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According to Charles Schwab's 2023 Modern Wealth Survey, Americans must have at least $2.2 million in assets to be considered rich. However, that's just for the entry to the club. To climb the ladders, they need much more, which is vividly illustrated by a recent thread on Reddit.

It started with platform user InfiniteMirrorss inviting people to share what they believe to be the things the super-wealthy do that the average person doesn't even consider. Immediately, thousands started to send in their answers. Here are some of the most popular ones.

#1

30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist A former client of mine, sadly, recently deceased, has/had two yachts moored in the South of France, next to each other.

One was fast, one was slow. He'd take the fast one down to St. Tropez, and have the other one follow because it was more comfortable. He'd have lunch in one of his restaurants there, then relax on the slow yacht for the day. Sometimes he'd stay overnight, sometimes not. But he'd take the fast yacht back to home port.

The captains would hand out thousands to get the best berths in St. Tropez. He literally used the yachts like his taxi.

He would do the same to his house in Portofino, but that was usually a week or so trip.

His recent passing made global headlines, to give an idea of the dosh. But to be fair, his tax contributions to the local economy literally changed the small port town he lived in. He created public parks, golf and tennis courts, a horse riding club, gym facilities, all well maintained, fully staffed with great summer programs for the kids; further works improved the roads, sidewalks, public beaches and walking/hiking paths; he bought a disused old church and turned it into a public museum, etc. He literally contributed so much to the local economy that they no longer charge for public parking anywhere, it's all free, all year round.

That's how you're supposed to 'trillionaire'.

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    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Buy out a company just so you can tweet what you want without fear of getting banned.

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    Nimitz
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Making safe spaces for everyone who agrees with you and suing anyone who calls out your b******t

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    We got in touch with InfiniteMirrorss and the Redditor agreed to have a chat with us about their now viral post.

    "I've been working on my pilot license and was talking about doing a cross-country flight where we'd stop somewhere far away and get dinner, then head back," they explained its origins to Bored Panda.

    "In the aviation community it’s called the '$100 hamburger' because flight time is so expensive and it had me thinking about ultra-high-net-worth people and how that might not even be a consideration to them, whereas for me (an ultra-low-net person), becoming a career pilot requires tactically considering every dollar I spend. So I thought, 'wow, I wonder if rich people just fly to Paris for the night to get dinner and then come back,' or something else as jet-setting."

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    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Trying to take a submersible, controlled by a game controller, down to the titanic.

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    #4

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Own a Senator or two.

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    Geoffrey Scott
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or a President, now that the financial chickens are coming home to roost and he's scrambling for cash....ain't gonna be good if he gets back in.

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    After going through the replies, InfiniteMirrorss noticed that most of them were written by folks belonging to one of three categories:

    "One: [those who wanted to share] their fantasy or egregiously fabulous things they've seen on TV portraying rich people. Two: people who fundamentally hate the rich because of principle and would say things that inferred Epstein and his Island, and assume all rich people are grotesque humans. And three: a small few people who are rich, or have first hand knowledge of the ultra wealthy, and would say things like, 'rich people have their children taught by private tutors.'"

    InfiniteMirrorss added that if you dig deep enough, you will find some responses buried in the discussion that also beautifully describe how leisurely life is for the rich. "Every day, someone takes care of every single want and need that they could possibly think of. As one Redditor put it, 'that's exactly it, they don't do anything.'"

    #5

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Buying a home for their college-age children.  Then they sell the house when their kid graduates.  Sometimes this sale pays for college.

    AloneWish4895:

    I was a realtor for this. They would also have rent paying roommates during their college years. Sell the house and pay back all the housing and a lot of the tuition costs.

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    George Costanza
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Happens all the time here in Boston. Why pay rent for a dorm or crappy apartment when you can buy a condo and sell it when the kids graduate and make a profit?

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    #6

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist I have a client who is so wealthy she is functionally invisible. No online presence, un-Googleable. The name she uses isn’t even her legal name, but I have no idea what her real name is, because she has a family office (private wealth management) that handles her money, so checks from her come from that group.

    But what I love is that she does nothing. Every detail of her life is done by magic - car always immaculate, dogs walked and fed, and taken to the vet. Once a week a beauty staff show up to wax and manicure. She legit has no idea how her clothes are always clean and immaculately pressed, her house perfect, fridge always stocked, meals on the table twice a day, bills paid, taxes done, investments invested, garden weeded, etc. Like, she knows she has staff, and they do it all, but she has no idea what ‘all’ is, or how they do it. She wanted to try paddle boarding and an hour later a top of the line paddle board and accessories was unpacked and ready to go in her car. She just dials a phone number and says what she wants and then she gets it, immediately. She has a concierge on staff.

    That’s what the ultra rich do. Nothing.

