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30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying Going on a school trip to Poland to see Auschwitz. Obviously it’s a normal flight. One girl expresses how disgusted and/or scared she is because she has never been on an economy flight before. We’re going to see a f*****g concentration camp.

zincvitamin , Suhyeon Choi Report

Final score:

220points

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Repel 2 years ago

I have to admit that girl badly needed to see Auschwitz and get some perspective on life.

260points

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying A friends mom at a party,

"You know after 6 weeks in our Tuscan villa you honestly get bored of having people wait on you all day. I was so ready to just pick up my own dish and wash it"

Like uh huh. Life must be so hard.

dindia91 , Sarah Chai Report

Final score:

205points

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

That's got to be a new level of rich. I can't even comprehend wanting to wash the dishes.

167points

It seems like every day there’s a new story about the ridiculous ways rich people are spending their money. Jeff Bezos paid $5.5 billion to go to space for about four minutes. Taylor Swift owns two private jets, one of which has flown at least 170 times during 2022 already. Lady Gaga spent $50,000 on an Electro-Magnetic Field Reader, which is intended to detect ghosts. Celebrities and others in the 1% may be “people just like us”, but they definitely live in a different world from the billions of people around the world who have much less money than them.

Whether it’s inevitable to become out of touch when you reach a certain level of wealth or not, it’s definitely very easy to. If you live in a massive home in a gated community protected by a security guard, you can easily never encounter people who aren’t in your same economic class, aside from those who work for you. Someone else could be doing your grocery shopping, and you might be traveling in private jets or at least in the first-class section of commercial planes. When you’re in a bubble, it might not be so obvious that you’re inside of it.

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying [freshman semester of college]

Friend walks into a store where I’m working to buy something.

“What are you doing here?”

“I work here”

“But…. We are in college. You don’t have to work until we graduate.”

sammysbud , Christiann Koepke Report

Final score:

198points

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Repel 2 years ago (edited)

There was no toiletpaper so I wiped my behind with € 100 bills. Problem solved!

119points

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying My husbands step mom told us she’s thinking about retiring. She’s been a stay at home wife/mom for the last 30 years. She lives a very luxurious lifestyle with multiple vacation homes. What is she retiring from?

kdawson602 , John Fornander Report

Final score:

190points

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Yoga Kitty 2 years ago

Don't know, maybe she is actively involved in charity work or the like? Are you sure you know about everything she fills her days with?

131points

thelittlelambe , Christian Dubovan Report

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying “Prices are going to increase anyways so there’s no need to complain just pay for them” regarding increasing gas/food prices. For someone who only has $30 left in between paychecks that $1-5 increase on items for everyday use makes a difference

Final score:

185points

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Repel 2 years ago

The other day I just threw € 100 bills in the fire to keep warm. No gas no problem!

101points

Now, I’m not defending rich people for saying out of touch things or lacking self-awareness. It is certainly their responsibility to recognize their privilege and try to use their resources for good. But what a privilege it would be to think nobody needs a job until they are out of college or to assume that anyone can hop on a plane to Hawaii whenever they need to unwind. Money may not be able to buy you happiness, but apparently, it can buy you ignorance. And ignorance is bliss right?

The thing about wealth, though, is that it’s not all about just working hard and excelling in school. It comes down to many factors, such as luck, family background, resources, connections and how much generational wealth you inherit. If it was so easy to accumulate money, don’t you think more people would be doing it? The reality is that it can be extremely hard to even get the opportunity to acquire riches. Most people know this because most people aren’t rich. In fact, 65% of Americans believe that the main reason a person becomes wealthy is because they have had more advantages in life, and 71% of Americans believe that poor people are in their current situation because they have faced more adversity. So people who get to vacation in other countries, fly in private jets and have personal chefs preparing their meals are extremely unrelatable to most of the world. The least they can do is acknowledge that.

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying My ex fiancé when I brought up how his parents had a college fund for him and mine didn’t.

“My parents were just responsible”

So we’re mine. They were poor.

Other comments similar to this and my student loans were that my loans were “my choice” and I’ve also heard from both him and other friends who had college paid for by their parents that it’s “because their parents care about them” - idk how having poor parents means they don’t care but ok.

Hes9023 , Towfiqu barbhuiya Report

Final score:

176points

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Jul Chv 2 years ago

That is terrible and completely dumb. How can you believe that sort of cr#p?

140points

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying “People like bin men and garbage collectors are needed in society. But why should they have more money for doing such a task.”

My jaw hit the floor.

anon , Mathias Reding Report

Final score:

173points

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Ivo H 2 years ago

The difference of salary between the worst paid profession and best paid one should be 100% most. I just hate seeing people struggle just because they do “wrong” jobs and their boss buying second yacht this year. Capitalism might be the best system we have, except it’s not.

141points

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying My mother has become very wealthy and out of touch. She's made lucky investments but doesn't share her wealth at all. So when I couldn't qualify for a student loan (my identity was stolen when I was a kid. It's fixed now) or get financial aid (because I still fell under her financial umbrella as far as aid is concerned. They just assume if your parents have money, they'll help.) she was furious that I had to give up on my big college dreams. "I paid for college with a part-time waitress job after class. Just do that!" Her university was $2,500 a year back in the 70s! The older generations getting annoyed at the younger generations for wanting college debt forgiveness have no f*cking idea what college debt looks like now. All this "Just pay it off like I did", bullsh*t is absolute ignorance.

3toeddog , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

161points

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doubledutch 2 years ago

The student allowance/loan system in my country is really dumb. When I went to uni I luckily qualified for government assistance every week (it's great that we have that but the system is still so problematic), but my friends who ALSO didn't receive any financial help from their parents didn't qualify because their parents earned above a certain pay bracket. What difference does it make if you're legally an adult how much your parents make? Unless they're mega rich and able to help you out which they most certainly weren't. They just happened to have two incomes and I had only one parent. And I had to send them the same signed letter every year when I reapplied saying that my mum was still dead. Ridiculous, and irrelevant

83points

Precariousme183 , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

To gain some insight on the topic of the extremely wealthy, we reached out to Linda McQuaig, co-author of The Trouble with Billionaires. First, we asked Linda if she could explain for us why wealth inequality is a problem. "It’s an extremely serious problem, which is quickly and constantly getting worse," she told Bored Panda. "Basically, a small group of billionaires has come to dominate the world to a degree unimaginable even a decade ago. In addition to capturing the lion’s share of resources for themselves – as wealthy elites always have – today’s elite has attained the life-and-death power to determine whether we’ll all be able to survive the ecological crises that threaten our very existence."

