Page 2 | To think you can’t be ‘oppressed’ if you’re rich?

ThatRedBeaker · 2025-04-29T20:36:42+00:00

I’m not saying rich people don’t have problems but it feels ridiculous when millionaires and billionaires claim to be oppressed. Money buys you options, protection, power - everything that shields you from the worst effects of oppression. AIBU to think that if you’re rich, you might still face discrimination but you’re not truly “oppressed” the way working-class or poor people are?

WhenDaisiesPied · 29/04/2025 22:39

J K Rowling IMO isn't oppressed. I think she has been treated appallingly but she still has a voice. She is hardly living under the Taliban.

BeNiceWhenItsFinished · 29/04/2025 22:36

NuNameNuMe · 29/04/2025 21:52

Can you give an example of how a wealthy person might consider themselves oppressed?

Elon Musk. Look up his sad witterings about how everyone's mean to him because he's doing big boy government things now.

Everyone's mean to him, partly because he's a billionaire megalomaniac who thinks he can buy his way into world domination, but mostly because he's a prick.

Winter2020 · 29/04/2025 22:31

I saw a programme advertised yesterday made about the about the awful targeting of Holly Willourby by a dangerous lunatic.

Holly is rich and I am (relatively) poor. I don't think any woman in her position would feel protected by their wealth. Wealth doesn't protect women from dangerous men.

2024onwardsandup · 29/04/2025 22:28

ThatRedBeaker · 29/04/2025 21:59

It’s not always framed in those exact words but you’ll often see wealthy celebrities or public figures suggesting they’re being ‘targeted/silenced/marginalised’ especially when facing backlash over political or social opinions. Think of tech billionaires claiming the media is ‘against them’ or celebrities saying they’re being ‘cancelled’ while still maintaining fame, wealth and platforms. It’s not the same as systemic oppression but the language used often mimics it and that’s what I’m questioning.

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Again - many women have been silenced and oppressed over voicing support for women’s rights

JK Rowling has only not been fully oppressed because she has MIND BLOWING amounts of money. Plenty of relatively wealthy women but with vastly loud less money than her have not been able to talk because of threats to their livelihood if not their actual selves

2024onwardsandup · 29/04/2025 22:25

ThatRedBeaker · 29/04/2025 21:49

I’m not saying rich people can’t experience personal suffering or abuse. I’m talking about systemic oppression: poverty, lack of mobility, exclusion from basic rights. Money can’t fix everything but it shields you from a lot of the structural barriers that poor people face every day.

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Yes - and the poster made the point about patriarchal oppression. Lots of very wealthy women are still oppressed - either by men in their lives whose their wealth to oppress them or because they have become wealthy by being exploited (perhaps a choice - but a choice with a limited range of options).

CaptainFuture · 29/04/2025 22:22

ThatRedBeaker · 29/04/2025 21:59

It’s not always framed in those exact words but you’ll often see wealthy celebrities or public figures suggesting they’re being ‘targeted/silenced/marginalised’ especially when facing backlash over political or social opinions. Think of tech billionaires claiming the media is ‘against them’ or celebrities saying they’re being ‘cancelled’ while still maintaining fame, wealth and platforms. It’s not the same as systemic oppression but the language used often mimics it and that’s what I’m questioning.

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So what your saying is 'if you have money you're not allowed to feel xyz'?
Are we back to the Vive le revolution!! They will pay for having more money than me!!!

Galatine · 29/04/2025 22:12

Money doesn't aways make people happy, but it does buy a better class of misery.

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ThatRedBeaker · 29/04/2025 21:59

Skirtless · 29/04/2025 21:53

Which millionaires claim to be systemically oppressed?

It’s not always framed in those exact words but you’ll often see wealthy celebrities or public figures suggesting they’re being ‘targeted/silenced/marginalised’ especially when facing backlash over political or social opinions. Think of tech billionaires claiming the media is ‘against them’ or celebrities saying they’re being ‘cancelled’ while still maintaining fame, wealth and platforms. It’s not the same as systemic oppression but the language used often mimics it and that’s what I’m questioning.

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WaryCrow · 29/04/2025 21:56

Skirtless · 29/04/2025 21:53

Which millionaires claim to be systemically oppressed?

Donald Trump?

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ThatRedBeaker · 29/04/2025 21:55

MidnightPatrol · 29/04/2025 21:48

Can you give an example of how a wealthy person might consider themselves oppressed?

You sometimes hear wealthy public figures claim they’re being ‘silenced’ or ‘cancelled’ when they face backlash for controversial views. Or politicians from privileged backgrounds talking about being ‘oppressed’ because their opinions aren’t popular. I think that’s where the line blurs - they conflate criticism or accountability with oppression, even though they still have massive platforms, influence and wealth protecting them.

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Skirtless · 29/04/2025 21:53

Which millionaires claim to be systemically oppressed?

NuNameNuMe · 29/04/2025 21:52

Can you give an example of how a wealthy person might consider themselves oppressed?

Elon Musk. Look up his sad witterings about how everyone's mean to him because he's doing big boy government things now.

AdoraBell · 29/04/2025 21:51

I’ve not heard a millionaire/billionaire said they are oppressed.

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ThatRedBeaker · 29/04/2025 21:49

CaptainFuture · 29/04/2025 21:43

Oppression isn't just about money... the wife of a rich man in an abusive relationship? You think 'tough shit, you have money, you're not allowed to have stress or be abused'?

I’m not saying rich people can’t experience personal suffering or abuse. I’m talking about systemic oppression: poverty, lack of mobility, exclusion from basic rights. Money can’t fix everything but it shields you from a lot of the structural barriers that poor people face every day.

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MidnightPatrol · 29/04/2025 21:48

Can you give an example of how a wealthy person might consider themselves oppressed?

BlondiePortz · 29/04/2025 21:45

To think you can make people think the way you do

CaptainFuture · 29/04/2025 21:43

Oppression isn't just about money... the wife of a rich man in an abusive relationship? You think 'tough shit, you have money, you're not allowed to have stress or be abused'?