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To gain more perspective on this topic, we reached out to Shubham Kumar, founder of StartupTalky, who was kind enough to have a conversation with us. First, we wanted to know if Shubham is even interested in accumulating wealth. "I want to be wealthy, but at the same time, I don't want to lose my freedom," he told Bored Panda.

"I think everyone should own their time," Shubham added. "Money is important, as it buys you time. But through my interactions with super rich people, I have learned that after a certain amount, it doesn't matter how much money you have."

People only pretend to like you because they want your money. It's extremely rare to find someone who actually likes you for being yourself. It's almost impossible to have a close relationship with anyone. I just want like a best friend who I can mess around with and tell them everything and like spending time with. It's really depressing

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Gina Babe 1 year ago

I could not care less about how much money or who a person is. We hit it off, great, if not, peace. We all bleed red.

97points

We also asked Shubham why so many people believe becoming rich will solve all of their problems. "Coming from a middle class family, I certainly say that money is the solution to 99% of the problems people have," he told Bored Panda. "If you have enough money, you won't think of petty things, and rather focus and use your time and energy to solve bigger problems, which can bring satisfaction to most people."

And while Shubham does believe that it is possible to have too much money, he's optimistic that we all have the potential to acquire wealth. "It's not rocket science; you just have to be disciplined in whatever you want to do. Of course, choosing this 'whatever' is the tricky part."

I grew up in a rich family. Allthough I havn't taken any money from them since I was around 16. But I lived at home for free until I was 20 and moved out. But by then I had been working for 2 years and spent the money well so I had around 14000USD of my own money I could do whatever I wanted with.

People knew my parents were rich, we had a huge house, cleaninglady etc.

I'd say the worst thing about being the son of rich parents is either the fact that EVERYONE expects you to be rich and successful, OR the fact that EVERYONE who knows you come from a rich family wants something from you. "Dude, youre rich as f**k you can buy me a beer", i've heard that like a million times and im sick of it.

I'm not rich. My parents are. I have more money than you becouse I dont spend 150 dollars on weed every week. Buy your own beer and get a job.

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Lisa McCourt 1 year ago

Ok, but if you lived at home for free, you did take money from them. You were not paying rent, and I assume, you were not paying any utilities. The rest of what you said, I totally get, but don't say you didn't take any money from them. You did, they just didn't hand you cash.

87points

Fantastic Mr Fox 1 year ago (edited)

It's true you save money by living at home. But isn't it pretty common to live at home to age 20, rich parents or not, especially if you still are in school? If you started working full time, you likely move out and get your own place at the same time.

48points

Jodie daubenmire 1 year ago

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Winnie the Moo 1 year ago

I don’t agree. This is a parents NORMAL responsibility.

25points

Marla 1 year ago

Exactly. Also the feeling of safety net can't be discounted. It sounds like that person can take an unpaid internship during the time he was with his parents. Or take a business risk and invest that 14,000 into something that for me might mean the difference between getting healthcare or not. People born poor treat money very differently than people born rich and it has nothing to do with intelligence or work ethic.

17points

Yali-girl with weird name 1 year ago

I don’t agree with this-the whole ‘after the child turns 18 they have to be kicked out or pay rent’ feels so stupid To me-they’re your kid. Let them stay as long as they want unless you’re financially struggling or it becomes too long. Like older than 25 is too much

12points

Lunar 1 year ago

Not agree. That's normal parents responsibility to provide for their children till they hit adulthood.

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Lisa McCourt 1 year ago

Since some have mentioned it, yes, I absolutely believe parents should provide all care for their children, at least until they are 18. That is not my issue. My issue is when people, who have had that support and more, ignore it when they consider their success in life. Especially when comparing their life to others. Money doesn't need to be cash handed to you. According to what he says, he only worked for 2 of the 4 years, so, in those other 2 years, he never went to the movies, McDonald's with his friends? Maybe he didn't. Maybe he never left the house, except to go to school. But he still lived in a safe neighborhood, had access to abundant food, a good school, and a cleaning lady even. That takes money and is not something everyone has equal access to. It just gives off Kim Kardashian "get off your a*s and work" vibes to me. But that is my opinion. I totally respect it if you disagree.

5points

Anyone-for-tea? 1 year ago

I agree with you. Lisa, he has a much better start in life. When I moved out at 18 to go to uni, I left with loads of debt that took me about ten years to pay off, and I only did that because I got to go to a war zone and got paid extra money! It would have taken me a lot longer otherwise. Yes, he has made good decisions not to waste money, but he’s coming from a very fortunate position.

5points

Martin König 1 year ago

He means he did not get any money from them, which I understand as he did not get any money from them. He speaks about his years 16-20, if I got it right. Did you, Lisa?

4points

Kitty 🥀 1 year ago

They can’t help the parents they were born to. And they lived at home— so freaking what? Tons of people do, rich or poor. It’s what they’ve done with their life that matters. Come off it and stable your high horse. So many people here are showing their envy and it’s not a good look.

2points

PeridotPlatypus377 1 year ago

Sometimes adult children pay their parents in services when they aren’t being charged rent and utilities. Cleaning, cooking, housework, driving, running errands, caring for younger siblings, etc. it could be the case but I would have thought he’d have mentioned it.

2points

Lorraine 1 year ago

You're basically perpetuating the clichés and the misconceptions OP is talking about. Living with your parents when you're 20 is completely normal in many countries, but you people want to make your way the way of the world.

1point

Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago

That's not "taking money from them" having your parents provide you with food and shelter is LITERALLY their job.

1point

🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago

But don’t pretty much everyone have this head start, ie, living with parents for free till they move out?

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Jay Hill 1 year ago

Oh did you pay the hospital bill when you were born? Clearly you ate quite well as child, how much did that cost you? You scumbag freeloader!

0points

Gina Olivia 1 year ago

Exactly! The way they say "I havn't taken any money from them since I was around 16. But I lived at home for free until I was 20 and moved out. But by then I had been working for 2 years." So at 20 they had been working for 2 years. This means they worked from 18-20. So for 2 years (16-18) their parents didn't give them any money and only provided shelter and food?

0points

Brazen 1 year ago

I did not see your post when I wrote mine. I totally agree with what you said. :)

0points

Alex S 1 year ago

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Taradactyal 1 year ago

So you could afford housing, had a fall back, and didn't have to go into debt? Yeah you are privileged. That being said you don't owe anyone, but don't act like you are average.

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Jodie daubenmire 1 year ago

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Anouk T 1 year ago

Well the way you talk about your own money tho is very much a rich kid talk… you could earn that money because your parents are rich (didn’t have to spend it on food, had, car repairs, work commute, medical bills etc) so at least acknowledge that you being quite well off now even on your own is also a result of coming from a rich family.

15points

Jodie daubenmire 1 year ago

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Gina Babe 1 year ago

I love this and can't fathom saying that to someone!

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Petra Schaap 1 year ago

ohhh, you have more money than me because you dont spend 150 dollar a week on weed. thats the secret to wealth. What about pulling your head out of your ....

7points

Wim Cossement 1 year ago

Yeah, these dumb poor people just need to stop buying weed and beer and get a jobt, don't they know that's the secret for not being poor? Working hard is what makes you rich!

1point

Xandra 1 year ago

I live in an university town (Europe). Everybody I know lived with their parents until finishing studies and getting a proper job, and I'm not talking about rich parents. It was certainly cheaper for everybody than paying for dorms.

6points

Casey Payne 1 year ago

Who the f**k orders someone to buy them ANYTHING? Rich, poor, other? Never had that as a situation happen to me. I wouldn't know how to respond to the disrespect of it. If they had asked for it or if they just needed it, I would probably give it to them. A demand of money would get you thrown out. And you damn sure wouldn't get money.

5points

Brazen 1 year ago

You also had more money than them because you got to live at home for free for years that others aren't always lucky enough to get. I was told I had to move after grad...I was out of the house 3 days later. We don't always get the chance to save that amount of money.

4points

DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago

I think many of the commenters are being overly harsh on this post. He or she most likely came from a very poor country (notice how they notated $14k, and/but also believe that's a large amount of money) where becoming independent at 20 is an particularly laudable achievement.

3points

Anya Beboop 1 year ago

14k going out on your own is actually very valuable. It's enough to cover your rent for a little while, to get some furniture, and cover your bills until you find a job. I get less than 14k in a year on disability. It's a lot to me.

0points

Sinnsyk Jakte 1 year ago

...I en't rich. Far from it. But when my loved ones need or want anything, I will stupidly drain my funds to get it for them...and live off buttered noodles 'til my next paycheck...

2points

Chelsea Bates 1 year ago

It was going ok until the last few words...

