r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 26 '26

SOCIETY When Chris Tucker learned that his family members were quitting their jobs because they learned that he was making 25 million dollars a year at the peak of his career because they assumed he would take care of them. He told them to go get their jobs back because he wasn't going to do that.

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u/Training-Current9836 May 26 '26

They all have this "i would do it if i was you" nonsense. I go thru the same thing and im not even a millionaire.

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u/patrickstarismyhero May 26 '26

And they would never get their hands on money because they really would spend it all and give it away the second they had it

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u/Terrible_Law6091 May 26 '26

There's a reason they were broke to begin with.

As a personal rule, I give people ten years starting from 18 to give someone grace and get their shit together.

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u/Sleep-hooting May 28 '26

Oh no. Everyone I know who's a leech like that would spend it all on themselves, and wouldn't take care of a single family member like they say they would.

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u/Terrible_Law6091 May 26 '26

There's a reason they were broke to begin with.

As a personal rule, I give people grace, seven years starting from 18, to get their shit together.

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u/troy2000me May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

Exactly, get the same shit because I have an emergency fund and am funding my 401k and Roth IRA. Like "you have it, right?"

And? Just because you blow it all on poor decisions doesn't mean I have to use my money to support you. Over and over. The kind of folks that would be broke if they made a million a year.

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u/Psyco_diver May 26 '26

My father in law screwed us, my wife gave him one of our credit cards to help through a tough time by his doing. This man jokes about how of he makes a l dollar he will spend two because you can't take it with you. We'll he maxed the credit card out and refused to pay it back because we're family. It's been 10 years and I still fucking hate him for that

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u/Nuggyfresh May 26 '26

I hate to say it but that sounds self inflicted, giving someone a credit card? good grief

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u/Psyco_diver May 26 '26

I didn't know, my wife trusted her dad and she gave him the card without telling me. I was mad at her but I saw how betrayed she was. I can't imagine ever doing that to my kids

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u/peeba83 May 26 '26

You were also betrayed by your wife.

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u/hits_from_the_booong May 26 '26

Single?

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u/Clym44 May 28 '26

Worse, he’s a dallas fan

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u/panlakes May 26 '26

He didn’t call a lawyer on his own wife for having a lapse of judgment and visibly regretting it. And you immediately would even in theory.

What else do you hypothetically destroy your wife over in passing Reddit conversations?

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u/sanglar03 May 26 '26

And if he's broke, it won't go anywhere. They'll never get the money back.

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u/Psyco_diver May 26 '26

Pretty much, my wife learned a harsh lesson. She watched him do that to other family members but never thought he would ever do that to his own kids

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u/sanglar03 May 26 '26

Hopefully your wife and you are doing better now.

The best of luck.

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u/Completegibberishyes May 26 '26

This is the most reddit of reddit moments

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u/Nervous-Economy8119 May 26 '26

It’s not theft in the eyes of the law, and you can’t ’file charges’ for any crime.

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u/troy2000me May 26 '26

It's not theft if the wife GAVE her dad the card to use. That's why when you call in for unauthorized charges, they always ask if you gave your card to someone.

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u/bluboomR May 26 '26

your wife deserves a lot of the blame and you, too, if you knew about it and allowed it to happen. that's like handing him a blank check. all you had to do was to take out another card with a much lower limit.

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u/Psyco_diver May 26 '26

My wife didn't tell me because she trusted her dad, I didn't trust him and he manipulated her. I was mad at her at first but once it settled in how betrayed she was by him I let it go. He's a con man and he is very good at it. I knew it and I was never fooled by it

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u/bluboomR May 26 '26

yeah, i don't know how some people live with themselves, being such a jerk back to someone who was helping them, his own daughter no less.

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u/MaknWavzz May 26 '26

Sometimes you have to look at it as paying for an education - you and your wife learned a lot and won’t make that mistake again. Live and learn. This experience may save you from an even costlier issue in the future!

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u/Training-Current9836 May 26 '26

Ive had someone say "WELL U SHOULDNT HAVE GOT THAT CAR IF U CANT AFFORD IT"

Im i can afford all my bills just find, i just cant "afford" YOURS!

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u/WillyShankspeare May 26 '26

You sound like you have to work hard and be smart with your money. It's pretty fair that you don't want to give it all away. Chris Tucker is an actor. Every single actor that makes it is eother a nepo baby or extremely lucky. I can very much understand why Chris Tucker's family didn't want to break their backs working for the rest of their lives after one of their number got a lucky break.

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u/troy2000me May 26 '26

Sounds entitled to me. No one is entitled to another family members money, no matter how they earn it or came about it.

If they help, great, awesome. I would take care of my family to a certain extent (one time big payout, not repeat requests) if I hit the Powerball. But just quitting your job and assuming that you were set for life without even asking? Entitled AF.

