Riches and resources are something that people have been fighting over since humans first appeared on the surface of the Earth. No wonder people who, for one reason or another, have plenty of goods so many individuals are craving, have long been sparking the imagination of all the rest of us.
People on Twitter were sharing their observations about the funny and brutal things rich people do. They are often out of touch with reality - well, at least that's what the tweets lead us to believe, anyway, so scroll down, and read the best of them from the internet.
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Many true and fictional tales about those rich folks and their wealthy lifestyles are told. However, the focus of heated discussions is not just the rich people and their resources. It is also the question of just how far-reaching this topic is – is it indeed money that “makes the world go round”?
Regardless of which side they take, most people have strong opinions about it: those who take riches to be the source of all evil and tend to limit their wealth to what is needed for their basic survival, and people who, on the contrary, think wealth can guarantee a happy and secure life for themselves and their loved ones alike. Both agree - resources do affect our lives.
Like the Oscar's grab bags? Literally $200,000 worth of products & services they can afford.. pocket change to them. Yet they get it all for free just for being famous. Meanwhile Martha on the 9th ward is about to lose her home & hasn't had water in 2 months even though she's working 3 jobs & her 2 kids go to public school & are latch key kids & her house isn't even safe to live in... but she works harder than any fucken rich person or celebrity... & she doesn't even have insurance & hasn't seen a dentist in 7 years because that's a luxury for us poor folks. Those same celebs are on their 4th set of veneers & paying their bills doesn't even make a dent in their checking. But yes. Let's give them free s**t & tax breaks!
So they could tell everyone else during a pandemic that they're "suffering" or "isolating" like everyone else at home and try to be relatable....try.
Having many tales told and many stereotypes surrounding rich folks, there have been two basic lines of thought spreading around the internet. People are asking: how are the wealthy really different from everyone else? And much of it comes down to or is a direct reference to a famous discussion between the two iconic American writers. The way the story is usually told is that it was Fitzgerald who proclaimed: “The rich are different from you and me.” To that, Hemingway replied: “Yes, they have more money.”
A likely interpretation of this conversation would claim that Fitzgerald was referring to rich people as altogether different from other people, while Hemingway would put down such an interpretation, explaining that the only difference between rich and poor is money - these types of people are no different in other ways.
If life on Alien Planets is anything like life on Earth, the first aliens we meet will be the Elon Musk of their planet.
they filled their heads with it and now they think they know everything
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And what's best for everyone always turns out to be very, very, very good for rich people. Amazing coincidence.
Because of sycophants that surround them, or they surround themselves with. The one that comes to mind is Russel Brand, who now seems to believe that he is the absolute expert on everything from history, to economics, to voting, and no one has taken him aside and told him that not every thought he has, has to be said out loud. But there are also actors who believe they are incredible singers, and vice versa, who don't have real friends who will tell them, kindly, "You can't hold a note/there are trees less wooden than you."
OR...you wouldn't be poor if"....meanwhile a ton of them inherited their money.
Because when you can remove a lot of your problems with money, life will seem like life is easy to handle, and that will quickly lead to overcomfidence. When you are not used to dealing with problems, you have no concept of how hard it can be to tackle certain types of problems on your own or indeed what was the true cause of you not experiencing it. Furthermore there is all the brownnosing, by people who think they will get personal gain by sucking up to you. When you constantly is being told how great you are (though it might not be true) it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you are gifted with a special set of skills, which makes you particularly good at dealing with all sorts of problems. It is called privilege's blindness combined with the Dunning Krügger effect. I also wish that the journalist and tv shows would read up on the association fallacy, and realise that there isn't nessesarily a connection between being good at singing, and having reasonable political view
They know we celebrate wealth and want to become wealthy ourselves, so why not if -- if it gives their egos a boost?
Right, it is like Tevye sings in Fiddler on the Roof's 'If I were a Rich Man' The most important men in town would come to fawn on me. They would ask me to advise them like a Solomon the Wise....posing problems that would cross a rabbi's eyes. and it wont make one bit of difference if i answer right or wrong, when you're rich they think you really know!
Look, if they're giving advice on how to get money AND they didn't inherit it, fine, I will listen to get some ideas, but otherwise, no... you're just a person.
Curiously enough, as noted in the article for the New York Times, this famous story is partly a creation of Hemingway - his adaptation of a real-life conversation between four guys. It was Hemingway, Fitzgerald, their editor Max Perkins, and critic Mary Colum having lunch. Hemingway started the conversation by saying: “I am getting to know the rich.” And it was Colum who replied “The only difference between the rich and other people is that the rich have more money.”
However, Hemingway used this real-life conversation in his novel, additionally, making the central character of The Snows of Kilimanjaro exclaim: “poor Scott Fitzgerald and his romantic awe of [the rich].” Seeing how different the real-life conversation was, no wonder Fitzgerald was offended. His name was used by Hemingway to make him look overly sympathetic toward rich people only for the sake of their money. Fitzgerald commented on Hemingway’s story saying: “Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.”
Because they're under the impression that the tax dollars they don't pay anyway are what pays for that assistance
However, it might be noted that ten years before the conversation at lunch, Fitzgerald wrote a short story, The Rich Boy, that he started with this topic. He wrote: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustworthy, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.”
