Do you hate all rich people?

[Warpy]

28. It's easy to despise new money like the Walton heirs and hedge fund parasites

New money hasn't yet learned that it needs to be generous. It is desperate to join the "club" of old money and old bloodlines and tries by ostentation. It only succeeds in pissing everyone off but the old money crowd who get a big laugh out of it. Old money lives with threadbare inherited furniture and drives Toyotas once they're out of college and more sensible.

My mother came from old money, lost in the Depression. I grew up with a lot of the crazy thinking, most of which I've managed to discard since it didn't fit the penury the lack of access to health insurance forced on me.

I got to know some of the generous old money when I was young and cute and had a reputation as a wit. They are willing to share a great deal unless someone has the audacity to tell them what they need instead of what the old money wishes to share, a faux pas I knew better than to commit, thanks Ma. They are affable and decent people who are simply incurious about what goes on beyond their comfortable lives. I might want to shake some sense into them but I don't hate them.

So no, I don't hate rich folks.