“emotional sensitivity” is a funny way to to misspell: fear of guillotine
ITT: people trying to explain what it’s like to be extremely wealthy without knowing anything about it.
What a nice gesture by them!
LMAO AS FUCKING IF. Rich people aren’t capable of feeling any sort of empathy-adjacent emotions. If you’re rich and think you can feel empathy there are two possible scenarios at play;
a) You’re wrong about being rich
b) You’re wrong about feeling empathyPretty much huh.
How rich? How should the empathy be shown? Is it a sliding scale where the lines meet in the middle somewhere?
If you own a Bentley, you’re either very rich, or just spent all your money on a Bentley
Wrong.
You can buy Bentley’s for a couple of thousand and if you’re a car guy can maintain them pretty ok. I’ve got a friend with one and I can assure you he’s not in the slightest bit considered “rich”
I would assume a Bentley for a couple thousand is not a new Bentley from the company and would not count towards VWs sales.
What’s that got to do with the brash statement that I was replying to?
If you own a Bentley, you’re either very rich, or just spent all your money on a Bentley
Because they knew I was talking about new Bentleys, not 20 year old ones that are worth no more than their metal scraps worth.
It’s a variable scale of age, how does anyone agree on the exact year it goes from being “metal scraps” to “new Bentley”.
2, 5, 10 years? Better off clarifying in the original comment
Good question. I haven’t got an answer for that. We could start off by pruning off the top; anyone with a net worth above a billion can’t possibly have earned that kind of money. 900 million is just as unlikely.
A modicum of luck obviously plays a part as well; Facebook for example started off as a fairly innocuous website for ranking the attractiveness of university students; poor in taste and judgement but hardly evil. That’s not exactly where we are today, is it? Have you read about how facebook treats its content moderation team? Ol’ Zucky is responsible for that and so much more.
There’s only so much you can earn through hard work and good luck before you’ll start having to make unethical and evil choices to keep raking in the cash. Rich people don’t need or deserve any empathy, because they won’t have any for you.
Lol you think people on the internet work with relative variables scales.it’s always extremist far reaching opposites and it’s always a binary choice from each end of the scale.
If you can accurately state how much you’re worth … chances are you’re not that rich
Hey, you’re right! I’m worth -$248,657.36 (yes, that’s a negative sign). Am not rich at all.
That’s some dehumanizing rhetoric you got going there bro. Poor are just as unempathetic, middle class the same. It’s not a money problem it’s a human problem.
The statistical data disagrees with your anecdotal evidence.
This is only tangibly related to your comment, but even before you get the unemphatic part, the regressive taxes alone set rich people apart from poor people. If you make enough money have to pay taxes at the lowest bracket in the US it’s 10% taxes with minimum $22k a year income. That is $2200 a year, which is a crazy amount for them to be able afford when someone in the highest tax bracket is paying 37% and it doesn’t start until $578k for a single filing. That’s about $214k in taxes with about $364k left over to be as empathetic as they want to be with it. It would take the person who is paying 10% in taxes 16.5 years just to make what the person who is making half a million a year makes AFTER TAXES!
It’s very hard for either group to be empathetic to the other, but for vastly different reasons.
I am very bad at public math if anyone sees a glaring issue.
I agree with your sentiment but that’s not how taxes work… Only the money after 578k is at taxed at 37%… So the first 22k is taxed as 10% even if you make a billion dollars.
How is that proving my point any less? You are absolutely right those fucking billionaires way more than $578k every day and yet the person who pays at 10% is going to feel that tax burden so much more than someone making a million dollars!
Actually the poor tend to give a higher portion if their total wealth to charity than the rich.
Charity = | = to empathy. I live in an area where I can go 15 min either direction and meet up with poorer families. The hatred they spew for certain groups of people is mind boggling
You have to remember, in leftist culture it’s socially acceptable to be prejudiced and rude about rich people. I see this daily in online threads, people need something/someone to ralley against.
One example of this is you can’t be racist about Germans, french or Americans but god forbid you say similar things about an African nation.
I see this often, but still don’t understand how a national identity = race, could you please explain what I’m missing?
