! I still am a voracious reader, and as a teacher of little kids, I also love to share great books with my classes. I now have quite the personal collection of books and a cupboard in my class stuffed as well. I am also proud to say I make use of almost every library system in my general area (we have county and city systems where I live.)
I've gotten over 450 books from the recycling bins behind the library. At least half were books for children of all ages.I was appalled to find them there in the first place, especially since they were in great shape (no marks, torn pages or covers) so I checked back every week & continued finding more. I thought, how awesome, I can donate some & use the others in my Little Free Library! Unfortunately, on one of my trips someone working late called the police who threatened to take me to jail. For what? I'll never know but the Library worker had me put on trespass notice for taking things that would other wise be destroyed.WTF??? MADE ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE AT ALL. Even the officers were surprised at what I was pulling out of the bins.
I love reading and going to the library. But many small libraries only have hardcover books in general. So many series by authors are not available there. So sad and frustrating but they only have so much space.
Oh man I LOVED the library! It never occurred to me that some never had this wonderful experience.
You know that's really not as bad as some of the other things I've read in this article but it is a little condescending it's looked at the wrong way or maybe it is the right way I don't know what it had to have been there for this stitch. I didn't rent a lot of books at the library I did actually buy several of them because I just didn't want to bother taking them back all the time I had a lot of other things to do.
I won't lie... I've 100% been that person. I loved to read and my parents came from families that never could afford books so when they had me making sure i had books was the#1 priority. So once every couple of weeks they would take me to chapters and let me explore until i found something i wanted to read. University was my first time stepping into a public library. It wasn't elitist it was just overcompensating.
We did both. I still have more shelves of books than clothes. Many of them signed by the author. And I still love the smell of paper books when I’m reading. Now that’s not to say I don’t own a phone with a kindle app lol. I do with over 1,000 books on it and I have read 90% of them.
Well, depending on what country you are in it is really hard to read in libraries. Here in Brazil we don't have many libraries and usually most books are falling apart, there's no place to read them or study properly. Over here, even though books are expensive, it is better to buy them than to go in libraries. We have specific book shops for used books called "sebos" that sell used or old books. Some cities even have places where you can exchange books in a sort of farmers market.
Ugh this post is so cringe. Does she not understand that there's of thousands of towns that don't have a public library?! Yes my family bought me all the Harry Potter books, somehow we were still faaaar from wealthy. Apparently good parenting mean privileged upbringing.
I live for libraries! I love being able to borrow a half dozen or so books to read... A book a day, right?
I'm rolling on the floor, laughing. My mother was dyslexic and instead of exposing herself to embarrassment, she simply forbade me to go to the public librairy (''Germs, dear''). one day our neighbor asked if my sister and i already had our librairy cards. I was 10 by the. Mom replied, ''I prefer to buy these books for my children. It's a quality issue''. The neighbor, who knew full well that my family couldn't afford this on a factory worker's salary, laughed out loud. Next day, Sis and I had our cards. Couldn't have been happier. Ah! What a bit of good cheer can do in an instant!
Not so privileged. Missed so much opportunity to learn from sources money can't buy.
We never went to the library. We lived in a rural area and our school had a library. So i didnt even know about libraries til i was much older. and we were not rich btw
also used books were cheap at thrift stores and yard sales
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I'm surprised that no one has mentioned dumpster-diving. You wouldn't believe how many books - of all genres - in Perfect condition get tossed in the trash for lord knows why. I would never peruse whatever's out back during business hours - I do believe in monetarily supporting local bookstores - but once it's after hours as far I'm concerned it's fair game.
I'm pretty sure any unsold books from bookstores in Australia are donated to libraries and Op Shops...
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Actually I can relate, my parents are very overprotective and so I never learned anything that could have been “controversial or upsetting” until middle school… I never realized until recently that I didn’t have to be uncomfortable with being a girl and live my whole life hating my biologically given identity, I could be who I really was.
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Former roommate declared, "I'm an only child, that means I don't have to be nice if I don't want to."
I was 16 years old, in Driver's Ed, and the teacher asks us an extra credit question. "Why are there interstates in Hawaii? You can't drive there from any other state."
A girl in my class raised her hand and asked, "Was it because they were built before Hawaii broke off?"....This girl thought it was a possibility that Hawaii broke off, and drifted to the middle of the Pacific ocean, all in the last 50 years.
Also, Hawaii has interstates because, if a highway is funded by the federal government, it's simply called an interstate.
