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I had a friend from a rough upbringing who called it, "poverty mindset". Eg you have a success in your life? Prepare to be shunned and thought of with disdain

• roflyear 3y ago
  It's good to be humbled.
  • xeckr 3y ago
    Envy is far from a virtue.
    • roflyear 3y ago
      We can't choose how other people behave. We can choose how we react to their behavior.
      • grok25 3y ago
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• klyrs 3y ago
  And what do we call it when somebody loses status, and are shunned and thought of with disdain by their community?
  • IMTDb 3y ago
    If it's because of their achievements ? Misplaced jealousy !
• hnbad 3y ago
  The flip side of this is privilege mindset: you have success in your life? Your upper middle class upbringing, social safety net, financial security and financially successful peer group played no part in it, it's all because you worked hard (or smart) and now enjoy your just desserts, might as well kick down the ladder behind you so those lazy bums don't get a leg up. Arguably this is more common among privileged folks (including those fleetingly getting a whiff of privilege, aka "temporarily embarrassed billionaires") than "poverty mindset" is among poor folks. And of course the accusation of "poverty mindset" usually isn't what you hear from the kinds like the author who actively take time and money out of their meagerly successful lives to help those worse off than them. It's instead something you're far more likely to hear from those who "made it out" (often "against all odds" without any consideration what the idea of "odds" means in this context) and incidentally don't believe they "owe" anything to those they "left behind".