Charging Through Life

I'm not typically one to make grand generalizations about a group or class of people but I'm confident in my statement that rich people are stupid.

And it goes beyond vehicular incompetence. I can't name one high-level VP or executive at my company who knows how to put together a Power Point presentation. Just today I posted two videos online for our CEO to review at home. I sent a link to one of the pages. It contained the video and a simple text link at the top of a very simple page to go to the other video he needed to review. Clearly labeled, nothing fancy or complex, it was a simple black page with a white text link saying the title of the next video. Click and Load nothing fancy or complicated. But could he be bothered with such simplistic details? Something so intuitive a 5-year-old would understand? No. I'm talking about a dude here worth millions. And he's not some stogy old bank CEO mother fucker who's as old as dirt, either. I'm talking about a young, hard-working CEO who's put together a vast business and who is fairly plugged-in. A young(er), rich mother fucker who should be able to point-and-click.

Now I know what you are thinking. "Sam, you're a natural tech-geek, this sorta stuff comes naturally to you. And there are things that come natural to these folks that you wouldn't consider knowing." Blah. Blah. Blah. This is my blog, not theirs, so I'm going to make whatever grandiose and over-the-top statements I want such as, "How hard could it be to sit and tell people what to do all day? I could do their job in a heart-beat!"

OK. I'm being silly.

Growing up a gay boy in Indiana, I'm no stranger to prejudice. I'm a fairly forgiving and understanding person who's able to allow for cultural and sociological differences in others as I always hope others' will extend the same courtesy to me being the raging fudge packer that I am. But when I notice only bad drivers are in expensive cars, or that high-paid executives just can't be bothered with the most simplistic tasks, I can't help but wonder if I'm prejudice against the rich?

I mean, I really am beginning to believe that the more money you have = the less common since you have. Though I can NOT stand by the opposite of my statement and suggest that pore people are smart - not in the least (reference: any gay-basher or rally against universal healthcare). But I can say with certainty that some of the most intelligent people I've ever known are not at all rich. They're usually old dudes from the mid-west who know how to fix damn near everything, understand human nature and why people do what they do, and they can have an informed conversation about politics with their own down-home spin on the topic. Some real "salt-of-the-earth" farts, you know.

It's this sorta' common since that I think is lost on people who aren't concerned with money or work or the likes. It's as though the more life gives you, the less street-smarts is required of you. And it's that 'common knowledge' (which is not so common) which I value in others far more than having book-smarts.

So I'm just saying... don't become rich, people. It will dumb you down.