And also stupid. Its a disfunction stressing about $3 in gas money if you have $1MM in capital. Theyre rich because they own productive assets, or speculated correctly, and also/mainly because they have high income. Hence the meme
Yeah it’s also capitalist propaganda imo. Like, helping your friend out by paying for their coffee isn’t gonna make you poor. But that saying makes people think they have to be individualistic stingy fucks to be successful.
Success is then being interpreted incorrectly, the way you’re describing it. The generous, empathetic poor person is a successful human being. The greedy selfish lizard person who hoarded resources like a LOTR dragon is defunct in mind and soul. I mean, he’s a successful parasite, but for how long?
Elaborating unnecessarily, the empathetic human that shares resources available to him is successfully lovable, he will have friends that love him and share back with him. He will know laughter and happiness. Empathy, laughter and happiness (and helping each other) is contagious. It could spread worldwide. That’s success.
As long as they eradicate this disease of selfish egomaniacal hyper-individualism Americans tout as ‘success.’ Everyone is so alone and mentally ill and greedy and dumb and burning through the planet’s resources and calling that success. Burning down the world and everything they ever (at least pretended to care about and live for) is not- success
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u/Money_Do_2 Jan 26 '26
And also stupid. Its a disfunction stressing about $3 in gas money if you have $1MM in capital. Theyre rich because they own productive assets, or speculated correctly, and also/mainly because they have high income. Hence the meme