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.
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.
When it boils over, the lesson it will teach society will be bloody and painful.
I doubt the lesson will be learned well.
Remember when Bruce Wayne was a millionaire?
And then a multimillionaire?
And then a billionaire?
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.
Good, fuck all y’all, I’ll see you in hell tomorrow if I can.
There’s quite a bit they can do to stop those sentiments if they truly are afraid of eat-the-rich rhetoric.
Good.
So funny to be in therapy telling your friend-for-hire that you are anxious and uncertain about what to do, because the idea of living modestly and giving to the needy is not even worthy of consideration to them.
I’d be happy if they just didn’t try to bleed the world dry for like a minute at least.
Don’t call therapists “friends-for-hire.” It’s a lame insult to a serious and needed profession.
I’m not sure if I should bring up the homeless vets with PTSD who’d love someone to talk to, for hire or not, qualified or not; or if I should make light of asking my own friend for hire about coping with the depression and anxiety of living in a world that the ultrawealthy have immiserated for their wealth.
The rich are worried about people hating them for being rich while everyone else is burning out from the stress of coping with living in situations that are literally depressing.
Maybe people don’t need to feel better about it? Maybe the rich should be afraid and feel like shit? Maybe the poor should be angry and upset? Maybe people on the internet use humor to cope with difficult situations and being a wokescold finger-wagger about it is counterproductive?
Maybe my comment was limited to what it commented on and you shouldn’t be assuming a whole bunch of other things I didn’t say?
It’s a dig at the rich, not the professionals. There are a lot of kitschy “therapists” that serve the rich, they have no qualifications and may play the friend role. And then there are actual professionals, like LMFT and they’ll establish a clear boundary.
In the immortal words of Good Charlotte:
They’re always complaining, always complaining. If money is such a problem, well they got mansions, think we should rob them.
Though ironically the Madden brothers ended up marrying rich.
To be fair they also said:
Talking on the phone, got an interview
With the Rolling Stone, they’re saying,
“Now you’re rich and now you’re famous
Fake-ass girls all know your name and
‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’
Your first hit, aren’t you ashamed?”
Of the life, of the life, of the life we’re livingSo at least they’re self aware 😅
Even weirder to not be rich right now. Fuck them. They should feel it, greedy pigs.
i have a foolproof strategy to protect them. they should just broaden the target base by immersing themselves among other rich people.
and the most effective method would be making everybody else equally rich. bam. you’re now only one potential target among eight billion.
my ted talk will be aired soon.
Make billionaires millionaires again.
Make millionaires thousandaires again.
Hey. No.
Well if all that money and resources are making you uncomfortable, I am willing to take them off your hands…
Emphasis on take.
Having too much money is literally the easiest problem in the world to solve.
They’re evil, selfish cunts though
They don’t even realise!
Zang
Article mentions “multimillionaire.” That’s not ultra rich. We gotta keep going y’all until billionaires starts making such comments.
Depends on how many multis. If they are within a rounding up number, I’d say it still counts.
Multis still enable the billionaires, they’re essentially the actual middle class now so I’m glad they’re sweating
I imagine if the multimillionaires are feeling it, the billionaires already are as well. They’re probably just better at keeping quiet about such things
They could do something about this, and yet they choose to continue hoarding that money.
Utterly powerless to avoid these problems…so sad for them.
Okay but, no, see, because stepping on the necks of peasants is their culture.
Maybe you could try fucking respecting another persons culture for once?
