Im sure rich people have problems like everyone else but other people have my priority who don't have the resources.
Same. You know what feeds my depression? Not owning my own house and having to do a job that is incredibly mentally taxing to survive99% of my problems would be solved by being financially secure.
Wealthy people have practically every resource available to them while most others suffer.
When there's no need to work, where do you get your sense of meaning and purpose and structure?
Yeah and i certainly dont need to read articles pitying how the rich have such a hard life or somethingRich people can have mental problems and really suffer from it.
However, I am not Jesus and my empathy is finite, so I prefer to spend it on other people first.
I think your analogy would have more merit if this article was shoved down the throats of, as you put it, villagers engulfed in famine. By all accounts, ERA's demographic is well above the average in terms of income and wealth, so by that logic I suppose none of us should ever complain about anything? (And that's ignoring the fact that the article was written by professionals; not by the rich people themselves.)
Also, as others have mentioned before, nobody is saying that we should feel bad for those rich people - yet there's a difference between thinking "oh ok, whatever" and actively spouting garbage like "Eat shit, rich people" when talking about their mental health issues. In other words, it's completely fine (and normal) to have a limited amount of empathy, but does it really have to be converted into hatred?
I just don't understand what one expects could be constructive about this kind of thing, though. If they, with all the means in the world, cannot meaningfully remedy whatever is ailing them, what is anyone reading this supposed to do other than feel condescended to? I don't disagree that people do what you're claiming they do, but is this a case of people "waiting" for a "justified" "target," or do people simply feel that they're being asked to give something - even if just their emotional investment - to those who will never give anything back, simply take?
There's a massive difference between telling someone to care about the needy who exist outside of their circumstances and asking them to expend energy they may not even have left for themselves on being concerned about those with resources they couldn't dream of.
People are being afforded less and less of "themselves" as time goes on and economic circumstances place more and more demands on them. I don't think it's heartless to say that people who have nothing to concern themselves with but themselves are not as entitled to a piece of them beyond the most fundamental, base level of concern for mental health in isolation.
You can't do good gentrification. By definition it's about displacement of current inhabitants, which will be the poorer people. Offering affordable housing and other services that can be within the means of poorer people is how you're going to do it. Until you can't offer those protections, you'll always get gentrification.I've always wondered if it was possible to do gentrification in a healthy way.
Would it be possible to go into a poor neighborhood, buy up all the property, gift it back to the people already living there without kicking them out of their homes, then hire local companies to come in and renovate their houses and communities and exponentially increase their property values without displacing them from the area?
What would happen if you started pumping crazy money into poor areas without removing the poor people?
Has that ever actually been attempted?
You say that like it was an Uber Eats order.The rich who I am friends with are stingy as fuck. The richest of the lot will be inheriting a family business in Barbados and had never once had a money worry. I asked him to pick up a shed for me the other day since he's the only one with a truck that'll take it. He wanted 50 for driving a total of 10 miles.
Thing is he's not even asshole or anything, just has no ability to even register that his income is like 100x what his friends are and just acts like we're all on the same level
I was gonna be the one actually doing the work lol. Dude lives in a literal mansion and I live on benefits. It's just a box with a load of upvc in it and all he was needed for was chucking it in the back and drive one village over. The uber eats drivers would be doing more work and more miles and I'd be far more inclined to pay them extra as unlike this guy, they likely need that money. Only reason this guy wanted cash is because his family watches his bank account as he blows all the money on coke.
Nah, that wouldn't be gentrification. Gentrification is like a smaller scale colonization by definition. People are displaced.I've always wondered if it was possible to do gentrification in a healthy way.
Would it be possible to go into a poor neighborhood, buy up all the property, gift it back to the people already living there without kicking them out of their homes, then hire local companies to come in and renovate their houses and communities and exponentially increase their property values without displacing them from the area?
What would happen if you started pumping crazy money into poor areas without removing the poor people?
Has that ever actually been attempted?
Ah but isn't that why they're depressed, because they feel isolated? As humans we need positive and fulfilling human interaction so money can't replace that. But we also gotta eat and pay bills so money definitely affects how you move about the world.To be honest, i really don't see the problem. Being rich (meaning: getting everything that you need and want) and don't having to deal with people sounds like a HUGE win to me.
Relative to their situation I'm not gonna argue. I'm definitely not gonna make them read an article about how, actually, I'm sad too and they need to feel empathy for me.The lack of sympathy is sad to see. People face all sorts of challenges in life regardless of money.
There are poor people in third world countries who look at people like us (mostly middle class in developed countries) and think how lucky we are and that we have no right to complain.