#10

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying My coworker, and friend, who is head of the office’s payroll/Controller of the company made an error and no one’s paycheck was deposited on time.

Coworker: I got quite a few angry/concerned emails first thing this morning, I was shocked. Do people really notice this kind of thing especially so fast?!

Me: uh….yes…? You do realize that most of the world, including 90% of the people who work here live paycheck to paycheck right?

Coworker: ooooh no way I had no idea I feel bad now.

He was genuinely shocked...

Final score:

155points

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Jul Chv 2 years ago (edited)

At least he was shocked and did'nt say bullsht like 'why don't they save' or 'them cutting down lattes at coffee shops'...

189points

Catte West 2 years ago

Yeah, guess I could have 1/2 a Raman noodles for dinner.

17points

Cecily Holland 2 years ago

At least he had the decency to be shocked and learned something important

16points

JensenDK 2 years ago

I used to babysit the kids of a rich man. He once told me that he didn't understand the financial problem of our country - why did the politicians not just announce a 10 % paycut from everybody? That would solve everything. And nobody would notice missing 10 % - so little it would be next to nothing. I answered that I was pretty sure my single, low income mom with 3 children would notice! He was not convinced, but at least he listened...

8points

Julie 2 years ago

Well, at least when the company I work for messed up our direct deposits because they overlooked a banking holiday, they told us that they would pay any overdraft fees if our bills drafted out between when it was supposed to deposit and it did if our accounts went negative.

8points

GPZ 2 years ago

Even for those of us who don't quite live paycheck to paycheck- we have direct debits, particularly for larger things like rent or mortgage payments which come out on a specific day which, if the funds aren't in on time, gets all fouled up and incurs financial penalties

6points

Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago

Yeah, not all of us have trust funds, Chad.

4points

Benita Valdez 2 years ago

Unfortunately, at my job there has been the very rare occasions ( maybe 2 or 3 in the last 9 years) near a bank holiday where our payroll company has screwed up and checks did not arrive on payday which is Friday. Fortunately, the company understood that basically the entire warehouse lived paycheck to paycheck and let everyone know that if they could not wait until Monday when the checks arrived then the company would issue them a company check. Nearly the entire warehouse needed a company written check; the office and lab maybe had 2 people.

4points

Betty Kelly 2 years ago

Do these people not see or read news

1point

Zobi123 2 years ago

How is this idiot head of payroll?

1point

Annie 1973 1 year ago

My freezer and pantry are empty. Just ate 3 Swedish meatballs I found loose in my freezer and warmed them in the microwave for 4 minutes. Sucks being poor. I don't have any money for food until the end of next week. I'm tired of being cold and hungry. My wolfsbane seeds arrived today so I won't have to worry about my electric bill or food ever again.

0points

Andrewsarchus42 2 years ago

I’m glad that they learned!

0points

Alexander Wasil 2 years ago

helo

0points

#11

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying During my college days i ran into my then-roommate on my way home from work. she was obviously really annoyed about something so i asked her what was up. her words: “you’re so lucky you have a job and can just make money. i have to wait for my parents to give me money and it’s so annoying.” i was like, “yeah, that sounds really hard…?!!!!”

pvssylord , Karolina Grabowska Report

Final score:

146points

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BravePanda 2 years ago

In college, I wasn't allowed to work due to the rules of my scholarship. The redditor obviously knew her roommate well enough to know it was "out of touch" not just "true desire to work." My parents gave me $150 my first semester, which is around $77 now. I was on my own after that semester though. Ridiculous system all around.

68points

#12

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying
Oh man, my roommates and I were going out for dinner (burgers, nothing fancy) and I was driving us. I mentioned I couldn’t do something one of them wanted to do later that week because I couldn’t afford it - I was like 22, working two part time jobs, pretty broke. She told me she hated it when people said they couldn’t afford to do things because they just spent the money on something else and could spend it on that if they really wanted to. I was like, well I spent it on my car insurance for this month? And she doubled down and insisted that I HAD the money but I was prioritizing something else (yes, my car insurance). Very awkward conversation!

sybil_vain , cottonbro Report

Final score:

142points

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Repel 2 years ago (edited)

You were prioritising not selling your kidney or taking that hit job you thrifting bastard.

135points

schwarzmalerin , Oliver Sjöström Report

"Quite simply -- today’s super-rich play an enormous role in generating carbon emissions, through their indulgent personal lives and also through the corporations they own," Linda explained. "On top of this, they are the key players blocking government action that would allow us to battle climate change."

We also asked Linda why it's so common for wealthy people to become out of touch and not realize their privilege, but she raised another point, "I suspect most wealthy people do realize their privilege and don’t really care if we are offended by it."

Finally, we asked Linda if she has any advice for people who still aspire to be wealthy, despite actively disliking rich people. "My advice would be: Get a life – that is, a life that doesn’t do harm to others and to the planet."

#13

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I heard this during the coronavirus lockdown which basically meant solitary confinement for everyone who lives in an urban, carfree apartment area. "I don't get why a general lockdown is such a bad thing. I take my family, drive to Croatia and have a vacation on my boat."

Final score:

122points

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Repel 2 years ago (edited)

And now listen to yourself from a crowded Indian slum perspective. They did not even have the option to solitary confine themselves. Nor was there oxygen at the hospitals in case they got sick.

121points

#14

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying Not a woman, but i've gotta share this one because my parents have been utterly zombified by fox news.

My parents are very well off and they live in Texas. When the huge freeze hit their home and they lost power, they quickly booked a week long vacation to Honduras to wait it out. Ever since, they've made a bunch of dumb comments along the lines of, "why doesn't everyone just keep a vacation fund so they can leave Texas when hurricanes and blizzards hit? We all know they're coming, most people just refuse to save money and want everyone else to come save them."

I don't talk to those ghouls any more than i have to these days.

dicklord_airplane , Magda Ehlers Report

Final score:

120points

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Jul Chv 2 years ago

Good for you for falling far from that tree!

139points

#15

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying Friend was texting me when we were both in college and on winter break. His family was in Aspen for 3 weeks skiing. I said that sounded really fun and he asked me to come out. I said I couldn't afford that and he said "just have your parents pay for it". I thought he was joking but he was not.

He learned a lot about how the other half lives that day. At least I hope he learned something.

deskbeetle , Terry Agar Report

Final score:

111points

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

As a person from the tropics...I've come to realize recreational skiing is generally a sign of wealth.

