Are poor people human?
I was not rich before starting in investment banking.
After I moved to NYC, it was weird to me how people would spend $100 going out and on expensive hair cuts.
I used to cook my own food and not order it on UberEats.
People back home were unsophisticated and couldn't hold a high IQ conversation. People were unambitious. I visited Brooklyn recently and remembered that there are ugly people in this world.
I spoke with some of them and immediately had to run outside and almost threw up. They could barely pay rent.
Some people back home drink and watch tv, they're getting fat and old. It's hard to imagine.
I wonder if these people are even human.
In the world we live in, the thing that differentiates you and me is how much money we have. It wasn't always like that throughout history.
I don't really have hobbies like poor people because they don't make me money. If I'm not making money, then what am I doing.
I sit in the park and watch the poor people lurch around like cockroaches in the street sometimes. I wonder if they know that they are not human. Does it bother them? I wonder if they know that being rich is possible if they simply applied Ben Graham's principles in The Intelligent Investor. I wonder if they know what bitcoin is.
I think a lot about poor people. I always wonder if they are human, or more like the rats running around the streets and picking up our scraps.
But isn't that what we all do? We are clerks completing process driven work so that the CEO, who is boating in the Hamptons, doesn't have to?
I wonder what he thinks about poor people.
Do you think about poor people? Do you think they are human?
idk if this is a joke or not, but sounds like the new plot for Elitist Taxi Driver.
Think about it.
you are referring to a very specific group of poor people. there are "poor" people in the world who fish and grow their own food, chill with friends and family, and make little money but are probably way happier and “more human” than you and me.
Think about it, put the idea out there. If we are human, then what makes us human. What differentiates humans. Surely we are not all subjectively or objectively good.
some say that art is just subjective. But its not fully.
There is good art, thats why we have museums of it. That's why we have good fashion and some joker tried to sell me a $400 shirt today.
What is it that makes you a relative being on this earth and relative to what axis?
Why is the head of the household no longer human, but rather a cockroach, in Kafka's Metamorphosis?
Those who do not have utility are no better than a bug.
50% of americans don't pay taxes
vast majority are obese or overweight
20% receive welfare
in fact there is a massive underclass of tens of millions of Americans that me and you don't know about that exist because of who we are and where we live, but our tax money props up. the 1% paid 40% of all income taxes. your money is thrown away to the tune of trillions since the start of the great society so our fellow Americans can do nothing but mill around and eat enough calories to subsist until the next day for their entire lives.
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This is fantastically written. I wonder if there’s a better literary forum for you to post this. It reminds me of Kafka a little, and I especially like the contrast/immediate contradiction here:
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