• slappyfuck@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Financial obesity makes it seem like it’s the same as being fat, which doesn’t make sense because being fat is not a specific problem in the same way that being rich is.

    I’m sure you just mean it like “fat cat” but it’s a bizarre way to phrase it since it isn’t a good analogy.

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      21 hours ago

      I think it’s just meant as a way to reverse the usual assumption that it’s a desirable state, it puts it in terms that imply you have too much and it’s not good for you.

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        7 hours ago

        That’s why I’m objecting. Being fat isn’t a problem; it’s everything that can go along with it, like diabetes and so on. But being rich IS a problem. It’s kind of like saying “financial whiteness”.