Branson down

[FishFright]

For those here not from the UK you may find the hatred for successful people surprising.

But here we are taught that the only people who deserve respect for their wealth are those who are born with it . Sad I know but knowing your place is important here.

 

[HMS_Dave]

For those here not from the UK you may find the hatred for successful people surprising.

But here we are taught that the only people who deserve respect for their wealth are those who are born with it . Sad I know but knowing your place is important here.

Well, he did successfully sue the NHS. So he has that success to his name.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

For those here not from the UK you may find the hatred for successful people surprising.

But here we are taught that the only people who deserve respect for their wealth are those who are born with it . Sad I know but knowing your place is important here.

I wasn’t taught that at all.

 

[mjr]

For those here not from the UK you may find the hatred for successful people surprising.

But here we are taught that the only people who deserve respect for their wealth are those who are born with it . Sad I know but knowing your place is important here.

It seriously is not much like that any more, but there is a dislike of people who succeed by shooting on others... and why not?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

really expensive 'floating' discs can 'chatter' and bash the pistons back in the calipers so need pumping up before they will work, I've known this to happen on motorbikes.

Oh shoot. The expensive ones sound like something to avoid. Sh!t design for sure.

Calipers for me

 

[Alex321]

For those here not from the UK you may find the hatred for successful people surprising.

But here we are taught that the only people who deserve respect for their wealth are those who are born with it . Sad I know but knowing your place is important here.

Who taught you that?

I've never heard that opinion or anything similar expressed before you just posted it.

 

[Drago]

Both brakes failing smacks of sabotage to me!

I wonder if there's someone who doesn't like him..

Surely everyone loves a man who models himself so closely on Colonel Sanders?

 

[FishFright]

Who taught you that?

I've never heard that opinion or anything similar expressed before you just posted it.

Really ?

 

[Alex321]

Really ?

Yes, really.

I can absolutely honestly and genuinely say I have never once that I recall heard or read anybody expressing the opinion that inherited wealth is somehow more deserving of respect than earned wealth. Until you just said it is something "we are taught".

 

[PaulSB]

For those here not from the UK you may find the hatred for successful people surprising.

But here we are taught that the only people who deserve respect for their wealth are those who are born with it . Sad I know but knowing your place is important here.

May I ask where "here" is?

 

[Drago]

May I ask where "here" is?

I suspect Windsor Castle.

 

[Venod]

But here we are taught that the only people who deserve respect for their wealth are those who are born with it

I don't recognise this teaching, its not a Yorkshire thing, "where there's muck there's brass" is a mantra I remember.

 

[Drago]

Inherited wealth in Yorkshire means grandpa passed away and left you his cloth cap and uneaten scotch egg.

 

[mjr]

Inherited wealth in Yorkshire means grandpa passed away and left you his cloth cap and uneaten scotch egg.

Uneaten? Luxury! When I were a lad, wealth meant...

 

[Badger_Boom]

For those here not from the UK you may find the hatred for successful people surprising.

But here we are taught that the only people who deserve respect for their wealth are those who are born with it . Sad I know but knowing your place is important here.

I sincerely hope that no-one is taught to 'respect' wealth from any source. Wasn't there something about love of money being the root of all evil?

I know a few sucessful people (perhaps not on a level with the Bransons and Bezos of the world) but they seem to manage to make plenty of dosh while still paying their taxes and looking after their staff, and even a few inherited types who also don't seem to be chinless a*ses.

Maybe if everyone steered clear of divisive generalisations and the world might be a better place.