What do you mean by “rich”? A fast food worker and a multi-millionaire have a lot more in common with each other than do that multi-millionaire and a billionaire. Two wildly different scales and modes of existence. So it’s good to get clarity about that. Do you hate people, like say, a skilled professional such as a surgeon or attorney, or small business owner, who works hard, invests, and manages to have a comfortable life and a few fancy toys? Or are we simply talking about a handful of specific hyper-politically-engaged billionaires such as Thiel, Musk, et al.? That’s a totally different ballgame.
George Orwell, a Socialist, said that in his experience, there are two types of socialists: those who genuinely love the working class, and those who merely hate and resent the rich. I imagine that focusing more on what you love, vs what you hate, might lead to different actions and results.
As for me, if I were to suddenly find myself with a lot more money, I wouldn’t fundamentally change as a person. I’d just be happier and stop working like a donkey. I’d free up my most important and valuable resource, my time. I don’t hate people who are financially free, and I don’t resent them for it, if they did it honorably and without exploitation. I want that, too. I want mailbox money.
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (to start) deserve pitchforks and guillotines. Not because they are rich, but because of what they are doing with that wealth; because they are monsters treating the real world as their playground for their hair-brained political experiments.
What do you mean by “rich”? A fast food worker and a multi-millionaire have a lot more in common with each other than do that multi-millionaire and a billionaire. Two wildly different scales and modes of existence. So it’s good to get clarity about that. Do you hate people, like say, a skilled professional such as a surgeon or attorney, or small business owner, who works hard, invests, and manages to have a comfortable life and a few fancy toys? Or are we simply talking about a handful of specific hyper-politically-engaged billionaires such as Thiel, Musk, et al.? That’s a totally different ballgame.
George Orwell, a Socialist, said that in his experience, there are two types of socialists: those who genuinely love the working class, and those who merely hate and resent the rich. I imagine that focusing more on what you love, vs what you hate, might lead to different actions and results.
As for me, if I were to suddenly find myself with a lot more money, I wouldn’t fundamentally change as a person. I’d just be happier and stop working like a donkey. I’d free up my most important and valuable resource, my time. I don’t hate people who are financially free, and I don’t resent them for it, if they did it honorably and without exploitation. I want that, too. I want mailbox money.
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (to start) deserve pitchforks and guillotines. Not because they are rich, but because of what they are doing with that wealth; because they are monsters treating the real world as their playground for their hair-brained political experiments.