His Brother Posted On Facebook About How People Need To Stop Asking For Handouts And Learn To Be More Self-Reliant, So He Called His Brother Out For Being Hypocritical Since His Brother Lives With Him Rent-Free And Has All Of His Living Expenses Paid For
This forty-five-year-old man has an older brother, who is fifty-one. And according to him, his brother was never really “good at life” from the start.
Beginning as a teen, his brother dropped out of high school, never bothered to obtain a GED, and showed no interest in attending college or trade school.
So, over the years, his brother has had a few jobs here and there– but they were mostly at establishments such as Walmart, McDonald’s, and local pizza joints.
These employment opportunities never lasted long either since his brother could never hold down a job for more than sixty days.
This means that his brother has never really been able to support himself. So, he and his wife allow his brother to live with him.
“My brother mostly just sits in his room drinking my booze, smoking my pot, and eating my food while he plays whatever JRPG he is currently obsessed with,” he explained.
To be quite honest, though, he really does not care. In fact, he claims that he accomplished a lot in his career, and his wife invested their money very well from the beginning.
In turn, he and his wife are now very comfortable, and they have more than enough money to entirely support his brother for the rest of their lives. So, he and his wife intend to do so.
“My brother is not taking food out of my kids’ mouths. He’s not cutting into their college funds. It’s literally extra money that I would just be squirreling away if I did not spend it on him,” he said.
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Despite being completely fine with covering his brothers’ living expenses, though, he recently had to call out his brother for acting very privileged and entitled.
It all began while he, his wife, and his brother had dinner a few nights ago. And during dinner time conversation, he learned that his wife’s brother had lost his job.
Apparently, his brother-in-law worked for a large company that recently experienced massive layoffs. So, according to him, the job loss was not his brother-in-law’s fault.
Anyway, his wife then went on to ask if they could give his brother-in-law some cash for bills and other necessities until he found a new job.
He ended up telling his wife to have her brother send over an estimate of how much money is needed to cover six months of living expenses.
Then, he figured they would send his brother-in-law the money, and that would be that.
Well, that was until he saw that his brother posted a cryptic rant on Facebook about how people should not ask for handouts they did not earn and need to learn how to be more self-reliant.
And even though his brother did not explicitly mention his brother-in-law in the post, it was pretty clear to him that was who his brother was ranting about.
So, obviously, this shocked him coming from his brother, of all people. Then, he decided to comment on his brother’s Facebook post and put him in his place.
“I asked him how living off of me for the past nine years was ‘self-reliant.’ I told my brother that he is in an incredibly privileged position because not everyone has a millionaire brother to pay all their bills for them,” he recalled.
“I also asked how the allowance I give my brother every week is not a ‘handout.'” Yikes!
So, ever since calling his brother out online, a bunch of his brother’s friends has begun “clowning” his brother in the comments– since apparently he lied and told people he plays video games with that he was an investment banker.
His brother was obviously mortified by that and has since deleted the post. Plus, his brother has refused to come out of his room since the entire ordeal.
Of course, his wife found out about what went down, too, but she actually took his brother’s side. She claims that it was really messed up for him to call out his brother publicly like that and believes that he could have been way more respectful in the situation.
On top of that, his aunt is beyond furious at him since he “aired out the family laundry.”
So now, he has been left feeling pretty confused. On the one hand, he believes that he might have been a jerk– not for saying what he said about his brother but for doing so publicly.
At the same time, though, his brother was the one who started it and posted the rant publicly in the first place. In turn, he has been left wondering if calling his brother out online for living a beyond-privileged life was the wrong thing to do or not.
If you were in the same financial position as him, would you support your sibling, too? Why do you think his brother felt entitled to write that Facebook post in the first place? Do you think he had a right to call out his brother’s hypocrisy online, or should he have done it in private? If you were in his shoes, how would you reconcile this situation?
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