Do rich people feel guilty?

[OneWiseAmberOP]

By rich I mean comfortably private school, buying luxury items and holidays on a regular basis witohut having to save up for it.

If you think you've earned your money and people are just jealous do you not see 'your' money came from extactive capitalistic practices and its taken from the pockets of people who are not rich...?

No.
HTH
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No.

Do you keep starting the same thread and having it deleted? Why do you keep starting it?

Ive not had my threads deleted. What do you mean

care to expand?

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Instead of being pissed off at rich people, go do something useful to make your tomorrow a better place.

Not rich but comfortable.
Not sure what capitalistic practices you’re specifically referring to but DH is a highly skilled specialist in a very niche market who peddles his specialism to high worth clients who pay him accordingly. Obviously I’m trying to be vague. I have a professional post graduate qualification and a masters and earn less than my market rate by working in the public sector. I could earn double if I switched.

I don’t feel guilty and I doubt DH does either. Both grew up on a council estate. Both worked incredibly hard to get out of the poverty cycle. We pay tax happily and give generously to various causes. We consider our position to be very fortunate and know it’s been a combination of very hard work-long hours and two jobs when younger-and some luck that he turned out to be supremely good at something so sought after.

I wouldn't feel guilty I would feel grateful

No of course not.
What a ridiculous thing to say.

I'm not rich and never have been.

But I genuinely hope there are no rich people out there who feel guilty, whether they earned their money, won their money or it was given to them.

Life's too short.

What do you work as and how much do you earn, @OneWiseAmberOP ?

You first

Anyone who wants everybody to be equal best fuck of to China I’m sure that would work well for you
or North Korea ?

Nope.
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No.

Both DH and I have worked for 35 odd years. Both higher rate tax payers and have paid (rightly - no complaints) a hell of a lot of tax over the years. He’s been in the Services and now nhs. I was Services and now work in compliance. I find your post pretty offensive if I’m being honest.

I own my home worth around 200k, am retired and have pensions income around 2k pm. By comparison to most people in the world I am wealthy beyond their dreams.
Do I feel guilty? Nope, not even a tiny bit. I worked 34 years full-time, had no children so no ML. I was of course lucky to be born to decent parents in an affluent society and not in a hut elsewhere, but that's Life.
If you're dreaming of a Global Equality of life for every human you're going to be perpetually disappointed.

Not rich in the sense that we can afford private school. But we are mortgage free (not living in the south) and can afford holidays, 2 cars.

We are comparatively very well off compared to those around us.

I feel that financially we are lucky. In other ways not so much - we don't have family support with childcare.

I've been through some really hard times to get to where I am, so I don't feel guilty. But I do feel grateful.

No guilt here . I came from nothing and worked bloomin hard , taking every opportunity no matter how inconvenient. I also truly believe education is free for everyone so there’s the choice to either mess about and leave with nothing or use it as a springboard for a better life . If someone has no ambition to improve their lot then they only have themselves to blame if they don’t enjoy their life .

Why?

You're the one asking whether other posters feel guilty for being "rich". For all anyone posting on this thread knows, you might have the sort of salary that would make most people's eyes bleed. If you're going to start threads like this, you should at least be willing to be up front about what you earn.

I usually earn between £45,000 and £50,000 py as a self-employed person working in an extremely UNcapitalistic role. It'd be interesting to know your yardstick for defining "rich".

No. We have a high income (not the same as rich) but got it because solicitors in certain specialisms are paid well and we are very good at what we do.

It isn’t taken from the pockets of people who are not rich. Would you say that JKR is taking money from the people who are not rich but creating books they want to read?

Not rich, but working my ass off on top of a full time retail job and having 4 kids on a business I hope will allow me to be well off one day. Do you honestly think all rich people were given it and now need to hand most of it back? Mn is crazy for this shit!!

What do you mean by rich?
Someone who budgets carefully but can go on holiday once a year?
or a billionaire?
Your questions is too non specific

No. “People who aren’t rich” is a pretty deep bucket, and plenty of them are “not rich” for reasons I don’t need to feel guilty about.

Do you feel guilty?

There's a kid somewhere in the world dying of AIDs unable to access medicine or even clean water. Your life is much better than his through no fault of his own, so do you feel guilty for being able to sit on your electronic device probably made my some kid in china working for £1 a day, with a roof over your head, in a country where you could walk into any hospital and get treatment, where you can drink water from the tap without risking your life?

If not, why do you expect people who are better off than you to feel guilty that you don't have what they do?