Ever notice all rich people "worked hard"... and never have any perks ever?

Question

I find it amusing when they post on here and go on and on about how they had no "advantages" and how they all "worked hard for what they earned in their life"...

I've known a few of the "type" in real life...

inherited your wealth... went to the best schools... had every advantage possible... lived in secure, nurturing homes...

but they've always "done everything themselves"...

and everyone who's poor just "isn't trying"...

I just find it funny...

sure... there are a few self-made millionares... but they are pretty far flug and few...

Gates' dad was a millionare?

do you think he didn't have any perks growing up?

this is what I'm talking about...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Early_life

AND I mean... it's not your fault, if you're born wealthy.... but at least recognize it and don't pretend that you haven't had perks...

and try to help others that didn't have the same chances that you did... and some do this... granted...

Answer 1

If people knew the companies and lives Bill Gates destroyed using illegal means on his way to where he is. He over charges the world for his product, and now it is a necessity. When it was not a necessity he bribed, boycotted, smeared and committed many other loathsome and illegal activities to put his product where it is. That is not even mentioning that he stole Windows from Apple.

And wasn't Bush born with a silver foot er spoon in his mouth? Cheney was not rich to begin with, until he retired from the military and went to Halliburton. But with the money he and Halliburton are making off of Iraq his family will be wealthy for the next 100 generations. That is without taking into account the $15,000,000 in oil money that disappears everyday from Iraq.

Their motto is "We got ours now you get yours". It would be laughable if it were not so sad.

Answer 2

Can I be enthralled with the story AND think it's utter crap? It's kind of a hate/love relationship I have with my old work. There are certain descriptions that I think I've written really well, as well as conversations (funny dialogue). But mostly, the word "immature" comes to mind when I read my work from years past. However, writers are their own worst critics, and some friends have told me I'm good, so maybe I'm not as bad as I think I am. :P I think that's the case for most everyone. BQ: The plot of a story I once loved but am not planning on finishing is about a girl who got raped and goes through a lot of emotional and mental trauma because of it. Also because of it, she develops an eating disorder and a lot of her close personal relationships are ruined. BQ2: Abigail. BQ3: This is a tough one. In a way, I'd like to think it's bad and that I'm improving...but then again, if it's not _as_ bad as I thought it would be, that still means I could be improving! So I'll go with B. :) Thanks for the interesting question! :D Hope you're having a great day.

Answer 3

It really bothers me when absolutes or assumptions are made about a certain group of people.

First of all, I agree with you that a lot of successful people are successful today because they were raised in an environment that nurtured that and trained them for their future.

Who is going to train the disadvantaged if a teacher, clergyman or somebody doesn't take an interest in that child. They simply aren't raised to know how to get ahead in life. That doesn't mean their parents don't love them or want them to do the best they can, they just don't know how to go about it. The know on some level education is the key, but when it's time to go to college who helps that child with financial aid or offers them an alternative choice such as a vocational school.

My parents married really young and gave me no real guidance on life. We weren't poor my dad was in the Air Force but they simply didn't know how to prepare me or my sister on how to be an adult. Luckily for me, I was very smart and got a scholarship to college and did graduate but it was hard. So why do expect that people are going to know what to do?

I believe more should be done to assist kids in career planning, education and vocational training and that it should be established upon graduation. I believe more life skills classes should be added to schools for things like managing money etc.

You are lucky if you have the right guidance growing up, unfortunately statistically speaking there is considerable dysfunction in the family these days.

Answer 4

There are plenty of examples of people who worked their way up out of the lower or middle class through hard work, but for every one of those, there are one hundred who work hard all their lives and never become rich. Luck has more to do with success than most wealthy people would ever admit.

Once your family is rich, it is very easy for successive generations to stay rich, even without the trust funds. Family connections play a huge part in getting high paying jobs.

Answer 5

80% of American rich did not inherit their wealth. They are 1st generation wealthy. Therefore, their quotes are probably accurate. And the part about poor just not trying sounds made up.

Don't give up on your dreams.

Answer 6

the wealthy need to justify their existance so they give the false impression of having started with nothing and having to earn all they have through hard work, not through being born into it. they don't give a sh*t about the poor, and would be perfectly happy to have them all confined to the dungeons. they are more concerned in how to spend their wealth, than in providing something to those in need. the same attitude was held by the french monarchy when the queen said, "if they have no bread, let them eat cake".
there is nothing funny about having such ideas. it's just sad that they have so little to offer to the world. they have their rewards, and will be last in line to enter heaven because they won't find the best seats and their money didn't do them any good because they can't take it with them. without their money, they have nothing. they can't buy heaven, nor bargain for it. it must be earned and that is only by learning the difference between what is good and what is not good. their actions are how they learn, not how they buy it.

Answer 7

True in a lot of cases I am sure. Not mine, I was working putting in tobacco when I was old enough to work around the barn picking up extra leaves that fell off the trailers and out of the racks. My folks would let me keep a portion of the money I earned and the rest was put up to buy my school clothes in the fall. I have worked a public job since I was old enough for a workers permit. All of my wealth is from hard work and frugal living, not by anything I inherited.

Answer 8

They probably like to balance their guilt by taking this Horatio Alger myth and inserting/interpreting it into their lives somehow.

I'd like to ask a rich person what they think about taking away inheritance and trust funds and see how they respond. Why should they have a problem with it? Don't they want to pass on the virtue of "working real hard" to their kids too?

Answer 9

Working hard is in the eye of the worker. I sat next to a women for almost 15 years, she moaned, and groaned, each and everyday how hard she worked, but she was the laziest, and did the sloppiest work in the office.

Answer 10

It almost makes me cry when I see people lose everything
because of a hurricane, tornado, an illness or a 55 yr. old
loses his job to outsourcing.
And then there are the people who paid insurance most
of their adult life & the insurance company tells them their
policy doesn't cover "wind damage".
Even the things I haven't mentioned, no one asks for.

I'll never understand why some in the America the great,
will find an excuse for not wanting to help their fellow citizens.