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I'm at a point in my life where I think I have a pretty good idea of what most people are like if I spend enough time with them, even if they aren't open about it. Except rich people, especially rich women. They're completely opaque, I can never know what they truly think or whether they really believe what they're saying. There's some non-rich people who also do that to me, but *all* rich people do it. It's like being unreadable is the essential skill to get there.
I also recently heard of the "novel of manners" genre, is there something like that for the modern west?
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>>25180706
Not if you are educated
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>>25180712
That sounds right, what is it like?
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>>25180717
Like having a large foundation i built in early childhood to slowly build a house on top of.
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>>25180706
lol kid modern rich people dont have manners, they have circumstances and access

perhaps in the past manners mattered. unless youre dealing with serious wealth and somebody who managed to not become a complete asshole.

but yeah, real money can do your whole life's achievements in an afternoon. cant really go around saying that, unless its to the bros at the club
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>>25180712
*not if you aren't educated.

Luckily yiu are on /lit/ so you mustvenjoy reading. Not sure how far behind you are. If very far behind start learning about critical thinking and learning comprehesion skills. If you are at a normal baseline pick a few greek philosophers and progress into more and more modern thinkers.
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>>25180758
I'm educated in the technical skills sense but not in the society sense. At all.
>If you are at a normal baseline pick a few greek philosophers and progress into more and more modern thinkers
This is what I imagined based on >>25180712. I hope it's the actual answer. Thanks anons.
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>>25180706
You just grew poor. You have representations and cliches that help you understand the world but you haven't built one for this part of reality yet. They're just as idiotic as the rest of them
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>>25180932
dont tell me a millionaire is rich to you
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>>25180758
kek no
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>>25180706
Think about the way you look at an ant or a bug. That’s how rich people look at you.
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>>25181054
But if I raise a bug as if it were my own child it would remain a bug. If I were switched into a rich family as a baby I would probably do at least better than the bug.
I can tell that some people get things right only because it was hammered into them/mostly done for them by someone else and they were never aware of the full spectrum of what happens when you don't get it right.
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>>25181069
fuck the bug metaphor

rich people let each other fuck their children
its their game
thus epstein trump
even marx talks about it
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>>25180706
Rich people look at poor people like a monkey would an ant
People who have transcended caring for material comforts look at rich people like a human would a monkey
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>>25181022
Did you devine human psychology and systemic analysis or have you learned it in some way?



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