LMAO AS FUCKING IF. Rich people aren't capable of feeling any sort of empathy-adjacent emotions. If you're rich and think you can feel empathy there are two possible scenarios at play;
a) You're wrong about being rich
b) You're wrong about feeling empathy
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How rich? How should the empathy be shown? Is it a sliding scale where the lines meet in the middle somewhere?
If you own a Bentley, you're either very rich, or just spent all your money on a Bentley
Edit: I've been told some people needed clarification that I'm not talking about Bentleys worth their weight in scrap metal.
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Good question. I haven't got an answer for that. We could start off by pruning off the top; anyone with a net worth above a billion can't possibly have earned that kind of money. 900 million is just as unlikely.
A modicum of luck obviously plays a part as well; Facebook for example started off as a fairly innocuous website for ranking the attractiveness of university students; poor in taste and judgement but hardly evil. That's not exactly where we are today, is it? Have you read about how facebook treats its content moderation team? Ol' Zucky is responsible for that and so much more.
There's only so much you can earn through hard work and good luck before you'll start having to make unethical and evil choices to keep raking in the cash. Rich people don't need or deserve any empathy, because they won't have any for you.
If you can accurately state how much you're worth .... chances are you're not that rich
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Which is a cool story…. But Rolls Royce are selling like hot cakes https://uk.motor1.com/news/703769/rolls-royce-2023-record-sales-figures/
😢 do you know what it’s like to not be able to drive my half a million dollar car to a movie premier that I invested in accidentally through an AI hedge fund that I own with some other rich people that I met at a party a few years ago?
Half a million? What are you, some kind of peasant?
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There’s no emotional sensitivity, they’re just afraid of the guillotine.
I feel like rich people are more brazen than ever before. It's a long time before we see any guillotines for the rich in my country at least (the US). We regularly put people down who have pennies to their name though or just average Joes living their lives. Death by cop and death by violence in a broken penal system. Also completely unavoidable health issues that increasingly only the wealthy end can afford to rectify.
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Look I get the frustration but I feel like trying to guillotine an entire damn car is more trouble than the catharsis would be worth
"emotional sensitivity" is a funny way to to misspell: fear of guillotine
Is this The Onion?
Seems realistic to me with everyone here talking about bringing back the guillotine. I can imagine people throwing rocks at and keying these cars.
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Nobody has cut their taxes in about 4 years they must be feeling really poor.
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Heck no.
The masses have noticed how hard they’ve been getting screwed.
The rich know they’re absolutely stupid rich.
And they’re scared.
That’s all there is to it. Don’t attribute to them feelings of remorse or guilt. If there was any of that in them they’d cough up the dough for whatever, but no…they’re still doing the same thing they’ve always done just not as obviously public.
We’re making noises about wealth taxes and all that and they’re thinking that if we see fewer Lamborghinis out there we’ll suddenly forget and leave them to their hoards.
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Bentley: wipes tears with Dollars featuring Woody Harrelson meme
Blows nose really hard on a document for shares in Apple stock
Only by abolishing poverty can Bentley sales go up. Bentley shareholders 🤝 the working class, allies in the fight against capitalism.
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is this someone's pathetic attempt to make the ultra rich more likable?
The ultra rich don't have Bentleys anyway. They appeal more to the upper middle class wannabe rich people, who probably aren't as well off as they used to be.
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Emotional Sensitivity: "Yes, we're emotionally sensitive to the fact that the poors want to cut our heads off and watch them roll. We need to hide our wealth so they're less likely to strike out at us."
Fixed that for you.
Who'd have thought that it would be awkward splashing out crazy amounts of money on making yourself a little comfier when the world is on fire. A bit of privilege guilt isn't exactly a bad thing.
Its guilt. Just say guilt.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with Bentleys getting uglier while other luxury cars are getting cooler looking.
I don't think there has been a decent looking Bentley in my lifetime.
It's more likely that the rich already have all the luxury cars they want, and are looking for other ways to flaunt their wealth.
I've never known a rich person to be so self-conscious as to experience this kind of 'emotional sensitivity'.
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Also, they're shit cars.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone classify all Bentleys as "shit" before. Poor value for money is fair but "shit" is unhinged.
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They’re suffering from affluenza…
How sad…
What a nice gesture by them!
Thoughts and Prayers to all those suffering wealthy people
So they're just hoarding more money then...
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