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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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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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.

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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"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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

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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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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

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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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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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"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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.

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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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.

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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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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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.

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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.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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)

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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.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Submarine rides to ship wrecks.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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.

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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.]

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

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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.

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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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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

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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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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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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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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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have more of a problem with people duct taping a banana to a wall and people calling it art.

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