• Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    My sister, who earns several times the average income of the city she lives in:

    • constantly complains about taxes. She says she wants to pay, believe it or not, zero taxes, because “what is she getting in return for that money anyway? Nothing”
    • complains about how she “has to” work “four jobs” (she means 4 clients) then she casually drops something like “I saved up enough to buy two apartments. I want to buy and rent and quit my job”. She sees herself as someone who HAS TO work multiple jobs for rent and food
    • she constantly complains about how poor people “pay less taxes” than her and absolutely hates anyone who works a low-income job as if they’re “dirty” or something. I assume if “no taxes” is her wet dream, then “everyone pays the exact same amount regardless of their income” is something she’d be ok with
    • this is happening in the EU, with free healthcare and all that, so she’s getting plenty out of the taxes she pays (or would, if she didn’t insist on using overpriced private clinics instead and hell knows what other “rich people” alternatives)

    She’s not poor. She’s practically a one percenter. She’s just upset it’s a lot of effort saving up to buy property to turn her favorite hobby of “fucking the poor” into a job by becoming a “professional landlord”. I don’t need Trump. I have Trump at home.

    Most rich people I’ve met are disconnected assholes… I’m sure some are cool, and where I’m at they tend to vote liberal (but not progressive), but goddamn I have not a thing to share or discuss with them. Bless’em and may I never wait on them or paint their house or be their nurse or anything like that, cause I’m not putting up with their attitude.

    Sorry if I sound like a dick. Just blowing off steam.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      6 hours ago

      What have I ever gotten from paying my taxes?

      Except the roads of course, that goes without saying

      And okay, okay, police keeps order and makes it we have a lawful nation

      And sure, sure, firemen will always be there to protect my house from burning down but that’s nothing!

      And I had free education, but come on, isn’t that what you’d expect at the very least?

      Nothing!

      And okay, they did get me free healthcare too, fine, but that’s nothing

      Investments to promote local businesses? Fine…

      So aside from the roads, police, firemen, education, healthcare, investments, what have taxes ever done for me?

      Nothing!

      People like that feel like a Monty Python sketch

      • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        Well, if you’re living in the USA, you have the largest military budget on the planet and now your paying for the Orange Fuck Nut to play golf.

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        1 hour ago

        She works in IT. Her main tool is Salesforce. Some of the clients she’s mentioned are universally known. Volkswagen and IKEA are two I remember.

        I don’t know what she does exactly. But, to be fair, she doesn’t know what I do either, cause I have a Film & TV degree and our latest argument was about her insisting that I use that degree to “become an influencer, because influencers make money”. That conversation would have been hilarious if I wasn’t part of it. Like listening to a tween tell you what she wants to be when she grows up…

    • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      You will never sound like a dick mouthing off about rich people, because we know they all deserve it.