Why your rich friend Venmo requests you for $4: People with more money 'struggle with generosity,' expert says

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Why your rich friend Venmo requests you for $4: People with more money 'struggle with generosity,' expert says
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You've learned that it's a cry for help. What you choose to do with it is up to you.

But I was responding to someone claiming this was just shitty behavior, and suggesting it makes them a bad person. I was addressing this. It's quite presumptuous to turn that into me not caring about what happened in some hypothetical situation that you just posed to me right now.

But the point we're making is it's not a cry for help it's pushing their emotional problems on someone else in a physical form while refusing to take on board other people's emotional problems caused by their poorer economic position.

'Beating my wife is actualy a cry for help, pity me!' No you're an awful person objectively in the wrong.

Just writing an article about how hard done by you are doesn't change the reality you're in the better position in every regard and pushing your issues onto your friends is not the action of an actual friend. Suck it up or use money on therapy.