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[ "Iran is pushing itself for an invasion" ]

[ "Iran is pushing itself for an invasion", ">\n\nmmmm yea the best way to solve this is to shell the civilians that are being oppressed, good call" ]

[ "Iran is pushing itself for an invasion", ">\n\nmmmm yea the best way to solve this is to shell the civilians that are being oppressed, good call", ">\n\nor we can bomb them, kill millions of people, destroy their houses and make a new Afghanistan or Iraq" ]

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[ "This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans." ]

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[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\"." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again..." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down.." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice.", ">\n\nIn most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice.", ">\n\nIn most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point.", ">\n\nHave you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice.", ">\n\nIn most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point.", ">\n\nHave you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions.", ">\n\nThe average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice.", ">\n\nIn most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point.", ">\n\nHave you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions.", ">\n\nThe average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles.", ">\n\nWaelth is being redistributed, but in the wrong direction." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice.", ">\n\nIn most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point.", ">\n\nHave you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions.", ">\n\nThe average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles.", ">\n\nWaelth is being redistributed, but in the wrong direction.", ">\n\nThanks to trickle down economics I was able to purchase a Hot Wheels version after saving for each month of 2022." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice.", ">\n\nIn most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point.", ">\n\nHave you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions.", ">\n\nThe average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles.", ">\n\nWaelth is being redistributed, but in the wrong direction.", ">\n\nThanks to trickle down economics I was able to purchase a Hot Wheels version after saving for each month of 2022.", ">\n\nDoes Hot Wheels even make a Rolls?" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice.", ">\n\nIn most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point.", ">\n\nHave you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions.", ">\n\nThe average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles.", ">\n\nWaelth is being redistributed, but in the wrong direction.", ">\n\nThanks to trickle down economics I was able to purchase a Hot Wheels version after saving for each month of 2022.", ">\n\nDoes Hot Wheels even make a Rolls?", ">\n\nWhy would they slow down? They have all our money" ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice.", ">\n\nIn most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point.", ">\n\nHave you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions.", ">\n\nThe average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles.", ">\n\nWaelth is being redistributed, but in the wrong direction.", ">\n\nThanks to trickle down economics I was able to purchase a Hot Wheels version after saving for each month of 2022.", ">\n\nDoes Hot Wheels even make a Rolls?", ">\n\nWhy would they slow down? They have all our money", ">\n\nProductivity has gone up steadily the last 50 years, but people are getting paid less and less adjusting for inflation. At the same time lots of companies are running tight budgets.\nAll that wealth missing from the system is being sucked out by these people. They are literally stealing from all of us." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice.", ">\n\nIn most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point.", ">\n\nHave you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions.", ">\n\nThe average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles.", ">\n\nWaelth is being redistributed, but in the wrong direction.", ">\n\nThanks to trickle down economics I was able to purchase a Hot Wheels version after saving for each month of 2022.", ">\n\nDoes Hot Wheels even make a Rolls?", ">\n\nWhy would they slow down? They have all our money", ">\n\nProductivity has gone up steadily the last 50 years, but people are getting paid less and less adjusting for inflation. At the same time lots of companies are running tight budgets.\nAll that wealth missing from the system is being sucked out by these people. They are literally stealing from all of us.", ">\n\nSign of the times. Just like the 1920’s." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice.", ">\n\nIn most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point.", ">\n\nHave you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions.", ">\n\nThe average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles.", ">\n\nWaelth is being redistributed, but in the wrong direction.", ">\n\nThanks to trickle down economics I was able to purchase a Hot Wheels version after saving for each month of 2022.", ">\n\nDoes Hot Wheels even make a Rolls?", ">\n\nWhy would they slow down? They have all our money", ">\n\nProductivity has gone up steadily the last 50 years, but people are getting paid less and less adjusting for inflation. At the same time lots of companies are running tight budgets.\nAll that wealth missing from the system is being sucked out by these people. They are literally stealing from all of us.", ">\n\nSign of the times. Just like the 1920’s.", ">\n\nThe middle classes so didn't slow down in spending." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice.", ">\n\nIn most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point.", ">\n\nHave you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions.", ">\n\nThe average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles.", ">\n\nWaelth is being redistributed, but in the wrong direction.", ">\n\nThanks to trickle down economics I was able to purchase a Hot Wheels version after saving for each month of 2022.", ">\n\nDoes Hot Wheels even make a Rolls?", ">\n\nWhy would they slow down? They have all our money", ">\n\nProductivity has gone up steadily the last 50 years, but people are getting paid less and less adjusting for inflation. At the same time lots of companies are running tight budgets.\nAll that wealth missing from the system is being sucked out by these people. They are literally stealing from all of us.", ">\n\nSign of the times. Just like the 1920’s.", ">\n\nThe middle classes so didn't slow down in spending.", ">\n\nBut inflation. Poor people. Stop spending." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice.", ">\n\nIn most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point.", ">\n\nHave you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions.", ">\n\nThe average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles.", ">\n\nWaelth is being redistributed, but in the wrong direction.", ">\n\nThanks to trickle down economics I was able to purchase a Hot Wheels version after saving for each month of 2022.", ">\n\nDoes Hot Wheels even make a Rolls?", ">\n\nWhy would they slow down? They have all our money", ">\n\nProductivity has gone up steadily the last 50 years, but people are getting paid less and less adjusting for inflation. At the same time lots of companies are running tight budgets.\nAll that wealth missing from the system is being sucked out by these people. They are literally stealing from all of us.", ">\n\nSign of the times. Just like the 1920’s.", ">\n\nThe middle classes so didn't slow down in spending.", ">\n\nBut inflation. Poor people. Stop spending.", ">\n\nThere was a hot tub shortage during the pandemic. Also hard to find a contractor to do home rem9dels. \nLots of money out there and it isnt just the rich that have it." ]