71points

Wealthy people tend to be out of touch about a lot of things: how much groceries cost, how often the average person can take a vacation, how challenging it is for many parents to afford childcare, and how much of their paycheck the average person has left to put into savings at the end of the month. One thing in particular that many affluent people don’t understand is how high their salaries actually are. Arwa Mahdawi explored this issue in an article for The Guardian, where she noted that, when asked how much money they thought the average American made per year, one quarter of the students in a class at the University of Pennsylvania assumed that it must be six-figures. One student even guessed as high as $800,000 a year. The actual answer? $53,838.

#16

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying When I was homeless as an 18 year old without any assets, a car or support systems my older sister, who had married into money looked at me blankly when I asked if I could stay with her for a while or help her around the house for some spare cash & simply said
“ what’s your problem? why don’t you get more money?”
Then she walked off .. nothing more was said. What can you even say to that?

Vikingtender , Nathan Dumlao Report

Final score:

105points

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

Wow...I don't have siblings but I'd say that was a pretty d**k thing to do as an older sister.

133points

#17

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying This was right before the pandemic began and we were seeing a spike in BTC's worth. Not only could I not afford a whole coin, I'm an immigrant who just entered the workforce so I didn't have my own credit card and my dad was strictly against crypto, so that was my situation. Anyways, I was telling about how I forecast an immense increase given how everyone was starting to allow cryptocurrency as a payment, and this friend of mine, H, just casually went, "oh yeah! I don't know how to use it either so my dad got me like 2 coins, I think, to play around with", in a very as-a-matter-of-fact tone. Then she goes, "why not just ask your dad to get you a few (coins)? It's really fun!" Each coin was worth 22.5k that day, I remember it vividly.

theysquawk , Ewan Kennedy Report

Final score:

95points

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Well-Dressed Wolf 2 years ago

“I have a better idea, H: why don’t we ask YOUR dad to get me a few coins?”

113points

#18

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying "Couldn't you just renovate your suite and do the repairs yourself, out of the kindness in your heart?" When I told her my ceiling caved in on my rental unit. You know, because I have money to renovate my landlords house, a house I don't own.

BotGivesBot , ultragamer667 Report

Final score:

93points

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Amy S 2 years ago

Maybe that landlord should stop charging rent, out of the kindness of her heart ❤️

113points

GreenLabyrinthQuinn , Spencer Davis Report

Mahdawi goes on to note that it’s not surprising these students were so out of touch when it comes to the average salaries Americans earn, though. The average student at the University of Pennsylvania comes from a family earning about $195,000 per year, and a staggering 19% of their students come from families in the 1%. On the other hand, only 3.3% of Penn students come from families in the bottom 20% of wealth in the US. Rich people run in the same circles as one another their entire lives, from the time they begin attending private schools as children to when they inherit their parents’ businesses later on in life. It may be annoying that they often have no concept of how the other half lives, but it is not shocking.

#19

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I was around 14 and was at church on a Wednesday night. Being Baptists, several of us were standing there talking about food and I mentioned that pinto beans and cornbread is one of my favorite meals. One of the wealthier women in my church looked at me and said, “That’s poor people food. I don’t eat things like that.”

A year after college, I was at work and trying to get to know a new coworker. She was talking about all of the trips she’s taken and the places she’s been. When she asked where I had traveled, I said that I’ve never been out of the USA, and that I don’t even have a passport. She looked at me incredulously and said something about how I should travel because it broadens the mind (how ironic considering how close-minded she was about poverty in the US). She then said I should really get my passport because then opportunities to travel would just pop up. Sure, I make $24k a year, so not having a passport is the only thing preventing me from traveling. I just blankly stared at her until someone changed the subject.

Final score:

91points

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Jessica Wood 2 years ago

These people who claim that travel 'broadens the mind' are always the most bigoted and close-minded people.

106points

#20

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I used to work for a wealthy housewife, house sitting and tutoring her son. She was a very sweet, kind person who always very friendly with people around her, including staff and waiters and the like. Definitely not a snob.

But one time she told me she thought hotel maids (she would stay at fancy hotels for weeks on end at times) must have such nice lives because their jobs are so easy and relaxing and they probably make good money doing it. That she might consider doing that if she ever wanted to get a job, just for fun.

You see, despite having house cleaners come in several times a week she sometimes did some chores around her house and found it pleasant so of course, being a hotel maid is similar.

catathymia , Volha Flaxeco Report

Final score:

89points

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Jul Chv 2 years ago

Wow!

54points

#21

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying In our college friend group one woman in particular has become wealthy over the years, wealthy enough to fly NetJets and maintain a townhouse in NYC as a pied a terre. The rest of us are just hoping we can one day retire. To her credit, she makes efforts to stay in touch. When she's in town, she always organizes a dinner and the rest of us are always happy to see her.

At the last dinner, we talking about how difficult it was to buy a car post-pandemic. She said, "In our world, nobody can buy a boat."

The rest of us made a lot of eye contact over that one.

FFuLiL8WKmknvDFQbw , mali maeder Report

Final score:

81points

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Repel 2 years ago (edited)

In my world, nobody can buy their private Mars rocket. Everybody suffers.

93points

Even politicians often have little concept of how much their constituents need to earn to have a decent quality of life. In 2021, the mayoral candidates in New York City were asked by The New York Times how much they thought the median price of purchasing a home in Brooklyn would be. Investment banker Raymond J McGuire guessed, “It’s got to be somewhere in the $80,000 to $90,000 range, if not higher.” Shaun Donovan, Barack Obama’s former housing secretary and former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg’s housing commissioner said it would probably be “around $100,000”. The actual answer was $900,000. It’s no wonder rich people don’t care about average Joes. They are completely blind to how hard it is for people earning less than them.

#22

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I have an uncle who was mad when we didn’t fly to Fiji for his son’s second wedding. With flights, hotel, gifts, etc the price came out to nearly $23,000 for my family of four. I was in my early twenties and had just started out in a new job. When we said we couldn’t afford to go, he snapped and told us if we really wanted to, we could save for year to afford it. He couldn’t wrap his head around why we couldn’t save an extra $2,000 a month to attend.

LeonaLulu , Asad Photo Maldives Report

Final score:

75points

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Panda 2 years ago

I think that the couples should pay tickets and accomodations for the people they invite when they have a destination wedding. Does not make sense to expect from others to pay all that money to come to your wedding no matter the relationship. If you want them there it is you that should make it possible.