2points

Clown fish 1 year ago

Yep my hubby's dad is rich not him. We are both very skint

2points

StrangeOne 1 year ago

A teacher pointed that out to my class. No one is born with anything but parents. Kids are not rich, themselves, unless they're the very, very few who make their own money.

1point

Mary Kelly 1 year ago

your parents gave you their zip code, your education, etc., etc.

1point

Surfing Panda 1 year ago

You have no idea how much money you saved (or didn't have to spend).

0points

Silke 1 year ago

I want to point out one thing. That f*ing safety net can also be a millstone. I was naive. I married an awesome man and never looked into his background - why would I? He was sweet, intelligent and he obviously loved me But when his parents criticized me, he didn't dare contradict them because he would lose that net. After 25 years of this, i started defending myself. That's when they accused me of being a gold digger. They hated that I started university when my kids were teens, something that the two of us had agreed to when I quit school to put him through. Sticking up for myself made things worse, so I asked him to ask his parents to back off. Two years later they paid the lawyer End of marriage. And end of family. My kids had been treated well. The safety net strangled me

0points

Christie Ramos 1 year ago

That's still your parents money. All the ways they supported you is how you could even afford to save that money.

0points

Manuel Delgado 1 year ago

$150 in weed every week? I mean, c'mon.

0points

Cafesinner 1 year ago

This is some entitled rich kid logic tho. Just get a job oh ok then. Not everyone can stay somewhere for free etc to save up a bunch

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Benita Valdez 1 year ago

Worse is when less fortunate family members think they're owed something. My aunt is quite wealthy; she is an intelligent and hard working cattle rancher who worked her àss off to get where she is. But there have been family members who thought they were owed something for being blood and would constantly harass her for money and to be bought stuff. My aunt had to cut out alot of family member from her life because of their greed

0points

Klopec 1 year ago

I happen to be rich and spend more than that on weed.

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Lizz 1 year ago

My dad had a well-paid job and my mom could afford to stay home and I'm "just a factory employee " while everyone expected me to go to college & become successful like my dad....

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Kirsti-Tina Thompson 1 year ago (edited)

It's easy to "spend well" and save 14000 when you don't have to live paycheck to paycheck because of rent, utilities, food, clothing, university etc, not because you're buying weed and beer. You don't owe anyone tryna hustle you to foot their bill, -- they can't afford a beer then they can't afford to drink and they shouldn't -- but please understand that you had a bit of an easier head start.

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Remi 1 year ago

That's a good point you brought up though I don't feel like author doesn't get it. For me it felt like just a simple rant about people's expectations of them and asking favors, free stuff. I think they just want to be treated like another human being and not a walking wallet which seems quite reasonable to me

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Heather Vandegrift 1 year ago

You were able to save up $14,000 to do what you wanted BECAUSE your family was rich enough that you didn't HAVE to pay for rent, food, car, insurance, etc until you wanted to. Don't fool yourself into thinking you saved all that money by pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Yes, making smart money decisions helps you keep the money you make, but you got a start because while they weren't giving you money specifically from the time you were 16, they were giving you everything that money is needed for, allowing you to actually save what you earned yourself!

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Amanda Hunter 1 year ago

You lived free for the first 20 years of your life, does that mean that they want you to give them money to repay the first 20 years?

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Kat Hoth 1 year ago

So you mean you haven't taken any money from them since you turned 20...

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April_the_vampire 1 year ago

What teenager even sees $140k USD in four years, much less is able to save so much if you’re not taking money from your parents? That’s the most entitled thing you said, and I am not usually one to judge like that.

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Marcos Valencia 1 year ago

On the other side of the medal, rich people tend to understimate your needs, if you're poor or you don't come from a "good family".

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Jodie daubenmire 1 year ago

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Commitment seems to be the key in making money, according to Shubham. "I see people flocking from one idea or organization to another, when something is not bringing results in a short span of time," he says. "Play the long term game, and you will see yourself grow very quickly."

"The job market is changing," he added. "Earlier Asian parents used to think only doctors and engineers could be wealthy. Today, you can earn a lot through following your passion of becoming a content creator, selling courses or even providing services to the ultra rich sitting at home. Don't rely on one source of income. Diverge once you have one income source set."

If you're interested in learning more financial advice from Shubham and his team at StartupTalky, be sure to visit their site right here.

I have reasonably well off parents - big house in a nice town, that sort of thing.

However, my brother and I were always taught humility. I had a job from 13 at a restaurant washing dishes, and I had to save for my first car. Yet people whose parents bought them their cars and never made them work still thought I was more spoiled because we had a bigger house.

The perception that you don't have to work for anything is the most infuriating thing. Yes, if I were in a tight situation my parents would help me, and others may not have that luxury. But I have never once in my 28 years had to ask for any financial help from them, and I don't intend to as long as I can help it.

hobonation256 , iheartcreative Report

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138points

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Jennifer Clayton 1 year ago

The difference is that you can take risks. It changes everything about how you make life choices.

185points

Spending time with other wealthy people.

It's total Russian f*****g roulette. Rich people are always either totally laid back, amazing people that you'd never know were rich, or they're psychotic, self obsessed, judgemental a******s whose life revolves around proving to you just how rich and awesome they are.

anon , Zinkevych_D Report

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126points

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Luna Crow 1 year ago

Seems to me this is the spectrum of humans, regardless of the size of their banana pile

11points

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Non-rich dude that became a rich dude. To be honest the changes in your old friendships. I am lucky enough to have had a very lucrative career in a field I love and have become markedly more wealthy than my circumstances growing up. I grew up with a very close knit group of friends who are like family (around 10 of us) who have remained in the same socio-economic class after university.

As my income grew, naturally my life changed - I moved to a fancier suburb closer to work, started to buy nice things, travel for work etc. I also started to notice some of my oldest friends start acting differently toward me. I'm not a show off or ostentatious with my money, but I do buy things that none of my friends can afford (nice watches, furniture, art etc). I feel they are uncomfortable when they are around my place - though they never say anything snarky. Sometimes their wives and SOs will make comments like "wow you must be doing really well" or asking me how much a painting cost and my friends become visibly uncomfortable (and look pissed off with their partners) and it just makes everything awkward.

They don't expect me to pay for things, it's almost the opposite. I sometimes try to treat my friends and I feel it makes them uncomfortable. Eg. if a band we loved growing up are in town and we want to go I will offer to get us all the best (more expensive) tickets. Now I know they would all love to experience that, but they seem uneasy accepting the gift. I dont want any recognition or anything in return for it - the money is seriously no big deal for me. I just want to have an awesome night out with my mates. Most of the time they will accept and then insist on giving me the money after the fact and it makes me feel like an a*****e cause I know they wouldn't have bought tickets that expensive in the first place. Another example is when I end up giving over the top gifts at weddings etc. I just want to give my friends the best gift I can afford and something I know they would love but I feel it makes them uncomfortable that they cant reciprocate.

My mates still love me and I love them (they even regularly say they are proud of me etc) but I feel there is this weird void between us now that our lifestyles are so different. I've become very self conscious of my wealth around my old friends and most of the awkwardness is probably due to my own insecurity of not wanting my friends to think money has changed me :( sucks man.

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125points

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Max Fox 1 year ago

I do have sympathy for this person. Suddenly having money, even if it's money you worked for, can change relationship dynamics, especially if the rest of your friends do not have money.

70points

I don't understand all this "people only want me because I'm rich" stuff... are you walking around telling people about your trust fund?? I know poor people with extremely expensive cars, people who find designer clothes in consignment shops, people with tons of class and no cash. why don't you wait to reveal the money until you know what kind of person they are?

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kirsten 1 year ago

yes! i a lot of these posts are giving WTF vibes

63points

People act like you can spend money all the time. Just because I'm wealthy doesn't mean i like to waste my money on fast food or useless crap I don't need

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99points

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Cosmo 1 year ago

My parents were "wealthy" (to some friends at least) because we didn't go out to eat, have cable or cell phones or even internet for years after their families did

26points

SuckonthisWaW , biasciolialessandro Report

I wouldn't say rich but I had the most money out of my group of friends and it was always every weekend the same questions "can you get bud?, I'm starving can you get some food for me bro?", or the classic "Let's go out and do something tonight." And sometimes I didn't mind buying food if I was hungry too but all the time it gets a little ridiculous how much people will use you for money.

