I keep bringing up jealousy because it’s so evident how pathetic your mindset is when it comes to other people.

You’re a failure. Not everyone who isn’t a failure is wealthy. Some of us are just normal people living normal lives. A normal middle class life is exactly what I’m fortunate enough to be living.

Still rambling on with jealousy eh? I feel good about myself surrounded by my loving family and friends. I don’t feel good about myself because I can afford a house and others can’t.

You are jealousy is preventing you from accepting reality. It’s also quite clearly what’s holding you back.

You’re so confused. You alternate between saying I’m trying to impress people and then I’m trying to deny it. I’m doing neither. I’m simply stating reality. A reality that you seem too dense to grasp and yes, you’re absolutely impoverished and when I say that I’m not talking about your bank account, I’m talking about your mental abilities.

I’m not telling on anything by being honest with you. I can’t afford a new car right now. In 2 or 3 years. I’ll have saved up enough to be able to afford one, but right now it’s simply not in my budget. I also can’t afford the kitchen renovation that I have planned. Can’t afford a lot of things that you seem to think the wealthy people can.

I can’t afford them because I’m a pretty firmly middle class household that can afford some of the nice things in life but not without working for them. Like the wealthy are able to. At no point am I downplaying my privilege. I’ve said a number of times even in these posts how fortunate that I am. That you think admitting to going on a vacation is gloating just reinforces your jealousy. We budget to be able to take a vacation. I read the other week that over 30% of Americans take multiple vacations per year. By you’re jealous framework, you’re claiming that they’re all wealthy, which is obviously an absurd thing to say or position to take. I’d chalk much of my fortune up to the fact that I’m not a moron with my money running around charging my life on a credit card, like the vast majority of people that you see around you today. I’m not benefiting from the exploitation of others any more than the manager at a McDonald’s is. I get paid for the work that I put out. I don’t get paid for other people’s work and I don’t get paid from real estate holdings or investments or any of the other wealth creating vehicles that the wealthy in our society utilize, if I had the ability to I certainly would but seeing as a middle class those avenues to earn are not available to me.

You’re accusing me of lacking critical thinking when you apparently don’t have the ability to think critically enough to budget your own life or to think critically enough to put yourself in a position where your paycheck will allow you to live the middle-class lifestyle that I happen to be able to live right now.

That you think my understanding my place in the social hierarchy is an attempt to make me look bad. Really demonstrates your lack of ability to think critically your poor emotional intelligence and your lack of overall social context… Which probably at least in part explains why you’re jealous of someone who’s living a middle-class lifestyle and probably why you’ll live in poverty for the rest of your sad life. Crabs in a bucket.

If I were wealthy I sincerely doubt I’d be driving my broken down Ford but you tell yourself whatever you gotta to alleviate your feelings of failure.

I’ve got a play structure on mine. There’s usually a half dozen kids on it daily.

It’s funny, my yard is essentially the community play ground. When I don’t maintain it, the clover gets destroyed and it turns into a mud pit the kids can’t play on really. Natural grasses didn’t stand a chance even after being given the time to establish.

I consulted with a landscape architect who I was partnered with on an elementary school I was building looking for what I could do naturally to keep the yard in tact while the kids played… this was a nationwide firm, on a LEED Gold project. Their answer? Grass. Rye grass, KBG and red fescue was the recommendation.

I nuked the lawn, soil and seeded it and two years later it’s held up wonderfully and is enjoyed by a handful of families.

I planted Milk weed for the pollinators. They don’t want most of the crap people plant trying to be Eco friendly anyways or so the landscape architect told me.

This anti lawn tirade is kinda anti-kid to a degree. When my kids are older and not using it every day, I’ll tear it all out and hardscape it. I don’t wanna maintain things for no purpose.

Nah man, redefining things doesn’t work at all. I’m not wealthy. I’m pretty firmly middle class based on just about every definition of middle class that’s available to any sociologist on this planet. People ignorantly seem to think that middle class is tied to your salary or household income which is not the case.

I’ve got no problem with people seeing me living the life that I live. I grew up in a twice broken bankrupted household and I’m pretty damn proud of what my partner and I have been able to achieve. I live a pretty comfortable middle-class life and I try to help uplift the people around me so they can do the same.

I look around me and I see people struggling to achieve the middle class lifestyle that I’m grateful that I have but the fact that parts of society are falling behind doesn’t by default make me wealthy. If I were wealthy I wouldn’t have a mortgage or a host of other things that are currently saddling me financially. The people who can be categorized as wealthy are those who don’t need to work for a living and whose capital sustains them.

