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The rich and the poor… there’s been a great divide between these two that is as old as history itself. And although, in the US, self-described middle- and lower-class Americans say they admire people who get rich by working hard, accomplishing their American dream, it’s when they’re at the top that it starts bothering others.

A Pew Research study found that nearly six in ten survey respondents say the rich pay too little in taxes. And this is the tip of the iceberg. So since we’re not diving deep underneath it, we’re taking a look at one very telling thread.

“What small thing screams 'I’m rich'?” someone posted on r/AskReddit, sparking more than 5k comments with eye-opening responses. Let’s see what people had to say below.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich I was 17, flying home from my sister’s house and I struck up a conversation with this well dressed businessman. (My mother was a seamstress and had taught me about how to “read” people’s clothes) Dude was super cool super polite. Genuinely just wanted to chat about whatever.

We chat for like an hour, then it’s time to board. His section is called first and he sees that I didn’t get up to board with him. He walks back over, asks to see my ticket. I show him, he gently shakes his head “no” and smiles while he signals me to follow him to the gate.

We get to the gate agent, he says “this is my friend throwaway, is the seat next to me open?” “Excellent, I’d like him to have that seat please.” Hands her a black credit card and next thing I know I’m sitting in first class instead of coach. I told him that was very nice of him, but he didn’t need to spend that kind of money (if I remember right it was like $800) just so I could sit by him. He explained that that “kind of money” literally meant nothing to him, he was enjoying our conversation and wanted it to continue. It was the most surreal feeling ever. So I sat in first class, enjoying all the perks that brings, and talked to this guy about life for the next three hours. Turns out he owned several stamping companies that all had government supply contracts and he had accumulated far more than $800 while we had been sitting in the airport talking, let alone the length of the flight.

When we landed he explained that most people just fall all over themselves trying to suck up to him once they know who he is, but I just talked to him like he was a normal human being and I reminded him of his grown sons from when they were teenagers. He thanked me for the conversation, I thanked him for the great seat and we went our separate ways.

That guy had money, and he knew what has actual value.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nice that a conversation with a polite and interesting 17 year old had value to him.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Sometimes? Nothing.

I know a man who's the kind of rich where it took him only a day or two to convert more than a million dollars to cash (not, like, physical cash, but the liquid asset) to buy one of his kids a house.

He drives a rather beat-up old Subaru, when he's not riding his bicycle instead. He wears jeans and polo shirts. His watch is a $200 digital watch - wouldn't bother wearing a fancy expensive analogue watch, all they do is tell the time, what's the point? He's lived in the same house for 50ish years.

The only real tell is the air of total chill he has. He's not worried about much. Money insulates you from really a lot of stress.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Working at a luxury resort, one thing I’ve noticed is that the people who want to give the air of being very wealthy will have lots of designer patterns on their clothes and accessories, like Louis Vuitton print, but almost all of the truly ridiculously wealthy people will basically wear nondescript leisure wear and really plain looking clothes (like plain jeans and tees with no logos).

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

An acquaintance of mine has a ridiculous amount of money but his clothes are low key and no logo. I love that.

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Bored Panda reached out to the author of the thread, u/_--__-__---, who posed the question “What small thing screams 'I’m rich'?” on AskReddit. The Redditor said that they were thinking of something interesting to ask people on the subreddit while browsing through some past questions. “One idea that stood out was 'What screams “I’m rich”?' so I decided to narrow it down a little bit so that the answers would be less obvious,” they told us.

“For me, a small thing that screams 'I’m rich' is not caring about the prices of things,” the Redditor said and continued: “For example, randomly paying for a group of friends’ dinners, or just casually sliding the credit card to the cashier without much thought about the price of what they’re buying.”
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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich They spend money if it saves you time. Time is more valuable than money.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guess it just depends on what you have more of or consider more valuable. When I was a student I had plenty of time and no money so I was willing to spend the time doing something. Now that balance has shifted and I will pay for expedience and I am certainly not rich.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich An expensive watch that isn’t a Rolex.

Rolexes are how rich people or not even rich but “had-a-good-year” show off wealth to poor people.

A truly wealthy person will have a Patek or AP Royal Oak or a Mueller, and not necessarily even a flashy one.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And it‘s not even looking nice. (In my opinion.☺️)

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Not noticing you haven’t been paid in two months.

I work with some people that pull in 20k+ a month. We had one come in mid March and said I don’t think I’ve been paid since December.” Sure enough two months didn’t pay out for some reason.

