Rich People Born Poor Are Less Sensitive to the Challenges of Poverty Than Those Born Rich

[Black Magisterialness]

I don’t think its that their less sensitive I think its that their more AWARE of people’s bullshyt, excuses, and self sabotaging ways.


There’s a clip online of Jay-Z from the Kevin Hart interview talking about the burden of even being around family members who see him as an ATM, an unlimited credit line for terrible, ill thought out investments, and a bail out bank. He spoke on people expecting him to invest in ideas or hustles and most of the comments were people saying “Why doesn’t he just give it if he’s got it?” “If he’s rich then family should ALWAYS be good” “$4,800 should be nothing to a billionaire!”

They don’t get it. Its THAT mentality of “if you got I should have it” that is a major contribution to whats keeping them poor. If you are able work hard, strategize, and maneuver your way from poverty to a life of means, that means you’ve already outgrown that particular mentality and understand that you CANNOT allow yourself to be surrounded or immersed in it.

MC Hammer felt “sensitive” about the poor people in his hood and truied to help. He went bankrupt doing so and everybody clowned him.

Prodigy felt “sensitive” about the poor dusty nikkas in Queensbridge and tried to help them. He got robbed, physically assaulted, and publicly disrespected for doing so.

There was a young 25 year old breh in Savannah, Ga who won the lottery. Dude felt “sensitive” about the poor people in his hood and tried to help them. He brought toys for all the neighborhood kids and provided turkeys for families on holidays. He was robbed, shot and killed while his last words were for his assailants not to murder him in front if his children.


Sensitivity for people of means usually leads to disaster when they try to open/heartedly assist the communities they came from. Sensitivity leads to jealousy, envy, and hate. There’s nothing wrong with helping, but honestly PERSONALLY displaying your sensitivity by cutting a check to individuals usually leads to disaster. Doing things like Nas and Jay-Z do like creating programs for the youth, community centers, cleaning up and renovating parks and buildings, and offering financial literacy courses, is a better way of showcasing sensitivity

Bolded, 100% truth.
People who've made it can reach back in a multitude of ways. While reaching up is fairly limited.
I hit the Mega Millions, no I'm not buying a bunch of toys for the hood. I'm starting a foundation for the arts, or creating a PC Lab. I'm not opening a car wash, I might buy a skyscraper of building, rehabbing it and creating a business incubator.
When you have wealth, your options for providing opportunity are VAST.

 

[Heafcliffe]

Makes sense to me. Though I wouldn't "look down" on those who haven't "made it" yet.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

People born into wealth tend to feel guilty about it (white guilt)

People who grinded from the bottom tend to take pride in their work ethic and feel less guilty about their success.

Yep.

Born Rich folks tend to view wealth as a responsibility and will do a lot of philanthropic work. They still think they are better than "the poors" but they understand the tax benefits and social clout that comes with donations.

Newly Rich people know exactly what goes into being poor. They don't feel like throwing money at the situation is helpful because they WERE poor and didn't see the impact of charity/philanthropy.

 

[Taco]

I don’t think the people that they surveyed are exceptional though. The income threshold was like $80k.

Those are just people that had discipline and perseverance.

Most professionals like doctors, lawyers, and business people are not the folks with the highest IQ’s. They are simply folks that stayed focused and pursued their paths with discipline. Not anything exceedingly exceptional about that.

Yeup, you don’t have to be exceptional to make money and be successful. Sounds clichè, but you have to fear being broke more than you fear failing. Talk to anyone who made it out and they’ll tell you it’s all about setting realistic goals and building on it. Nothing special, just takes planning and discipline.

 

[Gritsngravy]

you can’t generalize all rich people like that, for example people who became rich be donating to colleges and create scholarship programs while people who were wealthy for several generations try to hoard all their wealth

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

c00n babble

Yeah what they said was treasonous

 

[Gritsngravy]

So did this study examine random people, or did it examine rich people

 

[RARI_Godwind]

You have to drink The kool aid to join the club. They know how man toes they had to step on to get there. Admitted they’re wrong for doing so is the same as handing everything back.

 

[Rawtid]

Makes perfect if you think about it. It’s a “if I can do it, you should be able to as well” type of thing.

 

[MajesticLion]

Selective amnesia.

 

[UpNext]

I mean I get it. Because when you're on the come up, you see how your own lower middle class inner circle went about life and prolly project that onto everyone poor. But the reality still and will always be you're just one catastrophy away from being broke in this country and having to work 3x's as hard to recover as you did when you were on the grind just to get back to where you were, so I don't judge personally. But I  understand.

 

[Master Teacher]

so where all these poor people that became rich at

 

[Commish]

I believe that some newly rich people are bootstrappers. Some isn't trying to hear others complain about being poor, broke or struggling financially (i.e. living paycheck to paycheck).

I get it. Some feel that if they can make it like the Jeffersons, then anyone can do it.

I personally believe that there is more to it when becoming successful. Granted, many newly rich people may have worked hard to become rich, but I also believe that many of them also had a plug or some sort of assistance from someone to attain wealth.

The latter isn't usually told.

Not everyone can become rich. Everyone's circumstance is different.

For those who practices bootstrapping, then perhaps they can put people, who they have less sympathy for, up on game instead of pointing and wagging fingers towards the less fortunate.

Just my stance on the matter...

 

[The Gentleman]

I don't buy it. Someone like Donald trump will never understand what it's like to be me

He wasn’t born poor.

 

[The Gentleman]

so where all these poor people that became rich at

That’s enough of them. And they’re mostly white men.