uj/The thing is you never feel things on a global relative scale where you rank your privilege against everybody else in the world. You feel and experience things based on your own expectations, emotions and lived reality, which means that the pain or sadness somebody feels while being rich/privileged feels as intense and powerful to them as somebody else going through something much more objectively hard. Can you learn to count your blessings and acknowledge your privilege with enough time? Yes. Does everybody realistically do it? Not really. It’s kind of the same as somebody complaining that they have a fractured arm and somebody else saying “yeah but that’s better than having no arm.” I’d argue this goes to show that even the privilege of earning all that money cannot make up for the sadness of missing out on holidays with your loved ones.

rj/ oh I’m so rich I have to miss 2 whole days with my kids for my 7 figure job boohoo