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    #7

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist I live near Scottsdale with alot of wealthy people. They constantly remodel their vacation homes so there’s always great stuff. I bought a brand new Viking refrigerator from Craigslist. Still wrapped. It’s 8feet tall, 36”. The homeowners decided they wanted a double refrigerator instead. They’ve owned the home two years. Still haven’t stayed a night there. The refrigerator retails for $18K. I got it for $1,500.

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    Lew k
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did draperies for the owner of discount tires in paradise valley, think an even richer sub section of Scottsdale. They remodeled almost every single year while they stayed at a 2nd property during the summer. The place would have 70-80 trade workers there doing various things. Spent on average 80-140k per year on drapes and they just had us haul away the stuff we made the year prior. Just wasteful. It’s custom work so it’s not like any of us could just take them home and use them.

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    So what does all of this tell us? The answer probably depends on the person and the emotions these statements evoke.

    "How abhorrent does it feel to someone that there can be such wealth and yet others struggle to find basic needs met daily? There is a distaste for the idea that so few people can have so much and in that sense, most people may dream of being wealthy themselves, yet vilify people who are," InfiniteMirrorss noted.

    "It's my understanding that wealthy people do not interact with the average person, and in fact, avoid it. What rich person (broad strokes here) would ride the NYC subway when they have their private driver take them from their home to their private jet to their private island with their private friends?" the Redditor addrd. "Poor people, fetishize, fantasize, and castigate the rich, and the rich..? I don't think we cross their mind."

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    #8

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Steve Jobs decided he didn't like having a license plate, because he could be identified by it and it kept getting stolen. So he called up the Mercedes dealer and made a deal with them.

    In CA it was legal to drive a car with no license plate for 30 days after you get it. So, once a month, they'd show up and replace his car with an identical new Mercedes, so he'd never have a car for more than 30 days and could effectively drive around forever with no license plate.

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    TheAmericanAmerican
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is a perfect example of "Laws become only suggestions once you're rich enough". Tax the billionaires out of existence NOW!

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    #9

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist I dated a girl from a super rich family for a couple years and every spring her entire family would go through their closets and donate 90% of their wardrobe and then go out and drop $20k+ on entirely new clothes for the year because they HAD to have the new season of everything. As some one who grew up wearing clothes till they fell apart and patching them if they still fit, this blew my mind, getting rid of perfectly good clothes because they were "last season" is just insane to me.

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    #10

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Years ago I read an article about someone whose business was keeping ultra-rich people’s cars ready to go - as in if you have a Ferrari in multiple cities they’d keep it fueled up, oil changed, etc and drive it around the block once a week or so, and have it waiting at the airport when the owner flies into town.

    CporCv:

    When I was a car mechanic, our shop would do this type of work for the richest clients. I remember doing a $800 oil change on a Maserati that was only driven 7 miles in 6 months. Insane

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    Rob D
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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The upkeep on a Maserati is the cost of another Maserati. And I'm glad. The rich should be hosed. $150M yacht? Spend away... better than $150M towards more business consolidation.

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    #11

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Hosted a dinner at the home of a Noble family in Scotland a few years ago and the Duke was showing me around a few weeks before hand. Told me a story about how depressed he was when an art appraiser, looking at one of his paintings told him the painting was not by a student of Goya, but was in fact by Goya himself. He was unhappy because the €15 million jump in value meant he would have to redo his insurance paperwork. He already had had to use two different insurance companies to cover the total value previously.

    Other things I found there: original da Vinci sketches hanging over a toilet under the staircase in a servant’s hallway, a Guttenberg Bible in a stack of books on the floor in a spare room, and on and on it went.

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    #13

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Buying two $1,500 cashmere sequined short sleeved sweaters so that your tailor can cut up one sweater and make sleeves out of it because the top doesn’t come in a long sleeve version.

    Source: I used to work for a very wealthy retired actress who did this. I had to purchase the sweaters for her and schedule the tailor.

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    Judes
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would have been more sensible to pay someone to knit a cashmere sweater from scratch. It's not that hard!

    #14

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Having someone hired to cook for them.

    Yellowbug2001:

    My brother-in-law is an amazing professional chef. He was hired by a billionaire to be a full-time chef at one of his houses on a private island. The money was crazy but he wound up leaving because he got bored out of his mind: the guy was never home and the only people using the house were usually the billionaire's preteen kids who only wanted french fries and chicken fingers, lol.

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    Petra Schaap
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i wish i could hire a proffesional chef! they would never ever be bored!

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    #15

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Have assistants do things we wouldn't dream of doing. I know a rich person who hired a personal assistant to find a land to purchase: "Here are the criteria... forested land by the sea, cliffs, quiet area but with cell reception and make it so that it isn't an area with lots of boat traffic so I can take my bath while looking out at sea."

