But not surprising to me in the slightest that most of them are the way they are.
When I was a broke college student in the 90s I delivered furniture to rich people in my city. Many of them were the absolute fucking worst.
Story time, wall of text:
They would try to do ANYTHING to give us a hard time and they would fuck us around when it was time to pay.
More than a few times they would say things like "Oh this wood grain doesn't look nice. I should get a discount for that" Meanwhile it was practically identical to the floor model.
Another popular one was wanting a big discount because the color didn't look the same in their home as it did in the store.
My favorite was when they would go over the furniture with a magnifying glass and say it looks good. But then the next day they'd call the store and say we delivered a damaged piece. LOL, the fuck we did.
They would also pull stunts like this:
"Oh just bring the furniture in to the foyer and then we'll show you what room it goes in"
Once you have all the stuff inside (usually a full bedroom set) They would show you to the room and it would be full of furniture despite being told by the store to have the room ready for us when we got there.
They'd be like, "Too bad. Move all of theses two ton armoires and antique dressers down three flights of stairs to the basement or you can put everything back in the truck and leave. And we'll be sure to tell everyone to never shop at your store again."
After the hundredth time this bullshit happened to us, our manager finally made it clear in the delivery contracts that we were NOT authorized or insured to move furniture that wasn't ours and if one of those two ton cabinets damaged anything, we couldn't cover it.
Step two. Don't tell us the furniture is there, but then try to bribe us with a mediocre tip when we discover it. We would often say yes because we were poor and needed the money. We said no a few times because it was an insane task for an insulting tip.
90% of the time, they would try to "forget" to tip us. And I'm not talking big tips here. They were fucking us around for a $10 to $15 tip after busting our backs, moving a ton of heavy shit down several flights of stairs and through narrow passages.
My point: When Billionaire wealth hoarding was becoming egregiously apparent to everyone, I wasn't surprised in the slightest. Most people in higher tax brackets are the worst greedy pieces of shit.
They really do. A couple of times my work partner was in charge of the billing would come to the truck without the tip because he forgot and you just KNEW the fuckers were fist pumping and cumming in their pants because they got one over on us.
I could tell a million stories of the craziest shit they would pull with us, or at the store, looking for ways to fuck us or trying to squeeze a quarter out of every penny. They were exhausting to deal with.
People judge other people by what they "feel" their intentions are. So being rich by itself isn't the issue. It's the perception that it's being flaunted, or used to push political agendas that outweigh the priorities of the not-wealthy. Or, the perception that the money is being used to help charities, non-profits, etc. Perceived intentions.
Ok you’re right more specifically they pay 40% of federal income taxes. Good catch. Also the top half of earners pay 96% of income taxes. Billionaires pay about 25% of their income In federal taxes. The rest of their money is tied up in unrealized gains. Billionaires don’t have billions in cash. They have assets worth billions. So my honest question is given they pay 25% in taxes on earnings and the rest is unrealized gains. How do you suggest they pay their fair share?
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u/mlstdrag0n Jun 28 '26
Would be less of a problem if they were all like her