30 People Share “Really Dumb” Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like

To each their own, people often say, referring to, well, basically anything in life. And hobbies are in no way an exception. While some people spend their time enjoying the thrill of kitesurfing, others might be equally content with staying at home and doing some knitting. And who’s to say that one is better or worse than the other?

The internet community, of course. When it comes to Reddit users, for instance, they seem to approve of certain hobbies more than others; and they don’t shy away from sharing their opinions. That’s what they did after Redditor u/zer0w0rries asked the ‘Ask Reddit’ community what are some dumb hobbies mainly practiced by wealthy people. Scroll down to find the answers on the list below and see what hobbies redditors see no point in taking up.

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30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Golf. Let's cut this forest down so we can build hundred of km2 of field for the most boring sport in existence

tell_no_tale , Andrew Shelley Report

Final score:

228points

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Lucifer 1 year ago

"Golfing is a arrogant, elitist game which takes up entirely too much room in this country. Too much room' in this country! It is an arrogant game on its very design alone, just the design of the game speaks of arrogance. Think of how big a golf course is... What do these pin-headed pricks need with all that land?! ................Now I know there are some people who play golf who don't consider themselves rich. F*** 'EM! And shame on them for engaging in an arrogant, elitist passtime " -- George Carlin

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30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like i live in Germany.
a guy in my neighboorhood hit the lottery, first thing he did was to fly to Russia and go Bear Hunting.

I cant understand why its someones dream to kill beautiful animals. Almost like the movie Ghost Dog

Dry-Ad-4264 , Mark Basarab Report

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207points

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Lucifer 1 year ago

All these so called "hunters" should be left in the wild without any weapons, instruments or even clothes and see how well they fare. Drop them off in a high predator area.

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30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like How is horse racing not up in the top? It is also cruel and deadly. Something like 8 horses died for the Derby alone this year.

Tyraxus , Taylor Sondgeroth Report

Final score:

199points

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Sue Denham 1 year ago

Yup. I don't understand why this (and dog racing) is still legal.

63points

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30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Fox hunting

Verlorenfrog , Dušan veverkolog Report

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196points

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Mohsie Supposie 1 year ago

ANY hunting for "sport"!

126points

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30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Flying to a convention against climate change in your private jet.

Gekkedutchy , Yaroslav Muzychenko Report

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188points

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Miki 1 year ago

I doubt it's a hobby but who knows.

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30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Rich christian people traveling to impoverished countries and calling it a "mission"

gutsplatter , Aleksandra B. Report

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185points

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Mohsie Supposie 1 year ago

... travelling to impoverished countries and "living the life"

18points

Dirk Daring 1 year ago

Let's just call it what it really is. Poverty Tourism.

6points

Darlin’ 1 year ago

Actually, I had to raise $3,500 to go to Brazil, sleep on a boat for five days, *no air conditioning* for a full week! And when I tell you getting to Brazil was bad, I was sick, we helped build houses, clean corn, run a VBS for the kids, provide medical and mental health services. So I don't think that the hundreds of people we helped would like hearing that it is a pointless "Rich people" thing. Btw the KIDS that came were 15-19 they had to raise money they surely didn't have it lying around

4points

ThatBlackNightingale 1 year ago

Yes me too! We went on a one month trip, first week was in a nearby city (10 minutes away) so yes we all stayed in our respective homes (we live in a wealthier area.) Second week we went to New York to see the difference of those expensive luxury apartments and the homeless in front. 3rd and 4th week my group went to India. We stayed (like literally lived) in the slums of Mumbai before going all the way down to Kerela and staying in one small house. We lived in Indian houses, ate food, and the only expensive place I went to was a hospital due to a heat wav and I fainted.. (The local ones were like family owned so we went to a government one)

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AliJanx 1 year ago

Drives me nuts. We have plenty of places in the US that could use the same level of support.

2points

PrettyJoyBird 1 year ago

I know 10 churches that give necessities, money, and time to homless outreach organizations, families in need, build homes, serve food, help refugees find housing, give clothing, provide free medical care, help kids in any way within foster system ECT. Search your local area. There are hundreds of ways to serve your communities in surrounding metroplex.

