Do You Hate Rich People?

I do a econ unit with my students and I start out by asking what they think of rich people. The most popular answer is that rich people are greedy and mean. Once the unit is over is it my hope that they understand rich people are only poor people who did something, change their habits and stopped making excuses. Can you imagine how many charitable organizations are started by rich people? Hmm. How many of those organizations are started by poor people? In reality, who is really the greedy, selfish people in our society?

I tend to think it's sour grapes and plain jealousy on the part of people when they bad-mouthed someone who has "made it" and are wealthy. It might have taken them many many years to achieve that wealth and/or fame, for as they say, there really is no such this as overnight success. Look at actors for instance...to most all of a sudden a particular actor is "hot" and gets role after role and it seems that actor "made it" overnight...when the reality is, is that the person may have been struggling years and years to reach that point. I applaud anyone who makes it...especially if they came from hard or abusive backgrounds (someone like Oprah Winfrey). Heck to be honest, I'm envisioning myself as being successful and rich...LOL

Many of those rich people got that way through not wasting their money and for someone who has a hard time resisting spending on junk, I rather want to learn how they do it. I was thinking of this the other day, when I was helping my husband fix up the basement, and the two by four fell and scrapped my knee putting a hole in my slacks. Now normally I would want to throw them away, but I just mended them, and I was thinking the reason there is this rich lady is when she got a tear in her dress, skirt, or slacks, she did not just take them down to Goodwill and give them away, she took out her needle and thread and patched up the hole. I also learned that the rich people do not buy a car every year, they keep the car until it can no longer run. So those who are jealous are unwilling to take the steps to become wealthier.

I know what you mean! I have nothing but respect for rich people, I mean, more times than not they had to work so hard for their money! I do think a lot of time it is jealousy, maybe not always, but I tend to believe that it is most the time! I agree, I'd like to learn from them as well. I have always dreamt of being a rich and famous singer/entertainer, so I especially look up to the entertainers, but I do think it's great no matter how someone makes their millions. It definitely takes some sort of talent or committment to get to that level!

I do not hate rich peoples like Donald Trump or Bill Gates but I really hate some of my customers who are very rich. I hate them because they are very rich yet they still want discounts when purchasing things as cheap as $20 per item and they only buy just one item. Imagine having to hear them complain about you not giving them discounts all the time and you see them drive luxurious cars and their clothings are all branded items. Sometimes I wonder if they are plain stingy or are they like empty cans, luxurious appearance on the outside but are as poor as beggars in the inside.

I am from a rich family, as I said in a previous discussion, however, my father always taught me to be humble and not flaunt ny wealth. Heck he even told me make my own money if I want to buy membership for an online game (that's why I'm here lol). AS a result, hardly anyone in my new school, only my closest friends, know that I am from a rich family. The teachers just think I'm a regular guy. The other day, one of them was teaching us about marxism. She said that she believes that rich people did no work to get there, that poor people work their butts off and the rich get the profits. She then went on to say a lot of lies about rich people and that just got me wondering... if she knew how hard my family had to work, where they came from, and what they went through, much worse than she could imagine, maybe she would just shut up and go home... It annoyed me so much that she was trying to educate people and was misleading them into thinking that rich people are basically evil... It is people like her who instill the jelousy in the hearts of younger youth, making them behave irrationally when they grow up..

I don't hate anybody. I think its good they made something of themselves and your right why not learn from them rather than be jealous. I know they have knowledge for everybody to use.

No matter who you are there will always be hate amongst you and others , Rich people to me , are the same like you and I , just take away the cash and what do you have a regualr persom, money comes and money goes ..and i too would like to learn from them..

i don think all the people are like that...

Yeah they are just jealous because they cannot make it. For me, jealousy is not the word but envy with admiration. These people really work hard to achieve great success. I really want to know their secrets and learn from them. Who knows might just struck it rich. he he

Successful people will always have admirers and haters. I don't hate rich people, like you I'd like to learn from them, just because I can't be like them doesn't give me the right to hate them. I don't think they really care anyway.

I don't like to hate anybbody unless they done something bad about me. In fact I admire some of them . They made that far because of working so hard. They just deserved it.