“it do be like that sometimes” is starting to lose it’s magic a little

    • mrcleanup@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      As much as I hate the rich, I don’t think they don’t have problems or stress, it’s just a different selection of problems and stress.

      They can still have relationship issues, family members die, diarrhea.

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        1 year ago

        We have those problems too. We have to worry about money at the same time.

        If you were rich:

        Relationship issues> the best counseling, less time working, more holidays, de-stress any number of other ways to make solving those issues easier.

        Family member dies> stop working for a period of time (if you even choose to work) spend time with family, pay for funeral for a nice send off, pay to have cleaners and meals cooked for the house of the deceased to ease their burden. Pay for people to fly or take time off work so they can spend time with family.

        Diarrhea> fancy toilet and bidet.

        The idea life is not easier with money is a lie. We know this because everyone who has it will do everything they can to keep it and get more. The difference is the more money you have, the more problems your brain has to manufacture. Not knowing which Bentley to buy or feeling like your too busy while you have the power at any moment to pay to have other people do a lot of those things aren’t real problems because you have the resource to solve them. When you’re poor your problems are more real. Not having enough food or worrying about rent are real problems.

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        Also like, we’re the proof of that.

        People from 1,000 years ago would not believe we could be suffering at all, given our level of wealth.

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        1 year ago

        Well not all the time, but a lot more of the time. Here’s a philosophical question. Do you think being on a holiday is easier than having to go to work? Why would not being on a permanent holiday be easier? Do extremely rich retired people look like they’re having a hard time aside from physical decline?