Why rich idiots invariably get away with anything …
Disclaimer - not all rich people are idiots, just as not all idiots are rich.
Rant to follow:
Every Christmas for the last few years, I have put together and sold a calendar of my images of Dartmoor.
The 2022 Calendar
Feel free to get in touch if you’d like to go on the list for a 2023 Calendar 😍
Generally it has been well received (though many comments of the ilk “If it had some ponies in it, I might have bought a copy” leave me having to grin inanely at people whilst wondering how they possibly manage day to day tasks 😜 )
I tend to promote the calendar at local fairs and markets as well as on my Facebook, other social media pages and my website.
I ship the calendars all over the world (to people who have visited Dartmoor, who once lived here, or just have an affinity with moody photographs of moorland).
I also have many orders from people locally … some I deliver by hand and those I have to post are sent out as soon as possible in one of those standard brown, cardboard backed A4 envelopes.
Six days after sending a calendar out to an address in Devon, I received a message from the recipient …
We shall ignore the fact that we’re all supposed to be cutting down on our plastics use.
Now, having worked in a customer facing environment on several occasions in my wildly exciting past, this is a classic “win/win” situation for the complainant … I didn’t respond, I just refunded them the money they had paid.
I did not send them another calendar.
Now, here’s the important part.
They were obviously looking for another ‘free’ calendar and even if I was to ignore that it’s hardly my fault that they were lucky enough to live in a property that is large enough to require an outside mail box (and) that the functionality of said box is completely their responsibility or the manufacturer who supplied it (and at a stretch the responsibility of Royal Mail for not delivering to a door mounted letter box).
Posh Post Box
Created by Dall-e an AI Artist 😁
“… not entirely your fault …”
No, not my fault at all you conceited jackass!
The cost in time of arguing with this sort of complaint isn’t worth the effort - the complainant knows this.
The rise of online selling and the reviews that people can leave means the lose of a calendar, envelope and postage at cost is far outweighed by the effort involved in either arguing with this numpty, or maybe having to dispute a negative review on Google or Facebook.
The complainant knows all this, and do you know why they know this works?
Because they are rich.
Because they are entitled.
Because they are not held accountable (and even when they ever are, their inherent arrogance and the actual cost of debating inherent arrogance … either in financial or terms of time wasted means they will always win).
In this instance, after spending way too much time considering my options, I conceded that giving them their money back was the smallest loss I could make.
A win for an asshole.
I have obviously obscured the identity of the person involved (and I surely hope they, or people who know them, see this; as … even if everything they have said is 100% true AND they actually see nothing wrong with this sort of attitude … it really just makes my point for me!)
I can’t help thinking this is the situation throughout the country and certainly rife in our government.
Entitlement and arrogance.
Another Dall-e Creation
Try it yourself here Dall-e
… they were complaining about an item which makes me a decent profit, but which requires a great deal of preparation and a huge amount of ‘extra’ work for me. Work which tends to go unnoticed.
These people are ‘entitled’ they are selfish and they are actually the real reason this country will never be ‘Great’ again* (which is notably ironic considering that is the sort of rhetoric these fools spout to support their place in the world), they live on the coattails of ancestors who ‘may’ have actually done something notable (or more likely just killed, subjugated, groomed or kissed the butt of the ‘right’ people at the ‘right’ time whilst forever greasing the wheels of a system which supports and promotes inherited wealth).
“A baroque painting of an arrogant rich man”
Created by an AI artist - can you tell I’ve had fun playing with this?
Who needs a photographer any more?
Not me 😂
* I don’t actually subscribe to this way of thinking, jingoism and misinformed patriotism are a terrible way to think about your country.
The sycophantic nature of those who laud the ‘achievements’ of people who have inherited wealth or done absolutely nothing other than be born in order to be rewarded with title and privilege.
So, here’s the thing, this might seem like a trivial and inconsequential diatribe that does no more than highlight my dislike for wealthy, conceited, self important morons.
I also dislike the way our system rewards ambivalence, and a predisposition to ignoring morals.
It is not; this is why we have a country run by people who abuse our trust and act as though they are above the law. Or, indeed change the law when it suits them.
When you stand in support of anybody (least of all a politician) don’t try to obfuscate your own conscience to excuse somebody you fundamentally agree with, ask yourself would you trust this person with your child, or your elderly mother.
Just because our political system is flawed (almost beyond redemption) should not allow us to fall back on the over simplification of “Yeah … but”
These people are all the same.
They care about nobody but themselves and they will always want a free calendar.
They invariably get away with anything because we let them.