It’s not just on TV series. The very rich tend to be bad people. Don’t count on them to save the world
I have never seen the series “Succession” (HBO Max), about the dramas of an ultra-rich American family, belonging to the 1%, because I know, from the “Dallas” of Texas oil in the 1970s, that life and these people’s family relationships are based on jokes among themselves and against the world in general. But a scene from the first episode of the season that has now been released was global news, which would have to do with disregarding a girl who would have entered an event there by “their” with a large Burberry suitcase, worth thousands of dollars, when accompanying one of the less important members of the family and who would end up mistreated. The bag — the size and display of the brand through the pattern on the fabric — was what gave it away as an “intruder”. From the clips I’ve seen, she was attacked by the pack. Without knowing much else, I have to say that, yes, it is believable, for one reason: the very wealthy tend to be assholes to other people. It’s what I want to talk to you about. From the Rich Asshole Syndrome, a fact studied for decades that demonstrates that the greater the wealth differential, the greater the tendency to distance oneself from other people, to not be able to feel empathy, to be what we can classify as “bad guys”. ” human beings. What becomes relevant when we live in a world where almost 1% of the richest own about half of the planet’s wealth. To know this is to know that one cannot count on the “goodness” of these people to solve the problems of poverty or inequity or inequality. Only with fiscal policies, for example, that understand these nuances of human nature, if any social justice can be effected. But there we go.
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