As ordinary people around the world suffered from the health and economic impacts of the pandemic, billionaires have actually expanded their fortunes. According to the Institute for Policy Studies analysis of Forbes data, the combined wealth of all U.S. billionaires increased by $1.763 trillion (59.8 percent) between March 18, 2020 and July 9, 2021, from approximately $2.947 trillion to $4.711 trillion.
This just shows that people with and without money lead very different lives. Recently Reddit user u/amaltheahope asked others on the platform, "What is something that rich people do that really annoys you?" and everyone immediately started sharing some relatable examples of all the irritating stuff wealthy folks are known for. From happiness to food, continue scrolling to check out the most-discussed topics.
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When they insist that money doesn’t buy happiness. Maybe it doesn’t buy happiness, but it does buy vacations, therapy, adequate medical care, and not having to worry about whether or not you’ll have the money to pay rent and eat every month.
When they act like everybody has the same 24 hours in a day. Like, oh OK, how many hours did you spend at the laundromat last week? Or how many hours did you spend on the bus?
This needs to be higher. I have people in my family who have no concept that this is a real thing and I can't count the number of times I've been told or yelled at for saying I don't have time.
u/amaltheahope told Bored Panda the idea to post this question popped into their head quite randomly and since it looked like other users hadn't asked it before, they just went ahead and asked. "I was also curious about other people's opinions because basically, I also have some things that I hate about rich people," u/amaltheahope said.
The Redditor thinks many of the replies are quite universal. "Basically, I have the same sentiments as most of the commenters!" they said, laughing. "We have a common ground — hate towards annoying things rich people do!"
u/amaltheahope believes people can get along despite their wealth gap, but it takes respect, open communication, and understanding on both ends.
When they don't pay taxes.
Really rich people can afford expensive accountants who know all the loopholes in tax laws. Poor people just have to shut up and pay.
Build billion dollar rocketships while their employees pee in bottles
Try to be relatable to "regular" people on social media. Like remember when celebrities were struggling just as much as everyone during covid in their multi-million dollar homes? Yeah, they can f**k themselves.
Rich folks can afford doctors, catering, NOT WORKING. Remember when Kim Kardashian was bored of social distancing, so she threw a party on a private island? Rich folks weren't crammed inside an apartment for 16 months with roommates. COVID does not impact the rich and the poor equally.
The sad thing is that financial inequality is skyrocketing.
To put things into perspective, the before-mentioned analysis offers this comparison: in 1982, the "poorest" American on the first annual Forbes magazine list of America's richest 400 had a net worth of $210 million in today's money and the average member of that list had a net worth of $600 million. But in 2020, Americans needed a net worth of $2.1 billion to enter the Forbes 400, and the average member held a net $8 billion. That's 13 times the 1982 average after adjusting for inflation.
When they act like or say they’re 'self-made' when they grew up affluent.
Get away with things because they have money for better lawyers/bail/payout etc.
If the punishment for breaking a law is a fine, that law only exists for the poor.
My aunt and her wife both work for the state. Her wife is the Deputy Commisoner of Environmental Protection. And I'm not sure what my aunt did but she was pretty high up and retired right before covid. Never had any kids. Needless to say, they're pretty well off.
They send my 95 year old Grandma a bill every month for what she owes them. When my aunt takes her to Starbucks and "buys" her drink, goes on the bill.
My grandma would offer money on her necessaties, because that's who she is. Pay for her groceries they bring her, etc. But they literally keep record of anything they ever pay for and bill her at the end of the month.
Like...where's your soul?
A variety of explanations have been proposed to explain how inequality can affect a country's economy. But a high level of disparity usually means a high level of poverty. Poverty is associated with increased crime and poor public health, which places additional burdens on the economy.
In the face of increasing food prices and lower incomes, support for pro-growth government policies declines. As wealthy citizens maintain disproportionate political power compared to poorer citizens, inefficient tax structures develop in favor of the wealthy. Unequal income distribution increases political instability, which threatens property rights, increases the risk of state repudiated contracts and discourages capital accumulation. Also, a widening rich-poor gap tends to increase the rate of rent-seeking and predatory market behaviors that hinder economic growth.
When they lack perspective. It's shown through the advice they give ('Just borrow money from your parents,' and, 'Go back to school'). It shows that they have no idea how so many people live
What if your parents don’t have money? What if you can’t afford school?
Say that we're all on the same boat. Nope. We definitely aren't
Offering the 'You should just…' advice. Having unlimited funds allows for risk taking in a way that working people can’t relate to. No, I can’t just quit my job. I have rent to pay.
I waited tables in college...had some older guy hand me a mediocre tip with the advice 'go get an education' ....like oh wow thanks, never thought of that...your $8 is really going to afford me that opportunity now...I was already in school full-time while also working full time to afford to go to school 🙄
Thanking us poor folks for sending them on a trip into space.
