You may have a better financial situation and stability than somebody else and that’s honestly ok if the money wasn’t stolen, just don’t be tone-deaf.
Not everybody lives in the same privileged bubble.
We’re really not people to invalidate other people’s feelings, but some people really need to be called out. Especially when a person is so stuck in their own privileged bubble, too tone-deaf to see real-world problems, and the Internet definitely made sure their sentiments get heard when these happen.
With the transport strike going on at the moment, it’s really a shock and somewhat an ironic punch to the face to see a “rich kid” rant about being “shitted” on for having cars and being a rich kid in general.
“Instead of ranting na wala kayong car, bili na lang kayo. Be productive.” How can underemployed, underpaid, and overworked middle to lower-class Filipinos face an 8.7% inflation rate as of January this year, hitting our all-time high, and think that they are just not being productive?
In case you haven’t been too active on social media, the Internet has been fuming over a Reddit post of a “rich kid” ranting about people “shitting” on them for having cars and for being rich in general. The post has since then been deleted, and the poster has also apologized for saying what they did and deleted their account.
you're fucking kidding me 😭😭 so unreal pic.twitter.com/ltt1B18beu
— 🐈 (@teddybaaron) February 24, 2023
Perhaps it is true, they didn’t choose to be born rich, and some of the richest people now also came from nothing but just worked their way up. However, just because that has happened to other people, doesn’t give anyone the right to invalidate someone’s hard work and dismiss it as being unproductive.
Furthermore, there are many factors that can both be a pathway or a hindrance to someone’s success. Let’s face it. If you are born with a silver spoon, who Reddit OP seems to be, it’s always an option, sometimes even the only option, to work at your parents’ company. Like OP, too, who the Internet has discovered asked for almost a million Pesos to start a business that failed, upper-middle and upper-class people can just choose to start business ventures and just charge the “failure” as a learning experience. Not many people have that privilege.
Connections, knowing the right people, and having the right work experiences also contribute to these factors, all of which are not accessible to all. Most jobs require having prior experience before hiring applicants, too. Most jobs also aren’t just 3 hours a day and not that many people are paid enough to save for a car within just two months.
The Internet would really love to know where the part-time jobs that pay 3,000 PHP a day are because the minimum wage in Metro Manila is 570 PHP as of June 2022, but the rates depend on region and sector.
It is a good thing OP has already deleted the post, and even their account because of the backlash the post did receive across social media. Here’s to hoping the apology was sincere and they really learned something about being privileged. Because really, it’s not being privileged that’s the problem here, but what one does with their privilege. It’s also not that hard to go out and touch some grass sometimes.
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