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Living Example 1 year ago

What ever happened to the good old days when native inhabitants ate missionaries?

2points

Jared Robinson 1 year ago

They are on a mission, to subvert and enslave a culture through religion.

2points

J 1 year ago

But then there are the groups that maintain a long term presence and don't fit easy stereotypes on BP. They understand what is needed because their part of the community.

1point

Betsy Ray 1 year ago

Good friends have gone with a church group to Africa. They paid for a clinic, have connected with and mentored a young man, paid for his education. They're very involved and dedicated. Even do dentistry while they're there.

1point

Mint Sauce 1 year ago

And even richer churches. Religion is the biggest corporate lie ever perpetrated, and it still works.

1point

Huddo's sister 1 year ago

It really depends on the group. My best friend's church went to Africa and donated food to people in need as well as volunteering in an orphanage and digging trenches for water pipes. It's not just a Christian thing either. My brother participated in World Challenge where they went to Borneo and dug trenches for irrigation for crops and other volunteer projects. Really the problem is when Christian (or any other religion) groups go and actually evangelise and try to convert people. I feel the OP should have been more specific. Plus it's not really a hobby.

0points

PrettyJoyBird 1 year ago

My kids attended a VBS this sunmer that raised Thousands. In Nov we will go back box up necessities. They will be hiked and conoed in to very remote areas for families and children in need.

0points

PrettyJoyBird 1 year ago

Just volunteered at a church for free summer bible class for kids. They donated items for homeless people, money for young single parents, and paid for and decorated casts for kids with club feet in Kenya. Those poor children can barely walk, dont have any options, their parents dont have rescources or finances. Eventually they can no longer walk or very painfully if at all and even become outcasts of society. So very sad.

0points

PrettyJoyBird 1 year ago

We pay monthly for an entire family in South or Central America to have food, medical care, basic necessities ect. Thru a church that works with a worldwide program.

0points

Chris D'Asta 1 year ago

Spending donors money to tell a culture they are wrong and their book is the answer to famine and poor water quality. B******t!

0points

Thatkamloopsguy 1 year ago

The mission is to baffle them with bull sh it

0points

Jane Pool 1 year ago

They probably take a tax reduction for it

0points

Steve 1 year ago

Rich people don’t do this

0points

sofacushionfort 1 year ago

“ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”. And then they only get one out of four accurately

0points

Anthony Jordan 1 year ago

Sick bastards always pushing their sickness on others.

0points

Admiralu 1 year ago

I remember the tribe that didn't want to be contacted. Religious group did anyway and one of them was killed. The tribe filed a lawsuit. This should be in the top 5.

0points

Sweet Taurus 1 year ago

The missionaries I know fund themselves to go on missions. The church only pays for housing.

0points

VioletHunter 1 year ago

I mean that's hardly a hobby. The people who do that are hardcore convinced it's super important to go and brainwash other people into believing in their imaginary friend too.

0points

General Anaesthesia 1 year ago

And with five stamps received for attending church services you get to see the dentist.

0points

Merbear 1 year ago (edited)

It’s not always like that, my churches missionaries go to different places and dig wells, provide food, and build homes all while sharing the gospel. Edit: why am I being downvoted? I’m sharing my experience in a church with missionaries

-2points

White Sauce Hot Sauce 1 year ago (edited)

That does more harm than good. Untrained and inexperienced parishioners don't make good wells, churches, houses, or necessary infrastructure. It takes the work away from the local builders, truckers, maintainers, and workers in secondary roles, while not providing them with the institutional knowledge or satisfaction of building up their own communities. Proselytizing isn't going to solve any of their problems, either.

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30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Shooting elephants. They just stand there facing off to you, and you just shoot them. Sounds like a waste of time

Not_my_fault2626 , Mylon Ollila Report

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182points

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Mohsie Supposie 1 year ago

Sounds like a waste of life!