There is just not enough space for them on Earth. They need "space".
Pretend like they work harder than everyone else.
Some do work hard and expand their wealth. Some others just become presidents of the country and grab more cash from the public funds.
Employ others for low pay and bad benefits in an unsafe working environment and think they're doing the people they employ a favor.
You're not entitled to own a business. And if you can't pay your employees a living wage and benefits without your business failing, then it should fail. But they only love the free market when it benefits them. When it doesn't, they cry to the government for welfare.
Use their money and power to make laws and policies to enrich themselves even more, all while keeping the rest of us fighting among ourselves for the scrapes
Yet we still continue to fight amongst ourselves and won't join together. And these rich folks the government and these corporations know this. So who's really to blame? We all could band together and do something about it but we won't. Because nobody wants to listen or take the first step. So we're pretty much doing it to ourselves.
Failing to recognize the extent to which luck (including luck of birth) played into their success.
Just the luck of growing up in an environment where these possibilities were always real because your parents, their friends, your older siblings, relatives, etc were already achieving them (and they were because they had a similar start in life).I don't think these people understand how massive a hurdle that is that didn't exist in their life.
Assume they deserve and earned everything they have and that consequently, poor people just aren't working hard enough. Even if a person legitimately built their own wealth and jumped socio-economic status on their own, they're still engaging in survivor bias.
Lots of poor people work very hard and take on a lot of misery in service of a better life. And a lot of those people stay poor forever and never get their break.
Yes, this. Being lucky is the single thing that dictate what your life will be like.
Guilt trip the public into donating money (that they may not have much of) to help [Enter charitable cause here] when they could just hand over wads of their own cash without feeling the pinch.
Assume they are intelligent
Being able to afford a good education doesn't mean they learned anything.
[Mess] up the whole world and then get bailed out when they [mess] up.
That's been going on from the start. There are hundreds of cases where taxpayers still are paying for the cleaning of polluted areas while the companies have gone bust only to surface again under a new name. "Hey Shell, you owe use 15 billion for cleaning up the oil fields you abandoned." "Sorry, that was Shell-oil, they've gone bust, we're Shell and have got nothing to do with Shell-oil."
Exploit poor people to film themselves acting generous. I’m all for buying homeless people things, but you don’t have to film yourself giving to them and post it all over social media. They are people too, with friends and family. No need to make them feel small when they already struggle in life.
Burn £20 notes in front of a homeless person, after they were asked for money. Ronald Coyne, a Tory Cambridge student did this. Insufferable c**t.
When they complain that people on welfare haven’t earned that money and don’t deserve it; meanwhile rich people spoil their kids or give them comfortable jobs as if they've earned that stuff.
Or when they police people on welfare. In the U.S., rich folks get considerably more money through tax breaks than poor people ever do, but you don't hear proposals about drug testing them. Now people on SNAP (food stamps) on the other hand...
My rich friend orders 20 things from McDonald’s and eats two of them, and then throws the rest away. I’m not exaggerating. She is infinitely kind and generous, but that kind of waste makes me shake my head."
When they tell people, 'Travel and expand their horizons.' Traveling is expensive
Complain about being stuck in their large mansion with a pool, tennis court, etc. during the pandemic.
My < 700 sq. ft. apartment is probably the size of their closet.
Assume that people who have low-paying jobs just didn't work hard enough or aren't smart enough to get any better jobs.
I've known some fairly rich people complain that they have too much money. Give it to me then — I'll put it to good use.
Lecture us on saving the planet from their big diesel super yachts, private jets and mansions (not counting their city homes and holiday homes) that houses their classic car collection that they drive around for fun.
I agree with you on the yachts and private jets, but classic cars do very little damage (comparatively) to the planet as they are driven very little, and usually the rich tend to keep them as an investment and not drive them at all. I have more issue with the SUVs with ridiculously large engines that they do drive all over the place.
When they're so freaking cheap. They won't leave tips or will argue over 10 cents while shopping
I was a pizza delivery driver in my long lost youth. Blue collar folks almost always tipped, and wealthy folks rarely did. I knew that if I was delivering to “The Island”, the richest neighborhood in my city, I was never going to get a tip.
Some of them behave narcissistically, mainly by sexually assaulting people and sending out hush payments (like Trump, Clinton, Cosby, O’Reilly, Ailes, Weinstein, Epstein, etc.), and some of them abuse workers’ basic rights by intentionally putting bathrooms far away from workspaces (like Jeff Bezos did with Amazon’s warehouses).
everyone talk about that bottle thing, but i see nobody talks about how they track every footstep you make at work. If you are not efficient enough, you are out. Folks, that's not normal!
