Lifestyles of the rich and entitled

The country music capital of the world hosts two of the most extreme socio-economic statuses i've ever encountered. One end of the city is teeming with gobs and GOBS of old southern money. The other end supports the economy of toothless, dirty hicks that depend upon God's good graces to prevent their mobile meth labs from going up in smoke along with their only source of income. Being middle class, i hate both ends of the spectrum with a pinch more animosity towards the wealthy, since of course i'm quite jealous of them. Then again the hicks did steal my lawnmower. However, being surrounded by the artifical tits-wearing-Land Rover-driving 18-yr olds at my Privileged University, i had really begun to stereotype and classify all wealthy people into a very unpleasant category.

But then two things happened. First, purely by accident, i started hanging around with some seriously rich-ass old blue-bloods, who were entirely kick-ass and pretty damn likeable despite their gobs of money, champagne wishes and caviar dreams. Second, i started thinking. Socioeconomic status really had nothing to do with why i generally hate people. There was just a selection bias skewed toward the wealthy for a trait i find most deplorable in people. And many poor people possess this trait as well. Its called a sense of entitlement. When people think that the world OWES them something, that the rules dont apply to them, that because they are rich or because they have government-subsidized income that they DESERVE certain things and special treatment. For example, these spoiled little shits here at PU think that because their parents shell out 30 grand a year to send them to this school that they can leave trash in the hallways, piss all over the toilet seats, and just generally stink up the place with their filthy disease-infested genitals. Because you know, they're like, spending so much money that like, someone ELSE can clean up their crap. When tossing their half-empty Starbucks cup in the corner of the elevator, they'll say "well i'm paying that janitor's salary." These are also the same people that think they are entitled to receive an A in a class just because they show up, not because they actually passed a test or turned in an assignment.

And the dirty hillbillies are no better. You've got your disgustingly obese, stringy-haired basketball jersey wearing guttersnipe who's gonna "sue yer ass" because while HER kid was breaking into YOUR shed to steal YOUR weedwacker, they tripped over a rake and broke their femur. Or the Axel Rose looking muther-fucker in the grease-stained pants that publicly berates the waitress at Denny's because the kitchen took too long getting the meal prepared and there's a little burnt-looking french fry under all the others on his plate, because HE's paying GOOD MONEY for quality food and service (c'mon. you're at DENNYs), its ALL her fault, and of course, its the only sense of power over others he can exert in his pathetic little inert life (and of course he's also with his 7 kids and makes a point to tell them, "see, this is how you deal with waitresses that dont do their job right").

So FUCK people that live their lives under the assumption that they are entitled to everything, even though they didnt do a g-damn thing to deserve it. And i've determined that the dividing line between people is this: those with CLASS, and those who dont have an ounce of it. Wealthy or poor, people with true class do not assume entitlement to anything. They dont take for granted the work others do for them and they dont put unreasonable demands on others based on some silly perception of what they feel is OWED to them. People with class understand what it means to honestly EARN something, and realize they are paying for services and products and not someone's fucking soul. The biggest misconception in society is that having money means having class, and i think the wealthiest celebrities provide clear evidence against this assumption (think Britney Spears, in all her wealthy white-trash whore glory).

The moral of the story is this: if you spend all your time thinking you deserve things, you really probably dont deserve them. And no amount of wealth can hide the emblem of poor white-trash you wear on your sleeve when you point out reasons why people should be catering to you.