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  • Catseye3C Catseye3

    I stopped reading at one point, but I don't get what's the commenter's problem. What I read of the article lays out how the affluent are handling the changes they are undergoing re the pandemic. They're affluent, so they have second homes; the article goes into how they're adjusting. What, they're supposed to lie down in the gutter and die because they have money?

    The guy's a brat.

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    @Catseye3 said in Hardship in the Hamptons:

    I stopped reading at one point, but I don't get what's the commenter's problem. What I read of the article lays out how the affluent are handling the changes they are undergoing re the pandemic. They're affluent, so they have second homes; the article goes into how they're adjusting. What, they're supposed to lie down in the gutter and die because they have money?

    No, apparently they're supposed to make their own latte's, and walk past their children! Isn't that enough for you?????

    I was only joking

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    • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

      @Catseye3 I think it is kind of the "ivory tower" thinking.

      Rich people/people in power, etc. try to be "just one of the guys" and their stories and they way they act often just make them look even more out of touch.

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      @taiwan_girl Yes, and I also think there's a touch of "I'm rich, so the virus can't touch me" in their thinking, even if subconsciously. Then COVID comes along and is like, "Oh yeah? Watch this."

      Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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      • Catseye3C Catseye3

        @taiwan_girl Yes, and I also think there's a touch of "I'm rich, so the virus can't touch me" in their thinking, even if subconsciously. Then COVID comes along and is like, "Oh yeah? Watch this."

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        @Catseye3 said in Hardship in the Hamptons:

        @taiwan_girl Yes, and I also think there's a touch of "I'm rich, so the virus won't touch me" in their thinking, even if subconsciously.

        A co-worker of mine was fired because he said he'd be having to work remotely in June to take care of his parents, who were in a bad way. (By the way, it's July, and we're still remote, so what the hell is the problem).

        Our department head, no, shit, said this about his request: "that's completely ridiculous. You show up to work in this department. Even I will be showing up once a week, he can get his ass into the office."

        Please love yourself.

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          As much as I have zero problem with folks getting rich, this article smells like the Onion, yet it's not.

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          • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

            @Catseye3 said in Hardship in the Hamptons:

            @taiwan_girl Yes, and I also think there's a touch of "I'm rich, so the virus won't touch me" in their thinking, even if subconsciously.

            A co-worker of mine was fired because he said he'd be having to work remotely in June to take care of his parents, who were in a bad way. (By the way, it's July, and we're still remote, so what the hell is the problem).

            Our department head, no, shit, said this about his request: "that's completely ridiculous. You show up to work in this department. Even I will be showing up once a week, he can get his ass into the office."

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            @Aqua-Letifer said in Hardship in the Hamptons:

            @Catseye3 said in Hardship in the Hamptons:

            @taiwan_girl Yes, and I also think there's a touch of "I'm rich, so the virus won't touch me" in their thinking, even if subconsciously.

            A co-worker of mine was fired because he said he'd be having to work remotely in June to take care of his parents, who were in a bad way. (By the way, it's July, and we're still remote, so what the hell is the problem).

            Our department head, no, shit, said this about his request: "that's completely ridiculous. You show up to work in this department. Even I will be showing up once a week, he can get his ass into the office."

            Sometimes I think maybe Stalin had a point.

            I was only joking

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              Look at the bright side...If times were really bad, the locals might descend upon them like locusts, unless they have plenty of armed security.

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                My tears fall like rain.

                Oh, wait...I just got out of the shower.

                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                • JollyJ Jolly

                  Look at the bright side...If times were really bad, the locals might descend upon them like locusts, unless they have plenty of armed security.

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                  @Jolly said in Hardship in the Hamptons:

                  Look at the bright side...If times were really bad, the locals might descend upon them like locusts, unless they have plenty of armed security.

                  Honestly that's my fallback plan, if society and governments become undone. Always has been. I know exactly where I'd go, too.

                  Please love yourself.

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                  • 89th8 89th

                    As much as I have zero problem with folks getting rich, this article smells like the Onion, yet it's not.

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                    Money isn't the main reason we hate rich people, but of course it helps.

                    I was only joking

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                      I read the whole thing and didn’t come away a violent revolutionary.

                      We can’t invalidate their lived experiences.

                      Only non-witches get due process.

                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                        I wonder how much money they actually have.

                        Education is extremely important.

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                          Some of those houses didn’t seem that opulent. Even the litchfield one (with the aerial shot) is so far out from the city it probably wasn’t all that expensive.

                          If you get beyond commuting distance prices get much lower. Unless you’re on the beach or something.

                          Of the 5 houses neighboring mine, 3 of the families have second homes in the country or in one case in cape cod.. Only one I would call wealthy, the others are almost sorta house poor, though they’re well off income wise.

                          Only non-witches get due process.

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                            Reminds me of the aphorism, wealth is the money you don’t spend.

                            Only non-witches get due process.

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                              Wealthy people are no happier than poor people, if you don't count the large and systematic difference in happiness between wealthy people and poor people.

                              Education is extremely important.

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                              • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                I read the whole thing and didn’t come away a violent revolutionary.

                                We can’t invalidate their lived experiences.

