In the world of business
You pay the highest taxes and if you are in California, you are paying the highest taxes in the nation. The government keeps raising them, your business is subject to extortionist lawsuits by your own disloyal and opportunistic employees, and your business must comply with unsustainable anti-business government regulations. Your property taxes are high. Also, as a “rich person,” you are the prime target of various types of extortionist litigation—it could be your spouse trying to rob you of your property by taking advantage of community property and spousal support laws, it could be your business competitors, or it could be some other opportunistic individuals and their attorneys trying to make a buck; this is why California is considered to be the most litigious state, but the same phenomenon is common elsewhere in the U.S.
In your personal life
In your dating situation, you will never know if a person you are dating loves you for who you are or for your money. They will enjoy spending time with you as long as you are showing them a good time, taking them on dates to the most upscale restaurants, and taking them with you to luxury resorts in Thailand, Indonesia, or Dubai. However, if you stop doing that either because you are just tired of spending this much money or your business is slow, you will see your lover’s ugly side sooner rather than later. If, God forbid, something happens to you and you need their help, they will dump you without even saying goodbye as soon as they see that the money has run out.
If you are rich and you get married, and then your relationship with your spouse goes south, be ready for ruinous divorce proceedings where you will be obligated to pay spousal support to your ex for life if you are better off financially at the time of separation; your spouse has a right to 50% of all property acquired during marriage even if they never invested a dime into that property and you’ve been the only one paying for it all along from your income.
If your friends happen to be less affluent than you, expect them to be fake with you—they’ll make a load of compliments to your face, but will gossip about you behind your back and make up nasty rumors about you to feel better about their miserable selves.
In public life
If you happen to be rich AND somewhat famous, expect the worst treatment by the press and by ordinary people, nothing short of hatred and mocking. Yes, you are partially to blame for parading your wealth and status in front of a crowd of bloodthirsty envious losers and vicious journalists specializing in trashing rich people. However, the fact that people hate the rich so much reflects poorly on the moral character of the public.
Let’s examine the hatred for the rich in detail.
Are there any excuses for hating rich people? How does one find reasons to hate rich people? Imagine you have a rich neighbor: they have a beautiful house next to your little shack, they are always polite, well-dressed, and friendly to you and others. Rich people tend to be civilized and have good upbringing (with some exceptions who are mostly trashy “nouveau riche”). Their children are also polite and quiet and don’t loiter outside of the house making noise and smoking pot. Rich people don’t loot the neighborhood, they don’t urinate or defecate in public, they don’t vandalize bus stops and trash cans, they don’t rob people on the street, and they don’t burglarize your home! And yet, you just don’t like your rich neighbors! On top of that, you hear on the news every day about the need to make the “bad” rich people “pay their fair share”; about income inequality, about the exploitation of the masses by rich people. You watch movies where rich people are portrayed as evil and racist. So what is it about rich people that makes everyone hate them so much? It seems like it’s not their personal conduct—as we’ve already illustrated earlier, their personal conduct is usually impeccable, especially compared to the rest of the population. Rich people tend not to harm others and are self-sufficient and not needy, which makes them convenient to deal with, to work with, to live side by side with, and to be friends with. So where is so much hatred for rich people coming from? Here are a few guesses:
- Poor people’s inferiority complex: “I am not as good-looking as they are, I am not as talented as they are, I am not as lucky, as successful, as motivated as they are, and I don’t feel like I can fix it all. I am defective and I can’t fix myself. There is nothing I can do to be like those rich people, so I have no hope.” This sense of hopelessness gives poor people or let’s say “regular” “non-rich” people a license to hate rich people: “If I can’t fix my own defects and I am frustrated about it, I need to externalize my pain and frustration. How do I do that? I come up with excuses to hate my rich neighbors for being better off than me. If there is a need to hate someone to heal your internal pain, you can always find a scapegoat and you can always invent justifications for your hatred.”
- The “social injustice” excuse to hate rich people: “Oh, I didn’t have the same opportunities as they did because my parents were barely making ends meet while these rich neighbors of mine inherited a fortune from their parents and didn’t even need to work hard to earn their money”, therefore there is initial inequality between us and that feels unfair.
STOP RIGHT THERE!
Why in the world should there be equality? Why do you feel that you should have the same things that another person has? Why are you constantly comparing yourself to others? This is the root of all evil—if you STOP COMPARING, you will have much more peace of mind and success in life because it is your preoccupation with constant comparisons against people who are perceived to be better off than you that is holding you back! If you just focus on your own self-sufficiency, education, hard work, the right choice of career, the right choice of life partner, your own spiritual growth, and shameless self-promotion, you will be able to live the rich life—rich financially, spiritually, emotionally, socially, etc. If you bond with people who are as self-made as you are, you will enjoy your friendship with them much more than a friendship based on commiseration, than friendship between losers who are constantly plotting how to take something away from others rather than accomplish something meaningful themselves! Essentially, the social justice ideology is a fraud to cover up the grand robbery perpetrated by losers against winners in human competition.
Human inequality is the only stimulus for progress because it creates competition and rewards more advanced species while punishing the defective ones.
The “compassion and empathy” excuse to hate rich people, or the sick puppy syndrome, is pervasive.
