06-02-2012, 08:20 AM
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Jealous Bandwagoners
What is it with people who feel that they have to jump on the bandwagon so that they fit into the right world.Why are people so jealous of the rich?
Even the left wing with their idiotologies of life have bank accounts/saving/investments etc which is capialism in the worst form.
My parents mingled with some of the riches people in Blackburn when I was a child and for all the money and toys their kids had I can honestly say with my hand on my heart that I was never jealous of them
The rich tend to be envious of the poor in one way because they do not have standards to live up to, they can live their life as they want up to a point. Some our happiest days were when we did not know where the next meal was coing from. I once won £5 in a raffle and we used the money to give the kids a treat, we bought runabout tickets on the train. Oh happy days.
Contentment is the real life we should all strive to live in not a monetoristic one.
Please do not say that you are not jealous all you rich people knockers because if you were'nt you would not even think twice about them.
Pray tell me all you rich people knockers that you would not do what they do if you were in the same posiion wealth wise.
06-02-2012, 11:20 AM
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Actually - I find resentment of the poor more upsetting than jealousy of the rich.( Probably because I have never been well off.
)I have no problem with the rich - I hope their wealth brings them happiness, although the evidence is that it doesn`t.
But there has just been a news item on the radio that some disabled people are now being abused in the street because of the current campaign about `welfare scroungers`.
Most of us have changes of fortune throughout our life. One should never feel either superior or inferior to another person because of money.
06-02-2012, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Antibrown
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What is it with people who feel that they have to jump on the bandwagon so that they fit into the right world.Reply
Just for starters AB personally I don't jump on anyone else's bandwagon to try to fit in (that's always been my problem
) - I plough my own furrow and what is really the "right world" anyway. The world is a precarious, haphazard place and contentment in human terms doesn't come served up on a plate Why are people so jealous of the rich?
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That is a sweeping generalisation AB many people are not jealous of the rich, and you can be rich in wealth but so poor in other ways. I think it is human nature to look and aspire to something another person may have when the person looking has very few "cards" to play with. That looking, wanting and being jealous often motivates a person to do something about achieving it for themselves.
Even the left wing with their idiotologies of life have bank accounts/saving/investments etc which is capialism in the worst form.
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IMO Having a Bank Account/savings/investments doesn't make you a capitalist in the worst form - I fail to see what it has to do with being left wing, right wing or in the middle
My parents mingled with some of the riches people in Blackburn when I was a child and for all the money and toys their kids had I can honestly say with my hand on my heart that I was never jealous of them
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I don't believe there is a child living who has never covetted something another child has or does. I know I did.
The rich tend to be envious of the poor in one way because they do not have standards to live up to, they can live their life as they want up to a point. Some our happiest days were when we did not know where the next meal was coing from. I once won £5 in a raffle and we used the money to give the kids a treat, we bought runabout tickets on the train. Oh happy days.
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Who says that the poor have no standards to live up to AB - I find that a bit offensive and ridiculously naive. Poor people cannot live life as they would want - even up to a point. Being poor doesn't set you free - it binds you.
Someone would only be happy not knowing where the next meal was coming from if they were not hungry.
Contentment is the real life we should all strive to live in not a monetoristic one.
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Contentment doesn't come easy for the majority of people AB - with or withoout money and I am not sure if it is the "real life". Life for most of us is a struggle one way or another and we are meant to strive and muddle through it. If you have never struggled for anything I think it would be impossible to know what being content is. The child who is content would never want to read or write or wish to achieve anything - that child would not be a "normal" child and would drive his/her parents to distraction.
Being serene in life is something else, but it doesn't come when you are young - it may come to a few lucky ones later in life, but it has to be achieved, hopefully, with the guidance of a benign mentor and by looking, making mistakes, learning, understanding, striving, and experiencing life "warts and all" - and that comprehensive process will entail a degree of envy and jealousy IMO. That's simply human nature. There also has to be rationalisation and realisation on an individual level to make sense of it all. Then a person may (and its a big may) achieve serenity.
Please do not say that you are not jealous all you rich people knockers because if you were'nt you would not even think twice about them.
Pray tell me all you rich people knockers that you would not do what they do if you were in the same posiion wealth wise.
06-02-2012, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by pixie
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Rich is what you make out of your life you health and your happy
would sooner have that than have tons of cash
06-02-2012, 07:08 PM
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I do agree with you AB about contentment, if you find contentment in your life you find happiness.As regards the rich, I too have come across quite a lot of them in the jewellery business and like everything else some are decent generous people while others are just plain arrogant and a waste of expensive education (You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear, springs to mind) and just like the poor they will always be with us. I have never envied them in my adult life because I am content with my lot.
I agree with Rena about the toys, I can't remember one kid on our street not being envious of the rich kids toys, it's in a child's nature.
06-02-2012, 07:18 PM
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I think the younger you are the more envious you are of the better off, but surely that's a good thing in that it gives us incentive and aspiration to better ourselves?When you are older and wiser I think you realise that you don't need huge amounts of money and possessions to be content, but just enough to sustain your needs without further struggle. I am not rich but I am content with my lot and I envy no-one...
06-02-2012, 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Antibrown
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Why are people so jealous of the rich?
The media, politicians, and all the green eyed envious ones, have recently laid into one man at the head of RBS while ignoring for a long time a footballer who earns fourteen times as much, who works only 3 x 90 minutes a week at most (plus a bit of trainning time) and who is not very good at his job either.
There are hundreds (thousands maybe) of examples like this, it's selective vision at it's worst.
06-02-2012, 08:31 PM
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I envy nobody ,I have worked hard for all that I have,not rich by any means but content with my lot .What I can`t abide is jealous people saying they dislike such and such abody because of their wealth and position when they have never even met them .Smacks of the green eyed monster I think .|
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