For Years I Have Wondered Why People Generalize and Put All the Rich in One Pot.
Humans love to generalize. It disappoints me when people who think they deserve more attack the people who worked their butts off to get where they are. The people that worked hard to get where they are include a good majority of the rich people you meet.
These Include:
- Entrepreneurs
- Athletes
- Artists
- Professionals like Doctors and Lawyers
- Family Wealth
The funny thing is that the enemy that they are looking for range from the rich down to the poor. These are the true enemies of the futures people desire. These are people who are leeches on the system. Their greed and laziness makes life more difficult for everyone.
These Include:
- Politicians
- Companies Who Bribe.
- Lawyers Who Litigate People and Business Into Bankruptcy.
- People in Government Who Take Bribes.
- People Who Can Work but Choose Not to and Rely on the State.
- Slum Lords
- Students Who Attack the Wrong Groups Based on Lies They Accept as Truth.
- People Who Follow What the Media Tells Them.
Now you may wonder why I did not include Crimimals. The reason is that the word is subjective. Who is the criminal? The young man in jail because he sold some marijuana or the Politician and Lawyers who make the laws making marijuana illegal?
As many of you know I am someone who believes in Pareto's Principle. This law of life pertains to every aspect of what we do. No matter what you are told 80 percent will always fail and 20 percent will succeed in any endeavor. Then you can take the top 20 and apply the law once again. I believe that when people can't achieve their desires through honorable means they will attempt to do it through coercion or by hurting others. Pareto's Principle applies here as well. 80 percent of these people can't compete with the top 20 percent. This is where you will find the people that everyone despises.
The problem with belief in absolute "truths" is that they will cloud your judgment when you are confronted with something that doesn't conform with your belief system e.g. black swan events.
For the most part I agree with you but I would not include Family Wealth in the same category as the other ones (I mean if I inherit something did I do anything to earn it?) I would probably create a different category for it.
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Very true article @hilarski!
Our brains love it when we generalise and put people in boxes. It is more efficient for the brain. It starts to go wrong when we don't think critically about that anymore and start believing that people are put in those boxes because they belong there...
These type of posts make everyone aware yet again, that is never a bad thing :-)
Keep up the good work
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I agree with you, we can not generalize and if we do, then we all know that life is not fair, not at all. There is a bigger problem I think, 1% playing God and enslave and the system which we have in place is evil and promotes evil ....look who we have as leaders and presidents, etc etc So, what you left to do is play the game but you not in the club, remember.
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True @madlena. I hope blockchain innovations will challenge those things that are now still true..
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Great one Randy! BTW all blame is intrinsically BS in a free-will Universe. If you step far enough and drop your separate self (which is an illusion anyways), you'll always realize that at some level of existence you participated/agreed with whatever is occurring in your personal life, including the stuff you "hate" :)
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Yes, totally. The 17 kids killed last week "participated/agreed with" getting shot to death by a crazy person.
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People blame, because they do not take responsibility for their thoughts and actions. It is easier to whine and blame.
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I like your point and I completely agree!
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I agreed with your opinion. Every person have lot of desires. When they failed to achieve them then they do wrong things and they do not care about others rights.
Thanks for sharing precious post.
@hilarski your blogs are always informative and admirable.
Stay blessed
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Excellent post and i agree with your thoughts and we all need to think about ourselves and continuously try to develop ourself and try to give brilliant outcomes from our energy time and resource to the mankind by adopting this course we will see great results in near future.
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i agreed with wonderful steeming blog for steemian about social and human blaming, I respect your thought and appreciated the good article,
thanks for update and all the best
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Great sharing mr @hilarski I agree with you
If you work hard you will get hard
If you dont work you dont get 👏
Nice one
Have a nice day
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I totally agree with your analysis mate, we have an old popular saying here that may resume the idea ''people are stones & pebble''
I hate making Generalization it reflects a very closed mind.
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I totally agree
very salients points you have raised @hilarski
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Some of the ones in the second group you listed are the purveyors of class warfare. It makes great theater, gets people stirred up (emotionalism), and makes them controllable.
The sad factor what has taken place the last 25 years, at least in the US, is that small group of wealthy that you slivered off, the ones who could be termed "criminals", have taken over the system which has further fed into the emotionalism. They have even gone so far as to make it more difficult for the entrepreneurs and professionals such as doctors to excel. Regulation, payment caps, and outrageous insurance mandates all made the trek to the top all that more difficult.
