to find some people attitudes, such as "i work hard i deserve it" really sickening

[carriedababi]

was reading some magazine in the dentist, there was a woman from dragons den iin the mag.
saying how she had a wardrode worth 3 million.

and she went onto say well i work hard for it.
so ideserve it.
and something todo with she sees her expensive clothes as a symbol of how sucessful she is.

really made me feel sick, how a horrible nasty attitude to have in life.

i'm sure even if i was a millionaire, i would not be proud about spending that much on clothes.

i don't know its just the arrogant im entitled to this that got me.
and dont they think people how have less also work hard. probably alot of them work alot harder

what do you think

yes laurie that is exactley where i'm coming from.

" I don't harbour a grudge to the person but I do to what it represents - VAST inequalities, MASSIVE gap between rich and poor which GROWS EVERY DAY."

I'm sure we all feel that we deserve a treat from time to time. Sensible people buy the treat they can afford. Idiots put themselves in debt just to feel good for five minutes. FWIW I don't think a top footballer or an actress is more worthy just because they're highly paid. I think they're very lucky, very talented people that happen to be providing something someone is willing to pay millions for. But they're also in a very precarious position since one twisted ankle or one too many birthdays means it can all get taken away in a heartbeat.

She isn't responsible for the idiocy of other people, if they choose to try and emulate her lifestyle when they don't have the income.

What is wrong is the value system of work under the capitalist system.

I know plenty of people who work their arses off at three cleaning jobs a day and they will never ever ever have enough money even to live on no matter how hard they work.

I think there is a certain arrogance in saying 'I work hard so I deserve it' in this context; it implies that your own talent, skills and work ethic are virtually unparalleled in the field of human endeavour, and deserve suitably colossal rewards...

Had she said, 'My wardrobe is worth £3m, but sod it, you can't take it with you!' I'd have had a more positive reaction. Which is a bit silly, cause it's the same thing really.

No Cog, the attitude is fine: if it motivates them to do something about it, study or work smarter or whatever

If it motivates them to put things on the never never- well there's a reason I don't do credit. Becuase I think you have to be well off to afford it.

there is no correlation between "working hard" and "having a lot of money"

The point is, loads and loads if not most people "work hard." What about diamond miners? Firefighters etc etc. But they don't get to buy the shit.

yy Piglet.

Exactly piglet.

If I had tons of cash I would spend it on nice things. A 3 million pound wardrobe would be first on the list along with an amazing house and a huge walk in wardrobe. She has worked hard to get where she is.

You're not going to hold down a top CEO business if you don't work hard

But that doesn't mean someone else isn't working hard either; DH slogs, we just get by, I am proud of him and we how we are building a future business for the family but we all know what could equally happen in these financial days!

But if people have it and spend it then routes into employment for otehrs are created and it's win win.

I have no doubt she does work hard though, and as she is also loaded she can afford to spend. The fact someone else works hard and has less is kind of irrelevant.

I'd tell her that clothes are a poor investment - they lose their value second hand, like cars do

VAST inequalities, MASSIVE gap between rich and poor which GROWS EVERY DAY."

Personally I dont want to live in a communist state where it dictates what I can earn and what I spend my money on. But if you do, Op, I'm sure China will welcome you with open arms! And you might get one of those nice suits and a red book too!

There will always be massive inequalities between 'rich' and 'poor' - even if you and I earned the same amount of money YOU might choose to frugally hoard every bean, I might choose to profligately spend on fripparies. Should I then sit back at the end of the day and say 'oh it's not fair! She has a bigger house than me? (because you saved for it) or would you turn your nose up at me because I like Jimmy Choos and live for today?

There is a crushing naivety in the idea that 'hard work' = 'lots of money'. It doesn't. Sometimes 'sheer dumb luck' is all it takes. Being in the right place at the right time like buying the winning lottery ticket. Having one stellar idea like writing a book about a boy wizard. Eddie Laker's Skytrain was a brilliant idea but he went bust. A few years later EasyJet does exactly the same thing and succeeds.

We actually need the rich to spend, hopefully she may be buying British designers and keeping the money flowing.

Lots of people work very hard and get a crap wage however, Hilary has been sensible enough to make good financial and business decisions. If you want to be a nurse, teacher (like me)etc you do not do it for the money. It depends where your values lie.
I love teaching but I also love fashion and if my job was better rewarded I expect I buy lovely clothes and go on expensive holidays but it isn't so I have to suck it up.

Working hard for not much money doesn't actually make you any more deserving of nice things than working hard for lots of money. It is all work.

It is a great shame that so many people will work very hard all their lives for very little, but that does not mean that those who have been fortunate enough to gain hefty sums for their hard work should somehow be despised for reaping the rewards. No-one would begrudge a hard-working nurse or labourer from spending x percent of their income on nice things. It is a bit unfair to begrudge a CEO for spending the same percentage of theirs on what they consider nice things.

troisgarcons

Countries (like Scandinavian countries) with much less of an equality gap have much higher happiness ratings.

YABU.

You seem to have made the assumption that by saying "I work hard, I deserve it" is implying that people who don't work hard, don't deserve it.

Me and dh work hard, therefore if we want, we deserve to spend our money on whatever we choose. It's no-one else's choice how we spend our money, but I don't look around and think "well you don't deserve a,b or c, because you earn less", just that we are lucky enough to be able to afford what we want.