Amazing how it’s all so easily wrapped up and explained away (lol, only in your own mind) when you simply completely ignore the circumstances and systems that create a situation like you describe…
Mill very well expresses the essence of the matter in the form of a concept by characterising money as the medium of exchange. The essence of money is not, in the first place, that property is alienated in it, but that the mediating activity or movement, the human, social act by which man’s products mutually complement one another, is estranged from man and becomes the attribute of money, a material thing outside man. Since man alienates this mediating activity itself, he is active here only as a man who has lost himself and is dehumanised; the relation itself between things, man’s operation with them, becomes the operation of an entity outside man and above man. Owing to this alien mediator – instead of man himself being the mediator for man – man regards his will, his activity and his relation to other men as a power independent of him and them. His slavery, therefore, reaches its peak. It is clear that this mediator now becomes a real God, for the mediator is the real power over what it mediates to me. Its cult becomes an end in itself. Objects separated from this mediator have lost their value. Hence the objects only have value insofar as they represent the mediator, whereas originally it seemed that the mediator had value only insofar as it represented them. This reversal of the original relationship is inevitable. This mediator is therefore the lost, estranged essence of private property, private property which has become alienated, external to itself, just as it is the alienated species-activity of man, the externalised mediation between man’s production and man’s production. All the qualities which arise in the course of this activity are, therefore, transferred to this mediator. Hence man becomes the poorer as man, i.e., separated from this mediator, the richer this mediator becomes.
No
Oh, okay
Glad we clarified
No
Some ‘people’ aren’t human and shouldn’t be treated as such.
No I refuse to sink to that level of ignorance. That’s how you get Gazas happening, seeing people as not people. Any sweeping generalization of any group of people is inherently wrong. Saying all rich are unempathetic and not human is fucking wild and if you can’t see what wrong with that rhetoric then yikes
Just homebrew something if you’re that worried about it, worst case you have a nice new car, best case, you have a legitimate competitor if you can find the capital, which you most likely can because you’re a rich fuckass.
Pretty sure just having a not I-Pad dash alone would get your brand selling like hotcakes.
Its guilt. Just say guilt.
Only by abolishing poverty can Bentley sales go up. Bentley shareholders 🤝 the working class, allies in the fight against capitalism.
Bentley can only be successful if they sell cars. If their consumer base is stagnant or shrinking, they can’t increase units or profits. But the more consumers can afford a Bentley, the less exclusive Bentley becomes.
I don’t know if Bentley is privately held. But if i was a shareholder, I’d be looking to push that market share.
Bentley is owned by VW as a subsidiary of Audi
Nobody has cut their taxes in about 4 years they must be feeling really poor.
This comment makes no sense, you misinterpreted the headline. It is saying that the rich are feeling apprehensive about conspicuous consumption due to the increasing economic disparity in the world.
Imagine getting upset because a joke wasn’t factual enough.
If this “joke” wasn’t referring to “cost of living” in the title, then I guess you’re right, but I definitely wasn’t upset.
Apprehensive of the horde of hungry poors looking at them and deciding that Bentley owners are back on the menu.
Exactly.
ITT poor people wonder about rich people wondering about poor people wondering about them
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What led you to believe you were deserving of help?
You were just so inviting and sweet, i thought you were offering tbh
Asl?
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19/f/Cali was the answer we were looking for
Ahhh better luck next time i guess
is this someone’s pathetic attempt to make the ultra rich more likable?
The ultra rich don’t have Bentleys anyway. They appeal more to the upper middle class wannabe rich people, who probably aren’t as well off as they used to be.
Maybe the rich are starting to see Bentley means “bring the guillotine over here!”
No, why would it be that? They (CEO) are trying to justify a decrease in sales on their watch.
well would you look at that one bird with two stones
Is this The Onion?
Seems realistic to me with everyone here talking about bringing back the guillotine. I can imagine people throwing rocks at and keying these cars.
Brilliant idea.
Always fuck up an expensive car.
Leave the cars alone. Throw rocks at the aristocrats.
I happen to be anti-car as well as anti-capitalist, so these rocks are equal opportunity.
So they’re just hoarding more money then…
I’m sure it has nothing to do with Bentleys getting uglier while other luxury cars are getting cooler looking.
I don’t think there has been a decent looking Bentley in my lifetime.
It’s more likely that the rich already have all the luxury cars they want, and are looking for other ways to flaunt their wealth.
I’ve never known a rich person to be so self-conscious as to experience this kind of ‘emotional sensitivity’.
It’s not “emotional sensitivity”, it’s “if I drive this through Croydon on my way to the Woldingham Estates, will someone throw a brick at me and my kids?” and given the sheer state of Croydon right now, the answer these days is more “yes” than “no”