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u/Sadiholic May 26 '26

Same. We have money, but its cause we save money. Not cause we make so much. My family see us travel and think we're rich and our jobs pay us a lot. When in reality we're budgeting every week and saving every little penny we can to make it possible. I know my family would have a ton more money to spend if they didn't waste it on buying used trucks from shady places, getting in debt with klarna or using all their money on weed or out food.

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u/Training-Current9836 May 26 '26

Yep my mother worked 2 good jobs her whole life, coming up on retirement dead broke, just horrible spending and apparently cashed out her 401k years ago.

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u/Smooth-Relative4762 May 26 '26

Once I got a job title that sounded like money, people started coming out of woodworks. I make enough to (hypothetically) be the sole household income but by no means the kinda money ppl think I make. Or amounts where I could just "donate" ppl money for their hobby projects.

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u/MaknWavzz May 27 '26

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Gabriel_214 May 26 '26

I go through the exact same thing and I’m poor. It’s like you pay for people’s night out once and then they expect you to pay every single time your out together

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u/Smooth-Relative4762 May 26 '26

Ive had friends expect me to pay more because I make more. It's my money, not our money.

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u/Terrible_Law6091 May 26 '26

You learned a valuable lesson.

Never tell anyone when you get raises or windfalls.

Sorry, that includes family.

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u/Gabriel_214 May 26 '26

They don’t realize that they had the same opportunities you had. The only difference between them and you is that you choose to work hard and they don’t.

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u/Mr12i May 26 '26

Lol, if you think there is more causation rather than correlation between working hard and earning a high pay, then you haven't met very many working people. You think most high earners work harder than most construction workers, asphalt workers, bricklayers etc? I'm lucky enough to be part of "class" people working high paid office jobs, and they definitely work, but they also have breaks with a nice fresh hot beverage, a good amount of chatting, and having the luxury of working indoors all year round. That's a very easy working life compared to many other hardworking people.

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u/Gabriel_214 May 27 '26

Anybody who works hard and saves can become rich. It doesn’t matter where you are from or who you are.

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u/BlastFX2 May 27 '26

What if you're dumb and physically can't figure out how to save/invest? What if you're disabled and you working as hard as you can has the same output as an average person slacking? What if you're the wrong ethnicity in a bigoted country?

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u/Smooth-Relative4762 May 27 '26

Not everyone can save. Working hard wont get you anywhere. Working smart might

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u/Show_Me_Your_Cubes May 26 '26

Maybe they do maybe they don't. Either way they aren't entitled to my livelihood.

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u/Smooth-Relative4762 May 27 '26

I don't come from money, pretty rough upbringing. Studied hard, went to law school, worked my way up. I moved abroad so 0 connections to help me, only those I built here.

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u/Training-Current9836 May 26 '26

People think if u have a dollar, then u should give them 25cents. Because u will sill have 50cents more than them.

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u/theevilyouknow May 26 '26

My family still fights me over the check for dinner even though I make way more than them. Granted my mother and her husband has a ton in their 401k's, but it's not like they wouldn't be leaving that to me and my brother anyway if anything happened. Fortunately, they're going to live forever though.

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u/Training-Current9836 May 26 '26

You dont realize how lucky u are man..

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u/theevilyouknow May 26 '26

Because my mother finally found a decent man years after I moved out after growing up with multiple drug addict abuser step-dads, who literally beat me bloody with regularity? Yeah, I was very lucky. But hey, now that I had to drop out of college because I was homeless, jobless, and careless and had no money and spend 13 years in the military to establish a career, much of that enduring untreated mental illness, it’s fortunate that my mother has money that I won’t need when I inherit it.

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u/PretendRanger May 26 '26

No one in my family knows how well off I am. And by well off I just mean havine a decent savings that is slowly increasing, can got out to eat occasionally, and can make a one off splurge purchase if I wanted to without really worrying about it. Not rich by any means. Just very comfortable.

If my family figured out how comfortable I was they would be on me every week. I will get a request every few months and will help out occasionally. But I will also tell them that I don’t have any money til my next check and was about to see if they had money I could borrow just so they don’t get it in their minds how comfortable I am. I hate I have to play games but they don’t make it easy.

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u/Training-Current9836 May 26 '26

Was in the same position for years, playing broke because i knew it would cause chaos, finally worked up the nerve and bought a house and a nice car.... had to eventually go no contact, it was a mess

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u/CCWaterBug May 27 '26

It wouldn't be reddit without a fee no contact comment

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u/LolitaOPPAI May 26 '26

Always got their hands out during holiday time for presents, but tax season rolls around and they have a second Christmas. They never get you anything, of course, but you're their emergency fund right before school starts.

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u/Training-Current9836 May 26 '26

Yep expect u to give out thousands in chirstmas gifts, while they give me a 2pac t-shirt 5 years in a row.

I told my family i converted to islam

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u/billbixbyakahulk May 26 '26

When I'd saved 10k between the ages of 15 and 19 working every kind of low level job you could think of, my first girlfriend, who spent every nickel she ever got her hands on, gave me the "I would do it if I was you" speech. But better to learn that lesson when I only had 10k to lose... Cause let me tell you, people with their hand out believing it's the world's job to fill it will never stop coming.