[ "Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy.", ">\n\nThey all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits.", ">\n\nMy old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven.", ">\n\nAnd yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court.", ">\n\nWe can't allow handouts!", ">\n\nCan't allow handouts to the poor.", ">\n\n\"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!\" - a Facebook post from a friend. Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven.", ">\n\nInstructions unclear. Joined the military then went to graduate school. Now I have 100k in debt.", ">\n\nHow did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt.", ">\n\nIt paid for undergrad. But the expensive graduate degree was expensive.", ">\n\nWork in design and construction.\nMore mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades.", ">\n\nI hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw.", ">\n\n/r/McMansionHell", ">\n\nGlad the wealth redistribution is still going strong", ">\n\nJust wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient.", ">\n\nYeah, patient in a hospital.", ">\n\nWith healthcare costs these days? I don't think so!", ">\n\nIn case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference.", ">\n\nJust the past few years?", ">\n\nokay especially the past few years", ">\n\nWell no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet.", ">\n\nRecessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money", ">\n\nEverytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we get the perennial \"luxury items defy economic downturn\" news stories. Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run.", ">\n\nThe ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye", ">\n\nAbsolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.\nI'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor.", ">\n\nI am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in.", ">\n\nI sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars.", ">\n\nFor the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even.", ">\n\nWhen is the trickle coming?", ">\n\nYou need to suck harder", ">\n\nAlways remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have.", ">\n\nBut if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us.", ">\n\nRich get richer...\nDifferent world and I'm not interested beyond this post.", ">\n\nLook up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. \nThe 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade.", ">\n\nWhy did they?", ">\n\nWealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly?", ">\n\nIf anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.\nI honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad.", ">\n\nDude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏", ">\n\nI mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine. \nWe don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.\nMy partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities. And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does. \nThat’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can. Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks. To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index. But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me.", ">\n\nWhy does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax", ">\n\nShe does it because she’s a good person and we really don’t need the extra money. She doesn’t just do it to save on taxes, our accountant keeps telling her to give less to charity because she regularly contributes more than we can write off. But yes, we do get a hefty refund, often times more than what many people earn in a year, but that’s only ever a portion of what she gave to charities, plus she sends her refund to the same charities, which end up getting her close to or pushing past the maximum donation credit every year.\nA big reason she does this is because after her dad made his fortune he sold his company and moved them across the country to buy a different company. And they ended up living outside a small town, so she went to public school, and started to see how starkly different normal peoples lives are and started to resent their money because she would constantly need to beg her dad to help pay for her friends so that they could actually do stuff together. And then when she went to go to University, pretty much none of her friends applied, because they didn’t have the money. \nNow she works with charities to provide scholarships to as many students as possible, they built a recreation centre that is free for anyone under 18, they have free sports programs for students in median and below income families. She works on the board of a couple of them and essentially tries to convince as many other rich people that she can to donate more of their money, simply because not everyone has a privileged upbringing, but children shouldn’t be punished because their parents aren’t rich.