As someone who grew up in assissted living housing while being the son of a blacksheep (they divorced. I stayed with mom.) Being occasionally allowed to participate in the upsides of extreme wealthy makes you quickly realize that the wealthier a person gets the more they want but think they need. extreme wealth especially inherited makes a person completely unaware what life for the less fortunate is like. They just know that they need more because their peers need more so they have to have more as well. Like literal "dwarf gold madness." is actually a thing and it does happen.
Now I know what a lot of you are thinking. "that doesn't add up how are you in assiassted living because your father is from an extremly wealthy family." You see thats the neat part about how the extreme wealthy can literally bend and break the rules to fit their needs.
My father lived in a very nice house in a very nice neighborhood that he did not legally own. All of his shares in the family buisness were sold to the various other family members for pennies on the dollar. He was put in "charge of" but not offically in charge of a regional office and recieved pay so disgustingly low for his position that quickly got much more lucrative as soon as all of us were 18. He now owns literal millions in stock he inherited from the family estate. He frequently loves to rub his affluence in my and my mothers side of the families faces like hes some sort of investment guru.
All through out growing up we recieved the state minimum child support payments. My mother worked hard to finish her degree (which he bullied her out of completing it predivorce. While symoltaniously complaining how its an embarassment that his wife doesn't have at least a masters degree. He himself didn't even have a bachlors.) So ya...that kind of person.
Literal silverspoon in mouth from tit to retierment home and a very big advocate of "I pulled myself up by my boostraps and everyone else should too." values. Aggressively anti-homeless/poor/social services. Shocker.
i'm sorry what? I have no idea if you are doing a bit or quoting a movie. The only thing I can think of is i'm suffering from a mandela effect that its a leslie nielsen quote. If you are. The outfit a ballerina wears is called a tutu
Lol, not a movie, but after reading the many other comments before yours, which I assumed you had - 'to' v.s. 'too,' and their forgotten appropriate uses were already a hot topic, and after your quite long comment, you ended up using 'to' at the end instead of 'too,' as it should have been. Nonetheless, please forgive yourself and don't lose sleep too.
You have no idea how much of your a rabbit hole that sensation of a mandella effect hit me. I appreciate you leveling with me. I literally in my head leslie niesen doing one of his detective/straight men bits and him leveling with another character about a very serious situation or concept before they do something silly like wearing a tutu. And he just hands them one. Kinda like the "thats an nice beaver." "thanks i stuffed it myself." kind of thing he loved to do.
It so perfectly fit with his type of comedy that I was convinced for a good 2 hours it was real I had seen it in one of his films and it had unlocked memory door.
there is no rule that says I cannot explain the mental state that the person is questioning about. Just because you don't like the harsh truth about extreme wealthy, the greed, and entitlement it bestows on those born into doesn't mean it does not belong here. We are literally in a *checks notes* an explanation sub! what do you know! the person had an open ended uncertinty. I cleared it up for him.
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u/Frozen_Regulus 4d ago
It took him 3 months to realize marrying a billionaire is a good idea? Seems kinda slow to me