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"Learning to be sensitive" is a bit of a cure all. Your best bet is to move somewhere else and pretend to be poor. I know we like to put poor people up on a pe
by reddytowns 10y ago
"Learning to be sensitive" is a bit of a cure all. Your best bet is to move somewhere else and pretend to be poor.
I know we like to put poor people up on a pedestal, and if we just act the right way, they'll accept you as one of there own, but a millionaire will never be accepted as intimately into a group as a person with similar financial status as them.
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- aninhumer 10y agoUnless someone grew up poor and then made their money very quickly, they'll probably have a very different cultural background, which makes "pretending to be poor" extremely difficult. Poor people will notice that they're different even if they don't know it's because they're rich.
- reddytowns 10y agoThe poor may know they are different but they'll be more likely accepted than a rich person. There are a whole lot of poor people that are odd in some way, it's not hard to blend in. People seek understanding, not necessarily similarity. Also, like it or not, jealousy plays a big part as to whether someone is accepted or not. Besides which, the story is about an entrepreneur, who was trying to connect with the type of people he was around when he was not rich.