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[–] 142 points 2 years ago* (20 children)

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 empathy

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    How rich? How should the empathy be shown? Is it a sliding scale where the lines meet in the middle somewhere?

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    😢 do you know what it’s like to not be able to drive my half a million dollar car to a movie premier that I invested in accidentally through an AI hedge fund that I own with some other rich people that I met at a party a few years ago?

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    [–] 85 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There’s no emotional sensitivity, they’re just afraid of the guillotine.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I feel like rich people are more brazen than ever before. It's a long time before we see any guillotines for the rich in my country at least (the US). We regularly put people down who have pennies to their name though or just average Joes living their lives. Death by cop and death by violence in a broken penal system. Also completely unavoidable health issues that increasingly only the wealthy end can afford to rectify.

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  • [–] 80 points 2 years ago

    "emotional sensitivity" is a funny way to to misspell: fear of guillotine

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Nobody has cut their taxes in about 4 years they must be feeling really poor.

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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Heck no.

    The masses have noticed how hard they’ve been getting screwed.

    The rich know they’re absolutely stupid rich.

    And they’re scared.

    That’s all there is to it. Don’t attribute to them feelings of remorse or guilt. If there was any of that in them they’d cough up the dough for whatever, but no…they’re still doing the same thing they’ve always done just not as obviously public.

    We’re making noises about wealth taxes and all that and they’re thinking that if we see fewer Lamborghinis out there we’ll suddenly forget and leave them to their hoards.

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Bentley: wipes tears with Dollars featuring Woody Harrelson meme

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Only by abolishing poverty can Bentley sales go up. Bentley shareholders 🤝 the working class, allies in the fight against capitalism.

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    is this someone's pathetic attempt to make the ultra rich more likable?

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago*

    Emotional Sensitivity: "Yes, we're emotionally sensitive to the fact that the poors want to cut our heads off and watch them roll. We need to hide our wealth so they're less likely to strike out at us."

    Fixed that for you.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    Who'd have thought that it would be awkward splashing out crazy amounts of money on making yourself a little comfier when the world is on fire. A bit of privilege guilt isn't exactly a bad thing.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    Its guilt. Just say guilt.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’m sure it has nothing to do with Bentleys getting uglier while other luxury cars are getting cooler looking.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    They’re suffering from affluenza…

    How sad…

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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'.

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    What a nice gesture by them!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Thoughts and Prayers to all those suffering wealthy people

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    So they're just hoarding more money then...

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