Rainer Zitelmann, in his article for Forbes, is analyzing whether rich people are ‘different not only in terms of what they possess, but also in their personalities.' He discusses a study by six German economists and psychologists, who interviewed 130 wealthy individuals. They distinguished that rich people are emotionally more stable and more open to new experiences. However, they are less agreeable, less likely to shy away from conflicts, and more narcissistic. Also, the rich are more conscientious and they perceive themselves as having more control over their lives.
In his dissertation on “The Wealth Elite”, Rainer Zitelmann interviewed 45 individuals, from which the majority consisted of self-made millionaires. Based on the interviews, similarly to the previous study, Zitelmann found, that the rich are psychologically very stable, as opposed to being very neurotic, open to new experiences, and more extroverted, more conscientious, but less agreeable. He adds that based on his findings, the superrich people tend to be nonconformists - they are likely to express their opinion when it opposes the common views of their time and place. Finally, rich people tend to take credit for both their fortunes and misfortunes, in that way having an approach that allows them to perceive themselves as agents that are in control of their life.
I mean I am not rich but I would love empty space just for the peace of it
Because it’s expensive to be poor. Bad credit, debts, easier to get scammed in desperation, more likely to turn to illegitimate sources to survive, more likely to have untreated/self medicated mental health struggles.
So ugly style as in decor? Like zebra striped carpet and neon polka dot curtains?
This is really weird too. So historically the bigger you were the richer you were it meant you had money. The same with bad teeth should you have money to eat as much as you want. Now it is so popular to be slim and it's just so weird.
Because they do it for vanity & "the aesthetic" instead of actually going to a gold artist that specializes in the style they want. They also rarely ever have any actual struggles in life... so most of the time the "art" they put on their body is copy & pasted from fucken Pinterest & it holds no real meaning to them. I'm a tattoo artist. If I had a dollar for every fucken rich person who stole one of my designs from Instagram or Pinterest & didn't change a single thing about it.. even when ITS A FUCKEN TRIBUTE TATTOO! I'd be able to afford to stop advertising my art online to get new clients
Terrible one-sided roast of 'rich' people, without any real example as per thread title. BP reposting garbage again.
agreed. the whole premise seems to just be "PeOplE wiTh lOtS oF mOnEy = bAd1!!111!!"
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Bp is at its best when it posts things that are interesting, beautiful or heartwarming (or funny!). But when it denigrates groups, countries (usa) or entire systems - or entire generations of people - it's at its worst, negative, narrowminded and stereotyping.
It looks like they are finally starting to listen to users. When reading BoredPanda using a web browser, I am seeing a section below some listicles to provide feedback and rate said listicle. BoredPanda never used to be like this--they used to write a lot of their own uplifting and fun content.
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I do not begrudge the rich for their material things. I do ask why they flaunt it to poorer people, sometimes in such a way as to try to make us simpathetic. In many ways, I actually feel sorry for some of them, because they literally sold their soul to be rich and famous. The devil does not come as a horned red entity, he comes as a beautiful person, with the supposed answers to make everything better and beautiful. Just do this thing, then that thing, and on and on, ad infinitum. And when you cant, it gets yanked away, exposing all the ugliness underneath. Nah, I'll keep my low key life. I'm happy where I am, way out in the middle of vast, green nowhere, nice and quiet.
Other people's money is other people's business. You all would be a lot happier if you focused on yourself.
I misread "Netizens" as "Nietzscheans" and came here hoping all the questions would be "Why haven't you thrown off the dead hand of slave morality and ascended to supermen?"
why do rich people....whatever. it's elitism. they want to be part of something that most people can't so they feel superior.
Terrible one-sided roast of 'rich' people, without any real example as per thread title. BP reposting garbage again.
agreed. the whole premise seems to just be "PeOplE wiTh lOtS oF mOnEy = bAd1!!111!!"
Load More Replies... Bp is at its best when it posts things that are interesting, beautiful or heartwarming (or funny!). But when it denigrates groups, countries (usa) or entire systems - or entire generations of people - it's at its worst, negative, narrowminded and stereotyping.
It looks like they are finally starting to listen to users. When reading BoredPanda using a web browser, I am seeing a section below some listicles to provide feedback and rate said listicle. BoredPanda never used to be like this--they used to write a lot of their own uplifting and fun content.
Load More Replies... I do not begrudge the rich for their material things. I do ask why they flaunt it to poorer people, sometimes in such a way as to try to make us simpathetic. In many ways, I actually feel sorry for some of them, because they literally sold their soul to be rich and famous. The devil does not come as a horned red entity, he comes as a beautiful person, with the supposed answers to make everything better and beautiful. Just do this thing, then that thing, and on and on, ad infinitum. And when you cant, it gets yanked away, exposing all the ugliness underneath. Nah, I'll keep my low key life. I'm happy where I am, way out in the middle of vast, green nowhere, nice and quiet.
Other people's money is other people's business. You all would be a lot happier if you focused on yourself.
I misread "Netizens" as "Nietzscheans" and came here hoping all the questions would be "Why haven't you thrown off the dead hand of slave morality and ascended to supermen?"
why do rich people....whatever. it's elitism. they want to be part of something that most people can't so they feel superior.
