To think it takes the piss when wealthy people say this?

[FeeseAndChickle]

I follow a few insta-mums who are clearly very well off financially mainly due to their husband or partner having a very good job, a successful business or family money.

They all regularly post photos of their new clothes, nice handbags, holidays and decor of their lovely big houses.

However I have noticed lately that a couple have done posts along the lines of 'I am not posting pics of my house/holidays/clothes to show off, completely the opposite really. I am just so happy that we finally have the house of our dreams/amazing holidays/designer bags and have to pinch myself. It just goes to show that anyone can have what we have, you just have to go out there, work hard and get it!'

AIBU to think that saying 'you just have to work hard and go and get it' royally takes the piss? I'm sure 99% of people 'work hard' at their jobs and won't in a million years be able to afford some of the things these people have? And it's not as simple as 'going and getting it'.

AIBU to think these types of insta-mums are just saying it to justify more bragging photos of all of their stuff?

You need to just ignore it. Don’t engage.

Why are you even following these people? I can happily say I've never seen anything any of these people have written. It's not hard to just not look.

I agree that the best thing to do is just ignore, but I also think you're right that this is incredibly annoying - and worse than that, actively harmful. Wealthy people who insist they got everything through hard work rather than luck (which is never, ever true) justify ugly rhetoric towards the poor as 'scroungers'.

A) Stop following them - they sound horribly vacuous.

B) YANBU - if hard work was the only factor dictating success then African women would be the richest people on the planet.

Why do you follow them? If their lifestyle is beyond yours and annoys you, unfollow.

I only follow friends and those who give a fuck whether I live or die. Following mindless twits who wouldn't piss on me if I were on fire and aren't clued up on real life seems pointless. Unfollow.

Another who doesn't understand why you would follow someone you don't know (or in fact anyone for that matter). Why would you want to spend your time looking at pictures of someone else's life when you clearly think they're "bragging photos"?

It’s the standard Tory mentality really, that anyone can ‘work hard’ and become rich. Tbh, it’s the capitalist way of thinking full stop and it’s completely unrealistic.

Anyone in the public sector probably works the hardest yet they are underpaid beyond all measures. I teach and work very fucking hard, I will never have enough money for a sports car or £5000 designer handbag.

Well no one worked fuckin harder than poor mother. She worked from when she was 15 to when she was 61(When she passed away). She Only taking a short time out fromto have me and my sister.
When she gave up at 61 due to a severe heart attack she had been working 16 hour days as a career worker.

She didn't get to see a penny from her pension. No fucker with their designer dresses foreign holidays and 200 room mansions will ever say to me that my mum was "deservedly" poor.
Rant over.

@Aww I couldn't agree more.

Yanbu. I also saw someone write a blog post that “everyone says I’m so lucky to have xyz- it’s not down to luck it’s only down to hard work” it’s obviously down to a combination of both of those things, so why not acknowledge that instead of making other people feel shit?

yanbu it perpetuates the myth that if people are poor it’s their own fault for not putting the effort in.

I follow them because I like looking at photos of nice houses, holidays and clothes. I think it takes the piss however that they claim it's all down to hard work.

It's not.

If you don't like their posts, don't follow them.....simple!

If you follow these people you are giving legitimacy to their opinions. Can't you just look at beautiful pictures on pinterest or something?

Oh, and by the way, all though we're far from wealthy, we're comfortable, have a nice home and can afford holidays. This has come from both us in basic jobs, to studying and achieving a lucrative business....and believe me, it was bloody hard work and still is!

You have a choice.
Follow them, or don't.
Up to you.

There's 'work hard' and 'work hard. When I was carer many years ago I worked hard but I would go back anytime to that job if I paid what I want now.

Working hard in my senior manager role is doing a lot of thinking, concentrating and having to make decisions that if I get wrong (or not) I will get the blame for. The mental 'working hard' is much more demanding and impacts on my personal life much more than my job as a carer. It's about spending dedicated time and energy on tasks what will amend to nothing but you do it anyway on the one small chance of success.

I think these women posting such comments are often clueless and do just lime to brag but I do get the getting what you want financially by 'working hard'.

Your life would be infinitely better without these people in your head

Of course hard work plays a part Wdig. But I don't think people who are very wealthy have necessarily worked any harder than non wealthy people.

They sound boring at best. I wouldn't bother following them any more.

They have a charmed life. I wouldn't grudge them that, but if you aren't getting anything out of their postings why waste your time?

The thing is that no one can make you feel shit, you do that too yourself. And why would you? Stop following, and caring about, mindless drivel.

Too *to

Of course they are bragging! YANBU.

If all they're posting is pics of stuff they've bought then they sound incredibly materialistic and shallow.

Unfollow and hope that others do the same to show them how uninteresting things like that really are.

There are lots of poorly paid jobs which have high mental load and plenty of highly paid ones which don't. A successful actor will get paid a shed load more than an intensive care nurse for example, but I'd imagine the nurse's job is more mentally taxing.