How does ILX *really* feel about wealthy people?

"some of my best friends are rich, really"

There are some good ones out there.

"who is the goodest rich ilxor"

They're not all bad, but I think I could do it better. Just gimme a chance.

"my moderate hatred is a thinly masked jealousy "

Hello!

> "who is the goodest rich ilxor"

I think a double blind iron chef style contest could probably determine that pretty easily.

My dad was rich. I am not. Being rich is good but shouldn't be an aim in itself.

people are people so why should it be you and I should get along so awfully? (judge not lest ye be judged etc)

more or less, yeah. being rich can get you better healthcare, etc., but ultimately will not save you from being sick and dying. yeah, there are lots of obscenely miserly rich people, and obv. i wish they would be more generous w/their monies, but people are tight-fisted about all kinds of things, beyond money, so i'm not particularly expecting that to change anytime soon.

very poor countries end up showing up towards the top of "i am happy"-by nation poll, so it would seem that there is not a direct correlation btwn the two factors. (see also: american celebs)

so...i don't begrudge the fabulously wealthy their money. enjoy yourselves (it's later than you think!)

How come there's no "They're nice when I can latch onto them and have them 'sponsor' me." option?

indifferent, really. I don't envy the rich and I don't think I'd be considerably happier if I were wealthy.

dell the correlation stops somewhere. thank god or bill gates wld walk around w a permanent boner.

people are people so why should it be you and I should get along so awfully?

I thought David was singing "artfully" for a long time.

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lol boner/sex= happiness a whole 'nuther subject!

not to mention priapism

i love rich people cuz they very rarely try to kill me. unless you owe them money they will hardly ever kill you. unless it's, you know, from the toxic fumes of their smokestacks. or you are married to them and they commit a crime of passion. or they are some tin-pot dictator of some banana republic. BUT IN GENERAL, rich people don't want my blood. and i love them because you never know if they will give you money. THEY MIGHT. you just never know. so they are slightly excruciating in that way, but it's not an altogether unpleasant kind of excruciating feeling. BECAUSE THEY MIGHT. i was never fond of making them bagel and lox and cream cheese sandwiches though. this is true. mostly they are benevolent cuz they just had a fat fucking steak and a nice glass of scotch. and they think you are amusing. and as long as they think you are amusing, you get to live another day.

"my moderate hatred is a thinly masked jealousy "

Hello!

Yeah, no shit. Why would someone not want to be rich? I don't even have a moderate hatred, so long as said rich person isn't an asshole which I don't believe comes with the territory.

The moderate hatred does show up because I dislike being jealous of assholes with money - I'm not jealous of your average everyday moderate-income assholes.

The vote will be split between the "Eat The Rich" and the "thereby killing & sending them to an eternal damnation which won't be nearly long enough" options, giving everyone the impression that the rich aren't nearly as hated as they are! See how pervasive the plutocratic conspiracy really is!

one option is for vegetarians.

scott otm

I voted for the killing option obv, but sadly I don;t believe in eternal damnation.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but ILX seems to be mainly populated by educated middle class people, a fair few of which probably have wealthy parents and are thus likely to end up wealthy themselves...

Captain Save-a-Rich-Tosser

The former, yeah I guess, the latter, heh no.

I admit I do have something amounting to a chip on my shoulder about the latter.

a fair few of which probably have wealthy parents and are thus likely to end up wealthy themselves...

well, just for the record. That's not me.

Well, there seems to be a number of people here who went to public schools. Which means their parents can't exactly be poor...

In the same way that the wealthy make case-by-case decisions about which under-vermin are amusing enough to treat as pets, a lot of people hate "the wealthy" en toot but are okay with individual poshos.

my prinicples are up for sale

ILX is proof that college doesnt pay

I'm in cahoots with the upper classes.

So you don't see anything remotely strange about a cohort of mostly middle class people from relatively privileged backgrounds, many having benefitted from private schooling and university education to boot, getting all "hate the rich"?

