Millionaire Gives Secrets to Us Poor Folk

More! More! More! Muahahahah!

I read an article the other day from Yahoo.com that read “10 Things that Millionaires Won’t Tell You”. The writer of this article, obviously a millionaire, tried to talk down to his readers with the most snobbish tone I have read in years. Here he is talking about how he became rich by shopping at Wal-mart and not “skimping on lattes”. It got to the point where he was actually trying to get us to feel for him. Oh, those rich folk, they have it so hard, and just think a million dollars isn’t anything in this day and age! Golly!

Give me a break, I mean I am a pragmatist in that I know there will always be rich people and there will always be poor people, but it is almost laughable how “in their own world” these millionaires are. Do they even realize they come off as snobbish prigs? Yeah, we get it, you’re rich. Good job.

Then he rubs it in at the end by saying, “Money does make you happy”. Please, anyone who actually believes that garbage is the most greedy, self-centered, narcissist in the world. Money may guarantee certain things, but the last thing it does is create happiness. Just as my favorite tv character Michael Scott from the Office says, “Mo Money. Mo Problems”.

In the end, I got sick reading this pathetic display of an article. Humanity never fails at being the most greedy and selfish piles on the planet. The rich will always get richer (and want more wealth) and the poor will always be poorer, and the middle class gets to pick up the economic tab.

Posted by Alcamadus

Going Green like Kermit the Frog

Going “green” is a rich man’s game.

Right before watching a movie in the theater, I saw a project with Tommy Lee and Luda-kris promoting going “green”. They interviewed guys like Magic Johnson who states, “You know, going green isn’t hard.” The whole time I couldn’t help but think of the irony that was taking place. Here are these multi-millionaires who are making cash hand over fist, who own more cars than I will have in my life time, who own houses that pump more energy than I would in my life time, and really are probably the biggest energy wasters on the planet, and yet they are telling me (someone who barely has any money) to start going green.

Conservation is a great idea, and the things I’ve read about alternative energy sources like mindmills and hydro-electric technology it seems like the way to go, but to start hounding the middle class to essentially “shape up” seems typical. It’s typical of the rich to not understand the struggles of the poor, to look at us and wonder why we aren’t doing anything.

It’s also rather hypocritical. But you would have guessed that by now. So I won’t push the point.