Okay, but no one is doing that you.Relative to their situation I'm not gonna argue. I'm definitely not gonna make them read an article about how, actually, I'm sad too and they need to feel empathy for me.
Because sympathy for those in need shouldn't be gate kept?The ultra rich are literally responsible for the destruction of the planet and wealth inequalities. Why should anyone sympathize with them? Also, their "problem" is easily solvable. Give your wealth away. Done. They have basically infinite wealth. Stop hoarding it.
Poor people vs middle class in richer countries is hardly the same. We have the same amount of power in society. Meaning none.
They buy all that expensive, trendy shit to give the outward appearance of a personality. They move into scenes that lower-income creative people establish, raise the price on everything pushing the creative people out, and leave a hollow, sterile shell of a scene in its place.lmao boo hoo
But I do notice that the "friends"/acquitances I know who are filthy rich are some of the most boring, uncultured people I've ever seen. They legit have no actual interests or hobby other than "golfing".
As someone who has suffered from depression and anxiety most of his life, fuck these people. They deserve nothing for problems they've created themselves by exploiting people.Because sympathy for those in need shouldn't be gate kept?
Regardless of class or wealth, I genuinely do feel bad for people who are struggling with mental health (as someone who's had their own fair share of anguish), and hope that they are able to get the necessary help to put them on a better path towards recovery.
Because sympathy for those in need shouldn't be gate kept?
Regardless of class or wealth, I genuinely do feel bad for people who are struggling with mental health (as someone who's had their own fair share of anguish), and hope that they are able to get the necessary help to put them on a better path towards recovery.
Because sympathy for those in need shouldn't be gate kept?
Regardless of class or wealth, I genuinely do feel bad for people who are struggling with mental health (as someone who's had their own fair share of anguish), and hope that they are able to get the necessary help to put them on a better path towards recovery.
Make, tell, expect, ask. Whatever.
Sure, people well off have the resources that in theory should provide them with the ability to received help if they are able to seek it. But do all people suffering from mental illness seek help? How many celebrities or superstars have taken their life rather than seek help that they could have? How many less fortunate similarly shy away from seeking help or support in the throes of a mental crisis.Blindness to class or wealth does not help in any circumstance. Those well off will have the necessary help. That's no concern. But those well off are, materially, benefiting from the poor conditions that everyone else has to survive, made objects of labor and profit for the same people you are defending. They can do without our sympathy. And we can't do with their exploitation.
Capitalist realism. The engine must be kept going at all costs. One way to do that is to remind the poor folks that those oppressing them have feelings too. Don't be so hard on them guys. Have some sympathy. They're lonely.Who is this article for though?
To publish something to the general public stating something like this
Sure, people well off have the resources that in theory should provide them with the ability to received help if they are able to seek it. But do all people suffering from mental illness seek help? How many celebrities or superstars have taken their life rather than seek help that they could have? How many less fortunate similarly shy away from seeking help or support in the throes of a mental crisis.
I am not defending their wealth, I'm defending the concept that at the end of the day, mental illness can wreck any person, regardless of class, and that everyone's mental health challenges are valid.
There's probably some credence to wealth impacting how you see the world. Some More News did a good video on this a little over a year ago. (though it's mostly about how they're dicks)
Are Rich People Okay? – SOME MORE NEWS
Hi. In today's episode, we look at what being rich does to your perception of yourself and others, the eccentricities of the super wealthy, how they use thei...www.youtube.com
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Despite that, I think some of the issues named in the OP are also present in non-wealthy people too. "Concerned about what their mark on the world will be"? I feel like that's common of a lot of people, not just wealthy ones.
People are comfortable talking their shit about "the rich" and "billionaires," but when you remind them that the concept refers to actual, individual people in any tangible way - outside of the most widely known reprobates - suddenly plenty of people collapse in on themselves like creme brulee and expose their gooey "they're people too!" center. Folks are very comfortable decrying oppression, but extending the same attitude to oppressors is much more difficult.Capitalist realism. The engine must be kept going at all costs. One way to do that is to remind the poor folks that those oppressing them have feelings too. Don't be so hard on them guys. Have some sympathy. They're lonely.
Like, we literally just had a thread critiquing capitalism as a system literally built on slavery and genocide. I don't think there was much poster crossover there, but it's nonetheless amazing the duality on display and how quickly just basic class consciousness goes out the window by preying on liberal good intentions.
Reminds me of all the threads praising that Black dude for "making friends" with the KKK. Forgiveness for oppressors is what people want, not actual liberation. Negative peace vs positive justice, etc.