No, because your cohort of mostly is straw bollocks

You think ILX is not mostly middle class?

oh come on this place is and always has been sickeningly middle class

snap

Perhaps there should be a secondary poll where people declare their income and class, then we could correlate the two polls, then we would have a serious answer to this serious question.

Also, results aren't in yet. Also, your line here is as old and dull as the line you're attacking.

Also, "wealthy people" is always somebody else, isn't it?

HEY, why not blow some minds and point out how wealthy we all are compared to large swathes of the world?

There's plenty of time for that, it's still early.

Also, the only people moaning about the rich on this thread are the gobshite rent-a-proles like me.

"Also, results aren't in yet" = you're right, but I don't want to admit it

"your line is old and dull" = can't be arsed to argue my case

Also, the only people moaning about the rich on this thread are the gobshite rent-a-proles like me.

http://4chanarchive.org/images/co/2590289/1198561721053.gif

Wau those translation skills are really something. How does that pay? I'm considering a career move....

Well, there seems to be a number of people here who went to public schools. Which means their parents can't exactly be poor...

Your parents no doubt struggled and were not wealthy, but unless you were on a scholarship or something, your definition of "poor" must be a little elastic if it includes "able to send child to public school"...

lol assisted places C/D?

Fair enough, I withdraw my comment!

"public school" must mean something different in Englande

It does.

Strangely enough, it means "private school".

We had a thread about that the other day! I'm not sure of the exact definition but I think it's something like a public school (UK) is a private school that demands some kind of standard of intelligence rather just having to be rich to get in? Something about letting in the paupers if they're smart enough? And then mocking them for being common.

I'm not bothered by them, they only consume more sadness.

-- jel --, Friday, 18 January 2008 19:00 (3 hours ago)

trust the j-dog to drop the profound bomb like a thief in the night

I think researchers who pose those kinds of questions in this century are being purposefully obtuse. I mean we've covered about a million times now that markets are not rational, that even "bounded rationality" is a poor approximation of agent behavior, and people still want to go around and run a survey like that, wtf, revoke that tenure, man.

Even taking the question at face value, I'm not sure why it would be "stunning" to learn that people desire money for reasons of social standing (and social leverage) as much as for purchasing power!

because that's how TV Experts write op-eds

no anthropologist or even sociologist, I don't think, would bother to merit that as stunning or surprising in the least. psychologists and economists on the other hand seem to be completely amazed whenever they discover behavior that goes against their hypothesized models

A really wealthy person, the other year

all the super-rich people I know seem either a) really unhappy; b) nuts; or c) completely oblivious to the world around them

Hahahaha these are like my three basic states!

So does this mean I get to be rich?

(I want to avoid the LOTTERY CURSE, mind.)

nabisco, I know you're used to being called 'otm' & all but FUCK are you the most fucking right on about fucking "money doesn't buy happiness," and everything you said after it. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A+ No whammies!

All I can tell from photos of mega top tiny teeny highest richest percent of the rich is that to be rich, you have to have orange skin.

what i feel about wealthy people is, thanks for college great-granddad.

No but he could reasonably clarify that "sickeningly" refers to homogeneity of ILX or something

sorry, was just echoing the other post mostly. ILX is sickeningly liberal, really.

I get so used to that that it feels weird to read anything NOT liberal on the internet.

Like conservatism exists on some seldom-visited corner of the internet to be c&p'ed onto ILX for laffs at is hyperbolic backwardness.

conservatives are out getting votes. more's the fucking pity.

Anyone who uses internet leaves house? NEVER. (See: 'dot com guy' who has since changed his name back to normal.)

FROM: Marija
DATE: Saturday February 25, 2006 -- 2:48:49 pm

hi i know the dotcomguy from my english book...and we all like him..it was sure funny...okay bye

Can I just interrupt this discussion to say that I had an "affair" with a millionaire about four years ago. One of his jealous stalkers ran his car into mine - deliberately. The millionaire disappeared without so much as an apology or acknowledgement while my life is in tatters.

Next time, get yourself a nose-jobbed trophy wife, bud!

What is it about the so-called "cream of the crop" that they cannot apologize?

