Are you saying rich people don’t have problems? Because that’s far from true. Although they are less severe problems, they are one you probably can’t comprehend about some weird business shit and other stuff nobody knows about.
Comment on Taylor is getting all the attention
smotherlove@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Who cares? They’re rich as fuck, neither of them have any idea what a real problem is.
EvokerKing@lemmy.world 1 year ago
smotherlove@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’m saying when you have 9+ figures in the bank, you have no idea what a real problem is until you get so old that modern medicine can’t treat you anymore.
EvokerKing@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not true at all. Take a look at Elon musk for example. Just because he has money doesn’t stop him from being sued or keeps the government out of his ass. He gets all this negativity from the media and other things and you act like he doesn’t exist because he has lots of money. And I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve it, but you are still insulting a real person, no matter how much money he has. The human brain finds ways to make small things seem big. We all need problems to thrive or else life would be lifeless and boring. If you’ve ever watched the show The Good Place, you might remember the scene where everybody is so happy for so many years that they basically became boring slugs that don’t do anything and have no emotion. To say that the rich are exempt from this is bs. They are humans like everyone else and all humans have these problems.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Rich people pay for our lives to be shittier through lobbying self interests. They don’t care about you. Why do you care about them?
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh boo fucking hoo.
When you get the IRS on your ass, you lose your hair from the stress, your colon turns inside out, you get every one of your transactions scrutinised, and you scramble to deal with it while trying to still keep your life going. When musk gets the IRS on his ass, he hires the best tax lawyers in the world to deal with it, and fucks off to his private beach to sip martinis and get sucked off by whoever the fuck. If he’s feeling particularly ornery, he calls up his accountant and donates a billion dollars in “favors” and “services” to whichever SuperPAC lobbies to defund the IRS. Same if he gets sued or slandered by the media or whatever other problem you can think off. As long as it doesn’t threaten his wealth at a systemic scale, he doesn’t have to give two fucks.
As far as I see, Elon Musk is bigger than a real person. He can insulate himself from real people problems to such a degree that many of these problems dont even show up on his radar, instead being taken care of by his assistants before they get to his table. You have as much in common with elon musk as human DNA does to Onion DNA - technically you’re similar to each other in that you’re both human beings, but you aren’t even close to the same thing.
The only problems that he might have in common with normal people are interpersonal ones.
I really don’t understand how you would even arrive to “My calling is to defend Elon Musk”. I feel dirty even spending the time to write this comment.
smotherlove@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Elon Musk is a human? I’m not convinced, but I guess we’ll know for sure once we cut his head off with a guillotine.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I disagree, none of the exploitative rich billionaires look happy
smotherlove@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Having no real problems does not make anyone happy, I don’t know where you got that idea.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you could find a way to be happy, you would never exploit so many people to get that wealthy.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
exscape@kbin.social 1 year ago
Money doesn't solve everything. The probably have way more issues with stalkers and death threats than any of us do, for example. Even with hired security that can't feel very good.
smotherlove@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
If you can solve it with money you already have, it’s not a real problem. If you can hide from it in a mansion, it’s not a real problem.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
oh no if only they didn’t put themselves out there in the public eye all the fucking time
Neon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
nono, you see, he’s rich. That makes all his Problems automatically invalid.
do we need the /s? sadly probably yes.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
Personally I think what makes his problems being invalid is being a pedophilic rapist.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yea oddly, celebrities die younger and if suicide more often than the average (depending how you want to define that) person. At least in the US. So they do deal with personal problems, and even have greater access to far greater resources to deal with their problems. But life is hard, for all of us.
Coasting0942@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Yeah, poor people don’t worry about guillotines
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
He said that rich people don’t know what real problems are. Look, we all have our little issues and problems, okay? I don’t think that anyone is saying that’s invalid because someone has money. But when you get into a real problem, where you have to pick between paying rent and living with a roof over your head for another month, or buying groceries so you don’t starve in your dwelling… Then you have a real problem. Go homeless and eat, or have a home and starve?
IDK. I’d probably pay rent. At least I can die in the comfort of my living room… Rather than suffer every day trying to stay warm/dry/cool/safe…
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A wise man once said, mo’ money, mo’ problems.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Was he wise though?
anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Avicci was rich, he had severe mental problems which lead to his suicide. They don’t have financial problems but I can bet they deal with similar personal problems.
Avicci was just the first that came to mind.
smotherlove@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Something something the exception proves the rule
Anyhow odds are the average rich person would slap me in the face with piss if I asked them for sympathy so fuck em, they’re all dead to me
anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well they way I see it I literally dgaf about how much or how little money a person it’s the way they behave in society and what they contribute contribute to society that carries their value an worth to me at least. Just because Mr Jones happens to be more successful than me according to bank account, I’m not gonna be sour about it.
Succefull people are still people. They have the same emotions as each of us. Like I said they don’t have financial problems but they certainly have emotional problems, family problems, relationship problems etc.
Yes this thread is about Taylor Swift. Whether she is a good or a bad person, I couldn’t tell you. I don’t follow her.
There are good people on this world and you don’t have to look too far. Whether they have money or less is irrelevant.
Tldr; yes many wealthy people are dicks but not all.
I’m drunk rn. Don’t take this too seriously
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I will hand it to you that money doesn’t mean that all of your issues go away. You got me there.
What I will say to that is… Having money makes problems easier to handle, and can make the problems the responsibility of someone else to solve.
Therapists are not cheap.
irreticent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
RIP Robin Williams
theworstshepard@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Speaking as a therapist, I am cheap.
Not professionally, it costs over £2k per year to see me weekly.
But personally, I’m cheap as F. One drink and a kind word and I’m yours for the night.