Interview · moment 9 of 23
Rich People Have No Feelings, and Why That's Necessary
from The Return Of Shame with Dan Soder | The Tim Dillon Show #363 · #363
5 min
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They theorize that wealthy elites must suppress all emotion to maintain power, comparing them to economic soldiers and joking about nannies being fired regularly to toughen up rich kids, contrasting them with happy middle-class friends.
- Tim's girlfriend invites him over after a wealthy friend's benefit at the Pierre hotel.
- The wealthy friend explains what the Pierre is, as if Tim wouldn't know, and he realizes it's a condescending moment.
- Tim argues that wealthy people's lives are actually cold and horrible, with no real stakes or feelings.
- The Southampton Bathing Corporation example: wealthy WASPs sitting on a tiny beach, now irrelevant as Arabs, Muslims, and Chinese run the world.
- All a wealthy woman has—beyond billions—is to go to a hotel and complain about it while reading books on a private beach.
- Rich people must be sociopaths and emotionless, or else the Chinese will win and America will collapse.
- Wealthy people can't have kids and raise taxes like normal people; nothing impresses them because everything they have is already great.
- Rich people are economic soldiers forced to suppress their emotions by the reality of their existence and their need to destroy competitors.
- Wealthy elites will always rise to the top in any system, but they need to be constrained so they don't destroy the entire world.
- The ultra-wealthy never want people to know about them or join their ranks; they're fascinated by their own isolation and secrecy.
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