What's classy if you're rich but trashy if you're poor?: 28 of the most illuminating answers

[NNadir]

I was going to post this in the Lounge, but the #1 "classy if you're rich" definitely has political implications.

What's classy if you're rich but trashy if you're poor?: 28 of the most illuminating answers

#1 Having multiple baby mommas, not raising your kids, filing for bankruptcy, being a felon, eating fast food, not being educated and using the word very to describe things, this is all our president.

It's spot on, I think, the whole series.

[hatrack]

1. Loved it. If rich, "minimalism". If poor, can't afford furniture.

[mwmisses4289]

2. Number 13 encapsulates the whole article.

#13

Literally everything. When you’re poor everything you say or do is trashy and means nothing. Whereas when you’re rich, everything you do makes sense and get praised and everything you say carries weight.

[Wednesdays]

29. And that brings to mind

The lyrics from Fiddler on the Roof:

And it won't make one bit of difference if I answer right or wrong
When you're rich, they think you really know

[irisblue]

3. Well yeah

[LonePirate]

4. Election/voter fraud

[Squaredeal]

5. Hang out with strippers for sex.

[nuxvomica]

6. My favorite is No. 4

Knowing a judge by name.
Living on a boat.

I saw this George Carlin quote recently:
"Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money."

[markodochartaigh]

7. Written 2,000 years ago, Sirach 13: 3-13

The rich do wrong and boast of it,

while the poor are wronged and beg forgiveness.

4
As long as the rich can use you they will enslave you,

but when you are down and out they will abandon you.

5
As long as you have anything they will live with you,

but they will drain you dry without remorse.

6
When they need you they will deceive you

and smile at you and raise your hopes;

they will speak kindly to you and say, “What do you need?”

7
They will embarrass you at their dinner parties,

and finally laugh at you.

Afterwards, when they see you, they will pass you by,

and shake their heads at you.

8
Be on guard: do not act too boldly;

do not be like those who lack sense.

9
When the influential draw near, keep your distance;

then they will urge you all the more.

10
Do not draw too close, lest you be rebuffed,

but do not keep too far away lest you be regarded as an enemy.

11
Do not venture to be free with them,

do not trust their many words;

For by prolonged talk they will test you,

and though smiling they will probe you.

12
Mercilessly they will make you a laughingstock,

and will not refrain from injury or chains.

13
Be on your guard and take care

never to accompany lawless people.†

15
Every living thing loves its own kind,

and we all love someone like ourselves.

16
Every living being keeps close to its own kind;

and people associate with their own kind.

17
Is a wolf ever allied with a lamb?

So the sinner with the righteous.a

18
Can there be peace between the hyena and the dog?

Or peace between the rich and the poor?*

19
Wild donkeys of the desert are lion’s prey;

likewise the poor are feeding grounds for the rich.

20
Humility is an abomination to the proud;

and the poor are an abomination to the rich.

21
When the rich stumble they are supported by friends;

when the poor trip they are pushed down by friends.

22
When the rich speak they have many supporters;

though what they say is repugnant, it wins approval.

When the poor speak people say, “Come, come, speak up!”

though they are talking sense, they get no hearing.

23
When the rich speak all are silent,

their wisdom people extol to the clouds.

When the poor speak people say: “Who is that?”

If they stumble, people knock them down.b

[Ilsa]

8. I don't understand one certain word of this one:

"Day drinking, speaking two languages, hard d**gs, tax avoidance."

Is it drugs? Why treat the word as if it's coarse, or offensive?

[Harker]

9. I can only come up with a couple other possibilities.

[MIButterfly]

10. I don't understand why so many people think that just because somebody's rich, that automatically

makes them better than everybody else. I don't know why so many people worship money and those who have it. I don't know why so many people think that those who are rich are smart just because they're rich. I have a friend who insists that Elon Musk is "brillant." I don't think he's so brillant; I don’t think he's very smart at all.

I remember at the last restaurant at which I worked, I remarked to one of the owners what an asshole a regular customer was and she responded "you don't know how much money he has" and I said "So? He's an asshole with money."

And DJT is the epitome of the old expression "money can't buy class."

[niyad]

13. Especially when the wealth is inherited, not created.

[MIButterfly]

15. Exactly!

[Aristus]

16. It doesn't take brains to make money.

My father-in-law is a wealthy contractor, and he is as dumb as the ditches he gets paid to dig.

Making money is a talent, like drawing or singing. Some people have it, and some people don't.

[moonscape]

22. Worse is how the lack

of money can decimate someone’s self esteem.

A friend of mine was struggling financially and felt shame because she didn’t have $$. I remember thae conversation we had about it - how she hid it, and the depth of her shame.

[malaise]

11. Most excellent

Rec

[niyad]

12. It very much fits in GD, because so many of the answers are, in fact,

political.

[Ponietz]

14. Pedos are classy among the billionaires

A poor pedo gets his brains stove in by his fellow inmates.

[progressoid]

17. #24 Balenciaga's clothing

These are $1600.00

?

[MIButterfly]

19. That looks like something someone wore to dig in the yard.

Unbelievable. I am at a loss for any more words.

[JohnnyRingo]

25. That's because you aren't seeing them on Brad Pitt or Paris Hilton.

hahaa
Everything looks classy on the red carpet

[MIButterfly]

27. Not everything. I've seen some really ugly outfits on the red carpet.

If I saw Brad Pitt or, God forbid, Paris Hilton wearing those ugly, dirty-looking pants, I would think they had just finished digging in the yard. LOL!

[JohnnyRingo]

31. Maybe look again

I'm with you. I have jeans like that I wear to work on my car, but I made them that way over time.
Still, kids want what looks good on their icons, and everything looks good on Brad Pitt.

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[progressoid]

28. Just needs a $1000 T-shirt to tie it all together.

https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/women

[mwmisses4289]

30. Stupid what they will pay for, eh?

For that money you could go to your local goodwill, salvation army, or any other thrift store, buy many pairs of used jeans, bring them home and go out in your backyard and create a mud puddle, stomp those jeans in the mud, let them sit for a few days, rinse them, use scissors or a knife to cut them and ta da! Expensive jeans at a fraction of the cost! Hell, for that you could outfit a whole college classroom!

[ms liberty]

18. So much truth, gathered in one place, the OP and the thread. Kick it. Kick it good.

[Old Crank]

20. The immigrant/expat

I heard it this way.
Immigrant if brown, expat it white.

I've been an immigrant in two countries now... Currently considered an expat.

[littlemissmartypants]

21. ❤️

[FakeNoose]

23. Along the same line ... here's how poor people look when defending billionaires ...

Sad!

[JohnnyRingo]

24. Neck Tats.

Usually applies to artists

[3825-87867]

26. Wearing oversized Depends under thousand dollar suits...

hoarding TP.
Getting Spray painting make-up.
Buying an education.
Oh so proper English.
Manicured lawns - Having to cut my own damn grass.
Forgiven PPP loans - 10 year paybacks.