Reality star, billionaire, and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian managed to offend millions of women around the world with a single sentence. In a new interview with Variety magazine, she stated that she advises women to 'get off their a** and work' and that it seems to her that no one wants to work today. This advice might hold water if it weren’t coming from a billionaire who likely works a lot but was also born with a silver spoon in her mouth, accumulating millions at the expense of underpaid workers (nine workers have sued her family empire for unpaid overtime). Critics have described this as a classic example of 'richsplaining' or 'wealthsplaining' – terms used when a wealthy person without experience of poverty gives advice to the poor on how to get rich, practically blaming them for not having money.
Famous 'richplainers'
Although it is not exactly known who coined the term and when, it has gained traction on Twitter, where users employ it to criticize those who freely dispense advice and opinions while forgetting their own privileges. As reported by Pop Sugar, a 'wealthsplainer' is, for example, New York Democrat Fernando Cabrera, who once explained to an audience that it is harder to be rich than poor. He explained that the rich have greater responsibilities and thus more worries, and that they are wealthy because they handle pressure better. One of the richest women in the world with $30 billion in her account and heir to the Hancock mines, Gina Rinehart, stated that the poor should stop drinking, smoking, and being jealous, as this prevents them from earning a dime, while millionaire and author of the book How Rich People Think, Steve Siebold, believes that the biggest problem of the poor is that they do not know how to think like the rich.
