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In reply to the discussion: "None of Them Will Ever Know Hunger, or Financial Fear... Yet They Are Full of Resentment." [View all]renate
(13,776 posts)They also had perks that the woman working the drive-through at the Dairy Queen doesn't get, such as not having to be on their feet all day, but unless they inherited their wealth or CEO-ship, I'm sure they did work hard.
The part that really gets under my skin is that they seem to assume that income is exactly proportionate to how hard a person works, and that a person working 12 hours a day for minimum wage earning $100 a day somehow still isn't working as hard as they do for 8 hours (or even 12 hours) for $5,000 a day. I don't know whether they believe it, or whether they just haven't sullied their beautiful minds with what working-class people do all day, but they do imply it.
That's what drives me up the wall--the implication that people doing backbreaking labor or a stressful desk job aren't working hard.
(P.S. I'm certainly not disagreeing with you, by the way--just venting!)