How can you tell if someone is kind? Ask how rich they are
I&#x27;ve tried being generous (and still donate, probably more than all my coworkers together), and I still get pissed upon by leftists. Talk about empathy.<p>I live in France, my parents weren&#x27;t even <i>that</i> rich, but we strive to work hard. Being motivated by good marks at school makes you bullied because you&#x27;re a krelboyne. At work, as soon as colleagues learn you&#x27;ve been to a private high school and top college (both of which cost &lt;$100&#x2F;month and have active policies for lower income families), people come up to you and explain all the reasons why students from good schools aren&#x27;t so good at work (&quot;They don&#x27;t have the grit&quot;, they say, &quot;They aren&#x27;t street-smart&quot; – Happened to me 4 days ago again). A lot of citizen in France think it&#x27;s fine to be jealous to someone because he was good at school, comes from a good background or is Christian. It would be ok if there weren&#x27;t actual discrimination from people who want to offset the supposedly &quot;easy life&quot; you&#x27;ve had: The boss who bullied me in plain sight of everyone also was the only boss who had a shorter degree than I had.<p>I&#x27;ve donated <i>thousands</i> to charities. I&#x27;ve volunteered for immigrants, kids of immigrants, I&#x27;ve volunteered in detention centers, I&#x27;ve volunteered in free events aimed at lower-income families, and with a team we went to help an orphanage abroad. I&#x27;ve given more than a thousand hours of volunteering in 5 years, in parallel to my studies and work. I never expected a &quot;thank you&quot;. But a little consideration and respect from the leftists would do. But my life is still considered like a result of sheer luck, not a result of my hard work.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t the poor: They do need help. The problem is the leftists who give lessons. There&#x27;s a non-stop <i>cliche</i> that, since you&#x27;re rich, you&#x27;re an asshole. Even if you are generous and litteraly more generous than them, they won&#x27;t stop the hate. This article is one of them, generalizing about &quot;riches are assholes&quot;.<p>All in all, living in France, taxes are supposed to provide support for the poor. I&#x27;m tempted to leave it at that and stop donating, because I need to focus on my life now (no gf, no kids yet). But somehow I keep donating.