When the one percent starts to feel paranoid, Clay Cockrell is the first to hear about it. A therapist who specializes in treating the neuroses of the ultrawealthy, Cockrell says that many of his clients are in the privileged position of getting freaked out by eat-the-rich sentiments these days.
Having too much money is literally the easiest problem in the world to solve.
They’re evil, selfish cunts though
Fuck rich people
Yea I’m not gonna feel bad for them
It’s all from a place of selfishness for them I’m sure so there won’t be any meaningful change as a result of their fear. They deserve to feel this way but I wish it would lead to a positive outcome but they are shameless wretches so they’ll respond as we expect shameless wretches to
they’re genuinely trying to downplay what they have. It’s not just quiet — it’s silent. In an era of rising economic tension and class rage, a rich person’s privacy has become the ultimate commodity. They don’t want to be seen at the Chanel store.
For a long time here in the US, inequality has been treated as no big deal. “Oh, inequality is growing?,” said the business leaders and economists, “Why should we care?”
This is why.
When it boils over, the lesson it will teach society will be bloody and painful.
I doubt the lesson will be learned well.
Remember when Bruce Wayne was a millionaire?
And then a multimillionaire?
And then a billionaire?
Make billionaires millionaires again.
They could always downsize their lives to be less exploitative and still live a life of leisure if they are that afraid for their safety, or better yet use their wealth to influence policies beneficial to the large majority of humans but they wont do either of those.
They just want to keep living the exact same way without consequences.
I can’t say I feel bad for them. I’m sure they have problems. But rich people problems always seem so petty when you compared them to the problems faced by people who are 24-7 stressed about whether their paycheck will cover their bills, or whether they are going to have a job if they say the wrong thing to their boss or a senior staff member. The trials that plague most of society are much more stressful than rich people problems. Just look at life expectations and you can see it. If some rich person wants to prove me wrong I will gladly let them switch places with me for a year and we can compare. Maybe I will learn something. And maybe they will understand the frame of their problems better…
Boo fucking hoo
So funny to be in therapy telling your friend-for-hire that you are anxious and uncertain about what to do, because the idea of living modestly and giving to the needy is not even worthy of consideration to them.
I’d be happy if they just didn’t try to bleed the world dry for like a minute at least.
Don’t call therapists “friends-for-hire.” It’s a lame insult to a serious and needed profession.
i have a foolproof strategy to protect them. they should just broaden the target base by immersing themselves among other rich people.
and the most effective method would be making everybody else equally rich. bam. you’re now only one potential target among eight billion.
my ted talk will be aired soon.
Good news though, Trump is absolutely destroying the dollar so soon we’ll all need wheelbarrows to carry around our worthless piles of US dollars.
Even weirder to not be rich right now. Fuck them. They should feel it, greedy pigs.
Well if all that money and resources are making you uncomfortable, I am willing to take them off your hands…
Emphasis on take.
They could always fix this by sharing the wealth