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95points

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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago

I was the human ATM machine for some people and I wasn’t even THAT wealthy. These people were jerks

45points

#10

I currently have no income. (new college grad. job hunting. hurray.) But I went to a school full of honest-to-goodness trust fund babies, people who have summer houses in different states and all that. The worst part from my observation is that people think if you're rich, nothing bad can happen to you. And it's true that money can protect you from a lot of things: it feeds you, clothes you, can pay for good doctors, etc. But it doesn't protect from things like infidelity, mental illness, cancer or other serious illnesses, abusive relationships, broken families, or sexual violence. And if any of those things happen to you and you're wealthy, people think you're an ungrateful moron if you talk about it. Money can't necessarily fix those things. I get the whole "check your privilege" thing, but rich people face a lot of the same stuff as poorer people.

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85points

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Jill Sadler 1 year ago

The difference is having the means to get yourself out vs knowing there’s no hope. Living without hope… thats the end.

56points

#11

feeling s****y because of something then feeling guilty because you feel like you're being ungrateful and feeling more s****y

preach_the_rhetoric , Iakobchuk Report

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65points

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kirsten 1 year ago

yeah, this one i would understand

29points

#12

I was raised in a wealthy house and basically it made me resent the f**k out of rich people. Regardless of how you get to where you are, I don't necessarily appreciate how some richfolk are perfectly fine with having all of their s**t done for them without taking good care of their help or good compensation for services. For example having someone cleaning your giant a*s house for about the same price as a normal house. I think that's stupid

pottyclause , jdvolcan Report

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61points

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Max Fox 1 year ago

Again, this is a small percent of "rich". A family with an income of $300,000 a year is rich. However they cannot afford a live-in maids or nannies. Even $500,000 a year, so top 1%, is not enough, in the USA and most of Europe at least, to pay for full time help at that level. Most will pay for somebody to clean their house once a week, but that's usually it.

16points

#13

There are none. I grew up poor, govt housing, public schools, worked/studied hard and am not apologetic to anyone. Expensive cars, watches, etc. I actually do value money and people that know me, know Im not going to pay every time, or give them money etc. Dont have many friends cause of it, but who cares, I grew up an only child, no one was ever there to help me, so I like it better this way. Have a small circle of friends who I trust and quite frankly dont care about the rest

cook_mons4 , photocreo Report

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61points

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Sassawrasse 1 year ago

This is how you do it! All of these other folks saying they pay for everything or get used for money... Just don't! Drop the idiots who do that to you!

34points

#14

Having people devalue your accomplishments because your parents are rich.

Hugh_Jasoal , westend61 Report

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49points

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The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago (edited)

Being given every advantage means your only job is to not screw it up so, congrats? You’d have to be as stupid as, say, Donald Trump to be so terrible at being rich as to fail to beat the market.

45points

#15

People don't think of you as a real person anymore. I grew up in a lower-middle-class family, worked in my Dad's liquor store and delivered newspapers, I graduated college deep in debt, I've been evicted from apartments for late rent, been chased by debt collectors, and spent one entire summer riding a motorcycle to work (sometimes in pouring thunderstorms) because my car's engine block cracked and I couldn't afford a new one. Saved a lot on gas, though.

However I was an outstanding computer programmer and was invited to join a startup company that eventually went public, so I was able to retire at a very early age. I'm still pretty much the same person but now I'm classified as "wealthy" so I'm now a "thing". So I lost many of my old friends who can't think of me as still being an actual ordinary person.

The other problem with being a "thing" instead of a person is that specifically that "thing" is a "target". One aspect of being considered wealthy is a phenomena known as the "Rich Man's Tax". Basically it's considered praiseworthy to cheat rich people out of their money. So, if I need a plumber to come fix something he'll look at my house and try and charge me triple rate. And many people reading this will say "good for him, stick it to the wealthy bastards" well F**K YOU IN CAPITAL LETTERS. I'm still the same person I've ever been and I don't like being cheated. But it's a symptom of our society - people bash the wealthy and try and cheat them but everyone wants to *be* one (for example, the billions spent on lottery tickets).

joeomar , jm_video Report

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49points

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The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago

Compared to the tax and responsibility evasion by the rich, your plight is nothing

35points

#16

'Must be nice' because if I dare complain, that's what I'll hear.

I'm a rich kid so I automatically lose the moral high ground in any conversation. I've gone the whole poverty route, worked overnight crew as a Target stockboy, but it doesn't matter because I'm 'fake poor' and can always ring up my daddy if things get tough.

I've actually heard poor people complain about Barbara Eichenrich's *Nickle & Dimed*. "Well, she was only pretending to be poor . . . " Ummm . . . .she's trying to help out poor people by showing how it's impossible to make ends meet on a minimum wage salary. Show a little gratitude!

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44points

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Max Fox 1 year ago

But they're right. This person will not die because they can't afford insulin, nor will they be homeless and starving if they lose their Target Stocky job. Of course, if their parents have cut them off, then they're not rich.

49points

#17

I come from a wealthy family. Not to the point where people know our names, but to the point where if we drop the company name in most European countries, people get worked up.

The worst part of it is that everyone thinks your life is perfect. To the rest of the world, your life must be perfect, because you're rich.

Some of the time, that's true. I've gone to the best schools, the best doctors, best restaurants, best vacation spots - I won't deny that in many ways, I've had a blessed life.

However, my dad worked his a*s off. I spent most of high school living alone in an apartment off a trust fund, because he was never home. Before him and my mom split, I endured years of emotional and sometimes physical abuse from her. I grew up with epilepsy, and horrible acne (used to get called scrambled egg face). Life is life - mine might be easier in some ways, but it has absolutely been harder than others, and being rich, no one gives a second thought to the fact that life might not have been totally perfect for me.

TheUnfindable , Prostock-studio Report

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40points

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Matthew Fox 1 year ago (edited)

Literally no one thinks rich people have perfect lives and no problems. That's another projection. Everyone knows the rich have their problems but their economic privilege renders them in a completely different league. This dude's biggest complaint was that he was living off a trust fund. And his physical and mental health issues? Yeah, they suck, but his economic status gave him tools and resources which renders them far less damaging than they would be for a poor person. Edit: Wasn't expecting to get downvoted HERE of all places.

22points

#18

You never really know if your relationships are genuine or if it's because people want something from you. I met my wife and my close friends before I made a lot, so I'm not worried about them, but I do about almost everyone else. I never really knew why rich people hung out with other rich people, what difference does money make right? Well it kind of does. I realize it's because you get a better sense of where you stand with people that don't want anything from you.
I might be way too cynical, but I buy cheap clothes and hide the wealth because I'm afraid of how new people will change around me if they find out.

anon , LightFieldStudios Report

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37points

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Brazen 1 year ago

I feel weird saying this, but not all people are like this. I do not care about anyone's bank account, I care if you're a decent person or not.

34points

#19

Other people's envy and/or bitterness. Pain is pain. Money alleviates some pains, but not others. It can't undo death, or serious trauma.

Having your pain denied because others can't empathize with you is incredibly alienating. I think that cuts both ways; it affects the poor who aren't able to make their pain understood because the wealthy aren't confronted with the same problems. And it affects the rich who can't make it understood that money doesn't make you invulnerable, much as it seems it might.

We are all human. Some have tougher lives than others. Money is one, but not the only factor.

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36points

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Joshua Russell 1 year ago

I have some sympathy for rich people when it comes to the problems that truly affect everyone equally, like mental illness, growing up with abuse or neglect, etc. Those things aren't easy for anyone. For the other stuff, like people treating you like an ATM, the ultimate solution is a more equal society. The price of everything is going up, and just coping with everyday life is ridiculously difficult for a lot of poor people. It shouldn't be surprising that poor people will try to get money from rich people when rich people have created a society that is miserable to live in when you're poor, and designed to keep most people poor. So I hope all the wealthy folks bemoaning these problems are going to pay their full share of taxes, donate to charities, pay their employees generously, get politically active to pass laws that will create a more equal society, and encourage other wealthy folks to do the same. As the saying goes, the love of money is the root of all evil.

36points

#20

Not super rich, but my parents did alright. However a lot of friends I went to college with weren't in the same boat. It amazed me that most of them had never traveled to another country (I grew up in Asia as an expat, so "normal" for me was going visiting countries for school trips). The girl I'm dating right now is struggling to pay for an incredibly cheap college (tuition is about 6k a year), whereas my parents are able to put me and my brother through medical school at the same time. Granted, I had a scholarship through undergrad and earned enough at my on campus job to pay my living expenses, but I'm not paying s**t for my first year of medical school.

Another reason it's different is because my parents were self made. Their parents emigrated to the US and my parents were born there. Their families were pretty poor growing up. Now, I've grown up with everything but I'll be lucky to be even half as financially successful as my father was. And I'm going to be a doctor. Unless I go into an incredibly competitive specialty that I'm not interested in, I won't make anywhere near as much. So much for that.

