According to poor people, Dave don't know nothin'!Liberal_in_LA (30,941 posts)
Dave Ramsey's ignorant "Things rich people do" list
They don't speak their mind
Only 6 percent of wealthy people speak their minds while 69 percent of poor individuals say what they think.
They eat less junk food
70 percent of the wealthy eat less than 200 calories of junk food a day, and 97 percent of poor individuals eat more than 300 calories of junk food a day.
They gamble less
Just 23 percent of wealthy people gamble and 52 percent of poor people gamble.
They keep planners
About 81 percent of wealthy persons keep a to-do list and 19 percent of the poor keep planners.
They exercise
About 76 percent of the wealthy perform aerobic exercise about four days a week and 23 percent of poor people do the same.
They don't just read
About 63 percent of the wealthy listen to audio books while commuting to work and 5 percent of poor people do the same.
They make their children read
About 63 percent of the wealthy make their children read two or more non-fiction books a month and 3 percent of poor individuals do the same.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/slideshow/17-things-rich-people-do-74597/photo-5437614.php
What horrible things to learn! Those evil rich people and their daily lives! I didn't see kick a homeless person, so the list is evidently lacking in some basic DU facts. It's so simple that almost anyone could do it... If you like how somebody is living, ask them how they got there, study what they do in comparison to a poor person, learn from the mistakes of others so you aren't doomed to them over and over again.
renie408 (9,525 posts)
1. I don't think he gets it, does he?
Gee, Dave, do you think the rich do these things because they can afford to?
Yea! those books on CD from the library cost money! woah, wait...
el_bryanto (5,012 posts)
7. He has a show in which he gives financial advice.
Largely conservative financial advice - which, to be fair, in some cases makes sense. Get out of debt as best you can. Stay out of debt. Have a budget. That sort of thing.
The problem is that when you don't have anything you tend to live from crisis to crisis.
He also ignores the boots dilemma.
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.â€
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
Bryant
Bring on the unfairness argument! Why, it would be totally crazy to buy the cheap boots, save up the money for the expensive ones in the meantime and sell the cheap ones midway through their "lifecycle" INSANITY!!!
NuclearDem (5,278 posts)
5. They crash the world economy
At least 50%* of the ultra rich held jobs on Wall Street that led to crash of the US and world economies. 0% of poor individuals had that same responsibility.
*no I don't have stats to back that number up SHUTUP IM DOING A BIT
Those ultra rich bought houses they couldn't afford with balloon rates that were unsustainable on their fry cook salaries! It was all their fault!
Taitertots (5,884 posts)
12. Based on those figures. How many poor people do EVERYTHING he associates with wealth
But will never become rich no matter how hard they continue to work?
People who know they don't produce enough to justify their wealth have to invent pseudo moralistic justifications to themselves. "I'm rich because I do X,Y, and Z"
Nope, it's all a rigged game. Saving and making good financial decisions is a fool's errand. Better to just sit in a puddle of your own filth and complain about what the other guy is doing, that way we'll have an assured outcome.
