Life styles of the rich and richer

antrim | anti-capitalism | opinion/analysis

Wednesday October 19, 2005 22:34

by banker

If you live in south belfast, you might as well be living in a totally different country, to the rest of belfast.

If you live in south belfast, your experience of belfast, would be totally different to that of people who live, in the new lodge, lower north belfast, shankill and the Falls.

What makes south belfast different is its oppulence and wealth, with numerous upmarket trendy cafes, and posh supermarkets like sainsburys and m&s, to cater for the idle, stress free lifestyle of the insular rich.

Why is it the rich get everything given to them, even when they don't need it, cause they're already rich. Costcutting supermarkets like Sainsburys which sells cheap organic food is located in the heart of middle/upper class south belfast.

The rich who can afford to pay more for their food, in reality get to pay less, for cheap organic food,whilst everyone else must make do with processed food from lidl, tescos and iceland.

Asda one of the cheapest supermarkets for food and clothes will be locating its store in upmarket surburban Bangor, so once again the rich get to pay less for their groceries and basic goods.

Taking a closer look at the lifestyles of rich professionals who live in south belfast, we see these people are already living the insular , disassociated capitalist american dream. The insulated rich devoid of community spirit, living their highly competitive, empty, insular lives, take their social cues and social values from sky news, this morning and from american teeny bopper soaps which reinforce individualistic competitive, capitalist angst.

The inward looking nuclear capitalist family sees their neighbours/other families not as friends but as rivals, with whom they must compete for clothes, school places and social status. So there is much trivial bitterness, if Mrs jones has the most up to date sofas etc. It is heart warming to see rich bastards fighting each other,over neighbourhood boundaries etc.

Even though the rich are so nasty, amoral and weird, they actually believe they are morally superior to people who live in the New lodge, shankill etc

It is sad to see working class people from poor areas aspiring to copy the competitiveness, snobbiness, coldness, and false nicities of the rich, the middle class and the SDLP.