Results: We have just had a Federal Budget in Canada, from a government led by a former Governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England. Chances are, the poor will get poorer and the rich richer, yet the government will promise the opposite.
The Canadian Prime Minister is a likeable fellow and always seems to be in a good mood. Why wouldn't he be when he will never have to worry about most of the things that give the rest of us sleepless nights. I have had years with 6 figure incomes but most working years, I had a lot less. I have never "felt or thought" the way wealthy people do. Here are some examples of the wealthy person mindset that almost make me glad I'm not a millionaire.
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1.
For HIGH SCHOOL graduation, a young chap got a brand new Porsche, got drunk, did a lot of coke, and totaled the Porsche. When asked why he did it, he said he never asked for a car. He'd asked for new drums. When told he could have sold the car and bought drums, he said "Then how would my parents learn not to disappoint me?" Who is the bigger disappointment - the parents or their son?
The parents
8%
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147 votes
The son
30%
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562 votes
Both in equal measure
52%
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989 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
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46 votes
How did this story make you feel - comment below?
11%
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206 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 1.83% | 32 | |
| N/A | 0.23% | 4 |
| na | 0.17% | 3 |
| Don t care | 0.06% | 1 |
| Batman | 0.06% | 1 |
| Carney is not a likeable fellow.& | 0.06% | 1 |
| unsure | 0.06% | 1 |
| you do not have to be rich for that to happen to you. | 0.06% | 1 |
| Not applicable | 0.06% | 1 |
| Spoiled brat needs to have everything taken away from him | 0.06% | 1 |
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2.
I got a job in a bank based on my good grades. A coworker got his job in the bank because his father was a bank customer. Towards the end of one month I mentioned I was struggling to come up with the rent for my apartment . His response -"How could your family accountant let that happen?'" Who do you think the bank favored for promotion?
The one with the brains/qualifications and the desire to work hard to get ahead (me at that moment).
22%
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415 votes
The one who had never had to manage his own money and who had never had to work hard for anything.
36%
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681 votes
Another staff member simply because he had been there longer.
17%
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322 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
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23 votes
Not Applicable
29%
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543 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.83% | 12 | |
| do not know | 0.07% | 1 |
| Easy to cynically pick No. 2. But not enough detail. | 0.07% | 1 |
| Carney is not a likable fellow. | 0.07% | 1 |
| The newcomer immigrant | 0.07% | 1 |
| The outsourced low-wage worker in an emerging country | 0.07% | 1 |
| He must not be too rich if he has to work at the same bank, he holds his financial future in. | 0.07% | 1 |
| Whoever the panel chose based on their criteria. | 0.07% | 1 |
| the DEI hire | 0.07% | 1 |
| Not sure | 0.07% | 1 |
| Need more information | 0.07% | 1 |
| Who was the biggest voter? | 0.07% | 1 |
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3.
My brother married someone from a wealthy family. At a family gathering she and my fiancee (now wife) were washing a few dishes and she noticed my fiancee taking her engagement ring off in case the (tiny) diamond got lost. Lady Muck said, "If it is a good quality ring with a good stone, you don't have to take it off." A couple of years later my brother had his back yard dug up to expose the pipes into which my sister in law's diamond had traveled from the kitchen. I don't know if they ever found it. My wife still has her ring with diamond intact. Do you take off your rings and/or other jewellery to do chores?
Whatever jewellery I am wearing I leave on.
25%
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469 votes
I don't wear any, so nothing to take off
33%
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635 votes
I don't do chores - the staff does them.