He wasn’t even mad and just kind of mentioned it like he was talking about the weather.

If I miss A paycheck I’d notice on payday.

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Years ago I worked for a charity where we received monthly donations by standing order. Person had phoned because they'd just noticed their bank was giving us £400 a month instead of the £40 they had intended. This was after months of the payment being made incorrectly. They weren't cross or worried, just wanted it corrected. (Bank error, not the charity's, so they had to speak to their bank.) Not the same I know but on my lowly salary it felt shocking to me at the time. I would have noticed if it had been £40!

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“Another example is just being casual. Rich people tend to carry less on their shoulders, so they relax, and are usually pretty chill,” they explained.

The author of the thread was quite surprised by some of the responses. “Some people told long stories about their experiences, which was wild to me.” Moreover, “There were also other things like 'Not noticing you haven’t been paid in 2 months' from u/Graphics_Nerd. This one was surprising because I would have never thought about that.” The Redditor was overwhelmed by the idea that “you could have so much money that you wouldn’t even notice that you weren’t gaining it from your job.”

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Going to space for like 2 minutes in a penis shaped rocket.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And then suing NASA cause they chose the other guy's penis rocket to fund

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich My wife worked as a pastry chef at a very fancy NYC restaurant when we were in our 20s and just started dating. On her day off, we went to dinner there with a friend. The three of us were treated like kings: the head chef came out to see us and chat, we were served 6 desserts, etc. An older guy eating in the corner just randomly sent over an expensive bottle of wine to us. “Because we looked like we were having such a good time”. I was amazed. Having the kind of money where you can just do random acts of kindness. I’ll never forget that.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Having the kind of money where you can just do random acts of kindness. I’ll never forget that." You do not need money to do random acts of kindness. The smallest thing can REALLY make a person's day. Compliment the cashier on.... pick something (jewelry, hair, eyes, mask, efficiency ), it is easy!

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich I have first hand experience with this. I actually work with wealthy people's bank accounts so they can't lie about what they have. Looking over transactions and stuff here's what I found.

You can't actually tell. We have millionaires walking in like they are homeless and people who spend more on fancy cars and designer goods but barely have $100k to their name. The truly wealthy don't wear brands. They are not there to advertise a luxury good. They give a CR*P ton to charity. More than I make in a year. Mostly for tax reasons but some are just that kind. We have a joke that the ones that are truly wealthy are the ones who are the kindest. They don't have to think about it and usually live low stress lives. They LIKE to take the time to get to know you and chit chat.

The aholes are always the ones who don't have to work anymore but also don't have the money to not think about it. There are also quite a few that are sweet in this category but you ALWAYS find the aholes here.

Something kind of interesting, I've never met an idiot rich person. Have definitely met some that didn't know what they were talking about or were misinformed but they have all been easily teachable. They don't forget things easily unless diminished capacity is an issue. Definitely have some offspring and spouses that were idiots. But the people who actually accumulated it all, pretty bright people.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a great book named Class that has this same take on the out of sight wealthy. Worth reading.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich I was at a really posh restaurant (you know the kind where there are about 8 pieces of silverware?) we had saved up for months and a group of 8 of girls (nurses and CNA’s) went out. One of the recently divorced nurses was flirting with a guy at the next table. When we got our checks he leaned over and tossed his platinum card on the “I got this”. Like combined our tab was easily at least $1,000.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like a successful flirt.. I really hope she find a new (good!) love in him.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Not wearing a suit in a room full of people in suits.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Perfect skin and good teeth. Rich people can afford to go to doctors and medical professionals for their appearance. I had a friend who worked for a skin doctor. He let her train on her friends with some new products and apparently, it's a thing where you go in on a regular basis and your skin smooths out, all the weird spots go away and you just glisten like Arwen or Galadriel. I did get to go in for one practice treatment and the other folks waiting in the room had amazing skin. Ever since then, I could spot moneyed women just by their complexions. Also, a good number of them.. you can spot if you know fabrics really well and how they are supposed to drape when well made.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know a thing or two about fabrics. It is true. Quality fabrics drape way better and nicer than cheap ones.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich They don't watch tv or anything like that. Lamborghini said they don't make advertisements cause their customers aren't sitting around watching tv.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, they don’t advertise, but you’ll see their cars in movies like “ Rainman”, “The Lovebug”, “Transformers: The Last Knight “ and you can be sure all the wannabes have watch the movie and want one.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich They will never complain about the cost of something but will nit-pik the quality of work to death.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kind of logical. If you pay, especially if you pay a lot, you certainly demand quality for that.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Not thinking twice, when making plans, about whether you can afford it.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They don't think of the price so they don't realize their friends might have to. Go on cruise with your buddies. Get to the first port and they want to do the $750 swim with dolphins excursion and two of you end up eating ramen for the next 3 months because you just maxed out the credit card that was supposed to cover the bills this month since you aren't getting paid this week.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Keep a business afloat for two years during a pandemic with very little income coming in. I’m grateful for my boss and I hope his vintage Rolls Royce gets finished soon.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, our boss finished his $1M spec house, bought a small family-run golf course and closed on the site where he’s building the new business and getting us out of the leased building. (Golf carts were HUGE during the pandemic)

