If I had loads of money, I wouldn't care about the poor... Why should I ? It's my money, and I can buy everything I want. Honestly, even now I don't care about the poor.
Three pages in I'm not sure if this has been pointed out yet, but so many people seem to have the impression that the rich people in these pictures are actively pushing their lives in your faces to look down upon others. That blog was created by someone who lurks up all of the rich kids' instagrams, not on their request but on his/her own volition, in order to aggregate all of their photos and bring attention to them for the rest of the world who don't spend their time following rich kids on Instagram.
I'm not going to form an opinion on the photos and posts themselves because it simply does not rub me either way what people with more cash than me do, but if you're going to hate them, perhaps you should focus on the things they actually do and exclude "create blogs to push their photos in our faces" from the list of things you hate about them.
What? No.
When you make 20k a year, every single penny has to be accounted for. Maybe you'd LOVE to donate $1,000 to a charity you believe in (like, say, Child's Play)... but you can't fucking afford it, and even donating $20 is something you have to budget in.
When you make 200k a year, or are living off of your parents' apparently endless wealth, the same things don't apply unless you're a fucking idiot and have way more shit than you actually need (see: 3,000 sq foot homes for a 4-person family, etc.)
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Because there's a limit on what you consider acceptable spending. If you have so much money that you're perfectly okay with throwing $50,000 for a fucking bottle of wine - take good motherfucking note, that's more expensive than very large number of NEW cars, and more than twice as much as what a very large percentage of Americans earn in a YEAR - then frankly Uncle Sam or whoever should tax the everloving fuck out of you unless you're giving a lot of that money away to charities and the like.
I got no problem with someone being a multimillionaire. I do have a very big problem with someone having that kind of money - money that could be used for a whole fuck of a lot of good things - and being such a motherfucking wastrel with it. If you can't be responsible with your money, that money should be taken from you and redistributed among people who can be responsible with it.
must.......resist.......jealousy....
damn, the things i'd do with that kind of money. Good for them i guess.
I'm very happy with my current life but winning the lottery would mean i'd quit my job in an instant and go do stuff i actually like.
Travelling, some volunteer work later on, i'd pay off all of my friends houses !
anyways, one can dream.
for now i'll just go back to sitting here thinking i'm morally superior for being more "humble".
Hey how did you get a picture of my yacht, and my receipt O_O
Considering they pay more tax in a day, then you do in a year I fail to see why they need to be taxed more. The kids are being given all that cash, but the chances are the parents have worked their asses off for that success.
If you want to tax success into oblivion then feel free, but imagine how bad your countries would be when the rich are penalised and abused for their success.
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More people are college educated in todays world then ever before, and yet look at the mess we're in as a planet. Yes, I am blaming the education system for all the global fuck ups.
The amount of jealousy/envy in this thread is incredible. Wealth isn't hard to acquire. Nor is opportunity. Get an education, start investing early and make sure you maintain good credit. Pretty simple.
When will people stop repeating this ridiculous myth? Just because someone doesn't make enough to pay a federal income tax doesn't mean they don't pay any taxes at all. There are still payroll taxes (Social Security and Medicare), state and local income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, etc.
If you want to say that nearly half pay no federal income tax, fine. But don't say that nearly half don't pay any taxes at all, because it's completely false.
This. The profit margin on that bottle is huge, but its probably included the "table fee". Some places in Europe(in Norway its like this aswell) you cant sell a table or a spot unless you have a designated VIP spot. But you can say that you have to buy drinks/food/snacks for a certain amount to stay at the designated table
Why? They (or their parents in this case) earned that wealth. Without their contributions, this wealth wouldn't exist in the first place.
People value different things. I don't come to your table and tell you want you can and cannot drink and eat. You shouldn't either. Someone before them earned that money and gave it to these kids so that they could enjoy themselves. It's not anything away from you.Originally Posted by PizzaShark
Guess you've never had 30$ an ounce Kobe beef at Prime 112 in Miami.
I donate plenty to charity. And I pay my 'fair share' as the Kenyan repeats daily like a damn parrot. Also for the record, yes I keep money outside of the United States. The tax code here is a joke and I'm doing quite well for myself and my business isn't hurting at all.
Tell you one thing though. I'll be paying the fine, rather than paying for health insurance for all those I employ if Obama remains in Office. I also know several Physicians who won't be accepting Medicare, or any new patients for that matter if this tax is upheld.
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Sign of a bad parent to spoil them like this. They'll never understand the value of accomplishing things on their own. I bet those brats will live off their parents wealth for their entire life.