When rich leaders have fake philosophies like, 'We're in this together,' and, 'First to arrive, last to leave,' etc.
Oh God yes - I worked for a guy who SO bought into that s**t and breathed it out on the rest of us. It was thin, superficial rubbish and his tutoring business was thin and superficial and I left.
Move to low cost of living places and then drive up the cost of living for locals, who then can’t afford to live in their hometown. Thanks for ruining Bozeman you dickheads
My relatives are fairly well off. I don't know what it is about them but they have a notorious habit of bossing people around. My aunt (who I am very close with) straight up told me to go out and start a walking dogs business out of nowhere and that when she sees me again, I better have a walking dog business. What??? This is the way they function and when you stand up to them you get told you're lazy, don't care etc.
Just for clarity. I'm looking for work. Her method wouldn't work for where I live. It's nowhere near practical. Even if it was, it's extremely bossy.
My boyfriends mother literally said this to me "How can anyone live in such small apartment. I could never live in such small space." after I told her how big apartment where I live is.
My answer? "Oh! How awesome! You want to buy us a bigger place? That is so generous of you!"
Talk down to us more “common” people. I worked in a restaurant filled with rich people. And literally my first day, I messed up, not even majorly, i stuttered when reading out the drinks, and one of the rich men sighed and said “oh, hes new” in such a disgusted manner. Like bro, im literally your waiter for the next 5hrs and literally the whole night, him and his friends were talking down to me. They didnt even leave a tip, despite them all having incredible amounts of money, which uno, i would of appreciated even if it was as little as a pound. I worked my arse off to get you your meals and drinks all night and you didnt show any appreciation. If you are somehow reading this, mr rich man, [screw] you.
People not tipping is gross. I've never been wealthy, but try to leave a more than decent tip if I'm lucky enough to splurge on a meal/coffee out. Wealthy people not tipping like this story... Yuck! Because that's a crappy power play. A definite message of assumed superiority.
One of my friends in high school had parents that are rich and it was insanely annoying how he would continuously downplay and refuse to acknowledge just how incredibly lucky his family was. His parents were some of the sweetest and most genuinely nice people I’ve ever met and fully acknowledged that while they had worked hard they also got extremely lucky to be as successful as they were. For sone reason he just couldn’t see that every person who got rich there was a huge contributing factor of luck. It’s especially baffling because he was adopted by them so if the adoption hadn’t gone through for whatever reason his life could have been radically different.
We're all privileged in some ways and not in others. It drives me nuts when people can't see that.
Buy real estate and hike up the price so much the local people can't afford to live there anymore
That market is too big for just the rich to have that effect. That's mismanagement in urban planning. The rich are just now focusing and understanding how interesting it is to buy private properties as an investment (besides the local slumlords), but the price gauging has been in the making for decades. And the US has made it especially hard to ever recover from it by effing sprawl. The infrastructure needed for it cannot be maintained with the money available. Especially with people believing paying for common costs is socialism that needs to be avoided. I don't see anyone maintaining their own part of the sewer system, roads, water supply etc. You can't depend on others all the time, while maintaining it's your God given right to not pay for it...
Hoard their wealth when they could make a difference in the world. hi jeffrey bezos!
When they throw away change (coins).
I’ve seen middle class people do this. The entire thing baffles me. Just throw it on the ground if you don’t want it at least. Someone else will take it.
The neighborhood I bought my first house in was middle class but there was one house that was much bigger than all the rest, they had nice landscaping had a pool and had new cars in driveway every 6 months. But the thing that bothered me was the amount of trash they set out on the curb. It was family of four and they would weekly put out 6/8 garbage cans. Most people in the neighborhood had one or two. How much material goods are they buying on a weekly basis to generate that much trash? For some reason that really annoyed me.
I new a wealthy family and it took both gardeners to drag the wheelie-bin to the end of the [immaculate] dive; it was so heavy with food-waste.
Buy multiple houses, SAVE SOME FOR THE REST OF US DAMNIT
Russian Oligarchs buy them as investment in the UK and never live in them. They constantly have building work done on them, so causing major problems for their neighbours (admittedly these are also well off people, but quietly living and getting on with their lives, and are still humans that are stressed out by major works constantly going on next door). Kensington is a big area for this, especially adding huge basements with cinemas etc, and causing structural damage elsewhere, blocking roads, and making the neighbourhood dirty, smelly and noisy. This doesn't personally affect me but I have a huge issue with Russian oligarchs.
When they complain about having to spend money
I worked at a fancy hotel with a country club style membership to our super fancy gym, and it always struck me just the total disconnect truly rich people have. Like the kind of never ending family money that is just something they have known since birth.
