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In reply to the discussion: Why dislike the super rich? Envious? Jealous? That's what they think. [View all]booley
(3,855 posts)It's like if I rented you a room in my house for a price that practically paid off my mortgage
and then also abused you and made your life miserable.
I let you into my Home (which you unintentionally paid for) so you should be grateful and stop complaining about how I took the car you need for work and smashed it while driving drunk.
They are so self involved, they not only have no idea what harm they do to others when they keep taking everything they can, they actually think the pittance they give back is MORE.
Now to be fair, for many it's simple ignorance. They have no idea, especially if this is the life they have always known. Taking is normal for them. And so it can be corrected. (warren Buffet apparently became more concerned about those in lower tax brackets after he married his current wife who didn't' have these blinders on. And JK Rowling came from a background of financial hardship)
But for others, this is willful ignorance.
No wealth does not automatically make you a bad person.
But it sure does nothing to make you a good person.