Isn't that Rich?

Can we finally put to rest the notion that rich people are somehow smarter than the rest of us? More capable? Better?

I'd argue that it's the exact opposite and I think our current co-president situation in the United States is all you need to show that to be true.

Both Elon and Donald are children of rich parents. They've never actually had to worry about failing a day in their lives. Everytime they did something that didn't work out they got bailed out. They both started their business careers with giant handouts from Dear Old Daddy and collected more as needed.

They have never worried about what happens when you fail because they've never really experienced it. Not really.

Donald has had multiple bankruptcies, but aren't those really bail outs not failures? It's a way of recouping his losses, or walking away from them, with the opportunity to lose again.

Elon's cars and spaceships blow up. But he's still a multi billionaire. Failure just isn't a real thing to him either.

Because we (collective we) somehow think if you are rich you are better, smarter, more deserving, and we keep giving you chances. Government contracts. Election wins.

And then you are free to grift away and gain even more money while the slack jawed dolts around you say, "See? He's so smart."

No. No he isn't. Neither one of them is. They just have never feared failing so they keep breaking things and we keep paying the price.

Toddlers. They are arrested development toddlers.

The tech bros who didn't start out rich, or at least not as rich, many of them were children of means as well, reach a certain point where their brains turn off and they stop considering the rest of the world and only consider how to get more. They regress.

And even if they are incredible gifted in one area that doesn't always, or even often, translate to others. You can be a brilliant mathematician and a lousy practical engineer.

I'm a gifted storyteller. Even right now where it's hard to get my fiction brain to take over, I know I could write you a story based on a prompt in about an hour. It's a thing I can do. I'm good with words. Like that. Telling a story. But I am not the person to ask about grammar. I have no idea what goes where in a sentence or how many are too many adverbs. Being smart or talented in one area does not mean it translates to any other.

So as Elon and the Incels dismantle our entire government and people start dying because of it can we just for once fucking admit it's because being rich does not make you qualified to do anything else. As Trump insists over and over that tariffs are paid by the other guy instead of you AS YOU PAY INCREASED PRICES can we just admit that having a lot of money doesn't mean you have any sense. (yeah, I did it and I'm not even sorry)

Being rich is just that. Being rich.

If you aren't smart enough to see that you have too much money and should be doing good in the world for those with not enough money then you are just showing your ass and I don't care how expensive your underwear is...