hm ... lol I have no picture on rich kids of instagram, because half of them are dumb and shallow people, but I think I am part of that 1%, since my family and full of money. My lifestyle? I do not work never will need, temporarily canceled my college, and I'm my beach house and later i'll go to a party. Even so, i'm trying to exams to a job, to ocuppy with something interesting, but eventually i feel really guilty with the probablity of "steal" the job oppportunity of someone who really need it.
I will tell my experience to you guys: I've lived half my life in a bubble, and I had a certain reality shock when I started studying in my private university. Eventually I found I had more money than most of those people. I was shocked because I didn't know that, I mean .... I've always knew I lived well, but I thought it was was upper-middle class and nothing more. That said, the girl who think "wow people spent 5,000 in shopping" have a same mindset. Not because she is dumb or evil necessarily. But it's her reality and she has no contact with other social circles, and the same can be said about lower class who will never dream how is about live in a luxury life. I was never so futile, but my mother spend that on the shopping buying her home applianes (yeah, she's a housewife, and spend her money on this shits), i just never cared fot that, but i had a lifestyle and can buy mostly anything I want.
Furthermore, within the "1%" has huge differences. It has big bourgeois and pettit bourgeois. So, for example, my parents are old money, and they are multi millionaires, but find themselves "poor" compared to other richer family than them. And if you ask them, they do not feel rich, just lucky. And no, they feel no guilty. I feel, and they call me dumb for feel like that. On the other hand, I know poor and middle class people who think they are rich, like to show off their travels, clothes to impress people, etc... but when I enter on their house, know their lifestyle, i'm shoked and sometimes want to laugh.
So.... my shock passed, i started to feel guilty to own all those things, and is hard to deal, because a lot of people approach you by interest, or just hate you because you have money. Period. So I joined a left-wing party, and turned communist militant. Here in Brazil the protests began, at the time of the World Cup, and it was my circle that was in the street. It's kind of hard because I would never be one of them, and they were trying to induce me to blame for everything i had, also despite theorizing, they lacked organization.
And if the situation became more serious, they had no military support - and this, my dear, are one of the main reasons that people "let" those things happen.
I fell out because it was a very tirsome circle, they did a very stupid critics as the car that I drove. What did they want? I started to ride a bus? On the other hand, I was the first to be chosen when there was need to give a ride for everyone in the party meetings in another state. And I had a stupid feminists who were judging everyone clothes and cryed because their boyfriends didn't liked them. I support feminism, but serious feminism. I suport the left, but they need to learn a lot of things.
Whats more? Is the lower class that supports the riches, not the middle class. The middle class want to be rich, but honestly, they'll never will be, because they live just of "illusions". They buy expensive things to appear they are rich, when at best they are into debt in their card. Who make the money circulate are people who have money, period. Things are done by the riches, us and return to us.
Yes, we live in a democracy, and who said democracy is a perfect and fair system? Democracy is the majority that wins, and since when it's fair? People elect guys like Donald Trump, who only cares about his interests. And that's democratic. That said, is good for me, but I don't agree with this system. Yes, i have empathy, but is ****ed up to see some middle class or poor guys who want to be richer saiyng shit and thinking themselves are so intelligent, when they understand nothing about economy.
Another problem that hinders the end of capitalism? It is global. Today is not only division of social classes, but the rich has empires in several countries. So fot to capitalism fail, the great nations need to go bankrupt.