113points

Boring-Pirate , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

#23

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I was talking to a friend once about the fact I was saving hard because I wanted to make sure I would always be financially independent, after I had been through a relationship breakdown. She was a casual contract academic and her husband an investment banker, but she told me she didn't have any savings of her own as her income was spending money for luxuries, essentially. I didn't think much of it, but the next day she texted me to say she'd discussed it with her husband and he'd transferred her £100k into a bank account in her own name.

It was so tone deaf... I was happy for her in a way, but also I have just worked my a*s off for two years to save one fifth of that and you just go home and your husband sends you a huuuuuge amount of cash just because? I just didn't need to be told that, you know. It sat really weirdly with me.

Final score:

74points

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Yoga Kitty 2 years ago

Again, I do not see any bad intention, just, as OP said, tone deafness. The friend told her this because she wanted to show that she found OP's approach reasonable and wanted to adapt it for herself. That is a compliment, in my book. That she has other possibilities for this than OP is not her fault. I doubt very much that OP "was happy for her in a way", it sounds very much like good old jealousy. Be proud that you worked for your money - it does not lose its value because somebody else got it easier!

61points

#24

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying "Homeless people should just gets jobs if they need money. They don't wanna work, so it's their own fault anyway."

TinySparklyThings , Ev Report

Final score:

71points

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Emerson McEwan 2 years ago

as a formerly homeless person who's job is now to help homeless people, I would like to point out that most homeless people have jobs unless they're disabled. Job opportunities for people with no experience or no highschool diploma are tragic and never pay living wages. one friend of mine from my shelter was making 440 every two weeks, working full time.

24points

Earlier this year, Kim Kardashian was quoted sharing her “best advice for women in business”. She said, “Get your [butt] up and work. It seems like nobody wants to work these days.” And while she was immediately ridiculed online for her ignorant and out of touch statement, the fact is that she’s just wrong. Okay, maybe a lot of people don’t want to work, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t billions of people around the world working incredibly hard who will never acquire one tenth of the amount of wealth she has. In fact, in the United States, employment rates are at about 3.7% right now, which is 1.5 percentage points lower than it was in August 2021. People might be frequently resigning due to poor working conditions, but they search for other jobs. And it’s not because they don’t want to work or work hard; it's because they want to be treated well and compensated poorly. The idea that Kim Kardashian is “self-made” is laughable, as is the implication that she works harder than most people.

#25

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying The amount of people who have criticized my husband and I for only having one child- finances is a big part of our decision (amongst many other reasons) and they always say something like “oh everyone makes it work with multiple kids”. Like yes. But I don’t want to MAKE it work. I want it to work on its own because we can easily afford the child we have…. Also had a friend say that I should just “apply for credit cards” to fix my credit. And I’m like uh… that’s not how this works when you have credit tanked by medical debt my guy.

pelicants , PNW Production Report

Final score:

70points

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

My parents only had one child and I can understand why financially. Also, I don't have kids and I'm not sure I can afford to either.

39points

#26

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I am from a poor family, and a wealthy woman I know announced to our dinner table that she wishes that she could be poor to see what she was truly made of. The year before my family had trouble keeping our lights on.

AwkwardPeach1721 , Ben Maxwell Report

Final score:

67points

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Bored Retsuko 2 years ago

Yeah, common misconception among rich people, I think. As if being deprived will let you "see what you're truly made of". I have a spoiler for you; it does NOT bring out the best in you. It's debilitating.

109points

#27

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying Me: I would loooooove to travel to San Francisco one day.

Boss: Why aren't you just going? The plane ticket is just like €1,000 per flight.

Me: Yeah... exactly.

kalenderdose94 , Pixabay Report

Final score:

64points

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Bailey W. 2 years ago

He's.. he's your boss. He should know WHY you can't afford that!

102points

We hope this list of extremely out of touch quotes isn't making your blood boil, but if it is, I understand. It can be hard not to resent wealthy people, especially when they have no idea how good they have it. But remember that money won't buy you happiness (or intelligence). Keep upvoting the quotes you find most ridiculous, and then let us know in the comments below if you've ever heard a rich person say something that made you want to slap them. Then if you want to check out another Bored Panda article featuring rich people who lack self-awareness, I recommend reading this story next.

#28

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying My aunt, who grew up as one of seven kids in an a lower middle class home, married well at 20 because she was knocked up. My uncle took over his dad’s company in metal polishing when they were young, so she has been wealthy most of her adult life.

During the first term of Obama’s presidency, she shared some awful email chain letter about him that had inaccurate information and racist dog whistles. I replied with the facts on each of the items and pointed out the racism. She replied back that I was “being disrespectful,” and Obama’s Affordable Care Act was going to “bankrupt” my uncle by requiring he provide health insurance to his workers. I was a high school teacher at the time, and all of her brothers worked as unionized tradesmen. She has not had a job a day in her life.

Bobcatluv , Marten Bjork Report

Final score:

61points

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Jul Chv 2 years ago (edited)

Those people, born poor and brought to wealth are sometimes the worst. They forget and overcompensate to blend in. They are never truely part of the riches' world, never really fit in nevertheless.

73points

#29

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying Not to me, but I remember going out one night with a small group of friends and we stopped at a small convenience-type store. As my friend was checking out, she kept saying how tired the cashier looked and telling him that he should take a vacation. And he was just like.. She grew up VERY privileged and recently bought a house at the age of 21, goes on dumb vacations all the time, eats out multiple times a week, etc. I was cringing the whole time. What makes her think this obviously overworked convenience store cashier has the time or money to afford to go on a vacation??? There’s lots of ignorant things she’s increasingly said over the past few years and we’re thankfully no longer friends.

buhdumtss98 , Kaihao Zhao Report

Final score:

59points

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Yoga Kitty 2 years ago

As long as it comes from a point of naivety and not from a high horse - maybe you could have educated her a little bit on these things? Rich parents have rich friends and take their vacation where other rich people are - perhaps she really had no clue about "normal" people's lives.

61points

#30

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying She acted like the pandemic was so horrible for her when she lives on a massive property, is a SAHM and her husband's business wasn't affected at all, and continued to frequently travel the whole time. Her husband complained about how the stimulus payments were unnecessary.

goldandjade , Jondave Libiran Report

Final score:

52points

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Mike Ipsen 2 years ago

Stimulus payments were not unnecessary, there were a lot sent to people that did not need it though. That is where the problem came in.

