A family who earned $500k is likely putting lots of money into some sort of savings or investments while a family making $50k is likely living paycheck to paycheck. The $500k earner can part with a little extra to help benefit the greater good.
Also, your ridiculous “they worked harder and low income people are lazy” schtick is idiotic. Do you think someone who grew up in a poor family, went to an underfunded school district, had to work to help support the family, couldn’t afford college, and works multiple jobs just to live paycheck to paycheck is lazy? Or are the high income middle managers that grew up in high income families, went to good school districts, had college paid for by their parents, spend weekends at their lake house, have full time child care, and earn money off the backs of the lower income people the lazy ones?
That’s unironically how they think and they can’t fathom how us poors had to grow up. I work with a privileged (I’m not even being derogatory by saying that) lady who had it all growing up and has a nepobaby job and she was gobsmacked when I told her I had to drop out of college to work more to help my younger brothers survive. Took her a second to get that not all of us have both of our parents and that our parents aren’t all rich people who could just give infinite cash.
She does straight up live in a rich bubble here in Cali.
She’s also a landlady that got gifted houses to rent by her parents so she’s part of the reason us poors have to pay so much rent.
Replying to your edit, even those people who don’t want more deserve to live a happy life with their basic needs met and the other dude just doesn’t seem to think so. Not all of us can be doctors and lawyers earning the big bucks. Some need to do the ‘lesser’ jobs that the rest of us enjoy. We need baristas, grocers, teachers assistants, daycare workers, garbage men (I know they can make decent money in some parts), fast food employees etc. We can’t leave some of those jobs to teens, and even for the ones we can our human growth won’t be enough to keep this house of cards going.
A family who earned $500k is likely putting lots of money into some sort of savings or investments while a family making $50k is likely living paycheck to paycheck. The $500k earner can part with a little extra to help benefit the greater good.
Also, your ridiculous “they worked harder and low income people are lazy” schtick is idiotic. Do you think someone who grew up in a poor family, went to an underfunded school district, had to work to help support the family, couldn’t afford college, and works multiple jobs just to live paycheck to paycheck is lazy? Or are the high income middle managers that grew up in high income families, went to good school districts, had college paid for by their parents, spend weekends at their lake house, have full time child care, and earn money off the backs of the lower income people the lazy ones?
That’s unironically how they think and they can’t fathom how us poors had to grow up. I work with a privileged (I’m not even being derogatory by saying that) lady who had it all growing up and has a nepobaby job and she was gobsmacked when I told her I had to drop out of college to work more to help my younger brothers survive. Took her a second to get that not all of us have both of our parents and that our parents aren’t all rich people who could just give infinite cash. She does straight up live in a rich bubble here in Cali.
She’s also a landlady that got gifted houses to rent by her parents so she’s part of the reason us poors have to pay so much rent.
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Replying to your edit, even those people who don’t want more deserve to live a happy life with their basic needs met and the other dude just doesn’t seem to think so. Not all of us can be doctors and lawyers earning the big bucks. Some need to do the ‘lesser’ jobs that the rest of us enjoy. We need baristas, grocers, teachers assistants, daycare workers, garbage men (I know they can make decent money in some parts), fast food employees etc. We can’t leave some of those jobs to teens, and even for the ones we can our human growth won’t be enough to keep this house of cards going.