Shocking Quotes: The Astonishingly Tone-Deaf Comments from the Wealthy Elite
My rich aunt was pretty wealthy, but then she married a man who was wealthy to a much higher degree. MUCH higher degree. They were married for about 15 years and had a good life, but he was older and passed away. Apparently his nurse made changes to the will in the last few months of his life and it left much less to my aunt than she was prepared for.
I remember her crying to my dad on the phone and saying, “How am I supposed to live on only $2 million a year?!?!”
Meanwhile, my family are teachers.
Understanding what ‘regular’ people worry about means that you have to interact with individuals from all walks of life, not just the folks who go to the same country club as you do. Genuine empathy starts with being open-minded and actively listening to someone instead of making assumptions about the challenges they face.
Now, that’s not to say that rich people don’t have anything to worry about. Far from it. A major source of anxiety is worrying that you might lose your wealth… especially if you’ve worked hard to earn it. Bad investments, global market shakeups, and risky business ventures can make generational wealth evaporate fairly quickly.
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