I support this money confiscation plan 100%. Hell, 110%. I'm feeling generous.
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
it's important that we frame the tax issue as a way of helping crazy people
― iatee, Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
I think actually yeah you'd probably find that a lot of the merely wealthy and not super wealthy work all the time, because they are workaholics and/or the source of their wealth is some all-consuming position in an industry like finance.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
One of the people I refer to was super-wealthy. He donated $33 million to have a science building put up at Stanford. He's signed on to Warren Buffett's "billionaire challenge." He is really, really, really rich.
He also used to take his own wine to restaurants and just pay corkage fees, so.
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Obviously in comparison to almost 100% of the people on Earth, it's not a tough existence but there's definitely a strangeness and a couple of legtimate problems that come with being super-super-rich.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
xp that's a sign that you're superrich tho! cuz you got better wine than the restaurant and somebody to carry that shit for you.
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
forks otm
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
I thought most really rich people inherited their money, not earned it being workaholics in an all consuming industry like finance. I'm actually sure of it, and will try to find a link.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
haha wellll it depends on what you mean by 'rich'
― Lamp, Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
tbh i'm more responsive & sympathetic to the plight of kids raised by elite super-wealthy parents than the plight of being super-wealthy per se, though i guess it's kinda hard to separate the two
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
rich kid plight not big on my plight list.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
no plight listyou must be this poor to ride
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
xxxp, Yes. Aside from the obvious issues like the risk of kidnapping, it does seem to be a receipe for a fairly deep malaise and melancholy in a lot of young people. The ones who aren't braying and obnoxious, obvs.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
forks otm'ing the hell outta this thing
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
yeah malaise of youth is hardly exclusive to the rich anyway and I have a hard time believing it's any worse than the malaise of being a high school dropout with a convenience store job or the malaise of a middling statue u. grad who goes to work for an insurance company.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
malaise of pregnant high school dropout who can't get a job at convenience store wins plight prize!
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
plus, being rich kid automatically means bigger t.v. = problem solved!
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
I guess when I hear arguments like "rich kids can still have terrible absentee parents and wind up drug addicts" or w/e, I'm like "yeah that's true, and I sympathize with them! But who's better off, the rich kid with that problem or the poor kid with the same problem but no money for rehab or a therapist?"
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i get it, poor rich kids, boo hoo. i'm not saying my heart bleeds for them but their circumstances present some unique issues that aren't shared by their parents who may have attained their own wealth, is all
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
feel like the teen drug issue is abetted with pocket money
― and i don't even care, similar to how a badass would respond (Abbbottt), Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's what I meant
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
IME, money is not an obstacle for poor kids getting hooked on shit.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 5 April 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
wait sorry I read that as "abated with pocket money" instead of "abetted"
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
more money ---> better drugs more often with more ease
― and i don't even care, similar to how a badass would respond (Abbbottt), Thursday, 5 April 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
not saying determined teens aren't gonna not get fucked up
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Thursday, April 5, 2012 4:52 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
so they move to new york and try to become writers?
― dayo, Thursday, 5 April 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
they apply to be brett easton ellis characters?
― s.clover, Thursday, 5 April 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
their backpacks are really heavy requiring extensive physical therapy on account of all the gold bars in them. i do feel bad about that.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
haha, sorry, obviously most humans are pitiful. i feel bad for everyone mostly.
hey re the mention of kinesiology upthread, today i came across this article and apparently its the method used by the widely acknowledged best training staff in the nba, so maybe not so much bullshit as new exciting physical therapy technique
http://valleyofthesuns.com/2012/04/05/secret-behind-phoenix-suns-elite-training-staff
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
excited by this exciting new physical therapy technique
― dayo, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Tv0Fl.jpg
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
Kinesiology and applied kinesiology (what was mentioned upthread) are not the same thing.
The Suns players aren't holding vials to see what makes them weaker.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 April 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
unsurprisingly, AK was invented by a chiropractor
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 April 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
i dont know anything abt holding viles but i do know there should only be one thing called kinesiology
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
when i see that word i just think of
http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/sites/default/files/Sam_Kinison.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
oh sorry this gy
http://cf2.imgobject.com/t/p/original/9zOHyx1jbGmgN4mYtdTcbLgw3Jh.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
tho i guess that would be kinisiology
― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
a science unto itself
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
trollish: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/04/who-got-in-to-the-country-s-top-colleges.html
― s.clover, Friday, 6 April 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
no mention of the curse of the over achieving asian american
― dayo, Friday, 6 April 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
I don't necessarily agree with most of this, but its a good read: http://mathbabe.org/2012/04/05/it-sucks-to-be-rich/
― s.clover, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that fits w/ my thesis rich people are crazy and we need to help them by stopping them from being rich
― iatee, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
My unsubstantiated theory is that it's actually an unhappy personality type or emotional/neurotic drive that makes someone want to become rich above all else, and that a disproportionate number of rich people (other than those who inherited) are people with that drive.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Friday, 6 April 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
If I had all the money in the world, I could imagine paying people to sleep-test mattresses. I just can't imagine that I wouldn't then get them to blog about it so everyone else would know about how to get a good night's sleep too.
― s.clover, Friday, 6 April 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
I can buy this. cf execs that are ocpd
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 6 April 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
I think plenty of poor people have this too, it just doesn't work out for them.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 6 April 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/fashion/dont-call-cassandra-huysentruyt-grey-a-trophy-wife.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=trophy%20wife&st=cse
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
wow @ every single person in that story, but especially at
An earlier version of this story misspelled the name and address of a Web site. It is NewYorkSocialDiary.com, not NewYorkSocialDairy.com.
― I DIED, Monday, 9 April 2012 06:24 (twelve years ago) link
The print version also had a sidebar about how *today's hollywood wives* are not the same old trophy wives, and then listed a bunch of them and their accomplishments/careers and some had legit careers but like half of them were doing exactly stuff that you would expect rich hollywood exec wives to do (charity work etc.)
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 12:42 (twelve years ago) link