And we can see where this all comes from.
We see it on here...look at the attacks on the Whales and the Orcas...a few who deserve it but most who got to where they were by taking a chance...and working their asses off.
Yet many on here want to attack them as being lucky, greedy, and non-caring.
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You had a great writing and a retty original point of view. It is true that many rich people deserve their money they made, but they will always be judged by others who can't make that much.
It is also true that in the society that we live, we tend to take things as they are and not distinguish between what is right or wrong and what we are told that is right or wrong. I hope that in time, this way of thinking will change. The first thing that we need to do about it is to accept it, then try to improve it.
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You must learn to be responsible for your steps and your path, that makes you a better person and you will make better decisions. Discipline and Constancy Do not faint.
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This law of life
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Awesome sharing @hilarski I concur with you
In the event that you buckle down you will get hard
In the event that you don't work you don't get
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I learned something about crabs. That if you put them together in a bucket, the ones who can't climb out will stay down and drag down any other that attempt to climb out.
That's the principle some people follows. When they see others who put in much effort to succeed. They try to pull them down to their levels instead of using that energy to try and raise themselves up.
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Thanks for this post. RESTEEMEADO
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This is great!!!
-cheers-
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I agree with you sir :)
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Pareto principle is very good truth. You can use pareto in every field or domain. It is true in business, logistics and also in people behaviour
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Jika ada waktu kunjungi blog saya
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Really a great stuff you added 😘 . Likeable blog .
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nice post my friend
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great post.
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The real enemy here is yourself because it always want the easy way. Sometimes instead of growing stronger, failure always take em down. With same principle, 80% of yourself don't want to leave its comfort zone and only 20% of yourself want to sacrilfice and ready to leave its comfort zone to start something new.
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well , thats the life @hilarski . you have to accept it any ways
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Tolong resteem blog saya
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exhilarating work dear friend @hilarski, I totally share your opinion, unfortunately there will always be people who attack the other for the good results.
is true in two areas of life is the law of pareto, for many years in my work under the relationship of dependence were measured by our efforts by this law, as expected never failed to criticize those who belonged to the minority
I wish you a prosperous week
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Clever idea. I heard about that principle, but I didn't know, that it was called Pareto's Principe. I think the people who despise and condemn others - do it primarily out of jealousy and weakness. They failed while others succeeded. It's hard to admit, that your failure is your fault, that you didn't do everything, what you could, did little or it's just not yours. If a person does not have the strength to be honest with himself - he uses the second way
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half of the world is left behind due to those politicians who are corrupted
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Part of it is that we seem to be wired to see things in groups, but it's also difficult to speak at the required level of specificity... let alone create catchy protest slogans!
I think anyone would be hard-pressed to come up with a chant to encompass your entire list!
In reality though people on the left don't have a problem with "the rich." The 99% group sprang up specifically in response to the double-dealing behavior of Wall Street that led to the 2008 crash. Sure they chanted against the 1%, but they did it in front of the people who had actually caused so much harm.
Meanwhile people on the left celebrate actual visionaries like Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. People who have created new technologies we use every day and actually built their business. Personally I put them in an entirely separate category than the people who run the mega-corps of the world because those were all built by other people. The current CEO of Ford, for instance, probably earns proportionally more than Henry Ford did all for stepping into a pre-built company and keeping it doing the same thing day-to-day.
So all that said, I have to be pedantic and point out that the Pareto Principle doesn't mean what you think it does. It means 80% of the results come from 20% of the work...
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Thank you for an interesting post @hilarski! Your drawing at the top captures the 'right enemy' distribution through the layers of society very well and I have a similar opinion on it.
However, you've put 'family wealth' into the good category of rich people. And I think it can be either in both categories (better not) or in neither. Because how the beneficiaries of family wealth use it, depends on whether they learned to appreciate what they have or not, the type of people they surround themselves with, what they use that family wealth for etc. For example, a compulsive gambler will waste the family wealth without hesitation and no good outcome for himself or the society.
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Just as I upvoted this post, I noticed that one of the tags was "antifa." Made me re-read this article to make sure I got the big idea here. As I understand it, it's too simplistic to divide the world into "rich" vs. "poor." There are bad actors in both groups, you just need to know where to look...
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Do we despise the ultimate 80% of the 20% or the 20% of the 20%?
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i I agree with you! the work is important to have things in a positive way. you have to work a lot
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