No matter what culture you pick—fairy tales and later social justice movies focusing on social issues always glorify poor people and vilify or demonize the rich. Cinderella was abused by her affluent stepmother and UGLY daughters; Prometheus was condemned by Zeus to recurrent liver extraction because he helped the poor people by giving them fire; Jesus rebelled against those eternally hated rich Jews. In Bollywood movies since the 1950s, there are always these poor old grandmas and orphans abused by affluent and draconian aristocrats. Hollywood is not far behind with constant mockery of rich people and their portrayal as evil, selfish, conniving, self-destructive, abusive, arrogant, and so forth. The poor are typically sympathetic characters that heroically withstand exploitation and abuses by the rich; the poor are portrayed mostly as GOOD PEOPLE.
We are conditioned to experience empathy for the poor, not for the rich, for those who are not in a position of power, for disadvantaged slaves in the 19th century and corporate slaves of today, for the ghetto teenagers who grew up in violent hoods, for trailer park drug addict hillbillies, and victims of the opioid epidemic, for the homeless and nowadays even for criminals (victims of mass incarceration, systemic racism, and poor representation by free public defenders). When someone misbehaves or commits crimes, it must be because they had a terrible childhood—never mind the suffering of the crime victims—all attention is on the criminal with tons of excuses why they did it and exemption from personal responsibility because they grew up disadvantaged! We are now treating criminals, drug addicts, homeless street thugs like SICK PUPPIES—as long as they come from a poor background of course. We are supposed to FEEL SORRY for them—our compassion and empathy buttons are being pushed even though these individuals are far from being cuddly puppies. The most interesting phenomenon is this perverse sense of compassion for the “less fortunate”—the subjects of compassion are not required to be cute like sick puppies, they are not required to be nice, to be charismatic, they are not even required to have any good moral character. In fact, it’s the opposite—the uglier they are, the worse their moral character is—the BETTER! George Floyd was probably one of the WORST human beings in history—definitely far worse than the cops who accidentally and unprofessionally choked him under weird circumstances as he experienced drug-induced delusions and called for his unfortunate mother. Floyd almost killed a pregnant woman by holding a knife to her pregnant tummy, he neglected his family, he got out because he snitched on his criminal accomplices to get a better sentencing deal, he was an uncivilized hardcore career criminal without any redeeming value and never even learned his lesson to cooperate with police and stay out of trouble, which ultimately caused his own demise. He resisted arrest, he fought police, he was delusional and extremely violent, and stronger than those four pathetic cops taken together—he needed to be tranquilized like a rabid vicious animal, and those stupid cops thought they could subdue him and were also expected to trust his cries about inability to breathe as he was about to injure or kill them. AND YET—the outpouring of support for him amplified by the mainstream media propaganda with the purpose of destabilizing the political situation in the country was STUNNING. All those smart, educated people dropped to their knees, they cried, they protested—and helped terrorist organizations like BLM to organize riots in every major city in the U.S.—all to “avenge” the death of the “innocent” George Floyd! Plus, while at it, they AGAIN used this as an opportunity to loot RICH PEOPLE’s businesses—as if rich people were to blame for Floyd’s erratic suicidal behavior! They even built a golden casket for him and paid tribute to him as an “innocent” victim of police brutality and systemic racism! All because that monster was a sick puppy in their delusional eyes, all because he WASN’T RICH (even though the family he neglected did get rich off of this entire CIRCUS).
Rich people don’t get any compassion, even if they are black—look at what happened to Sean Diddy Combs! Or poor old Mr. Cosby! Why isn’t anyone crying foul—systemic racism and shit! Oh no, no, no—those black guys are RICH so no identity-based empathy for them. Not only that—it is BECAUSE they are rich they became targets of #metoo persecution. Who knows maybe Combs did rape some girls and is actually a hardcore criminal no better than Floyd, maybe he does deserve what’s coming to him—but would they go as hard on him as they did if he were poor? Would anyone bother to even file lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages if Combs were poor? Definitely not! Same with Cosby and Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein and Kevin Spacey and Woody Allen and tons of other people who happened to be rich so they didn’t deserve any sympathy or compassion—regardless of the degree of their guilt. If you are accused of being evil, you better be poor and judgment proof—being poor you can get away with so many more things than if you are rich.
CONSEQUENCES FOR SOCIETY THAT HATES WEALTH and SUCCESS
Post-middle ages Western society achieved its success thanks to CAPITALISM that welcomes merit-based inequality and opposes the redistribution of wealth and income. The current decline and eventual demise of Western civilization are happening because Western societies have become socialist—that is, government-run, and the government’s mission is to redistribute income from successful people to parasites that can’t compete with successful people on their own. As a result of government-run socialist totalitarianism, rich and successful people feel threatened by the government and society, lose motivation to succeed and do business, they are forced to hide their status, they feel victimized by parasites. In this unhealthy environment, and with the expansion of workers’ rights, tenants’ rights, and government programs for the poor, our society becomes unsustainable. The regular people or “poor” people get enough freebies from the government to survive with a social safety net without the need to work hard or open businesses. The “rich” are trying to escape the government-run robbery system and are downsizing their businesses, leaving for more capitalist jurisdictions, hiding assets, and raising prices on everything to offset the high costs of doing business. This leads to government-run devastation of the economy and a stagnant, declining society.
DON’T HATE THE RICH—TRY TO EMULATE THEM
The solution to this problem is to change the mentality of the masses—show them the value of private property ownership, the benefits of being self-sufficient, and independent from the government and society. Educate the public about NOT COMPARING themselves to those who are better off to exacerbate their inferiority complex but instead build high self-esteem and faith in your own abilities. Stop glorifying poverty and defective people—instead glorify success, hard work, property, and business ownership. Stop hating rich people and try to be like them, be well-behaved, civilized, polite, and successful in life!
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