You might not agree with me but that doesn’t change. The facts are reality surrounding our individual financial situations.

I’m happy to admit that I live the life that you described. For the most part. Big house and a desirable neighborhood. Couple of six-figure jobs. Couple of nice cars, at least one warm vacation every year and another one to visit family. Kids educations will be fully funded by the time they’re 18. Registered savings accounts are nearly maxed out and will be by the end of this year. The house I grew up in was a single parent home that went through bankruptcy when I was a young teenager, so I’m quite familiar with the other end of the spectrum and I’m putting plans in place to avoid ever ending up there… While still not thinking twice about picking up $1,000 dinner, tap while out with friends for a celebration. Balance as possible if you’re willing to sacrifice some of the shiny things that people seem to want these days.

I’m grateful for our fortunate position. When I look around I see people living lives quite a bit more extravagant than ours and I don’t quite understand it, but I’m more focused on building my family’s future. So I keep the blinders on and keep doing what seems to be working for us. I’d suggest more people do the same and that would involve spending less time on sites like this.

That’s not wealthy though. That’s maybe well to do or upper middle class.

Wealthy is your children not having a mortgage and also having a trust fund.

I know a guy who’s worth over 10 and probably closer to $50 million. He still lives in the same house that he did when he graduated university. He drives a 10-year-old car and his son who is one of my best friends drives the car that he had before that as a handme down.

Some people flaunt it. Some people build it quietly.

This gentleman that I know has bought both of his son’s houses cash so they have no mortgages. He owns a million dollar cottage on a beautiful Lake and another property on the panhandle in Florida. You would think that he’s on social security though if you just saw him bumbling about his yard.

That motherfucker for 800k for THAT performance last year? I’ve never seen a blow up like he oversaw…how the fuck does that get you a bonus?

I really don’t find the conversation any better, I think this place still needs to grow out of its echo chamber stage where it’s a niche place with few commenters or diversity of opinion. I recall Reddit in its early days, different but similar.

You sound jealous that you don’t matter. Must suck feeling that way.

You care enough to comment LoL. If your fee fees are hurt…tell someone who cares.

Your neighbor did right by their friend IMO. Hard thing to do but necessary sometimes :(

I stopped having sympathy during the Obama administration. When half of the country will willingly and intentionally fuck themselves over to prove a point, when a political party will reverse course on a life saving piece of legislation because the other side agreed to it, and those same people continue to get elected, it’s not worth my emotional energy to give a fuck anymore.

Y’all deserve what you have. It’s not good but it’s what you want.

I live in a city of about 3/4 of million people, just shy of it. Winnipeg Manitoba Canada.

I can walk to every one of those other than a university and sports arena (pro football or hockey, minor community center within ten), within twenty minutes. The movie theater is probably twenty away, everything else is accessible within 15 pretty easy.

It’s possible but you gotta get into one of those post war community type places that hasn’t been turned over yet…

You can be a Jew and not be welcomed, this is the point I’m making. With your behavior and clear disdain for the culture, you’re a drain on the community and aren’t welcome. Don’t agree, have your kids and wife at shul on Saturday while you are called to the bimah. I’ll gladly tune into the stream and have a nice laugh.

Your projection falls flat, you’ve proven yourself ignorant and dishonest.

I’d love to talk to your wife, she’s an even bigger loser than you are directly appropriating a religion that she’s not a part of. I’d have plenty to say to that sort of pos.

LMFAO, you think because you’re a Jew you’re kin of mine? Sheer arrogance and ignorance. Doesn’t mean you’re welcome, plenty of Jews end up exiled from their community for being pieces of shit. The kind who go around larp’ing as Jewish families fit that bill and your wife saying the prayers puts you firmly there.

You seem to misunderstand what constitutes a lie, which makes sense as you’ve been lying this entire thread and lying by appropriating Judaism and having your wife perform the mitzvot. Just top to bottom here.

You shall not deal falsely with others.

If only you’d adhered to that before culturally appropriating Judaism.

Seeing as your wife is the one reads the Torah in your house, maybe she can explain your hypocrisy there.

You’re not my kin, and your lying ass wouldn’t be welcomed in the tribe.

0/2… seriously, keep showing the world your ignorance. You’ve previously shown your ignorance wrt to the rabbinical stature in the community, now you’re mistakenly quoting passages LMFAO. Go find a rabbi and get learned. Your ignorance is spiraling.