You’re telling on yourself here … you think wealth is associated with success. You think I am just critical because I am jealous? I am critical because you downplay your privilege and then look down on others. Conservative, bootstraps way of thinking. You are benefiting from a system that requires impoverishment of other people, and you aren’t even willing to name your place in that system.
If your lifestyle is as you claim, then driving a broken down Ford sounds like a choice whereas for others, it would not be. Earlier you tried to gloat about having a couple of nice cars, going on vacation, living in a big house?
S_204@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I’m not telling on anything by being honest with you. I can’t afford a new car right now. In 2 or 3 years. I’ll have saved up enough to be able to afford one, but right now it’s simply not in my budget. I also can’t afford the kitchen renovation that I have planned. Can’t afford a lot of things that you seem to think the wealthy people can.
I can’t afford them because I’m a pretty firmly middle class household that can afford some of the nice things in life but not without working for them. Like the wealthy are able to. At no point am I downplaying my privilege. I’ve said a number of times even in these posts how fortunate that I am. That you think admitting to going on a vacation is gloating just reinforces your jealousy. We budget to be able to take a vacation. I read the other week that over 30% of Americans take multiple vacations per year. By you’re jealous framework, you’re claiming that they’re all wealthy, which is obviously an absurd thing to say or position to take. I’d chalk much of my fortune up to the fact that I’m not a moron with my money running around charging my life on a credit card, like the vast majority of people that you see around you today. I’m not benefiting from the exploitation of others any more than the manager at a McDonald’s is. I get paid for the work that I put out. I don’t get paid for other people’s work and I don’t get paid from real estate holdings or investments or any of the other wealth creating vehicles that the wealthy in our society utilize, if I had the ability to I certainly would but seeing as a middle class those avenues to earn are not available to me.
You’re accusing me of lacking critical thinking when you apparently don’t have the ability to think critically enough to budget your own life or to think critically enough to put yourself in a position where your paycheck will allow you to live the middle-class lifestyle that I happen to be able to live right now.
That you think my understanding my place in the social hierarchy is an attempt to make me look bad. Really demonstrates your lack of ability to think critically your poor emotional intelligence and your lack of overall social context… Which probably at least in part explains why you’re jealous of someone who’s living a middle-class lifestyle and probably why you’ll live in poverty for the rest of your sad life. Crabs in a bucket.
whoreticulture@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You are the one listing off all the ways you are well off … and then calling me jealous. It’s kind of an embarrassing thing for you resort to but I think that’s what you need to feel good about yourself.
You are making assumptions about my ability to budget ? You don’t know anything about my life. You are saying I’ll live in poverty? How about instead of trying to impress people online about your money, and trying to convince a leftist that you’re a good guy, why don’t you learn about solidarity. You think you know your place in the social hierarchy? Like everything you say is just an admission of your allegiance to inequality.
S_204@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Still rambling on with jealousy eh? I feel good about myself surrounded by my loving family and friends. I don’t feel good about myself because I can afford a house and others can’t.
You are jealousy is preventing you from accepting reality. It’s also quite clearly what’s holding you back.
You’re so confused. You alternate between saying I’m trying to impress people and then I’m trying to deny it. I’m doing neither. I’m simply stating reality. A reality that you seem too dense to grasp and yes, you’re absolutely impoverished and when I say that I’m not talking about your bank account, I’m talking about your mental abilities.
whoreticulture@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You keep bringing up jealousy 😂😂 you can’t try to use that as an attack on me. You are the one who brought it up again and again.
You are trying to impress people, and simultaneously trying to downplay yourself as “upper middle class” instead of wealthy. You are in the top percent of income earners, and somehow think that you are not wealthy.