45points

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#31

"I don't understand why people are complaining about only making $17 an hour. That's like $80,000, isn't it?"

Said by my mom's boyfriend. My brain errored out so hard that I smelled toast. Do the math, dummy!

Absinthe42 Report

Final score:

24points

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kelly 2 years ago

"I smelled toast" LOL! I almost spit out my coffee!

14points

grapefruit_witchh , Nick Pampoukidis Report

#32

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying My wealthy conservative family on my dad's side was whining a few months ago about nobody wanting to work because of "all the stimulus money".

??? What money? The 1200 we got like two years ago? How long do you think normal people can stretch out twelve hundred dollars? It was probably in most peoples bank accounts for .02 seconds before it paid a bill or two. For us it was exactly one month of rent.

Final score:

21points

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Bri Lancaster 2 years ago

You still paid at the time only $1200 a month in rent?

9points

#33

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I work in one of the most expensive, high cost of living cities in my country. A colleague once said to me, "It's ridiculous that people commute for up to an hour to work here, that's so much time wasted in a day. And so many young people just renting, throwing away their money. Don't they realise time is money?"

Average house price around the office is £500k+. Average rent for a one bed is £1100/month. Average house price an hour away is £330k, rent is £400/month.

As if people choose to live ages away from their workplace rather than it just being completely unaffordable...she lived a few minutes away in a 6 bedroom house worth £3 mil because her husband is rich...

destria , freestocks Report

Final score:

20points

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Sue User 2 years ago

Read an article about a guy $50,000 a year in San Francisci and having to live in his car because housing was so unaffordable.

8points

#34

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying Super rich friend was looking to buy a daily driver for his girlfriend. He said he heard Range Rover and Lexus were good brands for this and wanted to know if they'd be "good enough".

We laughed and sighed: "Yes, Peter".

Obsidian743 , Ajay Gill Report

Final score:

17points

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Jods 2 years ago

I thought you meant a chauffeur!

15points

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#35

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying My aunt is a wealthy sahm whose kids are all grown now so she does whatever she wants all day. She cancelled going to a (pretty important) family meeting-type thing because she had to pack for vacation.

Bonus: My 6 year old nephew asked us why we only had one dishwasher.

chocolatebuckeye , Vlada Karpovich Report

Final score:

17points

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Jods 2 years ago

I’ve only got one dishwasher too. I’m the dishwasher.

19points

#36

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying This is not the most extreme example, but something my boss said to me. It was black Friday or another shopping holiday, and she asked me and my coworker if we were shopping any good sales.

No, I'm not shopping any sales. I was unemployed for months because you furloughed me, I have to pay an insane amount to keep my health insurance, and you only hired us back as part timers. Shockingly, I'm not shopping for expensive clothes when I'm working 16 hours a week.

taternators , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

16points

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HeatherDPanda 2 years ago

Heavy sigh...

7points

#37

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I was in a sorority so I have several instances where this happened. Some of my favorites:

“Everyone needs to go to Disney at least once a year, last year I went 4 times and it only cost (insert absurd amount of money here)”
“You shouldn’t be in a sorority you don’t own (insert expensive clothing brand)”

meganium58 , Brandi Alexandra Report

Final score:

16points

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Jods 2 years ago

Sorority elitism is something I don’t get. College/university is a place where people from differing backgrounds go to study. Why are there different tiers of students? Oxbridge colleges don’t count because they’re already elitist.

10points

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#38

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying Literally the month before had been only eating out of a several pound bag of sugar for every meal… and had someone over dinner tell me there’s no hungry people left in the world LOL.

Meanwhile they live in one of the most expensive places in the country if not the world.

Smdh..

VaryusLizards , Robert Anderson Report

Final score:

16points

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Izzy Curer 2 years ago (edited)

I feel like beans or rice or potatoes would be cheaper per calorie. Or at least close to it, and a bit healthier.

14points

-salisbury- , Asad Photo Maldives Report

#39

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I used to work for a family who were private plane rich. As in they literally owned a challenger, and the husband used it so often for work that they had a full time pilot and flight attendant on staff, and it functioned basically like a car for him. He had offices around the country.

I was their household manager. The plane wasn’t part of my job when I first started (they eased staff/me in to the wild fullness of their wealth). I knew they had it and that they were using it for work and family travel long before she told me, from other staff.

When she did tell me about it, because I was traveling with them for work for the first time, she said: “I feel really weird about it, but I just have to remember that my husband is 10 years older than me, and he’s just in the phase of life where he needs a plane.”

Final score:

15points

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Repel 2 years ago (edited)

One thing about rich people is that they often just fall into it. Nothing to do with hard work, intelligence or talent. Just luck. And they know it. So they feel awkward about having so much money. That's why governments should simply tax people properly.

23points

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#40

Not a friend but, I was working in a retail store and chatting with my customer about how I was excited that I found a Groupon for scuba certification. He told me that I shouldn’t use that trash and if I want to get a proper scuba certification I should go to the Bahamas. He then wrote down the name of place in the Bahamas and gave it to me. Yeah, I just work here for fun!

flyingscrotus Report

Final score:

15points

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#41

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I had to explain basic privilege and why people would take a minimum wage job to a date I had a few weeks ago. There wasn’t a second date.

Frenchitwist , charlesdeluvio Report

Final score:

15points

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MonicaChicagoGal 2 years ago

I read this 3 times and still don't understand WTF this means..

8points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

#42

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying When I was in grad school, I was in a class commiserating with one of my classmates about our financial woes. Another student sitting near us who came back to school in her 50s after being a wealthy housewife for a couple decades overheard us and said, “You know, I always tell my kids, ‘It’s just money. Don’t stress. It’s just money.’”

puggle_mom , Alexander Schimmeck Report

Final score:

14points

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

It's the money that's got me stressed...because I don't have any and I need it to get basically everything.

19points

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#43

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying "Why don't you just ask your parents for money?"

Well, Danyel, it's because one is dead, I had no relationship with the other, and both were incredibly poor anyway. Not everyone has rich parents to fund their every whim.

PunkandCannonballer , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

13points

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago (edited)

Exactly. I've just got one left and they had to scrape by all their lives too. Not everyone's got wealth to fall back on.

16points

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#44

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying Classmate was excited to check out the boating clubs at uni, only to get very disappointed it was for sports rowing/canoeing and not for private yacht owners.

silveretoile , Lukas Report

Final score:

13points

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Michael Largey 2 years ago

In ancient times, he would have had the galley slaves rowing triple time whenever he wanted to water ski.

