TubularTittyFrog

they do... just like they can't breathe nitrogen.

Do you know anyone who breathes nitrogen?

there are 32,000 species of fish.

we only eat like 100 of them or so.

15+ YEARS AGO. that was even before true crime even began a big deal, which was 10 years ago

I'm not sure what world you live in, but nobody gets held accountable who can avoid being held accountable. And that's... true for everyone. Everyone is trying to avoid accountability all the time. People who seek accountability are rare.

Like, have you ever had a job or been in a school? Everyone blames somebody else for their issues. Very few folks say 'it was my fault I failed the test/project'.

Hell most of our social structures are specifically design to avoid accountability.

you realize rich people are human beings right?

they aren't aliens from another planet. they have all the same emotions and desires as you do. they just have more money than you do, so they have more ability to fulfill their desires.

It's ironic, you expect them to have empathy for you, but you have none for them. You here, demonstrate yourself, that you have 'othered' them, and yet you think they shouldn't 'other' people who aren't rich.

Why do you do this? because you are cognitively removed from knowing wealthy people and they exist entirely in your imagination as these psychopathic monsters. further, I doubt you have any more empathy for the impoverished in Africa, than they do.

yep, and they all see the class above them as 'rich' and themselves as 'working-class/normal/struggling'.

i remember my own parents going on about 'poor' and 'rich' in our town, and the income differential was like, maybe a factor of 4-6x. the poor people made 20k, we made 30k and the 'rich' people made like 50k. but this was in a rural area where we had no exposure to people making 100K+ let alone millions.

people don't get how the psychology of wealth is all relativistic. where i live now people making 300K+ think they are 'poor' because they compare themselves to people making millions. and the people making millions think they are poor because they compare themselves to people making 10s of millions.

my sister makes 500K a year, lives in a 5million dollar house, and endless talks about the people living in 10 or 20 million dollar homes and how she is 'just a normal working person', and she thinks those are the 'rich' and she is the 'poor'. the place she lives the 'poor' people make like 150-200K, and well people making under 100K just don't exist.

a lot of rich people are rich because that way you don't have to see any affects of a lack of wealth.

that's the point. that's why they social isolate themselves in gated communities and exclusive resorts.

being subject to having to look at poor people suffering is a thing only poor people have to suffer.

your idea that rich people have 'feelings of immorality' makes me laugh, because you clearly dont' know any rich people, they don't have these feelings at all. that 'feeling 'is a projection of the poor onto the wealthy who think they know how the wealthier live and feel.... you don't. they live in another plane of existence and the concept of 'uneven distribution' doesn't exist to them.

you can't care about stealing candy from babies if you don't even know the babies exist. that's the element you are missing.

both, or neither.

everyone has different circumstances.

there are rich people who live modest middle class lives, but lemmy thinks those people don't exist. it's that all moderately rich people are sociopathic monsters or something...

and plenty of poor folks are sociopaths. almost as if money isn't exactly a determining factor in any of this...

not to mention an influencing factor isn't necessarily determining factor... but hey that's too subtle for the fediverse genius who think we're all noble savages and it's society that corrupts us..

yep. my sister threw up in a house with a income of about 20-30K a year, she now has about 50 million in net worth.

her main preoccupation in life how how evil the government is because it wants to tax her and give her month to poor people, who grew up like her and how awful and terrible that is. she has a psychological block now, because in her mind now it's that she was always deserving of this and it's everyone else who is undeserving.

she also has a victim-complex and talks the way many people here talk, it's just she blames the poor people and minorities, the way lemmy posters blame billionaires. the rhetoric is exactly the same though, she thinks we need to eliminate the poor people/socialism, lemmy things you need to eliminate the billionaires/capitalism.

it isn't though.

it's that when you accumulate power and privileged... you tend to be more likely to exercise it indiscriminately, because temptation to do so is strong and the consequences lesser.

i know people who grew up poor and became rich... it was only after they were rich... for awhile, after their hedonistic treadmill had readjusted, that they became greedier and greedier and more sociopathic.

it's a basic facet of human psychology you have backwards. when you don't have power over others... you can't abuse them. when you do have power over others, you can.

that doesn't mean the powerless are good, it just means they have less opportunity to be evil. and there are plenty of powerful folks who aren't evil.

entitlement is a hell of a drug.

yeah, that's how the economy works. demand and supply.

that's what's going on in tech right now, too many people chasing too few jobs.

there are no guarantees in life, so you have to adapt.

and a lot of people would be a lot richer if they had better economic habits.

define improving society? like a greater GDP? a greater per capital income? etc. also realize that your definition of 'better society' likely has nothing to do with someone else's.

healthcare for all sounds good on paper, but how can it be achieved if we already have a medical system that can't meet the needs of current demands? if we had medical for all and were able to provide decent service for all, we'd likely need to quadruple the number of healthcare workers...

it's easy to have high minded ideals about this stuff, it's much harder and murkier to get into the real world details and the real world consequences of 'improvement' in society.

if you passed medicare for all tomorrow, the medical system would collapse because it wouldn't be able to meet the demand. people would be waiting years for basic checkups, instead of months they wait now. my PCP books appointments six months in advance.