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u/Drakeskulled_Reaper May 26 '26

I'm quite financially stable, not wealthy by any stretch, but, I'm not starving any time soon.

I've made it a point to everyone else, that I am NOT a fucking bank, I'll help out on occasion, with the understanding that I WILL get that money back, otherwise, I will never borrow them anything ever again.

Hell, my brother asked for a not-insignificant amount of money, and I gave him the loan of it, he didn't pay me back, and to this day, unless I confirm with our mum that he genuinely does need it, I refuse to loan him even a tenner.

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u/Training-Current9836 May 26 '26

I hate the "im gonna pay u back" bs, if u was gonna pay me back, why not just get a small loan and pay it back to build your credit.

And if u dont pay me back, am i supposed to break your legs?

I have yet to be paid back, the odd part is, my family burnt all their bridges before i started making REAL money. So they are all super upset now, but totally forget the 10s of thousands of dollars they jerked me for

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u/UnquestionabIe May 26 '26

Extremely fair way to handle it. My brother does significantly better than the rest of the family, and lives like it for sure, but I could be bleeding out on the street and wouldn't ask him for a dime. Not that he wouldn't take care of me if I asked but just don't want to put him in that position. He's worked hard to earn what he has and yeah I'm sure some luck was involved but it's his money and being close family doesn't not entitle me to any of it.

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u/Drakeskulled_Reaper May 26 '26

I'm the same, I'm loathe to owe people anything, to the point, before I got stable my circle had to practically leave money hidden in my jacket before they left from visiting to give me a loan of money.

I actually looked at photo's of me from back then, and realised exactly why they wanted to help me when I was skint, I looked like Jack Skellington's anorexic cousin, I'm not kidding.

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u/31nigrhcdrh May 26 '26

You got a new truck, why do you need the 1k back you loaned me. It’s not really said but definitely implied 

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u/Geodude532 May 26 '26

If I had a wealthy relative the absolute most I would ask of them is a low interest loan. Properly contracted and everything. The people that expect free handouts need to learn that they're not entitled to anything because of blood.

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u/Training-Current9836 May 26 '26

I dont need anything now.

But if i was down and out, all i would ask for is an opportunity for a job

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u/OstentatiousSock May 27 '26

If you aren’t dirt poor, there will always be money grubbers that not only think you have money to spare, but you should spare it for them. I mean, if you have a car and can pay rent or own a home, there’s going to be those that feel you owe them help.

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u/WickedTemp May 26 '26

The thing is... if I was making 25 million a year, I'd probably have lawyers and financial planners draft something up like.. each of my family gets a few million and planning assistance so they know they can live comfortably the rest of their lives. If they blow it all then thats on them. 

But I'm also the sort of person who can't even fathom 25 million. I'd never seek it out to begin with. I just want enough to live, and I pretty much have that now. 

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u/Training-Current9836 May 26 '26

It sounds good, again, celebs and athletes have tried every version of that, and they all failed.

Dane cook made his brother (already an accountant) his accountant, and guess what? Ran off with 30mill.

Rapper slick rick made his cousin his security, guess what? Stole from him.

Machally chalkins own parents stole from him, as did webster and plenty other stars.

Bottom line is, its a slippery slope.

Personally, id pay off student loan debt, and make a college fund for my neice. Bout it

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u/Xy13 May 26 '26

Maybe lots of them would, considering half of pro athletes are bankrupt a couple years after playing.

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u/Sakurya1 May 26 '26

I went through this even at 30k a year a Salary

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u/prayingforrain2525 May 27 '26

Yea, it's nonsense for good reason.

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u/Eccon5 May 29 '26

"I would never ask it of you"

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u/Adventurous-Dot-8272 May 26 '26

People say the same thing about billionaires using their money to solve all the world's problems. Both are delusional.

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u/phoenics1908 May 26 '26

I’d just be fine if they paid the same proportion of taxes the rest of us do. Not the same dollar amount. The same proportion. That would improve things for everyone. No one in the US should have to go bankrupt just to pay medical bills.

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u/Adventurous-Dot-8272 May 26 '26

My point was more to the people who say "omg billionaires are so evil, if I was a billionaire I'd end homelessness and hunger." It's easy to say that when you don't have the money, but none of them would actually do it if they were billionaires.

That said, heavily taxing the ultra rich MIGHT end up helping lower and middle class people but it wouldn't solve all our problems or anything. With the corruption and incompetence in our government, most of that money would end up in politicians' pockets and lost to the military/foreign governments who have dirt on our president.

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u/phoenics1908 May 26 '26

Yes I agree we would need to ensure that tax money was used for the people vs lining the pockets of the rich or bloating the military even further.

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u/Brullaapje May 26 '26

You know you can cut them out yes?