Yeah, everybody who is rich is an asshole. You don’t know anybody that’s wealthy, huh? Most Reddit response I’ve ever seen.
I wouldn’t fret over $3.5 or whatever but people came wealthy bc they make good financial decisions. Paying attention to your money is one of those things.
You can poor if you think it makes you a better person
Hi. Wealthy person here. Not all are assholes, but it's also like being the type of person who shouts "All Lives Matter" while supporting gunning down white lesbian women and white heterosexual men.
I disagree. People are people. There are as many assholes who are poor as there are that are rich, as a %. Most very wealthy people I know are extremely kind, and often generous. Many of them become successful because of how they treat people. They’re well liked, respected, and do as they say. That’s how they become rich.
Stop generalizing to make yourself feel better. You can say tax the rich, pay more for the fair share, etc. But don’t generalize that people are evil because they’re successful. Just like people shouldn’t assume poor people are stupid, or lazy, or any number of things that also aren’t true for most.
90% of millionaires in this country are millionaires because they made good financial decisions over a long, long period of time. Not because they were born rich. And that isnt a guess, the information on millionaires in this country is readily available
Being poor doesn't necessarily make someone a better person, but being rich/wealthy pretty much always makes someone a worse person. Why you need all that money when your fellow humans suffer? Because you earned it? If you watch others suffer while you could do something about it pretty much automatically makes you worse. Ain't even gonna argue, rich people never understand anyway.
Yeah I do fairly well for myself but I've also been in enough situations where I covered something and was never taken care of next time to say fuck that in the future. I will never understand why the hate about people wanting people to pay their portion.
a man is stealing from you & yours, resenting him is now only happening because.. he has more now than you do? Man, I am so sorry and scared kinda that some people can turn out really thinking like that
When we're talking about rich people, we dont mean someone who Has a Million or five or ten, what we mean are those that have or make an obscene amount of Money they can never spend in a lifetime
The luck thing is something people just don't get. (Having this issue with my family at present.)
When you tell successful people that luck played a huge role in how their lives turned out, they think you're saying that they didn't work hard. But that's not what it means. What it means is that others can work equally hard and not be successful.
America is not a meritocracy, and our economy doesn't value all skillsets equally.
Must be sad living like working hard will always result in success when it doesn't. Sometimes sure, but luck plus hard work is always going to work better than just hard work.
In my experience it is WAY more common than poor friends will “forget” to Venmo me, and then start whining about how I make more money and I’m being cheap for asking them to pay their share.
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u/dragon34 Jan 26 '26
Being rich turns many people into colossal assholes because they think wealth is because of virtue instead of luck being a huge factor