TLDR as a kid of wealthy parents it skews my sense of normal, and it's hard for me not to take things for granted like education. Also, pressure to succeed.

aznsk8s87 , sofiiashunkina Report

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Anouk T 1 year ago

One of not many posts here that sounds genuine and the author acknowledges his position and skewed world view

30points

#21

The worst thing is when people *judge* your character by how you spend and donate your money.

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Max Fox 1 year ago (edited)

That's because "their" money was usually the result of the hard work of people who are paid a lot less. For a corporation to make money, they have to pay their workers less than what the workers contribute. For every $100 of value that the workers provide, they're paid substantially less than $100. The rest of the value goes for higher pay for upper management, for the bonuses for upper management, and for the capital gains of the stockholders. People like Elon Musk are becoming Billionaires because they pay their workers far less money that the workers are worth to company. Every person making money off of the stock market is living off of the hard work of the people who actually do the manual work.

50points

#22

That I should be happy. I have all the resources in the world, so I should be able to afford the things that make me happy including the top mental health professionals.

I'm f*****g miserable and really hopeless because I have tried everything and don't feel better. Literally my doctors are now just telling me to keep holding on and that apparently breakthroughs in science are coming that would help me.

And other people make me feel guilty that I'm not happy because I'm so privileged. People assume I'm not grateful or that I'm spoiled. But really I'm just sad and empty. I've been called "poor little rich girl." I just don't think thats fair because I think about suicide all the time.

I would do anything to have my only problem be money. I don't think people realize what a luxury that is. It sounds like paradise compared to depression.

But back to your question. It is the expectations that others have for me. I just can't live up to them. I'm a waste of an opportunity.

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Sassawrasse 1 year ago

Maybe you can volunteer and give back instead? You don't have to be this Nobel prize winning astronaut - just leave the world a better place than you found it.

29points

#23

People expect you to pay for everything and they will invariably order the most expensive things (food, liquor, etc). I don't mind paying at all and I know how bad this sounds, but to me, the cost is irrelevant. But when people make zero attempt to pay, it's very disheartening and I will rarely meet up again with someone who does that.

When I meet someone who could be a potential friend, I am vague about where I live, lifestyle, etc because I want to let the friendship grow without the issue of money. Eventually the person will figure out my situation and the best people are the ones who don't change as a result, but some people simply get weird around you and it can be uncomfortable. Rich people often hang out with other rich people simply because it's less complicated, not because they may like the person a lot.

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A P 1 year ago

I know there's all different sorts, but if someone else is paying for my dinner, I always specifically look for the least expensive options that still sound good. I suppose for comedic effect, I should say I always order the second most expensive thing so that I won't offend the rich person.

13points

#24

Due to different circumstances I'm quite wealthy considering I'm a student, and despite doing my best to hide it to prevent people being false friends, and judgemental, people inevitably clock on to the fact you've got a bit of money. They then judge you, and constantly drop snide comments, about really petty things. Example, I don't have to buy rock bottom price own brand spirit / drinks / food. I don't go buying grey goose or w/e which i've seen people do to simply show off, I'm not buying tables and ordering moet in clubs, but just because I can afford to buy premium vodka or branded drinks, don't take it out on me simply because you can't.

Same for food, I'm in the fortunate enough position to not have to buy aldi / lidl, and can afford to buy the food I like even when its not on special. I can go to the more upmarket shops and afford their ranges. I don't flaunt my money or brag about it, I don't even discuss it, I just keep to myself and buy the food that I like. But the amount of times i've had people dropping snide comments about what I eat, and the brands of food I eat, petty s**t like that is too many times to remember. (I wouldn't even mind if I was buying gold plated beluga caviar, but I'm talking like, regular s**t). Like, I'm well aware that I can get a spaghetti bolognaise ready meal for a quarter of the price in aldi, but I don't want it, and preaching at me about it every time I go to get something out the fridge is just poking your nose in where its not wanted.

Like also I can afford to get the train to uni, which is more expensive than getting the bus. Again, snide comments. Or getting a cab home from a club at 4am instead of walking back for an hour, then if someone can't afford it, offering to pay for them, but they'll decline my offer and get funny over the fact I got a cab home.

Its just petty s**t like that that really gets to me. Its unnecessary. I don't flaunt or waste money at all, I don't look down on people for buying own brand if thats what they want to do, its their prerogative and its not my place to comment on what they eat. I just keep myself to myself, yet people can be so quick to judge and pass comment.

Edit: Romantic relationships can be very difficult as well, like whilst people may not know you've got a bit of cash when you start dating, soon after they realise, and 9/10 times their attitude changes, and you're expected to suddenly cough up for everything they want, at which point you have to dump them because you begin to realise the only reason they stayed with you was for money. I had a relationship that was quite serious once, and I really opened up to her, and when we were discussing the future, I mentioned that given my situation, my family have written clauses into trusts that I must have a prenup, but it shouldn't be an issue cause I know your not here for that. Yup, she upped and left the week after because 'we weren't going anywhere the relationship was dead.'

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kirsten 1 year ago

sorry, how do people know what brands of food you're eating if you don't tell them.....also, do they brand the fresh fruit, veg, meats//dairy where you shop

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#25

Sometimes other people feel like they're entitled to my money. Its kind of hard to explain. For example, Im supposed to pay for everything else and if I don't then its a problem. Or, all shop owners or whatever sell me everything way over priced. If i try to bargain I get a death stare, and if they're rude enough they will actually say that I'm rich and it wont matter to me if I pay a bit more. That's not how it works!!!

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Sassawrasse 1 year ago

Just take your money elsewhere. No need to be held hostage by morons.

21points

#26

I'm not rich, and never have been. In fact, I used to be poor as f**k. All that being said, I am at times very sympathetic toward rich kids, because they always had a "safety net" that hinders the development of their work ethic. If I am truly honest with myself, it is not my "work ethic" that got me my first few jobs. I hated that s**t. The cover letters, the interviews, the waking up early for a newspaper route, the days where I spent my weekends mowing lawns while my wealthier friends went to the beach. Fuckkk That. But I do believe it was my lack of a "safety net" that has conditioned me to be the hard worker that I am today. Rich kids are born without the choice of being rich or not, but due to their environment, if they didn't get a job they still had a source of income or some sort of support. If I didn't get a job, I was homeless.

Being born rich or poor is out of our hands. I believe being born poor comes with a huge advantage that rich kids don't have and that is the necessity for a work ethic. Being born poor means you are born within an environment where not working is not an option. It was my environment, not me, that developed my work ethic that is invaluable in my own life today.

Disclaimer: obviously I made some huge generalizations about rich kids and families. I have known multiple rich kids that grew up to have excellent work ethics. But as a whole, this is what I have perceived to be true in my own life.

GVNYOUDABIZNITZ Report

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18points

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Thomas Ewing 1 year ago

Without being born rich, I taught myself to appreciate everything as if I were rich, because it adds an extra layer of humility to life: What if THIS weren't available? Zero base. A paved street? Wow. Wealth is an attitude as well as circumstance. Complainers and whiners are losers. Raise yourself.

3points

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#27

This is going to get buried because I'm late to the thread but here goes. My dad founded a tech company about 10 years ago now it's grown in size and is publicly traded, the market caps gone over 1billion before but it's only worth about 400milion.I don't know his exact income but it's a lot. But anyways I have to say the worst part is being "rich kid" in my group of friends, I go to public school and almost all dirt poor like they live in trailers and s****y houses and whenever they come over to my place for the first time it always makes them view me entirely differently.

The second worst part I got to say is everything is always related to my dads work. Everybody seem to know me as Mr. Boss guys son. For example as I'm typing this comment my dads hosting a party at our house. There's several hundred people here, tons of employees for the party, and a lot of people who have worked for my dad and their family's. I originally walked around with a name tag that just had my first name on it and only a few people talked to me/knew who I am. But then my mom said I should put my last name too and everybody suddenly started saying "Oh you must be Mr.boss guys son." And then they would start talking about what the company is up to and various things my dad is involved with. I felt so out of place I just hid in my room and went on reddit. Still contemplating whether I should back outside.

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17points

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Brazen 1 year ago

I feel like this kid's attitude is what really sucks. The kids probably view him differently because he shows off his house and stuff in it, while he views the places they live in as "s****y houses" and trailers. I also get wanting to be your own person, but he just sounds annoyed that people want to talk to him because they know who he is. It's just small talk...I'm sure they don't know what else to say.