My old boss was railing on me for placing an order late and getting charged more after missing the ‘early bird special’, when I had been reminding her consistently for at least two months (gradually increasing my urgency that she needed to make up her mind). She was yelling at me and then said, “$$$ might not seem like a lot to you but it is to me!”
This coming from the person who set my wage, signed my checks, owned 4 substantial homes, had MILLIONS of dollars worth of artwork, designer everything, etc… While I was living in a 250sq foot garden studio apartment with my partner, which flooded when it rained longer than two days, making her hundreds of thousands of dollars from sales, with no commission.
My aunt is a bit into that. She's done really well for herself but has forgotten that not all of us are retired engineers who play the stock market for funsies part time. She suggested Thanksgiving at my place one year, and I had to remind her that I lived in a 2 bedroom apartment and inviting around 15 people there wasn't going to work.
I was involved in a nonprofit for women in my last city maybe 2 years back. My ex (we were 27 at the time) was from a rich area of the state, and the mean income for this area was $31k. A teacher talked about how 500+ kids in her school were homeless, abs how seniors would pool their money together to get a hotel for days or weeks at a time.
I remember telling my ex about it, and how awful that’s gotta be to be 17 and living with 10 others in a hotel. He said “they’re stupid. If they had any brains, they’d buy a house so they could get equity; the hotel is just them throwing their money away and not getting anything from it.” He was 100% stuck that these 17 year olds, with no addresses, who are MINORS, can apply and qualify for a mortgage. I fussed at him and don’t regret it, because he is so out of touch with reality. Eventually he went on months later to say he talks down about other people and acts like he’s better than everyone because he is better than everyone.
Edit to add: to clarify, he suggested the high schoolers should all buy a house, not my organization. Household income was about 10k higher than individual. His parents were loaded, so he never had to really pay for anything until after college, and even then he didn’t have to pay for housing for the first 3 years of his career, and even still, 95% of his (nice) furniture and everything was given to him. It’s very easy to brag about your 401k when you NEVER had to allocate money towards rent, loans, etc.
He would have been an EX the first time he said something that stupid.
i’ve genuinely heard someone comment on a homeless person asking why they “don’t just get a home”…
f*ck this y'all i'm picking myself up by my bootstraps *grabs bootstraps and source engine noclips out of the atmosphere*
Some guy whose parents paid for his college tuition mentioned to a coworker who has $107,000 in student loans say he should be able to pay it off in 5 years.
Coworker makes $23 an hour on 5-8s.
Classmate in college kept throwing his Starbucks cups on the ground and other garbage.
"They pay people to pick it up"
He was the son of a guy who owned multiple resorts in South America.
A coworker believes the US Military employs the use of Lightsabers.
Older coworkers asking me why poor people keep spending/borrowing money when they know they'll never pay it back..
Lol, like to live? What's the difference in $2k or $20k in debt when you know you'll only ever be paying back $0?
It's kind of liberating when you accept that you'll always be in debt. I'm getting a MA and buying a house. I'll die in debt. Good luck collecting the money then.
One of my relatives "Joined the illuminati" on facebook.... On. Facebook. He was really serious too and excited about it.
My fiance is a doctor, I'm an engineer her and I grew up VERY blue collar. We still have tons of student debt to pay off before we can reap the benefits of a good salary.
Her friend, a doctor who was a resident when she was in med school, was talking to us about the new house she bought, and kept asking us when we planned on moving out of our s****y apartment and getting a nice big town house. She couldn't comprehend that unlike her, our parents aren't rich, and they can't buy a house for us in CASH, and let us pay them back interest free.
I love her to death, she's a sweet friend we have known for a long time. She has done so much for us in terms of friendship and emotional support. But her mom was a successful surgeon, her dad retired early after selling his successful business.
There are poor people in the world who cannot for the life of them imagine what the life of a rich person is, and there are rich people in the world who have never, ever had to be confronted with what a poor person's life is like. They are surrounded their whole lives with people like them, and they really don't have a clue that there is anything else.
Had a girl ask what happened to the Mongolians in history class. She said “there’s not like a present day Mongolia or anything”. She sat under the ten foot wide world map, Mongolia was about two feet above her head.
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When the United States legalized same-sex marriage, and Americans said they were going to emigrate to Canada. 1) Canada and Norway are the first countries to legalize same-sex marriage 2) You have to apply to emigrate to Canada. It takes years and tons of paperwork, and you still might be rejected.
