Where do the people who worked 40+ hours a week jobs and worked up to being rich go?
You know that’s only 10 people right?
I understand the sentiment, but depending on what you consider “rich” that, IMO, is very, very wrong.
You’re moving the goalpost.
I just see two classes. The working class and the owner class. People who own entire large businesses without having to work at them or manage them? That’s rich. The owners.
Anybody who has to work to live is by definition working class, though some working class people get paid very well and can lead decadent lives. I might be caught saying they are well-off, doing well, are rewarded generously for their work, can afford more freedoms than most. They aren’t rich though. Their continued labor makes their life possible.
They’re not the people the post is talking about. It’s the trust fund babies who just get everything for free, are given super well paying jobs because of their parents, and just never have to struggle.
Not their fault, just sucks to be on the other end of it
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I don’t have to work 40h a week to get by…
I work a lot more, but for my own leisure…
I live in France.
“If you aren’t rich (right now), its because your parents did not worked enough.”
I’m not jealous of anyone, good on you. What I do have a problem with is when the rich refuse to pay their fair share of taxes. Not only do they don’t want to pay a fair share, while using our society, they use that money they saved cheesing the system to subvert politicans and our system to pay even less and squeeze people even more.
All that said I also think billionaires shouldn’t be a a thing. Past 1000 million dollars you should be taxed at 99%.
What does that fix though? Government is a little more funded, so what? If thieves were rampant, the solution isn’t taxing the thieves.
Billionaires leech off of the working class and we should just tax them? No, we need to address the underlying mechanisms that allow them to do that. If someone actually did $1 billion worth of labor, they deserve the billion, and probably a prize for being the first
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While I agree with your message on taxation, I don’t think any billionaires actually earn a billion dollars that could be taxed like that.
Our media fawns over their wealth which is assets, their business value and the like, not actual income that could be taxed. I definitely agree with a wealth tax though, but I don’t know if that operates in the same way as a progressive income tax works, as in “after x amount you owe y% and then z% after another total dollar amount.”
Wealth tax. No one needs more money. You’ve won capitalism. Now you can compete in a high score of who gives back most to society, and pretend it’s actually you that is doing the good deed.
I kinda like the general idea, but I think you’d just end up with corporate fat-cats that personally hold close the limit, and then have a couple of hundred ‘friends’ who hold the rest and live in fear of themselves and their families getting disappeared if they touch the wealth without directions from said fat-cats.
Not just that but I don’t think massive amounts of wealth concentrated into a small number of hands is good for a democracy.
Lots of rich people are workaholics with a high tolerance for risk.
A lot of risks are nullified by being rich
I would bet most workaholics are not rich, and neither are most risk takers.
Rich people works too. Source: know rich people.
I guess it depends. A doctor can be considered rich and certainly works long hours, whereas a trust fund kid can just travel the world on mommy and daddy’s dime.
Elon is rich right? That man is a workaholic. He sleeps in spaceX headquarter and Tesla factory. I think the problem with people nowadays, they are too dumb to differentiate.
they’re just like us!
And one day I will be rich like them! Then people like me better watch their step…
Quote mining.
I’m envious of the rich because they’ll never know the struggle of having to choose between gas in the car to get to work, or paying your bills so the heat stays on.
It’s the security that I want. If I could quit my job tomorrow and all my bills would be convered and all my debts (and their related payments) suspended, and I was given enough to put food on the table… Then I’d be a lot happier. I’d know that I’ll never have to submit to some dickhead boss trying to push me around so I can be underpaid and go home late to my cold house because I don’t make enough to keep it warm.
The future is stupid.
I went from homeless to 6 figures and security is exactly what drove me so hard. It’s such a relief to just keep my bills and mortgage on autopay and never even think about it. I still feel like an imposter when I go to the grocery store and don’t have to keep track of how much every item costs to ensure I have enough to cover it.
I’m not rich by most definitions but getting to a point of real stability makes life so much easier. Granted I still worry all the time that I’ll be fired and I have backup plans upon backup plans in case shit hits the fan.
That was most of the past, too
It was really only like 30-40 years when things were good economically for the average person. Every couple hundred years we get little blips like that for certain geographic areas.
It’s not so bad in Europe. Getting worse, but we have strong unions, so it takes longer.
There was like 7,000 years of grinding poverty in Europe
The closer I get to my retirement the more I realize how much of my life has been wasted at my job. It’s sad really.
I hear you there. Time is all we really have and it’s an extremely limited quantity.
It seems so easy for them, if you ignore all the work it took for them to get rich in the first place.
Yeah, all the hard work Elon did to reach the egg cell before the other sperm cells in order to be born as the son of an Emerald Mine owner was truly remarkable.
Oh and what about when Elon got investment funds to help create Paypal because he had the money to gamble and afford to fail or not fail! I loved that part of the hard work. And the part where he controlled the media to believe he was a genius with an engineering degree despite not having one. Those are my favorites.
Everyone is Elon, good job.
Everyone isn’t also not Elon, though. There’s a vast amount of billionaires who already started rich or just were in the right place at the right time. Talking like all, or even most of them are set for life due to their hard work is naive.
How many billionaires do you think there are?!?
Uh, considering at least 100 people have 13 billions… a lot?
Even 1 is too many
Hard work doesn’t make rich people, exploitation does.
Exploitation and a shitload of luck. Mostly exploitation, though.
I agree. To be in a position to be able to exploit involves a bit of luck.
or sociopathy
Even sociopaths need luck to get a billion dollars
I’m not jealous of rich people’s possessions or lifestyle. I’m worried about the power they wield over other people’s lives. Their power to affect the laws that get passed, their power to close down stores and factories and lay off all the workers, their power to kick people out of their homes.
This is how I feel reading Oppenheimer’s biography. He came from an affluent family and apparently never had to worry about paying the bills, being free to fully dedicate himself to the things that interested him. The guy was a genius, no doubt about that… I just feel that we would have a lot more geniuses out there if we didn’t have to work so much in order to enjoy so little.
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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen Jay Gould
That’s some Girl Next Door shit. He just want to get Samnang to the US so he can cure cancer
Well Einstein had to work in a patent office.
There are definitely people out there capable of major contributions to human culture and knowledge toiling in a sweat shop or picking fruit.
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They spawned in GodMode
Some well off people work way more than 40 hours per week to be wealthy. Not all of them are living the dream (so to speak) - they also can be stuck.
What the super rich people get is time. They have people to take care of all the crap the rest of us deal with - shopping, fixing the car, booking holidays, cooking, cleaning…
Yeah… I’d rather be wealthy than not.