7points

#45

Rich step mother in law recently said, “ Why don’t you just buy a bigger house.” I’m a teacher and my husband is a freelance video engineer.

Final score:

13points

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Pumpkin Spice 2 years ago

"I don't know, why don't you just get a bigger brain?"

14points

#46

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying My dreaded SIL. She is 10 yrs younger and comes from money. Their wedding was paid for by her parents and they also gifted them a down payment on a house as a wedding gift. Once they were married, she left her job at Ross because her aunt got her a good paying job working for the state. They ended up buying a house next door to her retired parents who take care of their children all day and even prepare dinner for them, tidy up their house, etc., so they can come home and relax.

Last time we spoke she told me that if I work hard enough one day I can own a home too.

Yeah, we don’t speak much.

KeiraKnightleysTeeth , Álvaro CvG Report

Final score:

12points

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Bri Lancaster 2 years ago

Once again, if she was so well off, why was she working at Ross? And why did she accept the state job? It seems her parents were the ones that were somewhat well off. I guess she forgot that her parents gave her the down payment for her house.

7points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#47

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying Same month I lost my job, my wealthy friend complained about having to wait for her new Lexus. Can't make this s**t up. Other things she's said include, "I'd rather go to Japan for my wedding. It's really responsibly priced" and "I always fly first class. It's only a $200 upgrade".

heavengirl777 , Steady Hand Co. Report

Final score:

12points

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Furious George 2 years ago

The last time I looked at the difference between economy and first class it was like 800%

12points

#48

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying Parents of an old roommate/friend of mine bought her a condo in the heart of downtown in a HCOL so she wouldn't have to commute an hour via public transport to get to class. They bought her a tesla for "tax purposes" a couple years later

edit: rewriting in a way that makes sense bc i am dumb

ludicrou2atbe2t , Life Of Pix Report

Final score:

12points

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Charlotte m 2 years ago

What’s hcol

8points

#49

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying They always complained when I chose to work full time instead of going to college. When I finally started college last year they told me "I was lazy since I didn't have a fulltime job on the side"

PappelSapp , cottonbro Report

Final score:

11points

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Bri Lancaster 2 years ago

I really don't think this is a rich people statement.

10points

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#50

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying Omg I will never forget when I was commuting to work with a (former) well-to-do friend/colleague. I was making like, 35k a year, barely making ends meet, had an ill family member… things were just not going my way.

It just so happened my beloved 10+ year old Toyota was in desperate need of repairs, but it was one of those is-it-even-worth-it-to-spend-money-on-this-car situations. My friend and I were driving in to work and I was bitching about my financial headaches, saying that a spending money on my car wasn’t worth it but I couldn’t afford a new car.

“Oh speaking of cars, (Her husband) is getting a new Audi!”

No matter how much (or little) money I will ever make in my life, I will never forget how that airhead comment made me feel.

ahsasahsasahsas , Artem Podrez Report

Final score:

11points

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Bri Lancaster 2 years ago

Don't feel too bad. Her husband was getting the Audi, not her. You and her worked in the same place. She couldn't have been much more different than you. But you're right, her comment was airheaded, even disconsiderate, and you're better off without her.

8points

#51

That his wealth didn't change his medical care. Uh...yes it did. He could afford the same operation I need and can't afford. I'm sure the procedure is the same. Access to it is not.

bmbmwmfm Report

Final score:

11points

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MonicaChicagoGal 2 years ago

I live in the US and am still paying a medical bill from 2019.

11points

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#52

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I lived with a wealthy church lady when I was between apartments. At the time, one of my internet friends was homeless, also going from place to place. We were good emotional support for each other and spent a lot of time talking.

The woman told me I should focus more of my attention on people who could "build me up instead of keep me down," people who "weren't stuck in the poverty mindset."

innerlemons_ , Ron Lach Report

Final score:

11points

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Bella10 2 years ago

So Christian of her 🙄

21points

#53

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I'm an immigrant living in an Asian country, I have no citizen privilege, so I have to work hard to get everything. There was ola few years in my life where I struggled to get visa. I had a rich local friend telling me, "Just go marry a drug addict and you'll get a spouse visa." She said it twice.

She also said a lot of weird s**t to me, sometimes I don't know if she's insulting me or she's just being rich and stupid.

She's no longer my friend.

anon , ConvertKit Report

Final score:

10points

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Izzy Curer 2 years ago

Why a drug addict, specifically?

9points

#54

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying “Do you speak Spanish to your cleaning ladies”

purplebananers , Liliana Drew Report

Final score:

10points

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Repel 2 years ago

I will try but she is Ukrainian and not sure she will understand (actually true)

17points

#55

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I called my mom crying about the high cost of living. Just wanted to vent and finished my little rant by saying "why is everything SO HARD RIGHT NOW!?"

Her reply? "Ugh, I know what you mean. I want to buy a vacation home in Panama but do you have any idea how hard it is to purchase a property without being able to fly there and see it?"

When I tell you I went off.....

tacocattacocat1 , Chema Photo Report

Final score:

10points

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Bri Lancaster 2 years ago

Umm,is your Mom rich and you're not?

9points

#56

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I have a friend who strives to be around only well off people and to date well off people. I’m one of her friends from before this time period of “only wealthy people” and she keeps me around.

She told me how much her boyfriend at the time paid in rent for his place. She casually says “it’s only XXXX amount a month”. His total yearly amount in rent he paid was the equivalent to my annual salary. I told her maybe she shouldn’t discuss that so casually.

Yoberg1996 , cottonbro Report

Final score:

10points

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Joanne Hudson 1 year ago

People who marry for money usually earn every penny of it.

2points

tomatopotatotomato , Kristina Paukshtite Report

#57

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying Are you going to quit your job now that you’re having a baby? Like no, trust fund wife, I have to pay my mortgage. “How much time are they giving you off?” Lol.

Final score:

10points

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N Gregory 2 years ago

How much time are they giving you off is a poor reflection on the US attitude to motherhood, not automatically rich person ignorance. In pretty much any other country that would be a reasonable question for even lower paid people

18points

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#58

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I had a friend who said she would never wear an evening/church dress (even one from a thrift shop) more than once or twice and was horrified to learn I often rotated my outfits (rather than buying something) so I didn't wear the same thing five days in a row.

Final score:

9points

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

Other than just being rich...isn't wearing something once kind of financially irresponsible?

11points

#59

I work for a department of my company that specifically and only works with our wealthiest clients.