Yeah, I don't remember Americans having ever been invited to Canada...just sayin'. - Sincerely, all Canadians
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That's why we have so many billionaires and rich people yet the world still suffers endlessly.
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I don’t blame wealthy people for not being constantly acutely aware of how other people live. I do blame them when, if confronted with how poorer people live, they won’t take a minute do some simple math in their head. Like the wealthy woman who told me that if I visited Europe I should be sure to stay for at least a few weeks or a month and take my time, when she knew that, at that time, I made $18,000 a year. WTF?!
yep, arrogant as hell though. At that salary, which here is considered moderately low middle-income, there's ZERO chance of overseas travel. You need to be getting ballpark $ 30 000 per annum to stand a chance.
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It's 'painful' to read about human arrogance, stupidity, and lack of empathy.
The amount on stuff that did not really happen in this list and the ones that were meant as jokes far out weigh the real ones... lol
Some of these were funny... But the ones making fun of teens for not knowing how the world works were kind of sad. Like... they're still kids, they're pretty new here, they only know what they've been taught and exposed to, which is a reflection of their schools and caretakers, not of their intelligence. Like, yeah, a 16 year old should know these things, because someone should have taught them. What, do you think they learn how the world is by osmosis? Just because they have access to social media doesn't mean their phones can auto download all necessary knowledge into their brains. They have to know what to look for to learn on their own, and lots of times that takes considerable life experience. Stop ragging on literal children for not knowing things.
Neighbor was complaining about our lawn. I told her we don't have a mower. She said "So fix it". I repeated "We don't have a lawnmower"
She meant fix the lawnmower problem but that's still unreasonable
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The one about borrowing money and never being able to pay it back is a fair point. Because easy credit is offered does not make it a good move to take it, in fact it is usually not. Debt does matter and a borrower with sound morals will at least make an effort to pay it back.
My mom goes by the quote "if you are letting someone borrow money, don't expect it back"
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My boss is rich. He owns a few houses to include a really nice apartment in NYC. His daughter lives there for free. She's not required to have a job and has an unlimited credit card and gets a new Macbook for Christmas every year. One night she took a private gig bartending a party thrown by a billionaire. The only thing she had to do all night was pour wine. They paid her a few grand. When she got home to her dad's apartment, he was in town for the weekend, she said to him, "Wow Dad, now I know how the other half live." Um honey, you ARE the other half. The next time he was in the office after that he told this story to every employee. He literally told the story like 20 times. Most of his employees can barely afford their rent.
Sounds like an EXTREMELY boring and uninformed life for the dad and/or daughter
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On a vacation in Italy, my wife and I were on a train to Venice. There was a woman talking, loudly. She was from Lansing, Michigan and was discussing her experiences and insights with some she had made an acquaintance with about her tour of Italy. She said she did not care for Rome. What was her grievance with this ancient city? The streets were to narrow and she would be unable to fit her SUV down them. It was just a poorly designed city...
Work customer service for a major retailer that uses gift cards, which are treated as cash. No word of a lie, when client told me that they had gotten the gift card and mailed it out, after receiving,their response to being told we wouldn't refund it was "That's like watching my mother being raped. Picture you're mother being raped. PICTURE YOUR MOTHER BEING RAPED...." Over and over til I hung up.
Growing up, we categorize these rich people into two categories. People and marks. Yeah I'm not much of an upstanding citizen growing up. You do what you can to eat and a well gamed mark can keep you and your friends fed for a while.
Anyone can be rich. Just pick the right skin color, have wealthy parents and influential friends, be good looking, attend a top notch school, pick the right country to be born in, make sure you are male ... Just don't understood why everyone does not do these simple rules for success.
I have a feeling that it was mostly about America and their situation. and it's scary. I'm happy to live in Europe. the American dream is not as sweet as people here often imagine.
You must be very lucky then. I have lived in europe all my life and I am poor as f**k. In Spain unemployment is rampant, salaries are extremely low and many kids go to school without food. In the netherlands you need to pay a extremely expensive insurance (minimum 95 euros a month) to even get any health care and not get a huge fine. Here in belgium if you are a migrant and disabled like me you get nothing, only threats and lies from the government. The only reason why I am not in the streets is because my partner has a job and cares for me.
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When the United States legalized same-sex marriage, and Americans said they were going to emigrate to Canada. 1) Canada and Norway are the first countries to legalize same-sex marriage 2) You have to apply to emigrate to Canada. It takes years and tons of paperwork, and you still might be rejected.
