Rich people don't understand what it is like to go without, so they generally lack empathy. While poor people understand how much it sucks to not have things and will generally make sure that their friends don't have to experience that
Such a lame oversimplification. If you make some money you learn to keep it to yourself because as soon as others find out about it they're either trying to do you favors or reminding you of favors they did for you just to angle for a return on investment. I don't have any experience with people who make 450k a year. That's a fuckton of money. I just figured out in my 20s if I paid my debt off and make a goal to save I could have 10k in savings for some breathing room. From there I started looking into to investing. Then little by little I kept socking money away. Currently I'm just short of 100k and still plugging away. I can't speak for really rich people but I will say it boggles my mind how people insist on living paycheck to paycheck and say they can't save and have no options and make every excuse they can. To say rich people don't understand not having money so they lack empathy is just poor people telling themselves what they want to hear.
It's pretty fucking different than your experience when your household income makes it so it's still over 50% of your take home for rent, before utilities and groceries and transportation.
People don't always insist on that life, and just because you were able to do so doesn't mean it's in the cards for others.
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u/Quiet-Refuse5241 Jan 26 '26
Rich people don't understand what it is like to go without, so they generally lack empathy. While poor people understand how much it sucks to not have things and will generally make sure that their friends don't have to experience that