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                                @jon-nyc said in Hardship in the Hamptons:

                                I read the whole thing and didn’t come away a violent revolutionary.

                                We can’t invalidate their lived experiences.

                                Yeah, but you read it from your country retreat in The Berkshires.

                                I was only joking

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                                  Rich people are unhappy for different reasons than poor folks.

                                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                    An unhappy rich person has to deal with the certain knowledge that they're too broken to be happy by any realistic means. That would be hard.

                                    Education is extremely important.

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                                      Money makes you stupid

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                                        You are all missing something, and I would have missed this too had I not heard a discussion about the very point being missed just the other day.. ( i was soaking in the hot tub at one of my second homes and contemplating whether or not I should start raising hogs when this topic was discussed on the radio....... lol) ( just kidding)

                                        This article was written to further a narrative, and shape public opinion to soften us up for the kill, so to speak. The objective is not to tell you what wealthy people are doing. The objective is to get the average person to form a negative opinion about people who can afford a vacation home in the suburbs. You are supposed to be disgusted at what you view as their excesses. You are supposed to feel resentment. And when the times arrives for the Left and its media propaganda machine to point out to you that NYC and other big cities are not able to tax these properties in the suburbs that are owned by city residents, and how these people are cheating the city out of tax dollars by moving to the suburbs, you will already be conditioned to be sympathetic to that view.

                                        Then you will be told that it is only fair that the big cities be given the authority to extend their reach into the suburbs, and "make these top 1% pay their fair share". Don't worry all you suburbanites they will tell you - we're only going after those disgusting rich people who can afford two homes... We will have the authority to come after you too, but trust us... We wont...

                                        Once the get people to agree that the city should be able to levy a tax on the suburbs, the will extend this to applying city regulations on the suburbs. The ultimate goal is to allow the city to take over the suburbs. People are leaving big cities by the thousands. Its not because of the virus, it's because these big cities are taxing people to death. They're moving to the suburbs to get away from it. The democrat run cities want the ability to control you. This was first put in motion by the Obama administration. I see this story as proof the media actively coordinates with the democrats to work as a team.

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                                        • LarryL Larry

                                          You are all missing something, and I would have missed this too had I not heard a discussion about the very point being missed just the other day.. ( i was soaking in the hot tub at one of my second homes and contemplating whether or not I should start raising hogs when this topic was discussed on the radio....... lol) ( just kidding)

                                          This article was written to further a narrative, and shape public opinion to soften us up for the kill, so to speak. The objective is not to tell you what wealthy people are doing. The objective is to get the average person to form a negative opinion about people who can afford a vacation home in the suburbs. You are supposed to be disgusted at what you view as their excesses. You are supposed to feel resentment. And when the times arrives for the Left and its media propaganda machine to point out to you that NYC and other big cities are not able to tax these properties in the suburbs that are owned by city residents, and how these people are cheating the city out of tax dollars by moving to the suburbs, you will already be conditioned to be sympathetic to that view.

                                          Then you will be told that it is only fair that the big cities be given the authority to extend their reach into the suburbs, and "make these top 1% pay their fair share". Don't worry all you suburbanites they will tell you - we're only going after those disgusting rich people who can afford two homes... We will have the authority to come after you too, but trust us... We wont...

                                          Once the get people to agree that the city should be able to levy a tax on the suburbs, the will extend this to applying city regulations on the suburbs. The ultimate goal is to allow the city to take over the suburbs. People are leaving big cities by the thousands. Its not because of the virus, it's because these big cities are taxing people to death. They're moving to the suburbs to get away from it. The democrat run cities want the ability to control you. This was first put in motion by the Obama administration. I see this story as proof the media actively coordinates with the democrats to work as a team.

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                                          @Larry said in Hardship in the Hamptons:

                                          This article was written to further a narrative, and shape public opinion to soften us up for the kill, so to speak. The objective is not to tell you what wealthy people are doing. The objective is to get the average person to form a negative opinion about people who can afford a vacation home in the suburbs. You are supposed to be disgusted at what you view as their excesses. You are supposed to feel resentment. And when the times arrives for the Left and its media propaganda machine to point out to you that NYC and other big cities are not able to tax these properties in the suburbs that are owned by city residents, and how these people are cheating the city out of tax dollars by moving to the suburbs, you will already be conditioned to be sympathetic to that view.

                                          Then you will be told that it is only fair that the big cities be given the authority to extend their reach into the suburbs, and "make these top 1% pay their fair share". Don't worry all you suburbanites they will tell you - we're only going after those disgusting rich people who can afford two homes... We will have the authority to come after you too, but trust us... We wont...

                                          Once the get people to agree that the city should be able to levy a tax on the suburbs, the will extend this to applying city regulations on the suburbs. The ultimate goal is to allow the city to take over the suburbs. People are leaving big cities by the thousands. Its not because of the virus, it's because these big cities are taxing people to death. They're moving to the suburbs to get away from it. The democrat run cities want the ability to control you. This was first put in motion by the Obama administration. I see this story as proof the media actively coordinates with the democrats to work as a team.

                                          Wow, @George-K, don’t you feel stupid now for not realizing what a corrupting piece of ideological propaganda this is? And you even brought it here to TNCR! How could you?

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