lol can you imagine telling poor ppl "Hey, you're rich on the inside, and that's what counts. Don't look at all the rich people and judge yourself by their standards, you're rich in your own special way. There's someone out there who'll see you as the richest person they know."
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See "money doesn't buy happiness", "money doesn't make you likeable", "money doesn't make you attractive" etc.
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I've often thought myself to be fabulously wealthy in terms of the knowledge I have (eg by historical standards, access to information, sort of my IQ, etc)
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I'm not sure if this is in reference to something but if it's meant as an analogy to how we look at beauty: wouldn't you say that 1. there's legit more subjectivity when it come to beauty, and there's a relatively objective amount of "richness" linked to survival/comfort/ luxury
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I mean, we have an objective measure of wealth - which is why this doesn't make much sense. The same isn't true for something like beauty.
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I'm assuming it's an apology for beauting beautiful/ugly but it doesn't really make sense. Nobody would say that about rich and poor. The analogy doesn't hold up unless I'm missing the poont
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People do say that all the time, it's a trope in all kinds of uplifting fiction dating back to Biblical times, kids are made to read transparent parables with exactly that upshot in school... This is not a hypothetical.
(And yes, it's terrible)
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