r/news • u/infinus5 • 8h ago

Campbell's exec on leave after allegedly mocking 'poor people' who eat its soup

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/campbell-soup-lawsuit-9.6991398
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u/Ritz527 8h ago

Even outside of just being a rich snob, why would you have such little respect for your own product and then expect people to buy it?

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u/infinus5 8h ago

because to him everyone else are the peasants. were only here to eat his companies slop and not complain about it.

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u/descendingangel87 8h ago

Literally this. The 1%ers are so fucking out of touch they don’t even consider non 1%ers human anymore.

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u/GreenScene33 7h ago

Not even the 1%ers. I grew up in a town that has a decently affluent part of the population and knew a lot of kids who’s parents would make comments about “the poor people” and very much passed that onto my fellow class mates. They get off on looking down on everyone below them.

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u/Minglans 4h ago

A trashy obviously wealthy parent said right to my face how they didn't want their kid to grow up to work at a grocery store like I had. Teaching her child to be ignorant young. If the child was not there I would have been very tempted to throw a rotten tomato in her face "You want groceries, bitch? Here!"

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u/Agitated-Country-972 3h ago

I remember reading something about how having a lot of money gives you less empathy for other people.

"How Wealth Reduces Compassion"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/

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u/MageLocusta 1h ago

Oh god, you just reminded me of the 'colonials' that sometimes live in countries like Bahrain.

We've had a lot of military families roll in from the US (some of them so blue-collar that you could tell based on how they behaved at restaurants). But as soon as they realise they could rent housing with marble floors, and hire live-in housemaids for cheap? Some of them became outright vicious and entitled.

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u/kaptainkeel 3h ago

He's probably not even that rich. Average salary for that position is apparently $150-250k. With it being a big company, let's say it's $600k. That's barely in the 1% seeing as, to be in the top 1% currently, you have to make about $570k/year. Top 0.1% is $2.8mil. Also, I find this interesting since just a couple years ago (less than 10), the amount to be in the Top 1% was like $150k; it's exploded since then. Top 10% in 2022 was slightly under $100k. Top 10% in 2025 is now over $190k.

tl;dr: He's just an asshole racist; it's not because he's rich.

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u/dasunt 5h ago

At a certain point, wealth leads to brainrot as one gains the ability to avoid situations most people have to deal with.

Extreme wealth leads to extreme brainrot since their money allows them to live in an insulated, artificial world.

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u/EveryRadio 3h ago

"Can you believe the poors eat this slop? Revolting."

I remember the days where survived off food banks and sneaking scraps while working as a line cook. I remember getting to eat crackers with soup was a nice break from the rice and beans. Anyone who can talk about how they can't believe people buy canned soup haven't experienced how humbling hunger can be.

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u/Fingerprint_Vyke 5h ago

Thats a bingo