Comments on: The Story of Rich People: A Christmas Tale

By: David

David — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:57:59 +0000

I wish I could lick a couple envelopes and ski for free. And/or my parents quite understood that a life lived for the fun of it is better than one lived chasing money. Instead we urban working people have to drive up to snobby-ass places like Blue Mountain and get sniggered by rich people and their awful children for daring to wear a normal winter jacket skiing. Fuck rich people.

By: TheloniousPunk

TheloniousPunk — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:32:13 +0000

Ignorance is not an excuse.

By: todd fadel

todd fadel — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:18:10 +0000

holy hocken-socks. that was brutal, M. just brutal.

Here’s to a new year that could potentially be better than that.

By: Kevin Erickson

Kevin Erickson — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:56:48 +0000

This is incredible.

By: freddy

freddy — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:09:45 +0000

This is the Most Regarding Story Ever. If only you could figure out how to include a diatribe against Gene Weingarten, and a dig against Sufjan Stevens, it would be complete.

By: james

james — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 03:43:23 +0000

Cool!!!
I want to go digging around rich peoples backyards now…
Imagine finding a house!!
Or an old trophy wife!!!

By: kerry

kerry — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:48:55 +0000

I love the image of the scavengers as much as the next guy, but what an icky story. How do these people live with themselves? I refuse to believe they don’t know how completely evil their lifestyles and attitudes are unless maybe they are blind and deaf or they never turn on their computer or television. I think they just DON’T CARE. They give no fuck. They’re trying to get rid of their money, spending to make themselves feel something, and they forget what they even bought like crazy hoarders who own fifty crockpots, because they HAVE TO SPEND THAT MONEY. They don’t want their exes to get it, they don’t want their shithead kids to have it, and god forbid their hard-earned dollars get wasted by some shill charity on something as banal as a vaccine or hospital. I think that’s why they do it.

Fuck these people in its ass forever and ever, amen.

By: Mike Merrill

Mike Merrill — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:13:33 +0000

The story is about the wasteful destruction at the hands of the rich. Clearly the rich can’t just light all their money on fire or they won’t be rich anymore. I would guess that in some way the sale of this place increased his pile of money (even if it was just no longer paying to keep the place stocked of elk jerky and champagne). If that’s true then it seems to add another element of awful that the destruction of so much value would in fact create value for someone.

By: bf

bf — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:54:20 +0000

point. missed?

By: Phil Elverum

Phil Elverum — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:43:25 +0000

“We are all trapped in our bubble of circumstances.”

good point.

The scavengers seem like the righteous ones (and pretty much are, and it’s triumphant to think about them driving away with at least a partial salvage) but it’s true that it’s important to remember that shit is FUCKED and it’s complicated and nobody’s perfect.

You are good at stories.