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Srsly Wrong

317 – Rich People Ruin Everything

Srsly Wrong

Srsly Wrong

Society & Culture, News & Politics, Comedy, History

4.9518 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This episode on SRSLY WRONG, Shawn & Aaron discuss the ways in which rich people, and the existence of "richness" corrupts and ruins everything in our society.

Books mentioned:
Limitarianism by Ingrid Robeyns
Mastering the Universe by Rob Larson

Transcript

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0:00.0

We now go to a luxury resort where two reclusive tech billionaires are really hitting it off by the pool.

0:09.0

Oh, servant, I spilled my margarita.

0:11.6

Could I get two more, or maybe three more, just in case I spill another one?

0:15.8

I'd like to have the spares on hand next time, so I don't have to wait, please.

0:20.3

Thank you. Okay, thank you, Missouces't have to wait, please. Thank you.

0:21.3

Okay, thank you, Massusus. That's enough. Thanks.

0:24.8

Get a bit move? Yeah, thank you.

0:26.6

Sometimes you have to be firm with them.

0:28.6

Yeah, it's so hard, working harder than everyone else and being better than them.

0:32.7

It's rough. We have a rough life.

0:34.8

I agree totally. People look at the private jets. They look at the mega yachts. They look at... The army of servants to cater to your every whim, keep you in a cocoon of never having to do anything for yourself. And they say, oh, you're surrounded by friends. You're always surrounded by so many people laughing at your jokes and calling you a genius and it's like yes i wish they

0:55.5

were true friends and then they're all of a sudden are they laughing in my joke and calling me a genius

1:00.1

because they truly feel that way or because they're angling for a promotion or because they're

1:06.3

they want me to invest in their company or pay their medical bills or Yeah. No, and sometimes people will be your friend for years, decades, even from before you were rich. Right. And then they're... They run into the slightest hiccup, like, oh, a small problem that could easily be solved with a few hundred thousand dollars. And instead of earning that for themselves, they come to you and they have to make it weird.

1:28.3

And then...

1:28.9

Well, yeah, it makes things awkward. It's like... It's totally awkward. It makes you think, like, all that time we spent together, all those many years together of being close friends. You mean nothing to you. Was this all in training for the big one of these days? We're going to have a medical scare and we're going to need some money. I'm just an ATM machine and for the past 30 years you've just been cracking your knuckles, preparing to enter in the pin code. Yeah, I know. I want to be seen as more than an ATM machine. I want to be seen as a full human person. I just feel like society really gangs up on us a lot and then you have people who are saying rich people shouldn't exist. It's like, hello, rich people shouldn't exist. Why do you want us to go into a disappearing machine? And where are you going to put us all in a camp and you're going to execute us? Yeah, bury us alive underground as our screams are slowly muffled by the dirt that you're piling on top of us. Is that what you're... I mean, that's what I hear when you talk about...

2:17.7

Yeah, that's what...

2:18.5

When you talk about increasing the capital game's inclusion rate? It sounds to me like you're sharpening a pitchfork and you're getting ready to murder me, put my head on a stake in front of the whole village. So then you hire the fence maker, you move out to the countryside and build deeper and bigger compounds, more and more defensive, always ever more paranoid.

2:37.0

You know, Kevlar, bulletproof glass.

2:39.3

All because the jealous, hysterical masses can't accept that some people just are a bit more productive.

2:47.7

You call this a margarita?

2:49.8

Make it again.

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