97points

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30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Recording yourself giving s**t to the poor

Ok_Research_8379 , Dynamic Wang Report

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175points

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DubMaccaT 1 year ago

Not just the rich people anybody doing it. How s****y it must feel to be so hungry and then you have to be on some video just to eat.

23points

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30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Paying to go see the titanic

sugarw0000kie , Zlaťáky.cz Report

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167points

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GREYNOOK 1 year ago

this was sad actually.

18points

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#10

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Breeding and showing dogs, especially the tiny ones with the f****d up noses and tiny heads where their brains don't even fit anymore

Ellenvanity , Pauline Loroy Report

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163points

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H05 1 year ago

I take issue with lumping all breeders together. There are waaay too many people out there continuing to churn out these more and more disfigured breeds and mass producing over saturated breeds that are already packing shelters. BUT, there are also people out there that genuinely love a specific breed and are willing to put in the time any money into breeding and raising healthy puppies. These are also the people that understand that if you're doing it right, you're not making a profit on it.

56points

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#11

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Canned hunts.

We can argue the ethics of hunting all day long. On the one hard, you have the cruel barbarism of fox hunting. On the other hand, you had paid permit hunting for big, exotic game (*where the permit only allows for specifically designated culls and profit goes directly to conservation).

But canned hunting? F**k. At least fox hunting and permit hunting require some measure of skill and afford some opportunity for the animal to escape.

Canned hunts are often marketed as "exotic game ranches;" places people go to get a guaranteed kill of a particular species. You know how you get that guaranteed kill? Because the game are fenced in and are often reliant on human care (so they have limited fear of humans compared to their wild roaming counterparts). There's nothing sporting about it.

Imagine going to a dairy farm and bragging about how you bagged a big cow. That's what canned hunting sounds like to others.

thatsharkchick , Hunter Brumels Report

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146points

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Rostit . 1 year ago

Hunting for any reason other than subsistence. There is no reason anymore unless you live somewhere that requires it to survive

59points

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#12

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like "Climbing" Everest.

ThePizzaNoid , Christopher Burns Report

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140points

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Annik Perrot 1 year ago

And leaving your garbage, if not your corpse, behind...

64points

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#13

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Talking down on poor people with things like "stop buying coffee and you'll be rich one day"

Strawhat-Shawty , Fahmi Fakhrudin Report

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130points

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V33333P 1 year ago

No no no, it's avocado toast we have to stop eating in order to afford a house /s

59points

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#14

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Collecting the same Rolex in different variations. And never wearing any because it's in a safe.

Smegma_Surfer , Christian Wiediger Report

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116points

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Akiba1907 1 year ago

What a lot of people don't know: Rolex watches ("Luxury Watches" in general) are a way to invest. A lot of people buy them because it's easier to have 70k as a watch as in cash lying around - with the added benefit that the prices can go way up for certain models.

20points

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#15

Paying to disturb an underwater gravesite because they got too bored in their mansion

Weird_Turnover7846 Report

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106points

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Petra Schaap 1 year ago

this is on the list of "the submarine gets so much attention boohoo" well then STOP TALKING/JOKING ABOUT IT

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#16

Lobbying politicians to enrich themselves and cut corners for their respective businesses to the detriment of everyone, including themselves in the long run. They have to breathe the same air everyone else does.

theultimaterage Report

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95points

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Hans Georg 1 year ago

Or getting into politics.

14points

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#17

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Playing at who builds the biggest rocket to 'colonize other planets'

thenizzle , NASA Report

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91points

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Lucifer 1 year ago

They won't be "colonizing" planets. It's more of a race to mine the s**t out of them. They already mined the c**p out of Earth through colonization and occupations. The next available option is other bodies in the solar system.

36points

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#18

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like people that collect luxury clothing brands and shoes and than never wear them.

Senpailightning , Christian Wiediger Report

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87points

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Rose the Cook 1 year ago

In my experience working for rich people in China they usually wear the item once and when their social rivals have seen it throw it away.

