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Picture a rich kid with cravings for very rare caviar. His mom responds: "We have caviar at home." The caviar at home is slightly less rare.
This scenario sounds ludicrous, right?
We react like this because we're aware that rich people play by different rules. They're not constrained to common strategies for going through everyday life simply due to circumstance.
Built Made different
For example, waiting to eat something at home is the mindset of someone who grew up having to maximize limited resources. They forcefully learn delayed gratification and use it for survival, not for growth. The privileged person may also maximize resources and show delayed gratification, but in a completely different way. Their resources are something to use as an investment to make them multiply, instead of something to carefully guard lest they run dry.
Contrary to grindset wanna-be-billionaire bros, rich people let themselves give in to these expensive treats. There is no need for asceticism when they can justify these apparent excesses as positive for their mental health, confidence, and satisfaction. These are basically the equivalent of baths and spas for middle-class white women, but much more often and with less stress associated with spending resources on them.
Then you have the ability to leverage risks that a regular person will never come close to. You're probably familiar with the fabled trajectory of the perseverant person who never gave up and made it. It sounds nice until you realize those people had their small loans of a million dollars to work with. Others had families that owned emerald mines and were able to fund their ventures.
Just become a billionaire, bruh
A delusional tech bro might say you need to change your outlook to match theirs, but that's just a reversal. The privileged person's material condition created the life outlook that allows them to continue multiplying their resources, not the other way around.
Let's assume for a second that billionaires displayed genuine competence in some way. Yes, somehow having your file for bankruptcy six times was simply an exercise in determination. Using money to do a hostile takeover of companies was just a smart use of resources. Even so, regular people would never be able to take the risks to do these things. How do you expect to do B, C, and so on if you never had access to A?
There are some lucky few who are born into A. It's a contingency just like most things in life.
So why worry about it?
This scenario sounds ludicrous, right?
We react like this because we're aware that rich people play by different rules. They're not constrained to common strategies for going through everyday life simply due to circumstance.
For example, waiting to eat something at home is the mindset of someone who grew up having to maximize limited resources. They forcefully learn delayed gratification and use it for survival, not for growth. The privileged person may also maximize resources and show delayed gratification, but in a completely different way. Their resources are something to use as an investment to make them multiply, instead of something to carefully guard lest they run dry.
Contrary to grindset wanna-be-billionaire bros, rich people let themselves give in to these expensive treats. There is no need for asceticism when they can justify these apparent excesses as positive for their mental health, confidence, and satisfaction. These are basically the equivalent of baths and spas for middle-class white women, but much more often and with less stress associated with spending resources on them.
Then you have the ability to leverage risks that a regular person will never come close to. You're probably familiar with the fabled trajectory of the perseverant person who never gave up and made it. It sounds nice until you realize those people had their small loans of a million dollars to work with. Others had families that owned emerald mines and were able to fund their ventures.
Just become a billionaire, bruh
A delusional tech bro might say you need to change your outlook to match theirs, but that's just a reversal. The privileged person's material condition created the life outlook that allows them to continue multiplying their resources, not the other way around.
Let's assume for a second that billionaires displayed genuine competence in some way. Yes, somehow having your file for bankruptcy six times was simply an exercise in determination. Using money to do a hostile takeover of companies was just a smart use of resources. Even so, regular people would never be able to take the risks to do these things. How do you expect to do B, C, and so on if you never had access to A?
There are some lucky few who are born into A. It's a contingency just like most things in life.
So why worry about it?
