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> Clients are friendly and ask how you are. Cleaners then answer honestly This is not unique to interactions between the well off and not well off. It's true t

> Clients are friendly and ask how you are. Cleaners then answer honestly This is not unique to interactions between the well off and not well off. It's true that in most case, when people ask "how are you", they're not looking for a detailed answer. It's a pleasantry, and the expected answer are of a more general form ("ok", "great", "not great, but getting by", "not a great day", etc). As a side note, I have a cleaning lady and have gone through a number of them over the years. Some of them we've been friendly with (we knew the names of her kids and asked about them, etc), some we were only passing acquainted with (friendly, but in the general way above). It can vary a lot depending on the people involved.

lupire 4y ago
Usually when someone has some trouble, if you can help you do your part, and the trouble isn't your fault. But when the issue is wealth inequality, the wealthier person can help, but doesn't want to, out of selfish greed, and is on the "team" that is at fault. The wealthy person is either wracked with guilt (and a hypocrite for not acting) or is an entitled jerk. Unless the employer are paying the cleaner a good wage (almost never happens), there is direct responsibility.
- gbersac 4y ago
  Do the wealthy really have to feel sorry for being wealthy when others aren't?
- golergka 4y ago
  > is on the "team" that is at fault He's not.
- RHSeeger 4y ago
  > Usually when someone has some trouble, if you can help you do your part, and the trouble isn't your fault. There will always be someone that you can help. And there will always be another charity that wants your money. In many of those cases, the person or charity is a worthy cause. But you cannot help all of them, so you must decide which ones are important the most important to _you_ to help. When you turn away a charity because you've already decided to give to different ones, that doesn't mean you think the charity is unworthy, nor does it mean that you're a bad person for not giving to _that_ charity;

lupire 4y ago

Usually when someone has some trouble, if you can help you do your part, and the trouble isn't your fault. But when the issue is wealth inequality, the wealthier person can help, but doesn't want to, out of selfish greed, and is on the "team" that is at fault. The wealthy person is either wracked with guilt (and a hypocrite for not acting) or is an entitled jerk. Unless the employer are paying the cleaner a good wage (almost never happens), there is direct responsibility.

gbersac 4y ago
Do the wealthy really have to feel sorry for being wealthy when others aren't?
golergka 4y ago
> is on the "team" that is at fault He's not.
RHSeeger 4y ago
> Usually when someone has some trouble, if you can help you do your part, and the trouble isn't your fault. There will always be someone that you can help. And there will always be another charity that wants your money. In many of those cases, the person or charity is a worthy cause. But you cannot help all of them, so you must decide which ones are important the most important to _you_ to help. When you turn away a charity because you've already decided to give to different ones, that doesn't mean you think the charity is unworthy, nor does it mean that you're a bad person for not giving to _that_ charity;