When the one percent starts to feel paranoid, Clay Cockrell is the first to hear about it. A therapist who specializes in treating the neuroses of the ultrawealthy, Cockrell says that many of his clients are in the privileged position of getting freaked out by eat-the-rich sentiments these days.

  • sturger
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    337 days ago

    Having too much money is literally the easiest problem in the world to solve.

  • @Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip
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    196 days ago

    It’s not like there’s a history of killing them to make a new status quo! Maybe they shouldn’t be greedy pieces of shit and fucking over everyone else? Leeches.

    • Wow, shitting on their entire way of life. If tbey werent “greedy pieces of shit” they wouldn’t even be rich!

      Maybe you should have some fucking empathy. And also let them harvest your organs so they can have extras.

  • Fingolfinz
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    166 days ago

    It’s all from a place of selfishness for them I’m sure so there won’t be any meaningful change as a result of their fear. They deserve to feel this way but I wish it would lead to a positive outcome but they are shameless wretches so they’ll respond as we expect shameless wretches to

  • @JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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    I can’t say I feel bad for them. I’m sure they have problems. But rich people problems always seem so petty when you compared them to the problems faced by people who are 24-7 stressed about whether their paycheck will cover their bills, or whether they are going to have a job if they say the wrong thing to their boss or a senior staff member. The trials that plague most of society are much more stressful than rich people problems. Just look at life expectations and you can see it. If some rich person wants to prove me wrong I will gladly let them switch places with me for a year and we can compare. Maybe I will learn something. And maybe they will understand the frame of their problems better…

  • @kreskin@lemmy.world
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    97 days ago

    Good news though, Trump is absolutely destroying the dollar so soon we’ll all need wheelbarrows to carry around our worthless piles of US dollars.

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    they’re genuinely trying to downplay what they have. It’s not just quiet — it’s silent. In an era of rising economic tension and class rage, a rich person’s privacy has become the ultimate commodity. They don’t want to be seen at the Chanel store.

    For a long time here in the US, inequality has been treated as no big deal. “Oh, inequality is growing?,” said the business leaders and economists, “Why should we care?”

    This is why.

  • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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    808 days ago

    They could always downsize their lives to be less exploitative and still live a life of leisure if they are that afraid for their safety, or better yet use their wealth to influence policies beneficial to the large majority of humans but they wont do either of those.

    They just want to keep living the exact same way without consequences.