\nBut the underlying irony, is that the government could literally do all of this, if they simply had more tax revenue from the rich. And literally everyone of them could afford it.", ">\n\nhow nice for them\nand next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on \nglad their cars are nice though", ">\n\nYeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people", ">\n\nRepublicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no.", ">\n\nYeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down.", ">\n\nIs it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble?", ">\n\nmillionaires are the new middle class", ">\n\nThe middle class is a myth.", ">\n\nThere always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars.", ">\n\nRemember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough”", ">\n\nIf I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes.", ">\n\nAt east the folks who build them have steady jobs.", ">\n\nthey employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees.", ">\n\nIt's going to trickle down any day now.", ">\n\nAll that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do.", ">\n\nSomething something \"record profits\".", ">\n\nIn other news the sun rose again...", ">\n\nWhy would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity.", ">\n\nIt's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔.", ">\n\nTrickle down economics right", ">\n\nWho the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.\nWhy are we focused on this?", ">\n\nThey're wealthy because of the work all the poors do. All those investments they park their money in and draw their wealth from wouldn't be worth anything without the poor working slubs making that money for them", ">\n\nInflation makes them richer.\nWar makes them richer.\nPandemics make them richer.\nThe whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. \nWe should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent.", ">\n\nWell, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people.", ">\n\nI have no practical solution except at the ballot box.", ">\n\nAh yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US.", ">\n\nReminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy.", ">\n\nThe dialectics are in motion", ">\n\nI dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three.", ">\n\nReally? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade.", ">\n\nEveryone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere.", ">\n\nWell they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah.", ">\n\nThey have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class. It isn't surprising.", ">\n\nThis can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness.", ">\n\nThese folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them.", ">\n\nI live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys.", ">\n\nMeanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down..", ">\n\nThey have stole all the wealth so this checks out.", ">\n\nGee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems", ">\n\nMaybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice.", ">\n\nIn most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point.", ">\n\nHave you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions.", ">\n\nThe average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles.", ">\n\nWaelth is being redistributed, but in the wrong direction.", ">\n\nThanks to trickle down economics I was able to purchase a Hot Wheels version after saving for each month of 2022.", ">\n\nDoes Hot Wheels even make a Rolls?", ">\n\nWhy would they slow down? They have all our money", ">\n\nProductivity has gone up steadily the last 50 years, but people are getting paid less and less adjusting for inflation. At the same time lots of companies are running tight budgets.\nAll that wealth missing from the system is being sucked out by these people. They are literally stealing from all of us.", ">\n\nSign of the times. Just like the 1920’s.", ">\n\nThe middle classes so didn't slow down in spending.", ">\n\nBut inflation. Poor people. Stop spending.", ">\n\nThere was a hot tub shortage during the pandemic. Also hard to find a contractor to do home rem9dels. \nLots of money out there and it isnt just the rich that have it.", ">\n\nTheir \"record sales\" was a whooping 6,021 cars worldwide in 2022.\nThat's how many cars GM sells in a day." ]