Why are very wealthy people such cu-ts?

@matuzalem I think it's actually the opposite problem. Only cunts become wealthy. It requires a particular lack of compassion to choose to raise your own salary instead of your workers'.

@CarmenSlamdiego @matuzalem I still believe you can share with your employees and still become rich. Probably not obscenely rich but seriously, how much money does one person need in a lifetime? You can’t take it with you when you die. You can only be in one place at a time so after you’ve bought you 6th or 7th McMansion do you really need more. Having been raised in a car obsessed family I get wanting to own several really sweet vehicles but again, you can only drive one at a time.

@cjcrew @CarmenSlamdiego I have a story about my grandmothers husband, who grew up in the depression, ate leaves, in his old age spent no money, owned business but ate at Wendy’s and McDonald’s. Refused to pay for parking and for that reason got ran over and died. He had millions of dollars in the bank his children inherited. To be that rich he had to deprive himself of anything for years. What a sad existence.

@matuzalem @CarmenSlamdiego I agree. Did he live through the depression? A lot of the people who did retained those habits that kept them from going under up until the day they died.

My mom inherited my great aunt’s house after she died. When we moved in we found used aluminum foil, washed, folded and put away, plastic bread bags, twisty ties, all manner of stuff. Mom explained that these were all things people my aunts age held onto because they remembered how hard the depression was.

@cjcrew @CarmenSlamdiego in my experience, step-grandpa and grandma both of that era, one in the us and one in Puerto Rico where they lived, they took napkins, condiments, plastic ware from fast food restaurants etc. going to their place was like going to another era.