16points

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#19

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Buying solid gold toilets and other items

Mysterious-Glass6620 , Maria Orlova Report

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85points

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Alicia M 1 year ago

I don't like gold. I understand other people do. However, decorating your home in it, IMO, is tacky. Sit down, King Midas. 😂

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#20

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Buying an expensive car and then keeping it in your garage without ever actually driving it.

zerbey , Bradley Pisney Report

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76points

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PeePeePooPoo 1 year ago

There's a guy from Canada who bought a Lamborghini I think and he drives it everyday, even during winter somehow.. People called him crazy because it's not the most suitable car for their climate, but he said he didn't spend all that money he worked for so he can have a delicate toy in his garage, he wants to enjoy it.

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#21

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Being cheap. One of my friends has the money to buy the restaurants we eat at, but if we split an item she’ll fraction out how much she puts towards it. “I only ate 1 slice of pizza and there are 6 in total, so I’ll put down 1/6.” She also factors this into tipping. Drives me mental.

Big-Buy8579 , Jonas Leupe Report

Final score:

75points

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Mohsie Supposie 1 year ago (edited)

It's called being stingy!

41points

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#22

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like I just watched on Netflix rich Arabs cloning camels by the dozen because that first camel was really pretty.

SnooComics8268 , Nour Wageh Report

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64points

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sbj 1 year ago

I didn't know there was such a thing as a pretty camel

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#23

I used to work at a very pricey private school and one the big donors took it upon himself to make these big-a*s sculptures of extinct birds from around the world and then he would make a big deal of installing these things in the last place the bird was seen, even if it was in the middle of the jungle. And he paid people to follow him around and make a documentary about it. The sculptures weren’t even good, but can you imagine disrupting an ecosystem to put your piece of c**p homage to an extinct animal in it?! How does that even make sense?

The school had to kiss his a*s to keep the money flowing and allowed him to install one of his sculptures on the school grounds. Then they made all the middle schoolers spend an afternoon watching his vanity—oops I mean documentary—and making carrier pigeons out of paper cutouts. It was a big joke.

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61points

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Yes yes 1 year ago

Being rich doesn't mean you are intelligent or even a sensible person. This is sad ...

17points

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#24

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Challenging other wealthy individuals to cage match MMA fights.

Flizatt , Derrick Treadwell Report

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55points

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sbj 1 year ago

I wouldn't mind watching Musk v Zuckerberg

67points

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#25

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Making one dollar bets with other rich people that disrupts and ruins normal people's lives. Social experiments and such.

Basically using regular people as playthings.

dirtymoney , Christopher Burns Report

Final score:

53points

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similarly 1 year ago

lmao. Somebody just watched "Trading Places".

72points

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#26

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Even though I enjoy the taste, collecting ultra expensive wine and not ever drinking it. Technically it can be an investment, but if they never sell it then its not really an investment IMHO.

Additional-Bag-1961 , Klara Kulikova Report

Final score:

52points

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Donkeywheel 1 year ago (edited)

Wine collectors who don’t drink their bottles are a tiny small minority. Most of them are willing to age their wines for decades for the pleasure of drinking an excellent old wine. And they usually know everything there is to know about the best time to drink any bottle (not all wines are meant to be kept in a cellar for years)

21points

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#27

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like 12 metre yacht racing. Like standing fully clothed in a cold shower and tearing up hundred dollar bills. By the million.

AchillesNtortus , Jordan Cormack Report

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50points

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Ace 1 year ago (edited)

Not sure why you picked that size in particular, but that's actually rather small and relatively affordable for 'normal' people. Oh, and the picture is of a motor cruiser, aka a 'gin palace' which is in no way a racing vessel and also much bigger than 12m.

9points

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#28

Submarine rides to ship wrecks.