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich I once vaguely knew a family who were very rich. Even the kids had bodyguards (kidnap-ransom risk) When I stayed at their home for a weekend on a visit, the father casually mentioned not to push a certain button in the room, when I asked what it did out of interest he explained off-hand that it was a panic button to alert security and bodyguards in the grounds, like it was the most natural thing in the world. They were impeccably polite with me but I felt like Oliver Twist wandering into the wrong home.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My father always told us that we were lucky to be poor because rich people have to be afraid of robberies and kidnapping.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich A friend once told me that her parents said if you had to take a loan for something you couldn't afford it. So they never had car loans or home loans.... Must be nice

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Once upon a time in America workers were paid a living wage, had benefits and were valued, homes were affordable as was transportation. Ronald Reagan effectively wiped that all off the map

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich The sofa that is not in contact with a wall.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, I have two sofas not in contact with the walls. Woohoo, I'm rich! I'm rich... oh, hang on... no I'm not.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Buying art. And not Instagram art, but gallery dealer art.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes it's the same art but different price. I call it art with a capital F.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich I worked at a gas station in the 90s when Steve Wozniak would come in to get gas. He dressed in shorts a t-shirt and flip flops and drove a $120k car.

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Steve is a super chill down to earth guy, much saner than his counterparts

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Being completely clueless about how people who have to manage their money have to live.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Could just be people who don't manage household finances too. My friend's dad couldn't even balance a check book when his wife died ( he was elderly and only had a 6th grade education and the wife handled the finances) so my friend had to go once a month to pay his bills and balance the checkbook. My dad also got an allowance of 100 bucks a week and the rest went in the pot for my mom to handle finances cause he didn't want to know. And some people are just terrible at math/ money management. In undergrad our history department chair was banned from writing checks by his wife cause he kept bouncing them. It is easier now with digital apps though

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Affording healthcare in America

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or in Europe affording to go to real specialists that will take care of you and not the overcrowded poor public doctors who are overworked and underpaid and don't care anymore. My mum is getting blind and she needed to pay a private doctor (medium range not fancy private) because the public doctor had such a long waiting list that she would have been blind by then.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich SORT: PRICE: High to Low.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This hits below the belt ngl. My price is always Low to High and I stop checking out the product when the price exceeds the highest amount for low.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Not checking the price before making a purchase.

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They have connections. These don't have to be crazy let me call the mayor type of things but if you say your looking for a job or something and they offer to put you in contact with people they probably are doing well

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's the ugly secret they don't teach you in high school - its more important who you know than what you know. Both the owner of a garage and the guy running a hedge fund are more likely to hire a friend or someone they met at a tailgate party than a random person with a great resume because they've passed the eyeball test. That's also how the guy whose family makes enough money that he can do an unpaid internship goes to work at the hedge fund of a former fraternity brother and then gets hired over the guy who graduates top of their class at State U but had to work summers to make money instead.

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Minimalism by choice

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Through my work as a lawyer, I have a number of wealthy clients. The most common trait between them is an easy-going demeanor along with a bit of a sense of entitlement, though not so much in a rude way. They are used to getting their way and are usually able to accomplish it through some combination of charm and money.