Yeah, I don't remember Americans having ever been invited to Canada...just sayin'. - Sincerely, all Canadians
Load More Replies... That's why we have so many billionaires and rich people yet the world still suffers endlessly.
Load More Replies... I don’t blame wealthy people for not being constantly acutely aware of how other people live. I do blame them when, if confronted with how poorer people live, they won’t take a minute do some simple math in their head. Like the wealthy woman who told me that if I visited Europe I should be sure to stay for at least a few weeks or a month and take my time, when she knew that, at that time, I made $18,000 a year. WTF?!
yep, arrogant as hell though. At that salary, which here is considered moderately low middle-income, there's ZERO chance of overseas travel. You need to be getting ballpark $ 30 000 per annum to stand a chance.
Load More Replies... No, can't say that I have. Edit: went to post the same thing again as a joke and bp outright says "hey, you already made this same comment before, so we won't post it."
Load More Replies... It's 'painful' to read about human arrogance, stupidity, and lack of empathy.
The amount on stuff that did not really happen in this list and the ones that were meant as jokes far out weigh the real ones... lol
Some of these were funny... But the ones making fun of teens for not knowing how the world works were kind of sad. Like... they're still kids, they're pretty new here, they only know what they've been taught and exposed to, which is a reflection of their schools and caretakers, not of their intelligence. Like, yeah, a 16 year old should know these things, because someone should have taught them. What, do you think they learn how the world is by osmosis? Just because they have access to social media doesn't mean their phones can auto download all necessary knowledge into their brains. They have to know what to look for to learn on their own, and lots of times that takes considerable life experience. Stop ragging on literal children for not knowing things.
Neighbor was complaining about our lawn. I told her we don't have a mower. She said "So fix it". I repeated "We don't have a lawnmower"
She meant fix the lawnmower problem but that's still unreasonable
Load More Replies... The one about borrowing money and never being able to pay it back is a fair point. Because easy credit is offered does not make it a good move to take it, in fact it is usually not. Debt does matter and a borrower with sound morals will at least make an effort to pay it back.
My mom goes by the quote "if you are letting someone borrow money, don't expect it back"
Load More Replies... My boss is rich. He owns a few houses to include a really nice apartment in NYC. His daughter lives there for free. She's not required to have a job and has an unlimited credit card and gets a new Macbook for Christmas every year. One night she took a private gig bartending a party thrown by a billionaire. The only thing she had to do all night was pour wine. They paid her a few grand. When she got home to her dad's apartment, he was in town for the weekend, she said to him, "Wow Dad, now I know how the other half live." Um honey, you ARE the other half. The next time he was in the office after that he told this story to every employee. He literally told the story like 20 times. Most of his employees can barely afford their rent.
Sounds like an EXTREMELY boring and uninformed life for the dad and/or daughter
Load More Replies... On a vacation in Italy, my wife and I were on a train to Venice. There was a woman talking, loudly. She was from Lansing, Michigan and was discussing her experiences and insights with some she had made an acquaintance with about her tour of Italy. She said she did not care for Rome. What was her grievance with this ancient city? The streets were to narrow and she would be unable to fit her SUV down them. It was just a poorly designed city...
Work customer service for a major retailer that uses gift cards, which are treated as cash. No word of a lie, when client told me that they had gotten the gift card and mailed it out, after receiving,their response to being told we wouldn't refund it was "That's like watching my mother being raped. Picture you're mother being raped. PICTURE YOUR MOTHER BEING RAPED...." Over and over til I hung up.
Growing up, we categorize these rich people into two categories. People and marks. Yeah I'm not much of an upstanding citizen growing up. You do what you can to eat and a well gamed mark can keep you and your friends fed for a while.
Anyone can be rich. Just pick the right skin color, have wealthy parents and influential friends, be good looking, attend a top notch school, pick the right country to be born in, make sure you are male ... Just don't understood why everyone does not do these simple rules for success.
I have a feeling that it was mostly about America and their situation. and it's scary. I'm happy to live in Europe. the American dream is not as sweet as people here often imagine.
You must be very lucky then. I have lived in europe all my life and I am poor as f**k. In Spain unemployment is rampant, salaries are extremely low and many kids go to school without food. In the netherlands you need to pay a extremely expensive insurance (minimum 95 euros a month) to even get any health care and not get a huge fine. Here in belgium if you are a migrant and disabled like me you get nothing, only threats and lies from the government. The only reason why I am not in the streets is because my partner has a job and cares for me.
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