Raspberries-Are-Evil Report

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47points

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LovingKnuckle 1 year ago

This list would be shorter if the same hobby wasn’t repeated on here

6points

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#29

My mom used to love watching the Barrett-Jackson Car Auction, specifically the one held in Scottsdale, AZ where they sell very expensive cars. She would always tell me that if she ever bought one of those expensive cars she would never put it away in storage, she would drive that thing all over the place.

frecklearms1991 Report

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44points

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Merbear 1 year ago

Awwww I love that :)

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#30

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Collecting high-end trading cards. Even worse is buying high-end unopened boxes/cases to open. Drake spent an estimated $200k on unopened cases looking for [one specific card.]

Jmac0585 , 2H Media Report

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40points

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Mohsie Supposie 1 year ago

[one specific card] ... has that been censored?

2points

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#31

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Going to space

_Shape-Shifter , NASA Report

Final score:

14points

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Wesley Clifford 1 year ago

NGL If I was rich, I'd totally go to space.

29points

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#32

Collecting rare butterflies and rare fish. Having seen how it's done and basically all the rich do is buy them, it's f*****g insanity. Exotic fish are caught by villagers who are caught in nets, caged in water to the knees and not seen by family for weeks.

Loreo1964 Report

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13points

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MadOrca99 1 year ago

Hold up i am not able to comprehend the last sentence

22points

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#33

Someone once told me that Jerry Seinfeld owns a massive garage in which he stores one model of every single Porsche car ever made by Porsche. Like… why?? I understand collecting some cars if you’re wealthy, that’s a cool hobby but.. EVERY Porsche ever made?! Like what does he do with all these cars? Pour himself a drink and just look at them? You know damn well he’s not driving all of them

October101190 Report

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11points

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Robert T 1 year ago

Not sure why you'd do that with Porsches, as they all look the same anyway. And the engine is at the wrong end. /s

5points

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#34

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Cavediving. What motivates someone to wedge themselves into tiny spaces that human’s don’t fit into? Let alone in water?

chick3nslut , Ayman Zaki Report

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11points

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Donkeywheel 1 year ago

Thrill. You’re welcome. And you don’t need money to do it.

22points

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#35

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Going on exotic vacations to resorts in remote locations and not actually learning anything about the culture of the place they’re temporarily colonizing

dirtyhippiebartend , Ioana Cristiana Report

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11points

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lenka 1 year ago

Temporarily colonizing? OK... I totally get where you are coming from here and I agree that tourists should make an effort to understand or learn something about local culture of places they travel... but to call tourists colonists is quite a stretch.

31points

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#36

Betting 6 or 7 figure sums on games of pure chance like roulette and baccarat.

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9points

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Walter Brameld 1 year ago

Poor people gamble too, and it's even dumber when they do it.

10points

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#37

Guitar/gear collectors. People that buy high-end $5000+ guitars/basses, amplifiers, and pedals and literally can't play more than a few basic chords, badly. They never play these instruments and either hang them on the wall or keep it in the case year-round only taking it out to look at it for a few minutes. Then tell you you can't play or get good tone without spending (X) amount of money on magical mythic pickups, tonewood, or diodes.

I can outplay these mother f*****s on a $77 DiY guitar, $21 distortion pedal, and $25 second-hand amp from the 80's, and do so every single day, and it sounds great.

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4points

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Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago

eh, I'd say if you pay for a cheap instrument, if it's super cheap, you can tell....

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#38

I heard once, some rich people pay sexually active older couples to have sex in front of them. I dont know how much is true. But I know for sure, one of my college class classmate who looked like Ryan Gosling in college was hired by two wealthy couples for a summer and had sex binges for hours. Most of the time he was watched by their husband's. He said these woman are probably in 60's and sex maniacs.

He didn't liked that after that assignment and found religion. Later got married and happily living with his wife.

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3points

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LJ Bailey 1 year ago

...you're getting paid?

2points

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#39

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Going to restaurants and ordering expensive raw delicacies that are often HORRID

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lenka 1 year ago

I'm not wealthy and I love oysters and you dont have to go to expensive restaurants to get them. You can get them in seaside towns in paper boxes, or directly from the fish market.

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#40

30 People Share "Really Dumb" Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like Buying and collecting rare/expensive art.