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Buns_of_Fire

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8. "Only the little people pay their bills."

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Wed Dec 27, 2017, 12:20 PM

Dec 2017

I don't think Leona Helmsley ever said that, but I'll bet she THOUGHT it.

I think some (not all) of them really ENJOY making life difficult for the "little people." Making contractors and the like grovel. "They're lesser beings than we are, you see, so they deserve to be jerked around."

It's a game. They'll play it until the day they die. It's the only entertainment that stimulates them.

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WTF is Wrong with Rich People? [View all] HughBeaumont Dec 2017 OP

They are ill. It's a disease. dchill Dec 2017 #1

IMO, Scott Fitzgerald had The Rich nailed if only via The Great Gatsby. no_hypocrisy Dec 2017 #2

Yep! Zoonart Dec 2017 #3

Which is why I don't get why the "little guy" SUPPORTS these thieves. HughBeaumont Dec 2017 #9

When you use money as a way to keep score mercuryblues Dec 2017 #4

These "people" - and I use that term loosely - are sick, sick, sick. InAbLuEsTaTe Dec 2017 #5

Some lose the ability to make friends, because they are taught to be suspicious of others lostnfound Dec 2017 #6

My mother would say: "How do you think they got rich?" Raven Dec 2017 #7

The bigger the wealth, the bigger the boots - HughBeaumont Dec 2017 #10

"Only the little people pay their bills." Buns_of_Fire Dec 2017 #8

My father used to say: from the rich you learn to be grasping. OldEurope Dec 2017 #11

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king workinclasszero Dec 2017 #12

At a party a few years ago MissB Dec 2017 #13