Why People Hate Dealing with the Rich

As an ordinary person with an ordinary income and an ordinary life, we tend to hate the rich people – yes – we do. We can deny it all we want but every time we see those expensive private owned jets, or those never-ending new supply of the coolest electronic gadgets, or those holidays and weekends at gorgeous places – yes, we really hate them.
But what you may overlook is the fact that they are actually people. Breathing, living, crying, dying, getting sick people who just happen to have a lot of money and in some cases just do so well, they earn a lot of money. These piles of money they earn may seem so good, so alluring that we do not see the other side of being rich.

What we don’t realize:
1. Let’s not name names or hope to insult anyone, but there are numerous rich families who are actually miserable. They have money, yes, but because of their busy time and schedules, they lack time for their families, resulting in divorces, teenage pregnancies, teenage rebellions, family break ups, angry children and worst of all – suicide.
2. They’re not used to the other side of the world, the ordinary side of the world, so if they ever lose their money, they won’t know how to move around the world, they won’t know how to survive in the big, bad, dangerous world out there.
3. Which is why they have to work hard to keep earning, keep running their business and keep their head high even if this means losing their wives or husbands, their children maybe.
4. They have priority problems as well. Like us, they wonder where their future will bring them. They wonder who to put first, their children’s birthday party or that conference meeting involving all shareholders. They wonder if they only get movie offers because their parents are rich and they can finance the movie or if they have acting talents at all. They wonder if they are pretty enough to go outside or if what their kids will think when they see those never-ending gossip-sometimes-true rumors on the internet which leads to the 5th.
5. Last but definitely not least is, they don’t have privacy. Try going out and you have paparazzi clicking on your every move. Make one dumb move and the whole world’s talking.

The thing is, there’s no rich world, no ordinary world. There’s just one Earth we live in with different lives and with different statuses in life. If we choose to sit around and criticize those “lucky” rich people, then sure enough, you won’t get the chance to be one of them. Even the rich people now probably did something many years ago to earn big. I’m sure you’ve heard of William Colgate.

We want to be them. But we don’t have to be them. We can be like them in financial statuses, but I’m sure, every other part, we wouldn’t really want to experience.
Instead of wasting time hating them, why don’t we just work our way into our own life? And maybe – just maybe – when the time comes for us to rule, maybe we’d think of others and how they have less and find a way to help them. Then we’d finally see that sometimes not all of the rich people should be hated.