If you increase their property values it'll create an ongoing burden in the form of increased property taxes/council rates. They also won't be able to leverage their now increased wealth without selling the house to a richer family. I'm not saying it couldn't be done it's just not that easy.
Yeah, agreed. Schlubs like me are worried about having the resources necessary to make any impact on the world at all, while wealthy people have all the resources to make all of the impacts. It really sounds like that is the quintessential example of "first-world problems" as I'm writing this out, haha. "Oh no, I have too much money and I don't know how to leave my mark because I can do so much oh noooooo"
Yep. Multiple people in this thread have said "wealth inequality is a problem, but rich people have feelings too." Aiming ire at the system is easy. Aiming it at individuals is radical.
It sounds like there are inherent systemic issues to how our (US?) society values property.
Absolute best way to consider all of this. It's not that I don't empathize with people who need help with their mental health. It's more so that much of humanity is still struggling with the first two levels of this triangle, so it's hard to truly feel bad about the woes of the priveleged by the most basic comparison. I'll echo others in saying that these sad, wealthy people might be a lot happier and less isolated if they gave back to the communities that their very existence marginalizes. Like, I'm sorry you're unhappy, but you have every opportunity to seek happiness where so many others do not.Somebody call a waahmbulance.
Wealth might not solve your emotional health, but it is an undeniable necessity for people to grow as people. I recently learned of the Maslow's heirarchy of needs.
So these people are having trouble at the third level and beyond. As most people will their entire lives to some degree, I imagine. However, they are incapable of understanding how good they have it because they'll never even think about the first two levels. The first level hardly even exists for them, so I think they'll only care about it in terms of other people if it benefits them in some way.
I ain't a psychologist though. I'm just spitting. I don't have a lot of sympathy for these individuals blinded by their luck. I'm sure there a lot of people don't have sympathy for many of us because plenty of us here on this forum have a house, job, etc. We're relatively very lucky. The world kinda sucks.
The running joke is, no one reads articles, they just react to headlines.
If someone says this to me (and I've met a couple of these people) it's a huge indicator that they haven't worked on themselves and cultivated inner happiness. Getting purpose from work is OUTSIDE validation and is fleeting, fickle, and subject to forces outside of your control, meaning you are putting your source of happiness outside of your control. This is a huge mistake, and is an internal philosophy problem, not a problem with whatever your social or wealth status is. More external validation won't fix it, either, so looking for more to do isn't the solution. It's the same problem with people that base their whole personality on fiction like Star Wars. It's too easy to lose that part of your identity to an outside force and will jeopardize your mental health. These rich people don't have a money problem - they have a self-worth problem.
There's no need for all this, city politicians just need to do their fucking jobs and stop deliberately allowing poor communities to rot.
This subject matter is honestly not worth engaging with on a deeper level. Yes, wealthy people experience isolation from being in a group deliberately composed of a small amount of people that can directly relate. Anyone with two braincells could've put that one together without this piece. The fact that we're five pages in (and that I've contributed to that 5 pages as well) is indicative of how easy it is to waste time on capitalist bullshit.