25points

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#28

Sounds like I'm bragging but I'm not but I've more money than I'll need and tend to be generous, paying for my daughters' groceries etc but I'm sure both of their partners think I'm showing off, throwing my money around.

rennaps4 , Pressmaster Report

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11points

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kirsten 1 year ago

you could quietly give your money to charity

15points

#29

Two physician family:

#1: ENT+Ophthalmologist~$1m/y

#2: Family doc+Pediatrician~$300k/y

Neither poor by any measure, but insanely different realities with the same expectations.

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5points

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Brazen 1 year ago

What does this even mean?

20points

#30

It's kind of uncomfortable having a maid around. Can't I just eat my cereal without her putting the box back? Jesus Christ, Julie. I might want another f*****g bowl. I'll put the box back when I'm done.

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3points

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Nat Rich 1 year ago

Haha this is their worst thing. Poor you

4points

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#31

Although I'm not very wealthy, there's an upcoming Europe trip for school and my mother, being a person who was born in a different country with little money, is basically making me go so that I have the opportunity to explore new places, something she's always wanted to do but has never been able to do.

Though we're not very wealthy at all and are struggling to make payments for me to go on this trip (Yes, I feel extremely bad), the worst part about this is when other students find out you're going. They assume I'm wealthy and start talking about how privileged I am, when, in reality, we're not really wealthy. Especially after some of the struggles we've been through, it gets to me when people start saying stuff like "Damn, you're rich" or "Wow, I can't believe you're throwing away that kind of money. You don't know the struggle".

Anyways, it's definitely not a pissing contest as to who struggles more, but some people treat it that way and, even though I am grateful for a mother who will scrape money together to provide for me and pay for an expensive trip, it gets really annoying and frustrating when people think my problems (and the problems of actually wealthy people or people well off in general) are not validated.

We are human, not an income.

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#32

I will never apologize for my family's fortune or privilege. I won't belittle all the hard work and suffering that my family has gone through to get to where we are. Don't assume that every family that is well off was born into fortune and opportunity.

My dad is the epitome of a self made man and busted his a*s to provide for us. He passed on his beliefs to me and my siblings about hard work and that you shouldn't take anything you haven't earned. Someone may have more than you but don't always assume that they didn't work, struggle, suffer, or sacrifice to get it.

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2points

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Joolee 1 year ago (edited)

That's the thing. Other people also work hard and bust their a*s off to provide, they struggle, suffer and sacrifice too.

3points

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#33

My parents just bought a third house. I'm 21 and I work a student job, and frequently I get asked, "why do you even bother working?"

Just cause my parents are rich doesn't mean I'm rich! Granted I don't have student loans, but I still have to buy my own s**t!

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#34

I made a lot of money when I was really young, lost my business and went broke, started another and made more money. The worst by far is losing very close friends because they're jealous of your financial success. They still like you and don't hate you, they just feel like life screwed them somehow and don't want to be around you. I'm the same person he'd known for years. Some that stick around, they change their attitude towards you which is frustrating. They love to see anything go wrong for you and try to outdo you in areas of your life you're not good at.

A girl I dated decided I couldn't be making money legally and stopped talking to me. I've had other girls accuse me of being a drug dealer many times and call it off. My ex told I was "entitled" and needed to experience what being poor was like, even though I'd lost my first business and went completely broke.

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#35

To many people ask for money or for you to invest in them/idea plus a lot of fake friendships

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#36

Not rich but my dad is. First off I feel I do need to state the obvious: I grew up well. I never had to worry about money nor the fear of not having money. That being said, on to answer the question.

It took me a long a*s time to be calibrated. Because money was never a problem nor did I ever nor will probably ever have the fear of not having money, it takes away a lot of the psychological aspect of spending it.

I was about to buy a laptop for a good friend of mine before another friend stopped me and told me it was inappropriate. Took me a while to learn that money's a touchy subject.

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#37

Toss up between being under the microscope whenever you spend to being discredited for any success you've had.

* If I spend responsibly, who the hell cares how much I spent on this season's wardrobe? I know I'm very fortunate to be able to spend like I do. I know I could probably feed a lot of hungry people, or something. But I don't. And that makes me Satan, apparently. If any of my friends had the same income and networth, they would spend on the same bags, vacations, clothes and food. I do my charity, attend fundraisers, and get my hands dirty when I have the time but none of that matters.

* My family has been in the shipping industry pretty much as long as there's been steam-powered shipping. I'm an associate director at a pharmaceutical company. My parents didn't get me this f*****g job. I'm young, I have degrees from mid-tier schools. I'm aware. I got a lucky foot in the door and maybe, just maybe, I worked pretty darn hard to get here. Now I'm under no illusion that a lot of my success isn't down to my background, but I don't have the job I do because of it.

There's a significant class division in the U.S. and it's not just one way. There's significant and infamous examples of the wealthy having derision for the poor. The people with the derision for the poor are usually the self-made or children of the self-made who worked really hard and don't understand why everyone else can't do the same. Older money couldn't really care less.

But there's many more in the lower-classes, and a larger percent of them, who just unabashed hate the rich for no good reason other than thinking the economy is a zero-sum game; that because I have mine, you don't have yours. Some of it's jealousy, some of it's insecurity, some of it is misinformation, and some of it is justified.

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Luna Crow 1 year ago

Yes, "for no good reason." The top ten percent of households own 76% of all wealth in the U.S., while the bottom 50% of households own just 1% of all wealth. Also we pay higher taxes than you. And get zero bail-outs. This person has no idea what they're talking about and should STFU.

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#38

People act like you can spend money all the time. Just because I'm wealthy doesn't mean i like to waste my money on fast food or useless s**t I don't need.

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#39

The un-happiness. With wealth comes problems within families. Useless fights over useless things. Stress also comes along with it. Being rich doesn't band together a family, it sort of separates. Yeah its cool to have nice things, but at what cost? Mo money, mo problems.

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Seedy Vine 1 year ago

Poverty separates families in a million different ways. Most of mine have died by now of curable diseases they couldn't afford to have.

4points

#40

It makes me feel isolated.
My achievements and all that I accomplished is scrutinized to the core. I deleted Facebook for this very reason. I dred getting phone calls from distant family members or friends. They will ignore you for months befriend you for about a week and give you a sob story as to why they need money. It's almost always the same b******t when it comes to being payed back. Next week, I shouldn't worry about money if I'm well off or I'm an a*****e for rushing someone in the time of need. I literally don't tell anyone what I do for a living anymore. My response when I am asked what I do is I work at McDonald's. This has caused me to be emotionally and physicaly distant from most family members.

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#41

the pressure to succeed is immense.

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Cloudy 1 year ago

Yess, I feel it all the time 🤝

1point

#42

Obviously there are some things, most of which have already been mentioned, that are annoying/frustrating. Always being expected to pay for things can become overwhelming, especially if someone voices this expectation and makes a scene if their demands aren't sufficiently met. I also find myself becoming a bit sad when I buy [well thought out] gifts and get accused of trying to buy their friendship or expecting something in return... No, just no. Oddly, these accusations always seem to come from people that I've known for quite some time, and I thought were already friends. Clearly, I'm incapable of differentiating friends from whatever people keep thinking we are.

With all that being said, I think the "worst" thing is people insisting they have any say in how money is spent. I donate to things I care about or am involved in, but I don't think anyone is obligated to give money away. In fact, as I've gotten older, I see more value in offering time then money. There's also a lot of ways to give back to a community, and it doesn't have to involve a check or even face-to-face interaction. I also find unwarranted opinions on spending get even worse when it comes to luxury spending or lifestyle choices. An actual discussion is one thing, an almost picketed protest of someone's personal life, that doesn't concern you, is another.

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago (edited)

Huh? What’s that noise? *🎻🎻🎻* oh you poor thing 🙄

1point

#43

I'm not personally rich, my parents are rich. I work so I can afford my own clothes and social expenses, but I don't have to pay for school or rent out of my own pocket.

I personally don't earn enough per year to pay income tax, so even though tax gets deducted from my pay cheques, I would get that amount back in my tax return.

Or rather it would, if I didn't have a trust fund...

It's the ultimate first world problem, I don't get a tax return because I have a trust fund. The trust fund counts as income for me, and puts me into a higher tax bracket.

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River Webb 1 year ago

Oh boo hoo you have to pay tax, it must be soo hard

5points

#44

maids are definitely annoying and having to have cameras all over the house is more annoying.
i dont like the driver either but since nothing is really mine and it all belongs to my parents then yeah i have no opinion in kicking them out

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TomCat 1 year ago

Lil brat

6points

#45

People think your private plane is a f*****g free taxi service. They get so angry when you don't lend it out as such. I get requests to use my plane on a weekly basis from people I know. "Hey Panther, it would really make my wife's birthday more special if our group could use your jet to get us to and from Vegas." I shut them up by telling them I will have the pilot call them to arrange things. He then tells them how much it will cost to charter the flight and they usually drop the request pretty quickly. Only once have they called back expecting me to foot the bill.

