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Am I a better person now that my income has increased?

Am I a better person now that my income has increased?

  • Yes, you did the right things to make that happen.

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  • Yes (other explanation)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    27
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My base annual income as of March 18, 2014 = $16,302
My wife's base income as of March 18, 2014 = $13,500

Total income = $29,802.00

My base annual income as of March 19, 2014 = $16,302
My wife's base income as of March 19, 2014 = $18,720
Additional source of income as of March 20, 2014 = $10,400

Total income = $45,422.

In the course of 2 days my household income jumped by $15,622.

How does this make me a better person than I was 2 days prior? I don't get it. My eligibility for many government benefits vanished. Does this make me a better person from a moral perspective? If so, what was I doing wrong before this happened? What was I doing right that caused this to happen? How did my character change just in the course of 2 days?

I voted for the third option but I know lots of people believe that scum bags have low incomes and good people have high incomes.

Perhaps this exercise will allow them the opportunity to explain their world view.
 
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Depends on how your income jumped up so dramatically in two days. For example, did you rob a bank?
 
All sorts of sarcastic answers come to mind but the real answer is that none of that changes who you are as a person.

I know that. I just think it's funny that some people never analyze their disdain for low income individuals.

There is no justification for hating the poor.
 
Depends on how your income jumped up so dramatically in two days. For example, did you rob a bank?

It is a 10 hour per week job that pays $200. I just extrapolated the total out over the course of a year. It wasn't a lump sum of $10,400. My wife got a raise by majority vote. She works for a non-profit organization that voted to raise her pay by $5,220 per year.
 
This all depends on the type of person you are. Do you judge people based on their income or morals? If it is income then I would say unless you are using it for a good cause, chances are the same person as before the increased income.
 
This all depends on the type of person you are. Do you judge people based on their income or morals? If it is income then I would say unless you are using it for a good cause, chances are the same person as before the increased income.

I see these increases in my income as good fortune. I don't see them as an improvement in my character.

If you look around some of these threads you will see people that think poor people are scum of the earth. I have a hard time respecting that mindset. I am using my personal situation to prove the ridiculousness of their arrogant line of thinking.
 
Due to that reply I would say the increases in your income are well deserved, and that with you attitude I am confused why you would question your character or morals. Poor people just like any group have been degraded by the select few who create and believe the stereotypes that are used to define every individual in the group.
 
Due to that reply I would say the increases in your income are well deserved, and that with you attitude I am confused why you would question your character or morals. Poor people just like any group have been degraded by the select few who create and believe the stereotypes that are used to define every individual in the group.

Lizzie, turtledude, cephus, miserveritis are a few of the people who think poor people are scum for the simple fact that their income is low.

I understand this thinking to some degree. It just doesn't account for the fact that a good economy can boost the income of "scum bags".
 
My base annual income as of March 18, 2014 = $16,302
My wife's base income as of March 18, 2014 = $13,500

Total income = $29,802.00

My base annual income as of March 19, 2014 = $16,302
My wife's base income as of March 19, 2014 = $18,720
Additional source of income as of March 20, 2014 = $10,400

Total income = $45,422.

In the course of 2 days my household income jumped by $15,622.

How does this make me a better person than I was 2 days prior? I don't get it. My eligibility for many government benefits vanished. Does this make me a better person from a moral perspective? If so, what was I doing wrong before this happened? What was I doing right that caused this to happen? How did my character change just in the course of 2 days?

I voted for the third option but I know lots of people believe that scum bags have low incomes and good people have high incomes.

Perhaps this exercise will allow them the opportunity to explain their world view.

If you were a douche bag when you earned less you will still be a douche bag when you are making more. Having more or less money doesn't make you a better person.
 
If you base liking or disliking someone on net worth, that's rather sad. So, never having met you in person and not knowing much about you at all, how can I say if you are a good or bad person?
What I think is happening is this. People read about others and their deeds (IRL) and pass judgment based on that, not their bank accounts. So if those with less behave in a way that makes them less likable, its their actions that are to blame, right? We are to judge based on character, are we not?
 
Why exactly is your base annual income so low? its like $7.84 an hour if you are working full time
 
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Your character hasn't changed but it's good that you're using less public services and paying more taxes.
 
Why exactly is your base annual income so low? its like $7.84 an hour if you are working full time

That's how much my boss pays me. Is it really that big of a mystery?

Fun fact: The minimum wage in the United States is $7.25 an hour. If a person works 20 hours per week that equals $7,540 per year. Yes, some people make $7,540 per year and even less.
 
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That's how much my boss pays me. Is it really that big of a mystery?

Actually yes it is. Even the "evil" Walmart starting pay is around $8 an hour with yearly raises, and most other unskilled jobs pay even higher.
 
