Rich People Need To Think Before They Tweet About War and Gas Prices

You can hold seemingly competing views because sometimes it is all relative

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She most certainly had good intentions.

However, it’s one of those things that ends up being more about virtue signaling than anything else.

This Tweet from Bette Midler —

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Several people responded to the tweet with some variation of —

Easy for you to say, Bette, because you’re not poor.

Or this dose of reality from a gig worker —

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This is part of what pisses so many people off about rich people.

They live their own reality — a highly privileged one — that doesn’t look anything like the rest of our realities, particularly the realities of people on the opposite end of the personal financial spectrum.