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kirsten 1 year ago

no one cares

33points

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Bi-Polar Express 1 year ago

It must be nice to have these problems about how others look at you without worrying about how you'll pay your bills AND eat.

49points

Debbie 1 year ago

I am not rich but in this country I don't have to worry about paying bills and eat. I have a steady job which covers my needs. This is what should be the norm to measure against. This is what "the lowest" should be. But i guess you'll hate me because I don't have those problems.

13points

Mila Preradović 1 year ago

I never in my 40+ years knew I grew up rich until I read this article.

2points

TheReader19 1 year ago

My gas and electricity bills were £600 for January, more than my rent and not including any other bill

1point

David Paterson 1 year ago

Nope. Financial success breeds jealousy and jealousy breeds hatred. The more money you have, the more people hate you and do their utmost to destroy you. Poor people don't attract the hatred of a whole nation. Don't have to put up with all those parasites who want to bankrupt you ASAP. Poor people don't have to work 20 hours a day just to break even.

-3points

HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago

Based on the comments, I think a lot of people simply hate the ‘rich’. Yes some of these posts seem like complaining, and yes it would be harder to be poor and having these problems, but being ‘rich’ doesn’t define the person. Growing up in ‘rich’ families might make them spoiled brats, but you don’t get to define them by saying all of the problems could be solved by money. Yes it would solve a LOT of problems but I think there is a lot of hate towards seemingly ‘rich’ people who might have earned the money themselves (cue people saying I’m stupid) or through other stuff and is totally not sticking it in other people’s faces. Some of them might have ‘rich’ families and stuff. I really hate the term ‘rich’ being blatantly used in a negative way to describe a person if they’re not deserving it. Except from the a******s. I know I will at least have 10 downvotes for this thing but it isn’t hate or spam so I guess so be it.

27points

--- 1 year ago

Internet access and literacy alone mean these people have it easy compared to lots of others on the planet. It's hypocrisy, to claim someone's problems are invalid and yours aren't because of money differences, when there are milions who can only dream of living your life, and you didn't help any of them.

13points

TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago

Also, on literally every one of these there's exclusively people bitching about poor people, even though most of these are clearly comparing themselves to their (upper) middle class friends who most likely never had to deal with all that much real financial struggle either... Like do people really think some rich dude's friends who got gifted a car by their parents don't have a financial safety net just because they're not first-world rich???

3points

Karly Marx 1 year ago

Maybe because they are tone deaf & complain about the most trivial, stupid s**t & act like that's a valid thing to be mad about. Also, it depends on the rich ppl. Sorry that the majority of people (in the US atleast) live paycheck to paycheck. They're exploited & overworked.... by who you ask? .... oh... idk THE VERY RICH PPL COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW HARD IT IS TO DEAL WITH PPL WANTING TO USE YOUR PRIVATE JET! ... so yeah... there's obviously ALOT of animosity towards these ppl because they're tone deaf, ignorant & most of them hoard wealth while complaining about why nobody wants to work these days. They complain while sitting in one of their 10 cars... or in their private jet that is terrible for the environment... wearing an outfit that could literally pay for the average persons rent for 6 months... but no. You're totally right. The rich are the victims here. We don't have any right to hate on them. Lol. Stfu

1point

Ueda 1 year ago

Hard not to hate the rich when they are the source of so many problems.

0points

Day 1 year ago

The irony of these comments though. Proving their exact point.

17points

S P 1 year ago

The comments on these are more revealing of the reader than the poster. I like BP because in general the people on here are lovely, but bring money into the equation and people lose a lot of empathy for each other.

16points

TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago

It's really dumb because most of these posts don't even mention poor people but friends who are very clearly middle class and can still afford healthcare, live with parents for free, etc, but pretty much every single comment is 'bUt PoOr PpL hAvE mOrE oBstAcLeS-' yeah they probably f*****g know which is why they're not comparing themselves to poor people in their own posts... Immediately comparing someone to literal top 0.001% billionaires just because they can afford a few pricey watches after lifting themselves out of middle class or lower middle class and acting like they can't complain about their problems anymore is ridiculous, especially considering the fact that most panda's here are quite privileged on the global scale themselves and can afford to waste time here...

4points

Alex Travous 1 year ago

I don't want to be rich per se. I just don't want to have to worry about making rent every month.

16points

Inclusion2020 1 year ago

i refuse to look at this article. And if it’s sooo hard, how about instead of owning 5 hundred thousand dollar cars, you do the sensible thing and give some to the community a mile away from you where there are hungry children.

16points

Laura R. Varanda 1 year ago

I agree. I read like two reasons and stopped. Maybe people aren't guilty of being born rich, but they sure are guilty of doing nothing about it.

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LA Murphy 1 year ago

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Holly Fisher 1 year ago

I read the first 10. Worlds smallest violin 🙄🙄

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Crazy Cookie 1 year ago

Worlds smallest violin? I assume you are referencing the ajr song? Well thats the exact opposite of your hatred of this post. “Somewhere in the universe, somewhere someone’s got it worse, wish that made it easier” Just because their problems might be easier than those of a poor person doesn’t mean they’re not problems, and doesn’t make them terrible people for complaining every once in a while.

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Rita Shapiro 1 year ago

Something about money brings out the worst in people, regardless of their own personal financial situation. I'm guilty of it: I've said that one of the "space gazillionaires" could spend some money on fixing Detroit's water problem and be a hero, but it's none of my business how anyone spends their cash. Others complain about how the poor spend their money. How many times have you heard someone making snarky remarks about what folks buy with food stamps, or why a crappy car has new rims? We all do it, and it's a combination of greed, envy, and anger at our increasingly debased oligarchical version of capitalism. Eat the rich/starve the poor/stop buying lattes and you'd afford a house etc. It's our crappy economic system that creates unhappiness all around. When we step in to opine on how others use/misuse their money it's meaningless drivel.

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Paula Glasscoe 1 year ago

Shame I can only upvote this once! Well said!

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The_Nicest_Misanthrope 1 year ago (edited)

Yeah, it's just SO hard being rich, is it? Your trust fund puts you in a higher tax bracket and your maid keeps cleaning away your cereal bowl too quickly? Oh boo friggin hoo....get off your privileged, fourteen carat horse! This article has done nothing to enlighten me to the 'struggles' of rich people - all it's done is p**s me off. Sure I'll get down voted for this but sod it.

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crowspectre (he/they) 1 year ago

Yeah I kinda came here to yell about how s****y the concept of rich people is. I read a few and wanted to punch a wall tbh

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Zophra 1 year ago

I am still having a hard time with sympathizing.

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Remi 1 year ago

Author: I have a problem... Comments: Shut up! You can make rent and don't have to worry about food on the table. I guess if a rich person breaks the leg and can pay off without going into debt, their leg doesn't/shouldn't hurt anymore with that logic. Better yet let's bully them into apologizing before others for feeling the pain while having money. Should we find the most unlucky person, compare ourselves to them and shut up alltogether maybe? And I'm not a rich person, nor I say all rich folks are good. I'm just against people dismissing problems and feelings of others because of some quality or another.

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TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago

It's super hypocritical too because you KNOW most people here are Western Middle Class who can afford healthcare, live at home without paying rent, and all the other s**t they complain about rich people having that the poor don't so ig they can't complain about their problems anymore. They have enough free time and interest access to b***h under almost every post here, after all. With most of these you don't even know whether the author is 'upper middle class' rich, 'my parents are both dentists' rich, 'my dad is a ceo' rich, or 'my family owned a plantation way back then' rich, yet a lot of comments immediately jump to comparisons to Musk, literally one of the richest men alive, when he makes x10000 of what you need to make to be considered rich in America.

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eame 1 year ago

No sympathy. If it were hard you could always give your money away and then poof no more problems! Oh, what, now you have REAL problems?

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Roald 1 year ago

Sorry, but the majority of my rich clients frown upon paying for a consultation (saving THEM money), but instead sneakily send me questions by email or invite me for lunch to get the info. Bro - I need to earn money to pay my bills. Understand it.

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Greg Wilhelm 1 year ago

I'm a manic depressant and bi polar. That being said, anyone who says money doesn't buy happiness has never stood outside with their kids in line at the food bank.

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Ches Yamada 1 year ago

Manic depressant is bipolar, they're the same thing.

