Wealthy

How much hard work have you done in comparison to your parents?

The only people who think calling someone rich is an insult are people who will never in their lifetime attain that kind of wealth. The people who are actually rich don't give a flying fuck what some poor ass peasants call them on the internet or what they write on their picket signs. They're laughing at them in their mansions while sipping fine wine and eating caviar.

there are a lot of very rich kids at my school. they're all very nice people.

People get offended easily these days, it happens

Being wealthy and being rich are two different things. Not everything can be handed to you on a silver platter, I think that is what the rest of the world is recognizing.

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it's only an insult if you take it as an insult.

I should clarify:

There is a massive difference between wealthy/well-off and rich. Like, really, really rich. I consider wealthy the people who live very comfortably, drive MBs, BMWs, Porsches, maybe have a boat and a summer house. Rich people, to me at least, are the people with 200 foot yachts, 4 homes, multiple supercars, and 3 supermodel girlfriends. Either way, to insult someone for what they have, regardless of if they have earned it or not, is in really poor taste (no pun intended).

what?

Yeah wait. Are one of those people undeserving?

The only people who care about the ones insulting people who are well-off financially than them is themselves.

I genuinely can't figure this statement out.

Wut

i think what your trying to say is that wealth is usually talked about in the context of old money, but your wrong, wealth is money. also i think youre trying to say that people who are born into situations in which they are wealthy, they generally have to wake up and realize the true value of money later in their lives... i may be wrong but i think thats what your saying...

Nice english

i can't tell whether he's trying to say the insulters or insultees are mad

The reason some people get bent out of shape about how rich some people are is because a large amount of the wealth in this country is inherited wealth. The true "rags to riches" stories in this country are much fewer and further between than people would like to admit. Don't get me wrong, the American Dream is still alive but the odds are stacked so firmly against those born into middle and lower class families, that class mobility is harder than ever in this country. Direct inheritance aside, having a father or mother who is a successful businessman/woman gives their children a huge advantage (you know how many legacies are walking around ivy league campuses and how many investment bankers have a father/uncle/etc in the business? A lot). Now, people should be encouraged to take advantage of the circumstances they were born into. However, the arrogance of many of the "1%" is what ticks a lot of people off. Sure, there are many wealthy people who started from the bottom and made it, but this is the exception rather than the norm. To say that the wealthy are smarter, harder working people than the middle class is in many cases not true. We're talking about grand scale nepotism here, combined with elitism and an inability to empathize with those born under different circumstances which causes many Americans to resent the wealthiest among us. If you think we are all on a level playing field, you're a fool.

the key to success is living somewhere to get residency, failing a year, and confusing a university into thinking your girlfriend is indian. true story

everyone is butthurt about everything in the world. i dont care what other people define themselves as at all. if you judge someone purely based on their material worth you are an ignorant slut.