The Rich have it easy

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How the health insurance and education in Lebanon?

Education is fine.

The insurance is the least disaster .

Well, it could be worse, I guess.

Yes it could as everyone will despise a rich narcissist as their selfishness takes their soul. Hence they don't get fleeced by charities like the working class and their heads are off their bodies as they do what they want. They buy their contemptment and live in it, then they will know a sudden blow in their life for which I have no sympathy for whatsoever.

I disagree with the latter part of that sentence. If a person is rich and they are looking for true love, then they might have a hard time identifying people who love them irregardless of their money, from people who just want their money.

If they aren't looking for true love, they can surely find someone but then the concept of love isn't really applicable to them.

i agree. i think people who have loads of money really do have it easy. they dont have to worry about the random dollar BS that most people do, so they can spend that time on things that actually matter, like helping people, or looking for potential mates. that 'money doesnt buy happiness' phrase is really only somewhat true. money averts the inherent sadness of not being able to provide for yourself, or others, or not having enough. also, i hear its pretty epic hard to frown and feel depressed while you zip around on a jet ski XD.

and people dont have to know you are rich. just because you have money doesnt mean everyone instantly knows it. you can hide it with ease if you wanted to i'd imagine.

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I do not think that you could hide it that well, especially when you are a celebrity. Not from a partner or special mate.
Can you see Mrs Sugar asking and Alan saying that he can't afford it.

Of course you can hide being rich. You wouldn't hide it from your own partner, but hiding it from the general public is easy. Alan Sugar is a celebrity because he made himself one by going on telly. There are plenty of other rich people who you've never heard of but have more money than him.

I agree you can hide being rich. One of my high school friends was rich and I had no idea until she revealed who her father was and until she invited me to her house.

She was a very modest girl, and very shy. She got teased a lot. This sort of behaviour doesn't happen when people in your class know how rich you are.

So you CAN hide how rich you are. It's not a problem. The problem is, not many rich people want to hide it.

I don't believe much in true love.

Just so we are clear being rich in a place where most people are poor can also be a mean of bullying someone(from asking them how much do they spend on x item and then making fun of them for not spending money on what they think you should have on constant basis to pretty much anything you can imagine)

Coming from someone that has learnt to hide his family´s invome to avoid any issues, last time I provided anyone advice on posh stuff(most of my family members are and they are somewhat ashamed by the fact that Im not into it) they laughed at me as if I had no clue what i was talking about, when someone that knew my background cleared that for her she apologized and asked me for further help

At risk of repeating myself this is a grass is always greener situation.

Where I live, most people are poor, but they don't bully rich people. Quite the contrary, people tent to envy them and therefore when you learn your classmate is rich, it makes people want to be "friends" with them.

Guess we grew up on different places.

I learnt to avoid saying where I lived/wearing flashy clothes after 3 years of continuous bullying and the situation has improved a lot since then.

I guess that if I was more social I may have fitted in with the crowd my parents wanted me to hang out with but I always felt like an outcast there.

Huh? I thought you were one of the last true romantics on WP.

Definitely. When the whole country is poor, when most of its people are poor, regardless of education, skills, etc, that makes people react to material wealth differently. Some start to despise rich people. But most try to go near them and get some of it for themselves. (I'm talking about the high school kids).

The only reason this girl was bullied was because she was shy, chubby, and definitely didn't project an image of a rich person. She didn't wear flashy clothes because she lacked self-esteem and she wasn't into expensive clothes anyway. She also stuttered and others teased her for that.

She had problems in her home. Her mom died when she was a child and her father (a famous doctor) was never there, so she lived with her step mom who was from another country and much younger than her dad. (Not that it's bad per se, but they didn't get along back then. Later they developed a better relationship).

After the high school she suffered from anorexia for a couple of years. It was pretty bad.