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Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Aw, the trials of being able to afford treatment for those medical problems, hire a good lawyer for other problems, and then just go out of the country until someone else cleans up your messes... says nobody but the wealthy. ANd, yes, they do b*tch like that. My SIL married a guy who is legit severely wealthy private-helicopter style, and to hear him talk, he's the most afflicted guy since Jonah was inside a whale.

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Kitty 🥀 1 year ago

I don’t think I’ve ever in my life read an article with so many bitter, envious, mean-hearted commenters. Yeah, people who grew up rich maybe got a head start. But holy c**p, it’s not like they chose their parents or their own upbringing. Maybe being able to afford therapy and nice things takes the edge off of the injuries we all suffer, but there’s no need to bully them for it.

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Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago (edited)

Having worked as a nurse in a hospital where I could, on any given shift, be looking after the most powerful and/or richer than god, I assure you it doesn’t matter how powerful or rich you are, you’re either an a****** or you’re not. I’ve looked after people who are from the same unbelievably rich families. One man was the nicest, most down to earth & contributed a lot of money to better society. The brother was an a******. I’ve looked after one man who was genuinely pi$$ed off & embarrassed by how Admin fawned over him. He knew. They just wanted a brand spanking new MRI. He insisted to be put in a regular hospital room. No 2 room or 1 room suite for him. He never treated any of us like “the help”. I cared about him because like anyone else, he had a serious health issue that required surgery. That’s it. Others, they think I’m their indentured servant, not their nurse. A******** are everywhere. But some get to be a***** in a much nicer environment.

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J-Boarder 1 year ago

Hey, I've got a genuine question here so please don't downvote: why does everyone hate rich people so much? It just seems weird that everyone tries to make/obtain money in life, but when you make enough of it or are born into it people suddenly don't like you? What if the rich people are philanthropists and give lots of their money to the poor and to charities? Is there some secret fine line of class so that you aren't poor but also aren't rich? If not, why do people not want to be poor but also don't like the rich? (Sorry if any of this sounded rude, I didn't intend it to be haha)

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Kioh81 Premium 1 year ago

The best ones are the ones that do it without the fanfare of "look at me and how great a person I am". But of course that also means the general public doesn't know about it and continues to "hate" on the well-off or rich. The amount of people that ask you for help exponentially increases the further up the money ladder you go.

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Id row 1 year ago

The very definition of rich people problems. I wish I had them. These people need a reality check.

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Valdemar 1 year ago

If you're rich that's fine but keep your life to yourself. You have an abundance of what so many others are without and they struggle to succeed at making through every single day. No one wants to hear about your vacation or car or house or the club you hang out in.

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What's with the "acthchually, you had your parents to help you in case of emergency" ? So many people (outside very poor countries) have that, most common folk aren't forced to move out at 14, they can ask their parents for money or stay at their house. And what's with "but you won't deal with huge student and medical debt"? People comment this when the op doesn't even mention their country. By that logic, citizens of developed countries (except US) are spoilt, ungrateful and should stop complaining about anything because they get free insulin and cheap (or free) university education, when others don't. The worst part is, people here going "others have it much worse, shut up" would also be considered rich by standards of very poor countries. Working from 17 as a waiter would be a dream for 10 year old factory workers. The americans who can't afford college after highschool are privileged conpared to the milions who can't afford going to school in the first place. In the eyes of someone with no access to medical aid due to war, terrorists etc., americans have it easy because they can at least buy medicine and go to a functioning hospital.

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TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago

It's insane. Some guy complains about his clearly middle class or upper middle class friends thinking he's spoiled because his family is wealthier, even though he had to work from age 13 and they didn't and were also gifted a car, yet all the comments are screeching about 'but poor people have no choice but to work to support their family' even though poor people weren't even mentioned in the post and the op wasn't comparing himself to poor people???? They don't even know how wealthy these people actually are, for all they know they're barely above or even just in upper middle class, yet they all immediately get compared to literal billionaires, the top 0.001% of rich people. Like most of the things that they're complaining the rich have access to that the poor don't, the middle class ALSO have access to... Like, living with parents to save money is literally far more common in the middle class than it is in the upper class, tf?

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liam newton-harding 1 year ago

Was this article co-edited by musk, and bezos?

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Vermontah 1 year ago

I'm sure they are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see what BP readers think

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Scarlett 1 year ago

My grandfather is a multimillionaire. The one time I brought it up, my friends immediately wanted to know why I had such a small house and only dressed in hand me downs and thrifted clothes if that was the case. My father was cut off by my grandfather for having different opinions (my grandfather is a narcissistic a*s). I haven’t brought him (my grandfather) up since.

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Taradactyal 1 year ago (edited)

Honestly I could only stomach to read about 1/4 of this garbage, thank you to all in the comments giving reality checks. I was getting the sense that this website is getting full of entitled judgemental click bate but this is the final straw.

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D. Pitbull 1 year ago

Rich People Problems... really? REALLY? Wow... uhm... I suppose the fact that there are so many posts in this list that **many of us can't even hope to relate to** helps to... illustrate even more harshly... uhh... I dunno - I got nothin'.

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crowspectre (he/they) 1 year ago (edited)

If you are an adult and you have more money than you could ever use, you automatically f*****g suck and I hate you because you do not deserve that money. Just cause your grandaddy got lucky or worked hard, you should not be the 1%. Donate your f*****g money. If you're wealthy, or upper-middle class, cool! Great! I have no problems, because you're using exactly what you need for a comfortable life. Even if you set some aside for your kids to be well off, i dont really care. If you have more money than you could ever use and you're hoarding it like f*****g smaug, you are a bad person.i don't care how hard it is to be rich, or how mean I am. I know that you're a human being with thoughts and feelings. You also f*****g suck unless you get rid of that extra money fast. I'm expecting downvotes here but you cannot f*****g convince me otherwise. People are dying broke in the streets. No one should be hoarding money like that.

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Cowws 1 year ago

I never want to win the lottery

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emowankinemo 1 year ago

The rest of us still do!

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B.Nelson 1 year ago (edited)

I know a lot of people were commenting about out of touch these people are, but all these rich people just came across as lonely.

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Injun Joe 1 year ago

I grew up poor but through hard work, my wife and I are comfortable. We're not rich by any means. We can afford many nice things and budget ourselves. Every year we take a vacation to wherever we want. My mom and sister...they always said, "Must be nice". Then I have to say, yes it is, growing up poor, working our tails off for the things we have and enjoy. We're treating ourselves. Often too, I'd say yea, it is, you wouldn't know because yall refused our offers to take a vacation. I'd say too, must be nice to sit at home, be miserable about everything, talk smack on everyone around you and act like a victim of society.

2points

Mickysixxx 1 year ago

I wish I was rich and people used me for my money instead of being poor and being used by the rich because I have no money

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James Doe 1 year ago (edited)

Wtf is wrong with people? In a threat about "rich" people opening up on some negative asepcts of being wealthy 50+% of the comments are making a fuss about how they dare to complain - which is the whole point of the threat and they are simply fulfilling it.. It like making a fuss about water being wet..

2points

TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago

Like I'm a leftist and I can't afford a replacement washing machine and am generally not fond of the rich usually, but I'd way sooner side with rich people than with immature sociopathic asshats who think it's acceptable to b***h about someone sharing their struggles on a post literally meant for them to share their struggles just because they're rich, all while being completely unaware of their own privilege on the global scale, because the rich are slightly less likely to be completely unbearable personality wise.

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TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago (edited)

People are out here acting liking there are only two economic classes... the western middle class can also generally afford treatment and most of the other 'rich perks' like a safety net/saving money by living with the parents/etc that commenters are bitching about under the posts. While most of the wealthy people in the posts are most likely trying to compare themselves to the middle class rather than the poor... Like the one where his friends got gifted a car by their parents while the wealthy guy had to work from age 13 to get one, yet the friends assumed he was more spoiled than them because his family is more wealthy... Those friends are not remotely poor and he's not comparing himself to poor people. He's comparing himself to middle class people who also don't have to work to support their family but instead just not work at all, who most likely also live with their parents for free and have parents who can pay their healthcare etc. Yet the comments are all about poor people even though it is very clearly not about them. Most commenters here don't realise that having internet access and free time to read and complain about dumb articles like these makes them extremely privileged compared to more than 75% of the planet, either. Someone having more money than you is 0 reason to be an unemphatic ahole about them expressing struggles on a reddit thread where they were literally asked to do that. I generally hate the rich but jfc most of y'all specifically are super immature and sound even more unbearable than the rich, ngl.