Lizzie, turtledude, cephus, miserveritis are a few of the people who think poor people are scum for the simple fact that their income is low.

I understand this thinking to some degree. It just doesn't account for the fact that a good economy can boost the income of "scum bags".
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OK...here is a direct and honest answer.

Depends...where you a douchebag when you had lower income? Did you covet other peoples wealth, did you feel entitled to the success of other and were you filled with hatred and envy? Did you vent outrage at others due to your own sloth and weakness? Are you today a changed person? DO you repent of your past behaviors and strive to do better, not because you have more income but because recognize the error of your past and you are no longer an envious bitter angry hate filled little person (remember...assuming thats what you were to start)? Then the answer is...yes...today you are a better person, but NOT because of your increase in income. If not..and really this is just a pitiful attempt to slam others because you are still that same person...then...no...your income increase has done nothing and you personally havent changed a bit.
 
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Oh...and congrats on the deserved increases! Hope you do good things with it. Better today...better tomorrow.
 
My base annual income as of March 18, 2014 = $16,302
My wife's base income as of March 18, 2014 = $13,500

Total income = $29,802.00

My base annual income as of March 19, 2014 = $16,302
My wife's base income as of March 19, 2014 = $18,720
Additional source of income as of March 20, 2014 = $10,400

Total income = $45,422.

In the course of 2 days my household income jumped by $15,622.

How does this make me a better person than I was 2 days prior? I don't get it. My eligibility for many government benefits vanished. Does this make me a better person from a moral perspective? If so, what was I doing wrong before this happened? What was I doing right that caused this to happen? How did my character change just in the course of 2 days?

I voted for the third option but I know lots of people believe that scum bags have low incomes and good people have high incomes.

Perhaps this exercise will allow them the opportunity to explain their world view.

Unless you're making 100,000+ you shouldn't be allowed to even vote.
 
My base annual income as of March 18, 2014 = $16,302
My wife's base income as of March 18, 2014 = $13,500

Total income = $29,802.00

My base annual income as of March 19, 2014 = $16,302
My wife's base income as of March 19, 2014 = $18,720
Additional source of income as of March 20, 2014 = $10,400

Total income = $45,422.

In the course of 2 days my household income jumped by $15,622.

How does this make me a better person than I was 2 days prior? I don't get it. My eligibility for many government benefits vanished. Does this make me a better person from a moral perspective? If so, what was I doing wrong before this happened? What was I doing right that caused this to happen? How did my character change just in the course of 2 days?

I voted for the third option but I know lots of people believe that scum bags have low incomes and good people have high incomes.

Perhaps this exercise will allow them the opportunity to explain their world view.

Depends on how you earned the money. If you worked hard, then you deserved it. If you got it through other means of ill gotten gains, you're not better. Having more or less doesn't define your character.

We all want more income, it's what we'll do for it that matters. Most work for it, while some are fortunate or lucky, then there are those who gain it unethically. It also depends on what income means to you? Is it a source of security or merely an hedonistic, ego trip?

A lot of people equate success, strictly with effort, and that's just not the way it always is.
 
Unless you're making 100,000+ you shouldn't be allowed to even vote.
No...definitely not an income requirement. But...you know...basic requirements...like...a pulse, citizenship...etc... It WOULD be cool if we could determine if people actually knew who and what they were voting FOR, but then...why put a requirement on the citizenry that we dont place on congress?
 
My base annual income as of March 18, 2014 = $16,302
My wife's base income as of March 18, 2014 = $13,500

Total income = $29,802.00

My base annual income as of March 19, 2014 = $16,302
My wife's base income as of March 19, 2014 = $18,720
Additional source of income as of March 20, 2014 = $10,400

Total income = $45,422.

In the course of 2 days my household income jumped by $15,622.

How does this make me a better person than I was 2 days prior? I don't get it. My eligibility for many government benefits vanished. Does this make me a better person from a moral perspective? If so, what was I doing wrong before this happened? What was I doing right that caused this to happen? How did my character change just in the course of 2 days?

I voted for the third option but I know lots of people believe that scum bags have low incomes and good people have high incomes.

Perhaps this exercise will allow them the opportunity to explain their world view.




Your premise is inappropriate.

Money will make you neither a better person nor will it make you a worse person.

Who are the people you know that have told you this?
 
Increased assery correlates with increased income. I've watched it thousands of times. People start at low salary and are ok people, they get promoted and become a little convinced by their own publicity, promoted again they become egotistic smug pricks and the more money they get the more they generate inflated self worth and see everyone else's lack thereof. They lose any concept of doing anything decent. They do what is asked of them, take the money and are thoroughly nasty people who lie continually just in the course of any day.

They also become very, very boring company.
 
You are not forwarding any of that income my way, so no, IMO you are no better than you were previously. :2razz:
 
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