A likeable charmingness is another common trait. It may be that most of the wealthy people I know are business owners, and their good manners and conversation skills go a long way in their course of business. There could be a bit of a bias here just because I don’t really know any really wealthy people other than “small” business owners, but I have scarcely met a brash or rude person with real wealth so far as I know.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Go hang out a high end horse farms if you want to see rude and entitled.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Buying specialty equipment for a new sport or hobby. Poor people rent or buy used stuff for their hobbies, and if they do buy supplies get the low end version rather than the fancy stuff.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

investing in a sport/hobby you enjoy often is a way to SAVE money on rental equipment. I know the scuba pic above probably wasn't sanctioned by the submission author, but it's a great example: if I hadn't bought my BCD, weights, regs, tanks, suits and other ancillary equipment early on, I would have paid many times that amount by now renting the stuff.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Not having a case on your phone.

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I don't have a phone case. Nothing I do would require one as its always either in my pocket or on a desk/ bed. Though I did buy a waterproof pouch for rafting

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I had a friend at university about 25 years ago who I'd assumed was from a similar background to my other friends and mine — middle class. The only thing that gave him away eventually was when I saw a letter he had written to his parents. In addressing the envelope, he had only needed to put the name of his house and the county it was in. No other details required. Turned out, his parents basically owned most of that county, and he was a viscount.

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Dressing like a hobo inside exclusive clubs and be served as the most important person there.

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The family is well traveled. Travelling can be done cheaply on an individual basis but that takes a lot dedication and planning. If the whole family is well traveled they probably are just well off

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“Hey, do we have any milk in the fridge?”

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One weird detail that I've noticed about the wealthiest people I've known is that they minimize their assets. They don't own their house, they've formed a trust fund that does. They don't own a car (or jet, or yacht), a private LLC does (that leases to the individual for $1 a year or something).

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Not knowing how much basic things cost. When you're living paycheck to paycheck you know exactly how much you're going to need to buy groceries or pay bills. Rich people have everything on autopay, because they always have money.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know plenty of poor people with autopay too. F****d me over royally when my friend died and autopay paid out but her work refused to deposit her last paycheck without a huge amount of paperwork. God it was such a mess to fix. I do not use autopay

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Being unreasonably cheap with really weird and specific things.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Worked for a super rich lady, importing $50-100,000 dollar horses from Germany. She would buy new lux leather halters and then forbid us to put them on the horses, so they sat in a cupboard and grew mold. She also left the horses in the care of highschool students and a potsmoking hippie paid minimum wage. At least one horse got seriously injured when it pushed past a girl and got his leg caught in the manure spreader. Tore half his hoof off.

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Having no clue what a gallon of milk should cost. $1? $5? $10?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A GALLON of milk?? That's like 5 litres... why on earth are you buying that much milk?!

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Properly tailored clothing.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Always watch out for the shoes - the shoes are the biggest giveaway of all.

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Where I live if you don’t have someone living in your garage I’d say you’re pretty rich. (Silicon Valley)

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

FYI - some multimillion dollar homes in Silicon Valley homes don’t have garages.

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I work in a library and suggested teaching basic car maintenance to teens and 20 somethings…how to check your oil, top off fluids, change a flat, etc. My coworker remarked why? Everyone’s parents buys them triple A… I was so shocked I just stared

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Checking oil, fluids, etc is important so you don't kill your car completely, not just about getting stranded. And I have AAA (courtesy of my anxious mother even though I'm 40+) but just yesterday stopped and helped a man who had no jack change his flat tire. Skills are skills and you should learn all you can.

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Gear. Went on a hike/bike/kayak tour or the Sipan islands and my wife and I got to know this slightly older couple that was with us. As other posts will say they wore very non descriptive clothes. Upscale leisure athletic, I would call it, but what screamed "rich" to me were the little things. Dudes watch was super high end, their equipment was top notch and their custom bikes were easily 5K each. Turns out they are both lawyers making oodles of money and travel when they get good deals.

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Spending hours researching a product so you can be certain you’re buying the absolute highest quality that money can buy.

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A rich kid at university once asked me with a straight face why I was working over the summer instead of going abroad to have a break.

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Buying new furniture, not from ikea or the like.

That stuff is expensive.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

nothing gets old, everything is replaced regularly with high end stuff...unless it's suppose to be old of course, then those are restored regularly and kept mostly as collectibles...