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TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago

Like 'yeah but you can live with your parents rent free bc you're rich' nah, he can live with his parents rent free free because he's above lower class, saving up by living with your parents is literally infinitely more common in the middle class than it is in the upper classes 💀 Also, some of these literally state they're only around upper middle class and/or got there from lower middle class yet the comments are still somehow crying about the massive leg up they have in life and them Literally being Elon Musk. Like wow, way to prove their point that owning a Rolex or smth immediately makes people act like actual money obsessed sociopaths around you whenever you express an emotion, especially people who aren't all that poor themselves to begin with.

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Kioh81 Premium 1 year ago

Thank you for this entire comment.

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The_Nicest_Misanthrope 1 year ago

Given all of your responses here, I'm going to assume you come from AT LEAST a middle to upper class family.

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Invader Zim 1 year ago

What a bunch of whiners

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Hypoxia Smurf 1 year ago

Wealth is an aspect of power IMHO. I'd a close friend, scion of a wealthy and politically potent family -- he said he showed visiting governors and senators where the bathrooms were in the family mansion -- but he turned his back on all that, working as a commercial exterminator (he learned which eateries to avoid patronizing) and septic-tank pumper. The high life was not for Dave, no way. YMMV.

1point

Thomas Louis 1 month ago

Not all but most rich people have perfect lives (nirvana) at least the vast majority such as your Jeff Bezos / Bill Gates / Mark Zuckerberg's etc.. If I had money I know I'd have a perfect life.

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Tjoori Vids 1 year ago

There are nice wealthy people, and there are a-holes. People think I'm rich, because of how I live. (House in France, and "don't work", which is BS.) I don't have money to waste. I often skip meals so my animals don't have to. I don't go out. I grow my own veg, I have chickens for eggs. But hey, because I have a big house, I must be well off. I'm not. I make do. However, if I do have some money to "spare" (I don't really) and a friend needs help, I will help if I'm able. But there is really only one true friend here, the rest are just... users. And I'm basically done with being used. So "No" is my go to answer these days.

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Maledicta 1 year ago

Some of these people really don't have a clue what it's like to be poor or even "just" middle class. Sure, money can't buy everything, but not having to worry about where your next meal comes from or how to pay for life-saving medicine is already an enormous privilege. That said, I feel that some of those people have genuine concerns, like those wondering whether anyone actually likes them as a person or just bc they have money etc. And then there are those people who are like, "poor people are just jealous" or "just don't buy so much avocado toast" as if being poor was some kind of moral failing and not a systemic problem. Those are the people we are talking about when we say "Eat the rich".

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Joyce Blodgett 1 year ago

I"ve never been financially rich, and I've been in extremely tight financial situations in the past, to the point I had no idea how I was going to feed my then-8 y.o. son (he took the initiative and told my parents/his grands, and suddenly we had loads of groceries to work with). I've worked for rich people; didn't hate them, didn't hate their wealth---they didn't flaunt it, and just looking at them, no one would ever have known they were rich---but I've also worked for rich people who had that "I'm far better than you" attitude, and they didn't pay a living wage. Now I'm retired after decades of working in healthcare, still not rich, but very happy with the spiritual wealth I have.

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Soni. 1 year ago

A lot of bitter people in this comments. The bitterness reeks of entitlement too. Let people feel however way they want as a Person who has money and the most assets in my family there's nothing worse than someone looking at you and expecting handouts and wanting to be bailed out when they mess up which is almost 100% of the time.

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Karly Marx 1 year ago

Is.... is this satire? Because most of these are incredibly ridiculous.... how hard it must be for your friends to treat your PRIVATE JET LIKE A TAXI..... That's so sad. Like... how can you ever recover from that? Meanwhile most ppl can't even afford to take a fucken taxi down the street.

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BravePanda 1 year ago

I was an economically disadvantaged student at a prestigious and expensive university. I met lots of wealthy "peers" who treated me as if I was invisible. To be honest, if I managed to befriend someone wealthy, I tried to be as normal in expectations as possible. That is, until I saw them willfully squander money without any compassion to the reality that I lived. Watching people snort thousands up their noses when I struggled to eat definitely would change my behavior and expectations of them. I once watched $5k of tequila be consumed in a single round of shots. Was I thankful to be included? Sure. But that excess would usually hinder a sincere friendship with them. It's hard to scrape together $20 for a night out, only to watch people spend $2k in 4 hours in front of you. That lack of awareness and compassion always doomed any sincere friendship.

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stella rossa 1 year ago

Poor rich people!!!! They have more problems from you that have no money to pay your rental, your food, that you can't go to the college or you have not insurance and can die from a severe disease ............

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Gia Murray 1 year ago

I don't care how much money you have

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dan martyr 1 year ago

Everyone this thread needs to listen to Pulp’s Common People. Especially the line “everyone hates a tourist” referring to rich kids slumming it. The safety net that wealth offers is extraordinary, none of these kids are going to wait two weeks for a GP appointment, or think about the £5 goes on the gas meter, or on food.

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Kevin J. Henning 1 year ago

Bored Panda is a Lithuanian website that publishes articles about "lightweight and inoffensive topics". Check out this Wikipedia entry about B.P. Judging by the comments I read on this particular entry alone I'd say a vast majority of people were offended.

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Erik Ivan 1 year ago

It all depends. How rich is rich? Some wealth will make life easier. But too much, and you will become a target. It also depends on how you look at your wealht. How important is money in your life?

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Ahmad Hamad 1 year ago

Having money doesn't change you, it's change the people around you.

0points

Ueda 1 year ago

So many rich people’s problems. In an era of financial despair for many, I find this post almost obscene. No, it’s not as hard for rich people. If you think that, grow up.

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Vermontah 1 year ago

Now look at all the comments as if wealth was a race.

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Bi-Polar Express 1 year ago

It must be nice to have these problems about how others look at you without worrying about how you'll pay your bills AND eat.

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Debbie 1 year ago

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Mila Preradović 1 year ago

I never in my 40+ years knew I grew up rich until I read this article.

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TheReader19 1 year ago

My gas and electricity bills were £600 for January, more than my rent and not including any other bill

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David Paterson 1 year ago

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TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago

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Karly Marx 1 year ago

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Ueda 1 year ago

Hard not to hate the rich when they are the source of so many problems.

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Day 1 year ago

The irony of these comments though. Proving their exact point.

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S P 1 year ago

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TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago

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Alex Travous 1 year ago

I don't want to be rich per se. I just don't want to have to worry about making rent every month.

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Inclusion2020 1 year ago

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Laura R. Varanda 1 year ago

I agree. I read like two reasons and stopped. Maybe people aren't guilty of being born rich, but they sure are guilty of doing nothing about it.

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Holly Fisher 1 year ago

I read the first 10. Worlds smallest violin 🙄🙄

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Crazy Cookie 1 year ago

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Rita Shapiro 1 year ago

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Paula Glasscoe 1 year ago

Shame I can only upvote this once! Well said!

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The_Nicest_Misanthrope 1 year ago (edited)

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crowspectre (he/they) 1 year ago

Yeah I kinda came here to yell about how s****y the concept of rich people is. I read a few and wanted to punch a wall tbh

7points

Zophra 1 year ago

I am still having a hard time with sympathizing.

8points

Remi 1 year ago

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TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago

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eame 1 year ago

No sympathy. If it were hard you could always give your money away and then poof no more problems! Oh, what, now you have REAL problems?

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Roald 1 year ago

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Greg Wilhelm 1 year ago

I'm a manic depressant and bi polar. That being said, anyone who says money doesn't buy happiness has never stood outside with their kids in line at the food bank.

5points

Ches Yamada 1 year ago

Manic depressant is bipolar, they're the same thing.

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Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

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Kitty 🥀 1 year ago

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Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago (edited)

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J-Boarder 1 year ago

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Kioh81 Premium 1 year ago

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Id row 1 year ago

The very definition of rich people problems. I wish I had them. These people need a reality check.

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Valdemar 1 year ago

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TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago

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liam newton-harding 1 year ago

Was this article co-edited by musk, and bezos?

3points

Vermontah 1 year ago

I'm sure they are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see what BP readers think

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Scarlett 1 year ago

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Taradactyal 1 year ago (edited)

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D. Pitbull 1 year ago

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crowspectre (he/they) 1 year ago (edited)

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Cowws 1 year ago

I never want to win the lottery

3points

emowankinemo 1 year ago

The rest of us still do!

8points

B.Nelson 1 year ago (edited)

I know a lot of people were commenting about out of touch these people are, but all these rich people just came across as lonely.

2points

Injun Joe 1 year ago

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Mickysixxx 1 year ago

I wish I was rich and people used me for my money instead of being poor and being used by the rich because I have no money

2points

James Doe 1 year ago (edited)

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TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago

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TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago (edited)

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TheKitKatLizard 1 year ago

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