Secret club stuff

newmeadow wrote: »

777Gemma888 wrote: »

If I had to be part of a secret club, I would join one requiring specific networth. I don't have time for people who don't like money, don't want to make money, don't know what it takes to make money and don't have money

If ten people to the left and right of me reflect my dedication to my goals (making more money), low networth individuals would be counter productive to my secret club ideals.

Gemma, although I'm not in your socio-economic bracket and not even close to it, I would agree with you that when it comes to close relationship and private conversation I do think that people in the same bracket are most compatible. I don't begrudge the affluent for wanting to stick with their own kind. I also prefer my own - hanging with the working class who are on the lower end of the wage scale. There's a camaraderie and an intrinsic understanding that is very appealing to me. They don't invite me to shin digs and trips I can't afford to take and I return the favor. We hang in front of the TV, chat at the kitchen table, go to a diner once in a while, take a drive or a walk by the ocean or in the woods or go to free/very reasonably priced events.

My American experience has garnered friendships with people of high networth, who built their own wealth from ground up. Skid row, the foster care system, single mom homes, shunning from a Mennonite community, a Gypsy, a retired IDF who was given the storeroom basement of his uncle's shop in NY to rent and live in, male model/stripper to support himself after his stepfather cast him out, reared by an older college student sister because their grandmother was really too weak to handle a young sprite of a child... Our HARD journeys in our mid to late teens were sources of discovery for us all, as we parled in our adult-friendships, ferreting that privilege in our 'now' lives was gained the hard knocks way. Charmed friendships which are instantaneous. We just click, and I believe that our fractured teen years of struggles without the surety of family and community, created our knack of being family, as a result of our commonalities - networth + self-nurturing + self-directed. The drive stemming from the fear of nothing and lack - our starting points were beneath working class Americans, in America. Our friendships are seemingly exclusionary, only that we're not. We're the results of what were the cast outs survival story. We only know toiling, in order to have. The hustle ' on the daily.'

Strangely, I had formed friendships first, then discovered later on exactly what my friends were worth. We all found each other doing very normal activities, nothing hoity toity. Lol. Even my online friends are outliers within their own industries too ... 💚 eg. We share a common friend in @bojack5, who just so happens to be the embodiment of an Omega-male, a 1% (minority) of the 1%ers in America, a quiet intellect, is absolutely gorgeous - fit all year round & aesthetically a 10 and has the empathy meter many would envy, with the ability to make a difference .

If the realms of a ' secret club' was in the offing, then I would assume that it offers me something to help me keep my priorities in focus... Bills need to be paid. I have financial goals ... I would much prefer to not struggle in order to attain them. I have dreams which I would like realised,

newmeadow wrote: »

So yeah, online I like talking to all walks of life but in real life I'm comfortable with people who are similar to me in these ways.

This secret cyber group though, mentioned in this thread, I'm pretty sure is a gossip/ridicule group although they may get close to each other and segue into talking about other things - I don't know.

I am fairly certain such groups exist @newmeadow, within the caverns of MFP. Reading their gossipy repartes would be entertaining that's for certain. Question is, who exactly are they allegedly ridiculing, if we are all just passing avatars? My query upon reading about these groups always is, how do the members know, whether the lead gossip has credible information? Why are they so roused by members who may not even know they exist or know them in person? Information passed are really just fabricated bards with purposeful doxxing, are they not? These group members likely need it to improve their days +/-