Shocking Quotes: The Astonishingly Tone-Deaf Comments from the Wealthy Elite
Friend invited me out to eat. I told her that I couldn’t. That I needed to wait for payday. That I just paid so my bills and didn’t have much left over. Her response was ” wait so you don’t have money, but you work so I don’t understand. Can’t you just get like $100 from your parents?”.
Rishi Sunak – the UK’s finance minister saying mid-covid while millions lost their jobs due to lockdown saying people should “live off their savings” apparently since we haven’t been able to spend money because everything is shut we’ve saved money..
Despite not earning money because everything shut down.
Everyone I work with is middle class & comfortable & they all look down their noses at poor people. I’ve lived in poverty before and had to rely on benefits for a year or two after my Foster mum died so I know what it’s like to have nothing and to have to scrape by on the bare minimum but these guys think it’s all free council houses and nightly takeaways and Primark shopping trips. I get into some heated discussions about it all at work.
Doesn’t exactly answer your question, but there’s this awesome scene I love from the documentary Queen of Versailles. Basically about this rich family building America’s biggest house and showcases their decline as 2008 hit.
In it, they all get really drunk at a Christmas party and the real estate guy starts blabbing about the entire economic situation. Basically about how they were able to get away with financial m****r — the banks duped all those people, their mega businesses profited, they got away with it, and now the country is doing the same exact thing and letting them get away with it all over again. Guy seemed amazed that the system was so easy for them to manipulate if anything.
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