I was at a friend’s house recently, and he began slamming “rich” people saying they have to pay more taxes, are the root of the problems, etc.
I had to point out to him that once you start playing that game, there is no end to it, and had to point out to him that he had a job, a car, a house and a hot tub on a four season porch, and that he can take two week vacations in Montana and have season tickets to professional football games.
He doesn’t seem to realize that when you play that game, someone will point the finger at you, no matter how modest your means might be, simply because you have a little more than them.
Just amazing.
Bingo.
And once the slug that won’t work gets what you have, while getting the same you, You stop working too.
Then where is society?
It is in decline, and envy is still there.
Social disorder and chaos comes next.
The scary part is, once some of them do realize it they react by dehumanizing the rich. Dehumanizing is the standard way to cut off empathizing with a certain group of our fellow humans.
“I was at a friend’s house recently, and he began slamming “rich” people saying they have to pay more taxes, are the root of the problems, etc.”
There is a guy I work with that is alway going on about how the country is stacked in favor of rich people and that poor folks like him don’t stand a chance.
Or rather he used to go on, until I burst out laughing when he started.
I pointed out that he owned two houses — free and clear, no mortgage, and had half a million dollars in retirement savings and a six-figure bank acount for walking-around money. That if he had all that he wasn’t poor, and in the definition of many folks would be considered rich — especially since his household consisted of just him and he had no kids and had never had a spouse.
He sputtered for a while, and then finally — “I am *not* rich.” Idiot doesn’t have a clue.