Lots of people don't realize how exhausting it is to be born wealthy.
It paints a target on your back for the rest of your life.
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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I always thought that they were the real victim in this world π’
I want to start a YouTube channel where people do nice things for wealthy people like buy them groceries or give them money just to show that we appreciate them.
That's sweet, you're so considerate
Awww thank you.
We could shave them ... sort of.
based
Yea maybe we should feed the rich lol.
I have some nice tasty rat poison.
Always has been
I can help you! Just transfer all your wealth to me, I can carry your burden!
Do you take debt too?
I would love to! Just send me your ID documents and I'll open a bunch of credit card accounts and start building debt immediately.
Sounds like a weird request to me, but if that's your kink then who am I to question.
Feels like that would be me taking your debt though.
I'm all topped up on debt, don't worry.
No, only debit.
Iβm from a very wealthy family and I find people treat me normal if I just live a normal middle class life.
The reality though is that most millionaires and really rich families and people aren't really the main problem with our current system.
Even if your family had tens of millions of dollars available while you were growing up, you're many orders of magnitude closer to a minimum wage worker than to any billionaire.
The reality is that if most societies redistributed a fraction of the wealth of their top 30 wealthiest individuals, almost no one would be harmed and thousands of people could benefit significantly.
Now, of course, if you just give money away, that's no good at improving people's lives, so it makes sense to use the money to fund hospitals and schools, to provide adequate conditions to the disabled, the elderly, single parents, the homeless and our most vulnerable. And oh, would you look at that, that's just a tax reform.
I'm from a middle upper class family, so, I never lacked any necessities but I also couldn't afford luxuries every day. But I hold no contempt for people who got to grow up living in wealth and luxury beyond what my family could afford. I hold contempt for people who could dramatically improve their entire communities' conditions and choose to evade their only tax obligations and only invest their wealth to accumulate more and more.
I think societies should at some point put a cap on wealth. No human being should be as rich as Elon Musk.
Now, of course, if you just give money away, that's no good at improving people's lives
Actually, no, I'm pretty sure there have been many studies that show that literally just giving poor people money is all it takes. This is the first one I found after 15 seconds of searching; I think you are really underestimating how difficult it is for poor people to just get necessities, or how difficult it is to get out of debt traps.
I see where you're coming from. Drug addicts, gambling addicts, etc, may not be the best demographics to just give money to. But that is not most poor people. It's a tiny fraction! Literally all we need is wealth distribution, with no need to overcomplicate things. It might not be perfect, but it would be magnitudes better than what we have now.
Edit, to be clear, I'm not saying we shouldn't fund hospitals and schools and whatnot. But it's simply not true that giving money away isn't effective.
Interesting! Thanks for the fact check. I always assumed giving money away would at best just be a temporary bandaid solution since you need a stable income to actually get out of poverty.
Of course, this isn't a problem with a stable UBI, I imagine.
Even if your family had tens of millions of dollars available while you were growing up, youβre many orders of magnitude closer to a minimum wage worker than to any billionaire.
If you grew up with millions of dollars, your existence is very different from people making minimum wage because you can live comfortably without much stress or need to burn yourself out working. But you and the minimum wage worker both have effectively no political power, while the few thousand billionaires in the world are really running the show - makes no difference what sort of lifestyles those billionaires are living.
But why would you do that if you are very wealthy?
How do you show that you're better than everyone else?
I donβt believe I am better. Just very lucky in that one way
Oh, look at medici over here!
I got so angry until I realized it was you lol
Your wit and humor are hard to ascertain sometimes but I do enjoy it
If only they were able to give their money away and remove that target.
Wait, they can??
Must not be a large burden to bear.
I assure you, regardless how you start life, itβs how you live it and how you carry yourself that ultimately defines who you are and what people think of you.
Whether itβs freeloaders or bill collectors, everyone is being hounded by something.
I like the fact that there is no law in the US that obligated you to talk to debt collectors let alone pay them.
I got a free PC as a bday gift for my 18th bday, which I was bullied into giving up to my younger brother, ending my wannabe developer career.
I stared at walls for a good chunk of my life, thinking if only I had something to work with, maybe I'd make something.
Wondering if there was some junk I could turn into an useful machine.
Now I'm in debt, because I had to pull my family out of debt.
I only inherited genetic diseases, I live out of spite to the world that didn't want me.
Left with debt and trauma, yet we didn't ask to be born. Especially into this nightmare. This world and those at the top have a host to answer for.
This is why I don't want and won't have kids. I spent my entire childhood asking "why would you bring me here, if you don't want me?"
I was adopted, then abused. Like, they had to go out of their way to get a kid and then treated it like crap. Met my bio mom as an adult. She was 15, drunk, wanted to get laid at a party, and by the time she realized she was pregnant couldnβt abort. Fucking pro-lifers, I was this close to not having to deal with this shit. This close!!!!
Pretty much. Unwanted in the world, yet treated as if we owe it something in return.
i feel that in my bones.
i didn't have kids because like, growing up in this. fuck that. i care too much about them to let them live in this.
I had a friend in graduate school who drove an actual fucking Yugo. I rode in it once and started to roll the window down and he yelled "DON'T TOUCH THAT!" and the handle came off. Last guy in the world I would have thought was rich but he invited me to his family's house one weekend and it was a fucking compound of which the mansion was only part. His other car was a Range Rover.
He didn't really try to intentionally deceive anybody, he just never mentioned his wealth and of course he drove a Yugo. He lived in the same sort of shitty graduate student apartment that everybody else lived in. We talked about it once and he said that when people knew he came from money he couldn't have real friendships with anybody. They all wanted money from him or at least couldn't act normally around him. He could be friends with other rich kids but he hated them, to his credit.
Not all heirs are worth a chair.
ugh I wish we could still buy cars like that today. they're so fucking good looking and efficient
Put it in H!
H?
Yeah, I would really love to have a modern rendition of the Opel Kadett A in electric or in PHEV.
Lol I just checked Autotrader and they actually have "Yugo" in the make dropdown. 0 cars available in the US, however.
Well, unless he's going around saying that he inherited all this money but wants people to think he earned it, your friend is in the clear.
Ah yes, pro wrestling hasn't changed at all. First introduce a bad guy everyone can hate, and then beat him senseless with a steel chair.
This time with less racism!
I miss this dudes comics. When he abandoning fuck /u/spez ?
He's pretty active on Bluesky if you want something bad but not AS bad to follow on.
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This reminds me of a recent Green Lantern where he gave some supervillain the (hard light construct) chair and straight up knocked her the fuck out in one hit. That chair has the weight and will of an entire subculture behind it lol.
Obvious solution: Yale University.
Bro said be honest and chose violence π