When the one percent starts to feel paranoid, Clay Cockrell is the first to hear about it. A therapist who specializes in treating the neuroses of the ultrawealthy, Cockrell says that many of his clients are in the privileged position of getting freaked out by eat-the-rich sentiments these days.
So funny to be in therapy telling your friend-for-hire that you are anxious and uncertain about what to do, because the idea of living modestly and giving to the needy is not even worthy of consideration to them.
Don’t call therapists “friends-for-hire.” It’s a lame insult to a serious and needed profession.
I’m not sure if I should bring up the homeless vets with PTSD who’d love someone to talk to, for hire or not, qualified or not; or if I should make light of asking my own friend for hire about coping with the depression and anxiety of living in a world that the ultrawealthy have immiserated for their wealth.
The rich are worried about people hating them for being rich while everyone else is burning out from the stress of coping with living in situations that are literally depressing.
Maybe people don’t need to feel better about it? Maybe the rich should be afraid and feel like shit? Maybe the poor should be angry and upset? Maybe people on the internet use humor to cope with difficult situations and being a wokescold finger-wagger about it is counterproductive?
Maybe my comment was limited to what it commented on and you shouldn’t be assuming a whole bunch of other things I didn’t say?
I’d be happy if they just didn’t try to bleed the world dry for like a minute at least.
In the immortal words of Good Charlotte:
They’re always complaining, always complaining. If money is such a problem, well they got mansions, think we should rob them.
Though ironically the Madden brothers ended up marrying rich.
To be fair they also said:
Talking on the phone, got an interview
With the Rolling Stone, they’re saying,
“Now you’re rich and now you’re famous
Fake-ass girls all know your name and
‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’
Your first hit, aren’t you ashamed?”
Of the life, of the life, of the life we’re livingSo at least they’re self aware 😅