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich I don’t know if this is “small” but Steve Jobs never had a license plate on his car. He’d always lease for five months and 29 days, because in California you have to get a license plate within 6 months. His assistant would drop off his lease and pick up a new one. I used to live in the Bay Area and saw him leave Apple and head straight into the carpool lane at full speed. He never cared about getting ticketed.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's cause fines only punish the poor, unless its a country that makes fines income proportionate, which the US does not

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If they pay with a black card, the rewards on those things are ridiculous and the criteria to get one is also ridiculous

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In high end stores or high ticket price item places they walk in and are clearly confident they are supposed to be there. I don't mean in the cliché holiday were are the peasants to wait on me kind of way just that they know they belong. Someone who is there to make their "first big purchase" or whatever often looks nervous. The people window shopping look awestruck

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Lack of stress, eat out a lot, are never phased by surprises like “oh my tires punctured” “ovens broke” “I need a new boiler”. They can just get them

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If they refer to their vacation plans as 'summering' somewhere.

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A friend of mine from Catholic school where they wore uniforms said expensive belts and shoes were rich kid indicators. I guess it was a matter of degrees, it was an expensive school so everyone was doing ok, but if a kids rocking To Boot New York kicks, their parents are balling

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This. A lot of people claim that uniforms make students equal and prevent classism. It is not true at all. I went to a catholic school and the rich ones showed off with their jackets, backpacks and shoes so at the end it was the same plus not being able to express yourself

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Not bragging about how rich you are

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not true. The d**k race between Bezos and Musk is the highest form of bragging ever.

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Having legit wealth tends to create an entourage. I had a relative who had not only money but a certain degree of power. He was able to give relatives jobs. Some for actual qualifications, some made up. He had legit goons who would take shots at you if you messed with their meal ticket.

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2 sheets of 1/2” plywood just stored up in a shed

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seems weirdly specific. And most people I know with farms have a woodpile somewhere that has plywood and a bunch of other stuff just hanging around

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Pumping gas at the empty 76 station rather than the Arco across the street that's $0.35/gal cheaper.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do this. I'm not about the wait in line and have hell trying to maneuver my car around for a few cents less. The time you waste sitting there isn't worth it for me. Also people who park at the pump and go on the store for 20 minutes and then still don't get gas, WHY???

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People Share 30 Small Subtle Things About Wealthy People That Scream They Are Insanely Rich Had to teach my fiancee how to use a broom, and how to wash dishes.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not exclusive to rich people, some average folks are spoiled too.

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The size of the bathtub. Us normies can enjoy the luxury of a bath but in a tub that is just a little too short or too narrow, noone in their right mind would spend an extra few thousands to get a slightly bigger bath... Unless...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A bath and a separate shower in the same room screams wealth. Add a heated towel rail and maid rolled towels and you know you've made it.

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Van life.

I saw someone who did the math and just the basic necessities to set it up was over 30 grand. I think that wasn't including the actual camper. So not only would you need lots of money to even start it, but you'd need a pretty stable job to sustain it.

Note I'm talking about when they're constantly traveling the country in a large camper.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Right? I follow some youtubers who do van life and their expenses are incredibly high for a ridiculously small home. For that money they could own a nice place near their family and travel abroad from time to time. Its ok if they want to be nomadic but they sell it as 'simple living'.

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This is not necessarily specific to being wealthy but often correlates and that is they expect to be listened to. Again this isn't the pretentious talking down to kind of thing so much as a confidence thing. Wealthy people typically have jobs with influence and other people working for them. They are used to having people expect direction from them, providing it and being listened to.

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I was walking around San Francisco with some friends from work late at night after drinking. One of them, who was the daughter of a member of the board of our very big company, was walking the same direction as me so I offered to walk with her a while. I live fairly far from SF and I had to catch an Uber home. She asked me why I was walking the several blocks with her and I said “to get out of the surge zone.”

It was very clear that she likely either doesn’t know what a surge zone is with Uber or that it absolutely has no impact on her choice in taking one.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't live in the city nor would use uber, so they charge more for certain area's? I know they gouge during emergencies. I would still pay more for a taxi service.

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Here in the UK, if you wear a pair of mustard coloured corduroy trousers and a red jacket, or a similar combination

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When they have an accountant rather than a "guy who does my taxes".

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What about of they call the "guy who does my taxes" their accountant, even if taxes is all they do?

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#63

If you've ever been on the campus of a prestigious college or university in the U.S., everyone is in shape and gorgeous.

Well, almost everyone.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Eating healthy in the US is a lot more expensive than eating unhealthy

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Having a couple of rental properties

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Gartered dress socks. Completely invisible status symbol. Totally unnecessary. Gives the fat cat an edge in negotiations, knowing that their silk stockings are buttressed by a rarely donned anachronistic garment, and that their opponent is relying on a cheap elastic weave to keep their trashy blended socks affixed to their calves, strait and tight.

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