Zero sympathy for people who had £10 million worth of jewellery stolen

[TwoCreamEggs]

People are struggling to heat their homes, feed their kids and pay their rent - whilst this 'millionaire influencer' has £10 million worth of jewellery stashed in a safe at home - I find this morally abhorrent and have zero sympathy. They have so little insight and social conscience that they feel it appropriate to flash jewellery and other signs of huge wealth all over social media. I'm glad no-one was injured obviously but hope the stolen jewellery is used to re-distribute some of their enormous wealth.

So only poor victims of crime deserve empathy?

That's a rather mean outlook on life.

Everyone knew it was there anyway.

The inequality doesn't make the theft justified or the victims not worthy of empathy though does it? It's only jealousy which does that.

Performative compassion -@TwoCreamEggs is as "bad" as the influencers she appears to hate

No, the theft shouldn’t have occurred. That much is obvious. It’s the fact that there is so much underserved wealth that I find abhorrent (and no, I’m not poor or jealous)

look at it this way - she would have purchased that jewellery from shop/designer, who employees people, pays taxes etc. All the staff at the shop get paid so they can pay tax and then also buy services and items. The suppliers of the diamonds and gems and precious metals also employee people. Money makes the world go round.

If rich people didnt buy clothes and cars and private planes than all the people employed in thoses luxury industries either as service providers or manufacturers would be out of a job, not able to spend money on the medium priced things such as mid range cars, high street clothes and new iphones. That then means the people employed on the high street are no longer needed and so on and so on.

Jewellery doesn’t heat homes. Yes they could sell it to generate cash and distribute to others but that requires someone else to buy it. The jewellry will still exist.

A common theme of Robin Hood is that he robbed from the rich who gained their wealth from robbing the poor (either illegally or through taxation).

People keep misinterpreting it to think that robbing people wealthier than you, and who got their money from legitimate sources is the same.

Robin Hood was essentially giving people their money back.

In this case the Robin Hood would be someone who robbed the thieves and gave the jewellery back to the original victim.

Curious as to who this is

So it's moraally abhorent to be rich and have loads of precious jewellery when people can't afford the heating? I entirely agree with you. I suggest we start doing something about it by getting rid of the Royal family and repossessing all their land and assets to help the poor.

I think the true issue is the inequality of how much people are paid - people prancing around on instagram getting millions or kicking a ball around a field for £100k a day/week whilst people toiling away at manual labour or surgeons saving lives get much less

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Ridiculous. A violation is a violation. Someone's sense of security has been shattered. The thieves aren't donating the jewellery to the foodback, are they? Jealousy is ugly.

That is true, but then again it is those manual labourers who are buying the match tickets, the Sky TV packages enabling those footballers to earn such high wages.

I highly doubt that the people that broke into this home, rifled through someone’s personal belongings, invaded their privacy and then left with items that were not theirs, nor did they have any business taking …..were thinking of “the greater good” when they went through that process.

I shall await the news of all the homes that have been heated due to their sheer hard work, chivalry and heroics.

What a disgusting judgy post, your bitterness will hold you back.

Quite. Why does no one stand up to deal with the elephant in the room - the glaring, Medieval system of monarchy?

I don't care if someone lives in a multi million pound mansion or a teeny tiny shack. Having your home - the place you should expect to feel safe - violated by strangers and your belongings stolen (whether that's ridiculously expensive jewellery or your last loaf of bread) is horrendous and deserves empathy.

That level of wealth does seem quite obscene but the people who live there are still human beings. Someone came into their home while they were there, armed with some kind of weapon, and crept around the house and went through their things. That’s a violation and it’s frightening whether your net worth is £10k or £10 billion.

How cheap does a stolen item have to be for you to afford someone sympathy? A £5 Primark necklace? A £500 gold ring?

Weird attitude. The robbers won't be redistributing anything, in fact proceeds of crime often funds more crime. Crime disproportionately affects poorer communities.

I wouldn't donate to a crowd finder like I might when a playground is vandalized or similar, but if she's paid her taxes and played by the rules whoever this person is is entitled to spend their earnings on whatever they wish.

What's with the attitude of rich people deserve to be stolen from?
10m to her may be the equivalent of 100k to your everyday MC person, does that make it ok then?
I'd be gutted if anyone stole anything from me, regardless if I can afford to replace it or not!

Her stuff will be insured, so really she won't be missing out cash wise. It wouldn't have been stolen be given to the homeless, I can't believe you even wrote 'redistribution of wealth'

I think that your thinking here is all wrong.
Yes they had 10m of jewelery which is unfathomable to many, but they are still victims of theft.
It's horrible to be a victim, and it is somewhat fortunate it won't affect their ability ot meet their essential needs, but still not very nice and I have sympathy for them given that they paid for the items, I assume loved them and had their home violated in the process.

I'm glad no-one was injured obviously but hope the stolen jewellery is used to re-distribute some of their enormous wealth.

Why on earth do you think it was some form of do-gooder stealing the jewellery who will then redistribute it to those who are less fortunate than the owners?

That will almost certainly not be the case.

I have sympathy for anyone who has their belongings stolen, regardless of how much money they earn.

Having had a burglary it's an horrific feeling.

You are probably “richer” than 90% of people on the planet. So many people in the world who barely have anything.

I presume that you live in a 1 room studio flat, only have one outfit, one pair of shoes, don’t own any non essential items like a bike and a TV etc …………. And donate every spare penny you earn to people in third world countries who are vastly poorer than you?

And I presume you would be happy with a penniless homeless person breaking into your house tonight and stealing every item you own that is “non essential”? Because it would be redistributing wealth?

I am with you and I would not be appealing to people for sympathy after this. This is pure greed. I have to wonder why one would not simply rent the necklace for an event and use the 10mil excess for charitable causes.

These people flexed their wealth online and paid the price when it was taken from them. Robbers would not have known to target them. Gluttony and pride are deadly sins.