Six things rich people need to stop saying.

[Metacomet]

I particularly enjoy #2
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-things-rich-people-need-to-stop-saying/


And even stranger, it implies that money earned is a perfect indicator of a person's value to society -- if you're broke, it must mean you're a loser who contributes nothing to anyone's life. And that's downright bizarre when it comes from the same people who also go on and on about the importance of parenting and family values. Surely they've noticed that being a great stay-at-home parent makes you exactly zero dollars a year.
And volunteering to work at a shelter for battered women? Doesn't pay shit! Diving into a creek to save a toddler from drowning? It pays infinitely less than throwing a touchdown pass during the Super Bowl.



So, mister rich person who clearly is not reading this, when we say you're "lucky," we're not saying you're lucky in the way that a lottery winner is lucky. We're saying that you're lucky if you were born in a time and place where the hard work you're good at (say, stock speculation) is valued over the hard work that other people are good at (say, landscaping, or poetry).
You can reply that if some other field paid more, you'd have just simply switched to it and been equally successful, due to your smarts and determination. You know, like how the smart and determined Michael Jordan was equally successful as a basketball player (six titles, $70 million a year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan#Media_figure_and_business_interests )) and baseball player (batted .202 in the minors) and team owner (his Charlotte Bobcats are currently 4-28).
Hmm ... wait a second. Man, it's almost like Michael's hard work and determination wouldn't have made him rich if he hadn't happened to have been born in the one place and one time in human history where a man could get rich throwing a rubber ball through a small metal hoop.


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[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Rich people need to stop posting things on Facebook like "Anyone else going to a cruise for 2 weeks, HMU." I was like "stfu."

[Ostrinski]

Read this earlier today. Article was alright. Good for liberal standards.

[Metacomet]

Rich people need to stop posting things on Facebook like "Anyone else going to a cruise for 2 weeks, HMU." I was like "stfu."

I went to high school with people that are seemingly always on vacation, like...........every time I seem to see them posting a status they are somewhere else. New Orleans, New York, Florida, Cali..............:rolleyes:

[eric922]

I went to high school with people that are seemingly always on vacation, like...........every time I seem to see them posting a status they are somewhere else. New Orleans, New York, Florida, Cali..............:rolleyes:
Must be nice. I want to go to Cali and New York. Screw Florida, though it sucks.

[Tovarisch]

Absolutely beautiful article! Even though it was not written from a Marxist point of view, the article is still great. It perfectly captures everything the rich people throw at us

Number one is absolutely my favorite, great point on the "I never got help from anyone" thing

[Lobotomy]

#6. "Well, $500,000 a Year Might Sound Like a Lot, but I'm Hardly Rich."

It's weird, because I've actually heard rich people say things like this. I think it's because they often associate with people who are even richer than they are, so they don't feel rich in comparison. anyway, fuck them.

[Ocean Seal]

"I'm not an exploiter"
My workers just create all of the profits. Exploiters are my friends who own factories in Latin America and Asia and they force the workers to work 80 hours a day so that they can sell me basic products to expand my capital stock in the US. Now that makes union busting, employee intimidation, and paying my workers a wage that qualifies them for welfare seem tame right?

[RGacky3]

Read this earlier today. Article was alright. Good for liberal standards.


Its intention was to be funny ....

[RGacky3]

But if none of that stuff existed, there would be nothing stopping Jay-Z from taking your farm. In other words, you don't "own" shit. The entire concept of owning anything, be it a hunk of land or a house or a fucking sandwich, exists purely because other people pay other armed men to protect it. Without society, all of your brave, individual talents and efforts won't buy you a bucket of farts.


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A great quote.

[NorwegianCommunist]

Rich people need to stop posting things on Facebook like "Anyone else going to a cruise for 2 weeks, HMU." I was like "stfu."

That is true.
Some rich shitheads in my school are like: "I don't want to go to Hawaii for 2 weeks. They don't have any good resturants for lobsters" (LITTERALLY)
They are so stupid.

Things like that make me so fucking angry.
Kids in africa walks several miles for a couple of gallons with water and people in Norway complain about lobsters? seriously???

[Night Ripper]

This thread is so full of envy that I find it hilarious. Also...


But, sadly, all civilization and morality rests on the fact that we have to answer to each other -- the only reason I haven't murdered a dozen people in traffic is because society will bring consequences if I do.

This guy is clearly a fucking idiot. The only reason I haven't killed anyone is because it's WRONG, not because I might get caught. This reminds me of the religious people that say the only reason why they don't rape and murder is because God is watching.

A few rich kids you know are spoiled so therefore all rich people are assholes, brilliant logic. *slow clap*

[RGacky3]

This guy is clearly a fucking idiot. The only reason I haven't killed anyone is because it's WRONG, not because I might get caught. This reminds me of the religious people that say the only reason why they don't rape and murder is because God is watching.


Great way to run a society ... Just hope people don't do things that you think are "wrong."


A few rich kids you know are spoiled so therefore all rich people are assholes, brilliant logic. *slow clap*

Have you read the article???

Btw, WHY ARN'T YOU RICH??

Are you lazy, lack motivation or both?

[Night Ripper]

Btw, WHY ARN'T YOU RICH??

I don't know. I'll ask the guy at the Lexus dealership in a few thousand miles.

[RGacky3]

Is it because you are lazy?

Or is it because you don't WANT to be rich?

According to your ideology those are basically your only 2 options.

[NorwegianCommunist]

This thread is so full of envy that I find it hilarious. Also..

A few rich kids you know are spoiled so therefore all rich people are assholes, brilliant logic. *slow clap*

Envy? This is revleft, we are imbaressed of the capitalism that got them rich.
Poeple don't always have to work hard to become rich, they can simply be born into a rich family. Look at Sam Waltons kids.

Not only are rich kids "spoiled", but they become stupid because of the way they can just sail through life like an idiot.
Rich people can be nice and really smart, but when a kid is born into a rich family, they just become so shallow and stupid when it comes to .some things

[Nox]

There was a rich kid (by rich I mean his parents were rich) at my high school, and he was a fucking snobby git. He was a friend of some of my friends so we often walked home together in the same group and every day he would buy a KFC snack box, eat about 1/4 of it then chuck the rest in to some random person's garden we walked past. I will never forget how much of an arrogant dick that guy was, I ended up kneeing him in head after having to put up with him for almost 2 years

[NorwegianCommunist]

I got mad only reading that story Nox, I would not put up with that shit.
:thumbup1:

[Nox]

I got mad only reading that story Nox, I would not put up with that shit.
:thumbup1:

Well actually the reason for me kneeing him in the head was unrelated to his snobbiness but that's a story for another time ;)

[Misanthrope]

Well what is rich? Can we really assign a dollar figure to it? I thought we were marxists, we view social class in relation to the mode of production.

sure is liberal in here.

[Dark Matter]

only 6 things?

[RGacky3]

Well what is rich? Can we really assign a dollar figure to it? I thought we were marxists, we view social class in relation to the mode of production.

sure is liberal in here.

There are plenty of articles about "bosses," its a freaking comedy article, lay off it.