5%
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89 votes
Other (please specify)
5%
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92 votes
Not Applicable
34%
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637 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 1.48% | 19 | |
| Yes | 0.93% | 12 |
| Sometimes | 0.23% | 3 |
| I take them off | 0.16% | 2 |
| Yes, I take it off. | 0.08% | 1 |
| I take my rings off | 0.08% | 1 |
| depends on what I'm doing. | 0.08% | 1 |
| yes I do | 0.08% | 1 |
| When baking or showering I do take my jewelry off | 0.08% | 1 |
| I take it off if it can get lost somehow | 0.08% | 1 |
| I do | 0.08% | 1 |
| I do not have a diamond just a gold ring and I never take it off | 0.08% | 1 |
| Yes take off | 0.08% | 1 |
| Depends on the chore. If I am making meatballs, I use my hands so take them off. To do dishes, no. | 0.08% | 1 |
| I don't do any work with my jewelry on. | 0.08% | 1 |
| It depends on the chores. I wear rubber gloves I lot and don't remove my wedding ring. | 0.08% | 1 |
| yes i take of my rings while doing chores | 0.08% | 1 |
| I try to remember to take them off but often forget | 0.08% | 1 |
| Yes, if I am wearing my rings | 0.08% | 1 |
| I take off my rings. | 0.08% | 1 |
| I don't have rings with stones on but I talk | 0.08% | 1 |
| Yes I take my jewellery off when doing chores. | 0.08% | 1 |
| sometimes, depends on how swollen my fingers were. | 0.08% | 1 |
| Sometimes I do sometimes I dont | 0.08% | 1 |
| I take it off. | 0.08% | 1 |
| depending n the job | 0.08% | 1 |
| Depends on what chore I'm doing | 0.08% | 1 |
| Yes - this should have been an option. | 0.08% | 1 |
| Why will someone ruin excellent jewelery- money is not trash in these circumstances! | 0.08% | 1 |
| I don't own any rings | 0.08% | 1 |
| Depends on the job. Dishes? probably not. Scrubbing the bathroom? yes. | 0.08% | 1 |
| depends on the job | 0.08% | 1 |
| take ff | 0.08% | 1 |
| I cannot remove my wedding rings now, due to injuries, but before, I always took them off. | 0.08% | 1 |
| Depends on what I am doing | 0.08% | 1 |
| If I m wearing jewelry I take it off. | 0.08% | 1 |
| Yes it comes off | 0.08% | 1 |
| yes, I take the jewelry off to do chores | 0.08% | 1 |
| Take off | 0.08% | 1 |
| I don't wear jewelry when doing chores | 0.08% | 1 |
| TAKE IT OFF | 0.08% | 1 |
| I don't wear my rings unless I am going out, or having people over. I used to take off my wedding rings when gardening, doing dishes, and some other household chores/ | 0.08% | 1 |
| Take them off | 0.08% | 1 |
| Whenever my hands will be in water. | 0.08% | 1 |
| Take off always | 0.08% | 1 |
| Depends on what the chores are | 0.08% | 1 |
| I have never taken my wedding ring off, and we've been married 19 years! | 0.08% | 1 |
| Yes I take my rings off. | 0.08% | 1 |
| I take off rings and other jewelry at home. | 0.08% | 1 |
| I have had my ring off for years. It needs some repairs and I can t afford it | 0.08% | 1 |
| Only wear a wedding band and it comes off when I work out | 0.08% | 1 |
| I always take off my 5 carat plus diamond (for real) and other rings when I have to wash crystal glasses, so that the diamonds do not scratch the crystal glass. | 0.08% | 1 |
| Of course.I'm going to take off expensive jewelry while doing chores.I'm not an idiot | 0.08% | 1 |
| I always take mine off when doing chores. | 0.08% | 1 |
| I take off my engagment ring when I am baking and my hands are going into raw dough for things like yeast breads. | 0.08% | 1 |
| I take off my wedding ring, the only jewelry I normally wear. | 0.08% | 1 |
| I take of jewelry when doing chores | 0.08% | 1 |
| yes I do take off so I don't expose to chemicals that may eat the finish | 0.08% | 1 |
| My bands stay on, but the rings with larger stones come off for practical reasons. | 0.08% | 1 |
| Safe place | 0.08% | 1 |
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