Rich kids of instagram
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What can be done about low income communities with gang culture (USA)?
Oh I dunno, maybe treat them like fucking people instead of a problem you need to get rid of? I’m really started to hate so called liberals and progressives.
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SEND A MESSAGE
IF YOU ARE AS EQUALLY OFFENDED BY RICH KIDS OF INSTAGRAM THEN BE BRAVE AND SEND THEM A CLEAR MESSAGE; THEIR ARROGANCE AND INSENSITIVE DISPLAY OF EXCESSIVE WEALTH IS UGLY.
WHAT LINES HAVE THEY CROSSED IN THEIR GROSS DISPLAY OF AFFLUENCE. IF WE SAY NO LINES, THEN OUR CULTURE IS SIMPLY ROTTEN.
SEND THEM A SIMPLE MESSAGE - SHAME!
THE LINK TO THEIR TUMBLR PAGE http://richkidsofinstagram.tumblr.com/
All of the images are from their blog and images I have previously blogged and credited on this tumblr page.
This blog exists purely in response to “Rich Kids of Instagram”. I happenstanced upon this blog reading the news this morning so being a Tumblr Being myself I had a look. I was struck by a number of thoughts and emotions. Firstly I should say that these images are those of kids doing what many young people do regardless of wealth or status; having self-indulgent fun. They’re just doing it with more expensive stuff and in more salubrious surroundings, and then sharing their experiences, and if one trawls Tumblr there are many, many blogs which display images of “wealth and affluence” that the less wealthy desire. Nothing wrong with that you may say; and as Annabel Schwartz said, “she wasn’t going to be ashamed of my wealth”. Well no, perhaps you shouldn’t be ashamed of your wealth Annabel, but perhaps you should. The tone of the blog is defensive and arrogant with no recognition of what money means. It is a glaring example of the ugliness of wealth at times.
So my message is to Annabel and her friends; Â have a look at poverty and then please have some humility with respect to what you have. Understand the opportunity and possibility inherent in your wealth which millions of others in this world will never know, purely because of their lack of money. Understand the life-long difficulties that poverty can bring upon a person. If you have money you have a responsibility to recognize what that means.
Be ashamed Annabel and your friends; be very ashamed of your arrogance and your actions. I’m terribly sad for you, you are not people I envy or would ever aspire to be. You are ugly.
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Poverty - Emaciated Child
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gq:
The Truth about Income Inequality in America
Guess what, compatriots? The gap between the richest and the poorest among us is now wider than it has been since we all nose-dived into the Great Depression. So GQ sent Jon Ronson on a journey into the secret financial lives of six different people on the ladder, from a guy washing dishes for 200 bucks a week in Miami to a self-storage gazillionaire. What he found are some surprising truths about class, money, and making it in America.
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These look in no way connected. /sarcasm
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Broke and Angry in 21st Century U.S.: Blaming the Victims--An American Tradition Today a major newspaper’s editorial page expressed anger at the fact that NYC Department of Education Chancellor Dennis Walcott, and his master, Mayor Bloomberg, were not allowed to close some twenty schools, fire all of the teachers, who would then have to reapply for their jobs. The corporate…
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“Affluent, intelligent people are now more likely to marry other energetic, intelligent people. They raise energetic, intelligent kids in self-segregated, cultural ghettoes where they know little about and have less influence upon people who do not share their blessings.” — “The Opportunity Gap” by David Brooks, The New York Times,  July 9, 2012 (via hyuninc)(via hyuninc)
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“The poor aren’t dangerous, POVERTY is dangerous.”
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So Spain needs to take on MORE debt to get out of debt? How close is US to violent demonstrations?
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This graph is amongst a series of about a dozen others explaining the correlation between the state of many countries’ income inequality to aspects of their citizens’ lives. On every single one of the graphs listed on the side, United States falls far behind (with the worst figures), followed by Canada and the Western European countries, then by the Scandinavian/Nordic countries, and then lastly by the best performer, Japan. This raises an interesting quote from Richard Wilkinson”
“If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark…”
However, I’m sure if this graph would be based on military power, the United States would come right on top. It’s all about priorities. xP -
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Our Education System
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