Comments on: Breaking News!: Rich People Are Lame

By: shreder

shreder — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:08:01 +0000

Luv the articles, shows the true nature of these so called rich Philathorpists…

By: shitbag

shitbag — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:36:46 +0000

my apologies. i’m a fan of this site, if you ever need a guest feature on how to get blackout drunk eight nights a week without spending more than $5 a night, i’m your guy. love you.

By: jennyegee

jennyegee — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:07:52 +0000

Great article indeed. I just can’t believe that you guys really think Gwyneth writes for her own website. Please. She’s too busy with her long yoga classes, lunches with friends and frivolous shopping sprees to WRITE. Plus, I refuse to believe for a moment that she knows how to string together more than 6 words to construct an actual sentence with any meaning behind it. Or that she knows how to type. No, she pays her minions $25k per year to do that for her.

By: Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:41:51 +0000

@Shitbag

I’m afraid you’re still horribly missing the point. There is no such thing as “selling out” except in a case where you espouse one believe and completely change it for monetary gain. Or unless your Dennis Miller. People who make money doing what they love and are passionate about, aren’t sell outs, they’re fucking awesome. My dream in life is to make a living doing something that I love. You’re boss is doing something righteous and he’s made a lot of money doing it. That is fantastic!

The thing that you’re missing is that in this piece, Ashley’s obviously not saying that every rich person in the world is awful. What she’s saying is awful is that, for the people at this party she crashed, doing good things is a form of keeping up with the Joneses. She’s saying that everyone is so focused on how much everyone else is spending that they lose touch with what the event is actually about.

There’s nothing wrong with being rich but there is something wrong with living a life that is overly excessive.

By: Ashley Friedman - Cornerstore Correspondent

Ashley Friedman - Cornerstore Correspondent — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:38:44 +0000

JC: just for your edification,this wasn’t a party at someone’s home it was an event at a large event venue.
In addition, paying for drinks was not permitted as it was an open bar which the attendees had paid for in their ticket price. Bartenders were not even permitted to take tips. So yes, I guess I should write Russell Simmons a check for the $30 of vodka that I consumed. Thanks for reading!

By: J.C.

J.C. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:54:12 +0000

@BAS
I guess you’re right. Thanksgiving was about crashing a party for free booze and food. Except in the case of Thanksgiving the party wasn’t thrown by the insanely rich, and later we subjected them to genocide. So albeit smug, Ashley’s party crashing was far more noble in comparison. We should declare it a public holiday.

By: shitbag

shitbag — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:29:58 +0000

just to further instill my point, my boss was one of the doctors on the team that discovered the first case of aids in the united states. after watching all of his friends drop dead one by one, he thought there has to be an answer and to this day leads the most progressive hiv studies in the united states, and he’s the reason millions of people are not dying as you’re reading this message. so if you’re point is that people are sell outs because they make money and you’re passionate because you find people deals on drinks, i can’t say i get it. i’m sorry to be such a shitbag, and i’m not being sarcastic. i just really don’t think you have it figured out.

By: Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:45:31 +0000

@J.C.
We here at BAS HQ wholeheartedly endorse crashing parties for free food and drinks. It’s an American tradition that’s deeply ingrained in our culture. What the hell do you think the first Thanksgiving was all about?

By: Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:42:22 +0000

@shitbag
Don’t be such a shitbag. It’s obvious that some multimillionaire isn’t gonna be donating money to the site. The idea of trying to solicit money from a reader who’s handle is “shitbag” is not exactly the way I would go about getting start-up money or heavy donations for a website. Know what I’m saying?

But more to the point, there is nothing wrong with making money doing something that you love and that other people find useful. Would I like to be rich? Sure, who wouldn’t. Is my life worse because I’m not? Absolutely not! My life is blessed in innumerable ways.

The thing is, any schmuck who puts their mind to it can get and MBA and make a ton of money by working 80 hours a week doing something empty, shallow and unfulfilling. But I’d rather do this thing that I’m doing and live the life that I want. If one day it makes me rich, that’s fantastic. If not, well at least I’m happy and taking the world on my own terms.

Damn man, don’t take everything so seriously. And if that guys does wanna donate after all, please let me know

By: J.C.

J.C. — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:19:22 +0000

Gosh, you’re right Ashley. Rich people do suck. I’m sure when a new well and health clinic is being built in some backwater Latin American village, the people will be much more grateful to you for being able to relate to their stifling poverty and suffering vis-a-vis your student loans then they will be to those rich pricks who so selfishly donated their money to the cause.

Speaking of “smug”, did it not occur to you how smug this post sounds? You snuck into someone’s house, drank their alcohol, and then you sat their and judged them while they donated to charity. On top of that you pondered aloud why they should donate to you (over impoverished people in the third world no less) and you didn’t donate anything yourself. If you hoped to retain any sort of moral high ground (which you bewilderingly believe that you have), you should have at least insisted on paying for your drinks.