One of them told me they couldn’t wait until “normal people” stop having money because we made a first class ticket cost too much for their child to travel domestically, even though they usually just take a private jet.

This person really considers themself to be a completely different category of human than “regular people” such as the call center rep (myself) they were speaking to.

Edit: if normal people stop having money to pay for your shitty product, you won’t have money either, Rich Person.

VeryStickyPastry Report

Final score:

9points

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Bri Lancaster 2 years ago

If they own a private jet, why are they squawking over the price of a first class ticket? Cheapassskate losers!!

7points

madameporcupine , Andrea Piacquadio Report

#60

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying My friend, talking about the company where he works: "Oh, we'll just get another intern. They only cost (my salary range), they're practically free."

Final score:

8points

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#61

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying I live in the UK but I'm not from here, when I was at uni I had to call to split my payment for accommodation as I couldn't afford it, lady on the phone was like "but why? Don't worry about it, it's all covered by your loan"

Yeah, I'm not allowed a loan for that, I had to work to pay for it

Gortix Report

Final score:

8points

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Jeannine Pope 2 years ago

It sounds like they had to pay for room and board at college without a loan since they were not a UK-born citizen who presumably could get a loan for that.

6points

agophernamedfrank , Vasily Koloda Report

#62

They expressed they didn’t understand how food service could be hard and unbearable until they started talking to me. They were 28.

pallladium Report

Final score:

7points

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#63

30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying From someone who had their entire degree and living expenses paid for during university:

“It’s impossible for someone to graduate with more than $30 000 in debt, school doesn’t cost that much. It’s not a big deal.”

I graduated with more than 30 000 in debt….

Final score:

6points

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Misstaken138 2 years ago

Years ago I was talking to my boyfriend and I made a joke about wishing I'd win the lottery so I could stop being so broke. He said he knew just how I felt because he only had $10,000 in the bank. I honestly wanted to slap him in that moment. I was working 6 days a week and was making just enough money to survive until my next paycheck. He also used to complain that I volunteered to work every holiday (we were paid double time for working holidays). He said it was just money and that I shouldn't put money above being with family. Had to explain to him that I got bills, plus I was a single mom, and that you can't pay bills with family love. I'm so grateful I found out he was cheating on me cause at the time I couldn't see him for the jerk he was

16points

Bored Potato 1 year ago

Wow. What a piece of work.

0points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

You can't make the well-off understand the plight of the other 95% of us until they live it.

10points

Furious George 2 years ago

This is true. I really only have one experience like this (my family was not exactly rich, but well off enough to pay for me to go to college). I was working at a restaurant while I went to school and actually said something along the lines of "I don't need to be working, it just feels like something I should do". At. My. Job. In. A. Kitchen. I have never before or since been so aggressively mocked and ridiculed and they were right to do it.

8points

Yoga Kitty 2 years ago

This list has very different examples. Some people are rich, out of touch and think that they are better than others. They have a mindset of "poor people deserve how little they have, they are too lazy to work". These people are most probably beyond help, I'm afraid. However, some of these stories were more about rich kids who really do not know that other people struggle to make enough money for a living. While it could be discussed how anyone can be so naiv, stupid and sheltered not to just SEE and UNDERSTAND this, here they are! Anyway, not all hope is lost. Teach them, explain it - you could change their whole life. It does not help to feel offended by their actions, in most cases they do not want to hurt or belittle you, they just do not know better. All their spending money cannot buy them the knowledge and experience you already have. It is a reason to feel sorry for these poor, rich kids. Don't let jealousy get in the way of kindness - everybody is fighting their own battle...

4points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

I really hope you were being sarcastic. If not, good for you. Go to a high-end uni with the rich kids and see how far a poor kid gets. I did. 1. They don't care. 2. They won't learn unless they live like the other 95% for at least 3 years and 3. They will sneer at the other 95% for *its* ignorance. I wasn't jealous. I was derided. They did, however, convince me that democratic socialism is the best solution currently available, since guillotines are out of fashion.

17points

Yoga Kitty 2 years ago (edited)

No, I wasn't being sarcastic, thankfully I live in a country were there are no "high-end unis with the rich kids" - education and healthcare is affordable here. I can only speak from my own experience, and I still think at least some people are able to learn. It just doesn't feel right to me to judge "the rich" - not all wealthy people are arrogant snobs and not all poor people are hard working saints, I guess.

5points

Mindghost 2 years ago

My parents worked with some wealthy customers sometimes, due to their profession. My parents were normal working class and could never ever afford a house. One elder lady wanted pity from my parents when she inherited "another house" from some family member she barely knew and now had to deal with another house. She had 4 at the moment and was living in one of these. Omg, that poor woman...

3points

Rose the Cook 2 years ago

At the time she had 3 live in servants and ate every meal, including breakfast, out or ordered food delivered. "You actually cook your own food?' "I couldn't lower myself to eat home cooked food."

3points

Meeks 1 year ago

My husband and I grew up poor. We worked hard and were lucky in life and we can enjoy the comfort of a lot of things. We still remember what it was like living paycheck to paycheck so we never tell anyone about the stuff we have or how we spend our free time. I never invite people over to our home other than our immediate family because I have this fear that we will be lumped into this group of people who are out of touch/ignorant/unsympathetic because of how we live. We both purposely drive very common inexpensive vehicles and we dress pretty much average. Writing this out makes me sad at the realization that my whole life is about hiding my success because I'm afraid of the judgment of strangers...

1point

Alex Foster 2 years ago

My family is comfortable. My dad makes around 150k a year. We don't have to live paycheck to paycheck. Him and my mom can go on vacation to Cuba just because they want too. At which point my mom goes out and buys as many necessities and little nice things she can fit in her luggage because she knows that the trade embargoes on Cuba have made it next to impossible to get things as simple as toothpaste. Because we're comfortable. Now. But when I was little, we lived for many years with the insulation on our walls showing because we couldn't afford to get drywall to cover it and still pay the mortgage. Because my mom had been diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition and her career training was in a job that requires sight. And they had four kids. I saved to go to university because I knew I had to pay myself. I started working the year I legally could. My childhood friend (and abuser) had the opposite journey. I can say with certainty that not all of these people can change.

1point

barbiW 2 years ago

I had a small gardening business. One client was a wealthy older Christian lady. She had a large garden and always wanted it perfect. I was inexperienced and charged her a set amount realizing further in I should be charging her more. She had 2 Mercedes and a BMW. The guy across the street had a large property right in the water. Much looser with money than her so I charged more for my services with him. I made the mistake of telling her how much I was making on his jobs and she blew up and was mad at that. Keep your mouth shut. They don't want you doing well.