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    Chris Landrum
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I asked mer personal assistant, Zillow, to just find me a home I could afford

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    #16

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist When they wanted an addition to their Hamptons house, they couldn’t get a start date from the super-busy local contractors, so they rented a nearby house and hired a company from Maine to move in there and do the addition. Paid for like a dozen workers to live in a house in the Hamptons until the addition was done, like over a year.

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    #17

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist There are several single family owned Montessori schools. Like a family office put together an entire mini school just for their kids and their friends' kids. It became a thing to do when the pandemic hit. Some of them are 100% mobile too, like teaching on the jet/all over the world.

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    #18

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist My SIL's cousin's family is very rich. They have two basketball courts inside their house that's how massive it is. Inside the house. They bought all the lots next to their mansion and built a park just for their family so they wouldn't need to be near anyone. I got vertigo when I walked into the "gym" it was so large. My brain couldn't handle that I was inside such a large space that was also inside a house and it couldn't understand what it was looking at, and then it processed it. That experience is burned in my memory. I was looking for a bathroom when I stumbled on it.

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    Lew k
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did a job in a house so large I literally got lost. Legit 10-15 minutes walking around without being able to find my way back to the utility room I was working in, a door to exit the home or the home owner. To be fair it was also a weird layout built into and around a mountain but it was also absolutely huge. I couldn’t even guess the square footage. Like three different courtyards in the middle of the house that you could build my house in and my house isn’t tiny. 1 person lived there.

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    #19

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist I once met a man that bought a $5m+ house about an hour away from his actual house simply because his wife didn't like him smoking cigars at home. He would only use the house to smoke in and have a party or two a year. 

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    TheAmericanAmerican
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hundreds of millions of human beings are homeless on this planet and yet we have a few thousand that own MULTIPLE homes for "reasons". Global wealth tax now!

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    #20

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Summer (in the verb form).

    Illustrious-Salt-243:

    My first day working at a law firm a lawyer in the elevator asked me where I spent my summer. I said the same place I spent my fall, spring and winter

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    Manana Man
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'Where I spent my summer' is obviously not an example of summer as a verb. 'We summered in Cabo.' There you go.

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    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist There’s a type of mega yacht that follows the main yacht and it just carries toys.

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    #22

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Having separate sets of clothing in each house so they don't have to take more than carry-on luggage when traveling.

    quixoticali:

    I've heard of this but for expensive designer bags too - a client returned to buy another $8000 bag in the exact same size and color - - when a sales clerk asked if it's for gifting since she has the bag already, the client replied, "No. This will be sent to my other home"

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    Guess Undheit
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This makes sense, but only if I think in terms of the t-shirts and $50 pants I wear, not $5000 suits and $50000 dresses that rich gits wear.

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    #23

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Concierge/private specialized medical care. If they have a special or chronic condition, say kidney failure, they’ll have a dialysis ward installed in their home with a private nephrologist etc. (or end up hiring someone who will end up donating an organ to them) or cancer treatments - set up in home, etc. or have an MRI installed in their home etc.

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    Annik Perrot
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At home dialysis is a thing here in France. No private nephrologist, of course, but you can do it on your own time, at night, and have a life without depending on hospital appointments. And, with free healthcare, it doesn't cost anything.

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    #24

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist I actually know one, they haven't been to a grocery store since mid 90s...

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    Elchinero
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Trump said you needed an ID to buy groceries! So he musta bought some "groceries"!

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    #25

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Flying to another country on a private jet just to eat dinner.

    acog:

    I just saw a video with Steve-O where he said he once flew to the UK just to have his favorite snack.

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    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Starting a private space program.

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    #27

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist I have several rich friends who are my age (50s) and don't work. Their biggest perk is attending every concert and show and buying front row. Not just our area, but if their favorite band is playing across the country, they fly (with their kids) there and spend the weekend.

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    #28

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Hiring a stylist to curate new designer furniture for their house when it needs a refresh.

    justonemom14:

    This. The idea that furniture and home decor have fashions or seasons. That you might rip out the carpeting or tile and have it redone because it isn't in style any more. It's so beyond me that people waste perfectly good stuff, like lemme throw this couch in the garbage, because I'm tired of the color.

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    The Starsong Princess
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also, it’s easy for them because they stay at their other house while someone else handles the reno. Renos are painless for them and I envy that.

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    #29

    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Buy the island instead of vacation to the island.

    PM_WORST_FART_STORY:
     
    Some billionaire JUST tried that in Duluth, MN. She then threatened to sue anyone who reported on it or asked questions.  Then, after that caused public backlash and had the mayor wanting to talk to her, she is now backing out and tried to say she "had plans for the good of community."

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    Nimitz
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah. Drive up housing prices, increase everyone's taxes, don't understand why they don't flip those houses and move... What a piece of work that woman is

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    30 Of The Wildest Things The Rich Can Purchase That Poor People Probably Don’t Even Know Exist Hunt humans for sport on an isolated island.

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