It’s not that they are jerks or anything, in fact those ungodly rich people were always some of the easiest to work with because they always paid for what they wanted and understood how to interact with “the help” (sounds terrible, but it was better than the “new money” folks who liked to bark orders and talk down to you to feel better important while they haggled over every single charge).
It wasn’t horrible but was always off putting when they would ask about our grand holiday plans and being honestly surprised we had to work at the hotel they were staying at for their fancy holiday? And then would like sincerely thank us? Which is nice because they appreciate you but also like, this isn’t fun for me and I’d rather be with my family.
Or paying $100 a night to have their sheets pressed everyday, guest who would drop $300 in the sport store for a change of gym clothes and overpriced shoes because they hadn’t packed theirs, and how they would come back from the fancy mall with bags and bags from places like Hermès talking about a nice little afternoon shopping trip just because.
Again nothing horrible in the treatment or even bad how they spent their money, it paid my bills, but it almost felt like an alien encounter. Like our words were so far apart I know I can’t even comprehend that type of money. Like their life was really that Arrested Development meme not knowing what a banana cost.
I will likely never stop wondering just how wealthy people can buy the things they buy.
From my sister who was a tutor/nanny for a period of time.
Horrifically b***hy and abusive trophy wives. This got bad enough that she would turn down work from the "second wives club".
Chronically ill and under the weather first wives who lay in bed all day....and had a host of "first world problems".
A broad assumption that you work for them, therefore they own you.
The other point I hear of was her being hit (bumped) on three different occasions by people in Mercedes who, rather than getting out and making sure everything was OK, would pull alongside, laugh and wave through the window like "silly me!" and then just drive off.
Complain on IG while on an expensive vacation.
When that “rich kid” in class in elementary pulls up with a new giant box of crayons with a crayon sharpener and won’t even let you sharpen your crayons
Bid higher than me on the house i want to buy.
We were lucky with our house, someone put in a higher offer but ours was accepted as the man selling it preferred to sell it to young family rather than to some guy that would flip it. I think our son, who was less about 1 year old at the time made an impression on the seller.
Buy vehicles that are status symbol related, even though they are notoriously bad investments with huge depreciation.
Not always rich people either...
Range/Land Rovers, Maserati ect
Bizarrly, in the right context Landrover (defenders) are actually an investment. We bought ours for farm use 10+ years ago (1988 defender 90) for £3000. It's now insured for £6000 and they sell for £5000+ depending on condition. Not a status symbol at all but a workhorse !
I can't stand their style of dress. I mean, a monocle and a top hat? Get real.
This post is very generalized. Some of this behaviour can be seen with non rich people. I know many normal people, who order too much food and throw away whatever they don‘t eat for example. I also know non rich people, who get away with breaking rules, because they‘re manipulative or/ and take advance of other people‘s weaknesses. also not being thankful, disrespectful or spoiled is something i have witnessed a lot everywhere. buying cars/ brand clothing as status symbols is also a thing, that superficial/ insecure people will do regardless of them being rich or not. tax manipulation? yes, i know a few people, who do this and they‘re far away from being rich.
Plus, some of the remarks are ridiculous. For example the „Buy multiples houses. Save some for us.“… There‘s got to be people, wo have the money for that. They‘ll rent out for the people, who don‘t have the money to buy a house. unless they just buy it and leave it empty, it’s allright. or what‘s wrong with them dressing badly? I wouldn‘t want anyone criticizing me for something, that‘s only my matter.
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The wisest comment I ever heard was this one, can't recall source: "Money will only make you more of who you already are."
I don't agree with a lot of the comments as ignorance, arrogance, jealousy, greed are found amongst different people coming from different social classes. As well as kindness, generosity, consideration, warmth.
This post is very generalized. Some of this behaviour can be seen with non rich people. I know many normal people, who order too much food and throw away whatever they don‘t eat for example. I also know non rich people, who get away with breaking rules, because they‘re manipulative or/ and take advance of other people‘s weaknesses. also not being thankful, disrespectful or spoiled is something i have witnessed a lot everywhere. buying cars/ brand clothing as status symbols is also a thing, that superficial/ insecure people will do regardless of them being rich or not. tax manipulation? yes, i know a few people, who do this and they‘re far away from being rich.
Plus, some of the remarks are ridiculous. For example the „Buy multiples houses. Save some for us.“… There‘s got to be people, wo have the money for that. They‘ll rent out for the people, who don‘t have the money to buy a house. unless they just buy it and leave it empty, it’s allright. or what‘s wrong with them dressing badly? I wouldn‘t want anyone criticizing me for something, that‘s only my matter.
Load More Replies... The wisest comment I ever heard was this one, can't recall source: "Money will only make you more of who you already are."
I don't agree with a lot of the comments as ignorance, arrogance, jealousy, greed are found amongst different people coming from different social classes. As well as kindness, generosity, consideration, warmth.
