Is it normal to dispise rich people to this point...?

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I come from a poor background and have lived half of my life as poor while the other half in a rich family with good conditions. Somehow I always wanted to live poor and even miserable at one point. I think it makes you pay more attention to what you do. I associate rich people with selfishness, greed and along that line while I associate poorness to care for the other and for self. My mentality goes along that line so much that whenever I work in my rich country I think about all the other people starving out there and find it absurd to be paid that much. Can that be normal to dispise your own wealth and that of those who give it or are associated with it? Sometimes I work like crap or act like crap just so I feel closer to my country of origin which is a poor country. I dispise most of my colegues because I assume they are there to gain the good money while they could be working in the nighbouring contry where they get paid less. Actually I dispise my mother and her rich boyfriend too. It's because of him that we moved to the rich country, but at the same time I love my mother because I still live with her and she takes good care of me. It's almost as if I don't even need work, but when I do work I kinda dispise it.

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  • TheConsciousElectron
    12 years ago

    Not normal. Why should people feel guilty for their success? Perhaps they wanted to be wealthy, perhaps they simply love what they do, but at the end of the day, it's their money and they decide what to do with it.

    As for the background thing, some studies show that the single factor most important in determining how successful a person becomes is grit. Grit. Regardless of background, if you have grit, then you can succeed.

    Grit is the ability to motivate yourself do things that you don't necessarily want to do, but need to do in order to accomplish a higher goal.

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  • RomeoDeMontague
    10 years ago

    I will say that rich people are not all necessarily fucked up but all the ones I met have been. I use to live in a town were everyone was rich as fuck and they use to shove all the money they had in my face. They use to tease me and get in fights with me because they said I am too poor. However I was still a better off than most of the poor kids in the poorer areas. However the rich kids in my town still told me what a loser was and always asked why I did not have name brand clothes. Also living in a rich country does not make everyone rich retard.

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  • americanhoney
    11 years ago

    I'm quite well off, and I think you're pathetic. Have a splendid day!

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  • ebonysky
    12 years ago

    Well I'd be happy to take your money

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    moneys not everything if they are cruel i despise them, i cant help it ,so i understand the depth of your feeling but not its source

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  • nanimeow
    12 years ago

    I see this in all classes of people honestly. Money changes people and also drives them. It is sad. I would like to make enough to live comfortably but never so much that I would be rich beyond my means. I feel if I had been really rich, I would have been anorexic crack addict or something along the lines of substance abuse. Anyways, I feel people who have been through hard times see the glass as half full and people who have it easy see it as half empty.

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  • boohilubchu
    12 years ago

    RICH = SUCCESS ! You gotta work hard to get there...sometimes being greedy is what makes you successful an to be successful means you shouldnt be poor ! Think wisely ;)

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    Ok then if you have such a problem about it why dont you donate the money you gain to charity? or maybe you dont want to and want to keep all the money you get because you yourself are greedy. You can feed and cloth those less fortunate by donating money, so why havent you yet if you care so much? until you donate you are just another asshole complaining about the money he gets but doesnt want to give it away. When I say donate I dont mean donate once or twice I mean constant donation.

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    • TheConsciousElectron
      12 years ago

      Donating money to charity doesn't make you a better person. Sure, it'll help somebody, but in order to truly be altruistic, I think you have to go out and volunteer yourself so that you're directly helping others. Like working at a soup kitchen or picking up trash at a national park.

      Overall, giving money to poor people solves nothing. Everybody needs a motive to work. I think that spending your money to help provide resources to the less fortunate is a better way to go about things.

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      • Legion
        11 years ago

        not to mention, only about ten cents of every dollar donated to charity actually is available for the cause

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    • surreal-artist
      12 years ago

      I have debts for my studies. But I still despise the good gain!

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      • [Old Memory]
        12 years ago

        So you are still getting money for your gain? For your improvement of intelligence and you are happy to do so.

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  • icanhascheezburger
    12 years ago

    Not really normal, how about instead of looking at those people as greedy and selfish, you use their success as a motivater. Not all of them are like that, there are alot of them who create jobs so poor people can have a paycheck and they donate money and food and clothes to poor countries who wouldn't have gotten it otherwise.

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