Scprned <3r

money does not equal happiness is such a platitude but then money does facilitate happiness. also how do you say it in english? money and are related happiness up to a point but stops at a certain point, the law of diminishing returns?

where is some good literature on the wealth/misery curve? eg people who should by all means be comfortably middle-class in rich countries are vastly more likely to report themselves as unhappy in life than poor folks in poor countries

i'm assuming poor ppl in general have a problem asking for help.

money and happiness are related up to a point.... *sigh*

What is it about the so-called "cream of the crop" that they cannot apologize?

I'm sorry.

One of his jealous stalkers ran his car into mine - deliberately. The millionaire disappeared without so much as an apology or acknowledgment while my life is in tatters.

Did you expect him to buy you a new car? Or to take accountability for the accident? Your life was in "tatters" because your car was hit? He had additional jealous stalkers? Male jealous stalkers? What kind of love polygon was it? Either way, it sounds like player may have just moved on and failed to notify you.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

truth will out

millionaires are "rich" again?

judging the rich is cleverer than judging the poor.

and more popular, kids!

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-balloons-20110817,0,1840808,full.story

great story

whoa

we talked about this briefly before
The paranoid high-security olive farmers of Coachella

money is power in a corrupt society

Whenever someone tells me "money isn't that important to me", I always ask them if they'll give me some of their money. They never do, so evidently it's more important than they like to think.

I see the future like star trek - money is gone - but that will nto happen for a long time

They never do, so evidently it's more important than they like to think.

Not necessarily. It is that you are even less important to them than their money.

i like the idea that there are 10 secret multi-millionaires lurking on ilx and we are all unknowingly auditioning for their generous patronage (pick me, pick me!)

I will let you write the Led Zeppelin poll results if you pick me!

anybody good enough with google earth to find these creeps?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.652199,-116.223101&ll=33.651726,-116.222917&spn=0.004762,0.006196&sll=33.792258,-116.467252&sspn=0.157698,0.553718&num=1&t=h&vpsrc=0&gl=us&z=18

a journalist looked up that farming operation's patent applications, including:

The patent application refers to “spore-forming microorganisms, present in soil, plants and other forms of organic matter, (that) survive excessive heat of a fire within soil or carbonized wood.” The microorganisms are purported to enhance plant growth and plants’ nutritional value, and can be useful in “producing DNA-enhanced plants which may be consumed by human individuals for enhancing human DNA.”

btw if you google "enhancing human DNA," this is the first result:

http://www.reelviews.net/movies/s/species.html

Roberto Carlos himself denied that it was the giant pots of cash that drew him to Anzhi, and told me that he was excited to be "making history" by being at the club.

When asked about the £1m Bugatti Veyron that Kerimov, whom he describes as "a good friend", bought him as a birthday present earlier this year, he shrugged. "A Bugatti is basically the same as a bicycle; it's just a mode of transport," he said. "In Brazil, I had a helicopter."

“I wanted a place where my kid could get a haircut and sit in a chair that looked like a firetruck and watch the Wiggles,” she says. “That wasn’t happening in the West Village at the time.”

http://nypost.com/2015/05/24/inside-the-bizarre-life-of-an-upper-east-side-housewife/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow

gotta love the scooby-doo ending at the end

v real possibility that every single mother who partakes in this bizarre lifestyle is actually a lifestyle columnist writing about how bizarre it all is

Eat the rich, so overlooked

The rich know not what they do

The saying that "Behind every great fortune is a great crime" is perhaps slightly less true now than when it was coined, but I doubt it. However, I grant that not everyone who can be accurately described as "wealthy" would also fit into the category of having a "great fortune".

I personally figure that most westerners with an income above $75,000 per annum or a net worth above about $500,000 deserve to be categorized as "wealthy", just because this puts them so high in the global pecking order of wealth. Try telling someone living on less than $5/day that such folks aren't wealthy and listen to their howls of derision.

i don't have too much money myself

watching rich wealthy tan white guys on tv tho has certainly affected my personality