Political Memes

I met a farmer who was bitching about welfare and how people should do some proper work to make a proper wage.

Yeah. Dude worked his entire life. Yeah, dude worked hard on his farm to make it make money.

Dude is completely OBLIVIOUS that he was handed a multi-million $$$ farm with basic equipment from his father, taught by his father how to run the farm since an early age, never had to train himself, pay for education, or start from nothing.

So yeah... some of them do work hard all their lives, but are completely tone-deaf to the fact they were given the tools to do so in the first place.

For a while, I kept seeing memes like these and thinking, "Who actually says/believes these things about [m/b]illionaires?"

Then it unlocked an old memory from grade school where we were given a list of, like, ten things millionaires do with dumb shit like, "Get up early in the morning," "Have a daily schedule," and, "Keep a journal."

Left chart is also correct, it's just your hard work and can-do attitude that makes them rich.

Hey, the right one isn’t true!

Where’s “not paying taxes” and “making deals with the mafia”?

And manipulating tax law, don't forget about that.

I'm not sure the second one should be a pie chart, more of a Venn diagram with both circles almost completely overlapping.

I have a friend working for a law farm. I constantly hear about children of celebrities working in that "profession".

On a related note, when I listen to the friend, the employees' project management skills are not that effective (baring few people). It's more like a social game done in a hive. They make big money by

1. taking advantage of disliked coworkers who will be exploited and overtasked
2. collaborating with select friends they like to hang around

In simple terms, they share the pie with friends while passing the shitty job to select few. In the end, your task is to win this friendship game. The rich child can win this game without a professional skill, and you can lose even if you had one.

Those who manage their friends well enough can get promotion in this system.

It's basically a social game for rich children, and some clients pay like 1k/h to keep the game going.

I think the one on the left is the first generation, the one on the right the second generation. When you think of the uber rich they are usually second or third generation but upper middle class can come from not much.

It is a lot of hard work mercilessly exploiting the working class, and you have to have a lot of gumption to pretend it is a good thing - but the rich CAN DO IT.

You forgot the “birth lottery AND exploiting workers” category

Also just lottery (not like state sponsored perse) but some people do just get lucky later in life.

Trump is equal-parts. The little trust fund child got $412 million from daddy over the years, and then he proceeded to exploit people.

... But now, Mary Trump is probably richer than he is. Actually most people probably are now.

i certainly feel less hate for billionaires that actually did something to benefit society [taylor swift, gates, etc] versus nameless faceless banker reptiles that simply move money around and live unimaginably vast and free lives, completely undeserving of any of it