1point

Stephanie Paich 2 years ago

One of my younger cousins took a trip in high school to a poor nation (forget exactly where) to give the students perspective on how the world isn't all as privileged as the US. Two weeks of eating beans and rice 3 meals a day and seeing how those people lived really opened her eyes. Her mother has always been good with money and she has never wanted for anything in life. I wish more kids in high school had the opportunity to do trips like that. Even the people who don't have a lot in this country have so much more than some people will probably ever have.

1point

2 years ago

Having quote 500 family has given me an insight in their way of live. Being from the poor branch my life is very different. Money makes things a lot easier but in the end they have a lot of sh@t of their own. Husband not having three but five children... daughter getting killed by her husband leaving four young children parent less.

1point

dr Zhang 1 year ago

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Hannah Witkowski 1 year ago

I dated a rich kid my senior year of highschool. I was working a retail job in a wealthy area and met him there as a customer. One time I was driving us in my car, a used 2000 Toyota Camry, and I put in enough money for half a tank. He asked me “why didn’t you just fill up the whole tank?” I didn’t really know what to say. That was what my dad taught me to do - because he needed the rest for utilities, bills, groceries, etc. It meant I had money leftover to go get food. Later on this guy’s also-rich friend was saying you can tell a lot about a person by the car they drive. He said because I drive a Toyota Camry, it means I don’t know what I want out of life (TF?!) with a smug look on his face. This same friend ended up briefly dating one of my friends. We went to the store to get stuff to make spaghetti and they paid for the ingredients in cash. They had a lot of quarters in change and when we got to the parking lot, they threw them on the ground. I wanted to pick them up.

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Irma 1 year ago

Also.. my car broke down and was beyond repair. Had to get a new one right away because it is nearly impossible to get to work without a car. So we just bought the smallest cheapest car we could find. We were so happy we found a cheap working car that hadnt to many kilometers. So we called my brother in law with the new that we were in such luck that we found one right in time. He just said 'didnt you want a bigger, more luxurious car?' He really didnt understand why we didnt just buy a better one.

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Irma 1 year ago

In my country you cant just gift expensive things. I cant afford my house and my dad wanted to sell his. He could sell it to me for a bit less but he cant just give me the house. I looked into if i was able to buy the house for 100.000 less. But i did do it cause that would be fair to my brother and sister who would also want that. So my rich friend asked why he wouldnt gift the same amount to them aswell. She didnt realise that he didnt have that and that the 100.000 off of the house wasnt actual physical money. She thought if people buy a house for 400.000 you actually pay for that with actual money.

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Am I Actually Hungry? 2 years ago

Bought a house, got married, started renovating, wife cheated so had to finish work and sell up. Tried multiple ways to figure out how to buy her out as my salary wouldn't have got me much. In the middle of all of this I get phone call from my folks on holiday, "we've just bought a second holiday home, all paid for up front" Never expected money from them and pretty sure they didn't mean to be insensitive but jeebus, what a way to kick a fella when he's down!

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Scott McManus 2 years ago

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censorshipsucks 2 years ago

This thread fills me with rage. Come to africa and see the real world. Your consumerist capitalist luxury life is paid for by our slavery.

0points

NewWestie 1 year ago

Then stop reading the comments....*sigh*.

0points

Elizabeth Elliot 2 years ago

Articles like this just sow division. 'Setting any group up as figures of hate is wrong.

0points

censorshipsucks 2 years ago

f**k the rich.

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Robert King 2 years ago

It pays to work hard, study, develop a skill that commands a high wage, sacrifice, live on less than you make, invest the rest. Over time, not overnight you will become wealthy. Don't be a blamer. Nobody cares, work harder.

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Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago

Only somebody totally out of touch with reality would parrot such rubbish. Millions work like mules and live like rats, but never manage to save much.

4points

Nicoll Cope 2 years ago

I remember people looking down on me for being a single mom and waitress, putting myself through college. I got lots of comments about how I should give my daughter up for adoption because I couldn't afford to raise her properly because I was poor... so I became a stripper. Suddenly I wasn't poor anymore, but I still got looked down on for "not having a real job." (As if having to listen to guy talk about some of the absolute dumbest problems while being psychiatrists, counselors, life coaches, and sex objects all rolled into one, while wearing basically nothing but a bikini and 6" heels was something just anyone could do) I spent 20 years in IT, and that still hasn't changed. I'm paid less, even though I have more experience and certifications, than men at the same level, and it's excused because I "may need to take care of my family." It doesn't matter that I'm the subject matter expert, I'm a woman, so I'll always be paid less for doing more, and that's wrong.

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censorshipsucks 2 years ago

come tell that to people in africa who work backbreaking jobs for like 10 hours a day. they work way harder than you and they are the poorest of the poor. I have no hesitation in telling you that you are in fact a c**t.

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Misstaken138 2 years ago

16points

Bored Potato 1 year ago

Wow. What a piece of work.

0points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

You can't make the well-off understand the plight of the other 95% of us until they live it.

10points

Furious George 2 years ago

8points

Yoga Kitty 2 years ago

4points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

17points

Yoga Kitty 2 years ago (edited)

5points

Mindghost 2 years ago

3points

Rose the Cook 2 years ago

At the time she had 3 live in servants and ate every meal, including breakfast, out or ordered food delivered. "You actually cook your own food?' "I couldn't lower myself to eat home cooked food."

3points

Meeks 1 year ago

1point

Alex Foster 2 years ago

1point

barbiW 2 years ago

1point

Stephanie Paich 2 years ago

1point

2 years ago

1point

dr Zhang 1 year ago

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Hannah Witkowski 1 year ago

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Irma 1 year ago

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Irma 1 year ago

0points

Am I Actually Hungry? 2 years ago

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Scott McManus 2 years ago

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censorshipsucks 2 years ago

This thread fills me with rage. Come to africa and see the real world. Your consumerist capitalist luxury life is paid for by our slavery.

0points

NewWestie 1 year ago

Then stop reading the comments....*sigh*.

0points

Elizabeth Elliot 2 years ago

Articles like this just sow division. 'Setting any group up as figures of hate is wrong.

0points

censorshipsucks 2 years ago

f**k the rich.

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Robert King 2 years ago

0points

Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago

Only somebody totally out of touch with reality would parrot such rubbish. Millions work like mules and live like rats, but never manage to save much.

4points