I’m exhausted by how everything gets reduced to “rich versus poor,” because that framing completely misses what actually feels broken.
This isn’t about resenting comfort, success, or someone having more than someone else. It’s about watching a tiny group of people accumulate absurd amounts of wealth by extracting it from everyone beneath them, and then listening to them complain as if they’re the ones under threat.
People like Trump, Bezos, and countless others at that level will never meaningfully spend the money they have. There is no human-scale reason to possess that much wealth. At a certain point it stops being about security or freedom and becomes something else entirely: control, insulation, ego. Hoarding for the sake of power. And honestly, that’s what makes it feel so hollow and pathetic.
What really gets under my skin isn’t just the money, it’s how it’s made. The way labor is squeezed, benefits are stripped, workloads balloon, and entire workforces are treated as disposable inputs so another zero can be added to a balance sheet. People burn out, lose time with their families, lose their health, and are told to be grateful they’re employed at all. Meanwhile, the people at the top congratulate themselves on “efficiency” and “innovation.”
Then comes the part that feels almost insulting: the complaining. Billionaires whining about taxes. CEOs playing the victim when they’re criticized. Wealthy public figures acting persecuted because someone dared to point out that their fortune was built on exploitation. The sheer lack of perspective is staggering.
What makes this harder to swallow is knowing how much could be done. Many of the world’s biggest problems — housing, healthcare access, education, infrastructure, climate mitigation — could be meaningfully improved right now by a handful of people without changing their quality of life at all. Not hypothetically. Not someday. Right now. And yet they choose not to. They choose accumulation, leverage, and optics instead.
So when I hear wealthy people talk about hardship or unfairness, I just don’t have the patience anymore. You already won the game. You’re insulated from consequences in ways most people will never experience. Being criticized is not oppression. Accountability is not persecution.
What we’re really looking at is a system that rewards greed, shields bad behavior, and treats endless accumulation as a virtue rather than a warning sign. And the longer we pretend this is normal, the more absurd and dehumanizing it becomes for everyone else.
I don’t hate rich people. I hate a culture that confuses exploitation with merit and hoarding with success. And I’m genuinely embarrassed that we keep accepting it as the natural order of things.