Frank Goad
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I have heard that most rich people are mean and right out snobs.Is this stereotypical?Or is it true?
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A question about rich people.
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I have heard that most rich people are mean and right out snobs.Is this stereotypical?Or is it true?
Rich people come in all varieties, just as everyone else does. Some are mean and snobbish; some are kind and humble.
How much money makes one "rich," though? The percentage of people within that category can drastically change depending on the definition one uses.
Frank Goad
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I meant someone with alot of money in general.Thanks for answering my question.
I meant someone with alot of money in general.Thanks for answering my question.
No problem!
Only a bigot would maliciously judge an entire group of people based on the subjective actions of a few within that group.I have heard that most rich people are mean and right out snobs.Is this stereotypical?Or is it true?
Yes, many of them are. It's a stereotype for a reason.
Soandso
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Such attitudes tend to go hand in hand with a sense of entitlement. Many rich people have that sense of entitlement given their upbringing, but some rich folks I've seen who have a grounded personality seem to come from humble beginnings. It's all about one's perspective that they cultivate within the context of their upbringing and their world view, imo
All I know is that they don't like to share. At least not enough.I have heard that most rich people are mean and right out snobs.Is this stereotypical?Or is it true?
PureX
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“Rich” is a wildly variable assessment.I have heard that most rich people are mean and right out snobs.Is this stereotypical?Or is it true?
Logically, one could suppose that someone that possesses far more wealth than they need to live, while those around them suffer from a lack of necessary essential wealth, is selfish and uncaring about the plight of others.
On the other hand, many of those suffering from a lack of essential wealth are also selfish and uncaring about the plight of others, by necessity.
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I don't think many rich people associate, with people who suffer this way.
PureX
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No, but they have eyes … and anyway, why don’t they associate with the “less fortunate”? I guess that’s where the ‘snob’ factor comes in. It’s much easier to tell yourself you’re just like everyone else when you only associate with other selfish, uncaring rich people.
How rich are we talking? The word can mean a debt-free person with $100,000 in savings or a multibillionaire, so the range is pretty big in this case.
I have heard that most rich people are mean and right out snobs.Is this stereotypical?Or is it true?
It's the same as saying that French people are rude and Americans are stupid, etc. Some are, some aren't.
The same reason the less fortunate don't associate with the rich! Live in a different neighborhood, work different jobs; due to employment and living areas, most people associate with others in their financial neighborhoods.
Or perhaps it's much easier to tell yourself you're just like everyone else when you only associate with other self entitled poor people. My grandmother was rather poor, but she always told me it is not right to spend all of your money having fun only to later demand those who sacrificed and save be responsible to make sure you do not go hungry. Not everybody who is rich is a snob, not everybody who is poor is self entitled; let's be a bit more careful on how we judge others who are not like us.
Rich enough to own a multimillion dollar house and own a Porsche.
PureX
Veteran Member
Those are the mechanisms of division, not the reasons for it.
No one wants to be poor, so being poor can't be called an "entitlement". Unless you're rich and want to blame the poor for being poor, so you don't have to take any responsibility for your own part in it.
Being poor is not just about being hungry. It's about being powerless and hopeless. Humans need to be able to believe in the possibility of a better future to keep trying to achieve it. Poverty is what occurs when people lose that hope. And because they have lost that hope, they often accept silly momentary excesses to try and compensate for it.
It is a fact that to be "rich" means having more than one needs to live a secure life. It also means not sharing that excess wealth or they would not still have it. So these two things we CAN know about rich people just by the defintiion: that they have more than they need, and that they do not share it with others.
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Nothing has really changed.
The wealthy think of themselves as the nobility and they don't associate with the peasantry class unless it's choreographed and staged for various purposes and reasons, and then shooed away after its over.
The wealthy think of themselves as the nobility and they don't associate with the peasantry class unless it's choreographed and staged for various purposes and reasons, and then shooed away after its over.
It’s both.
Oh; so now the rich are responsible for people who end up poor? Can you provide an example of this?
Absurd. Poor is an economic situation; it has nothing to do with being powerless or hopeless. There are countless people impoverished who haven’t lost hope, they still fight and often work their way up to middle class or even more. As far as being powerless, you don’t have to be rich to have thousands of followers, or a popular podcast. You telling me people with that much of an audience does not have influence and power? C’mon
So all of those multibillionaires who are a part of the Gates Foundation are not rich because they chose to share their wealth with those who are less fortunate through the foundation they have elected to become a part of? So according to you, some of the wealthiest people on Earth are not rich? Go sell crazy somewhere else…… we’re all stocked up here!!!
PureX
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It's all cultural theater intended to maintain the illusion that greed and selfishness and the suffering it causes are normal and acceptable aspects of life. And it works, as most of the people here and around the world believe it, regardless of where they are on the economic spectrum.
Can you give examples of this ever happening?