We have all heard the common wisdom. “It is often the poorest man that leaves his children the greatest inheritance.” The person was not blessed with riches, everything was not handed to them on a silver platter. They had to work hard to get everything they have, common sense therefore dictates that they must be more appreciative of everything they have. They earned everything with their bare hands.
No one, however, warned us of the hateful bitterness, the resentment, the seething jealousy and vitriol that they spew and with which they regard middle-class and upper-class people.
“Why shouldn’t I get a piece of the pie however I want? Those rich people have so much, they have everything, I have nothing, but more importantly, I was given nothing in the first place.” This is closer to the common forthhurlings that we hear from poor people in the stead of any gentle wisdom.
Not to mention the gold-digger tendencies.
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They actually see drugs and prostitution as viable career options. You think these people are somehow noble??
Someone who had a hardscrabble life, from grinding poverty and possibly grew up in a violent home -- you think they're going to have normal, healthy judgment and outlook on life? No way. That hard life, having to scratch and claw, it's really going to skew their perceptions of everything. It will twist their perceptions of circumstances, of other people, of other people who have more than them.
No, they're going to be bitter resentful, seething with vitriol and hate at the people who had a comfy cushy life and apparently had everything handed to them on a silver platter. This is from their pov, not mine.
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There was a magazine blurb about a person whose family did not have much money growing up, and now that the person married into money, the person was lavishly spending, throwing money around right and left.
What the hell...?? This is something I had honestly never foreseen. You mean to tell me that poor people actually become irresponsible with money...?? I’m talking about irresponsibility if they suddenly receive a lot of money after having grown up poor, that is. You are telling me that they don’t know how to handle a sudden avalanche. They think they are overjoyed to suddenly be receiving all this, when in truth they are overwhelmed and ill-equipped to handle it. Sudden onslaught of cash -- they simply do not know how to handle it. They do not have the emotional maturity. They have no self-discipline, no self-restraint.
Rich people, as this vein of thought goes, are used to having money. Therefore they can handle it both mentally and logistically -- they are used to managing and controlling large sums. They probably run big successful businesses and stuff. They keep it cool. They are much more mature and level-headed about it.
This is truly something I had not predicted. Growing up I was taught that poor people are thankful for everything they have and for what little they have been given, and therefore they would not splurge and waste money on useless crap. And they would instead give a sizeable percentage of their gains to charity. That is the school of thought with which I had grown up.
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Which is not to say that I am entirely against socialism. Nor entirely against capitalism, mind you.
The results are in. If the noble poor person exists, it is a dwindling species.
No one, however, warned us of the hateful bitterness, the resentment, the seething jealousy and vitriol that they spew and with which they regard middle-class and upper-class people.
“Why shouldn’t I get a piece of the pie however I want? Those rich people have so much, they have everything, I have nothing, but more importantly, I was given nothing in the first place.” This is closer to the common forthhurlings that we hear from poor people in the stead of any gentle wisdom.
Not to mention the gold-digger tendencies.
---
They actually see drugs and prostitution as viable career options. You think these people are somehow noble??
Someone who had a hardscrabble life, from grinding poverty and possibly grew up in a violent home -- you think they're going to have normal, healthy judgment and outlook on life? No way. That hard life, having to scratch and claw, it's really going to skew their perceptions of everything. It will twist their perceptions of circumstances, of other people, of other people who have more than them.
No, they're going to be bitter resentful, seething with vitriol and hate at the people who had a comfy cushy life and apparently had everything handed to them on a silver platter. This is from their pov, not mine.
***
There was a magazine blurb about a person whose family did not have much money growing up, and now that the person married into money, the person was lavishly spending, throwing money around right and left.
What the hell...?? This is something I had honestly never foreseen. You mean to tell me that poor people actually become irresponsible with money...?? I’m talking about irresponsibility if they suddenly receive a lot of money after having grown up poor, that is. You are telling me that they don’t know how to handle a sudden avalanche. They think they are overjoyed to suddenly be receiving all this, when in truth they are overwhelmed and ill-equipped to handle it. Sudden onslaught of cash -- they simply do not know how to handle it. They do not have the emotional maturity. They have no self-discipline, no self-restraint.
Rich people, as this vein of thought goes, are used to having money. Therefore they can handle it both mentally and logistically -- they are used to managing and controlling large sums. They probably run big successful businesses and stuff. They keep it cool. They are much more mature and level-headed about it.
This is truly something I had not predicted. Growing up I was taught that poor people are thankful for everything they have and for what little they have been given, and therefore they would not splurge and waste money on useless crap. And they would instead give a sizeable percentage of their gains to charity. That is the school of thought with which I had grown up.
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Which is not to say that I am entirely against socialism. Nor entirely against capitalism, mind you.
The results are in. If the noble poor person exists, it is a dwindling species.
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