30 People Share “Really Dumb” Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like
To each their own, people often say, referring to, well, basically anything in life. And hobbies are in no way an exception. While some people spend their time enjoying the thrill of kitesurfing, others might be equally content with staying at home and doing some knitting. And who’s to say that one is better or worse than the other?
The internet community, of course. When it comes to Reddit users, for instance, they seem to approve of certain hobbies more than others; and they don’t shy away from sharing their opinions. That’s what they did after Redditor u/zer0w0rries asked the ‘Ask Reddit’ community what are some dumb hobbies mainly practiced by wealthy people. Scroll down to find the answers on the list below and see what hobbies redditors see no point in taking up.
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Golf. Let's cut this forest down so we can build hundred of km2 of field for the most boring sport in existence
"Golfing is a arrogant, elitist game which takes up entirely too much room in this country. Too much room' in this country! It is an arrogant game on its very design alone, just the design of the game speaks of arrogance. Think of how big a golf course is... What do these pin-headed pricks need with all that land?! ................Now I know there are some people who play golf who don't consider themselves rich. F*** 'EM! And shame on them for engaging in an arrogant, elitist passtime " -- George Carlin
i live in Germany.
a guy in my neighboorhood hit the lottery, first thing he did was to fly to Russia and go Bear Hunting.
I cant understand why its someones dream to kill beautiful animals. Almost like the movie Ghost Dog
How is horse racing not up in the top? It is also cruel and deadly. Something like 8 horses died for the Derby alone this year.
Flying to a convention against climate change in your private jet.
Rich christian people traveling to impoverished countries and calling it a "mission"
Actually, I had to raise $3,500 to go to Brazil, sleep on a boat for five days, *no air conditioning* for a full week! And when I tell you getting to Brazil was bad, I was sick, we helped build houses, clean corn, run a VBS for the kids, provide medical and mental health services. So I don't think that the hundreds of people we helped would like hearing that it is a pointless "Rich people" thing. Btw the KIDS that came were 15-19 they had to raise money they surely didn't have it lying around
Yes me too! We went on a one month trip, first week was in a nearby city (10 minutes away) so yes we all stayed in our respective homes (we live in a wealthier area.) Second week we went to New York to see the difference of those expensive luxury apartments and the homeless in front. 3rd and 4th week my group went to India. We stayed (like literally lived) in the slums of Mumbai before going all the way down to Kerela and staying in one small house. We lived in Indian houses, ate food, and the only expensive place I went to was a hospital due to a heat wav and I fainted.. (The local ones were like family owned so we went to a government one)
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Drives me nuts. We have plenty of places in the US that could use the same level of support.
I know 10 churches that give necessities, money, and time to homless outreach organizations, families in need, build homes, serve food, help refugees find housing, give clothing, provide free medical care, help kids in any way within foster system ECT. Search your local area. There are hundreds of ways to serve your communities in surrounding metroplex.
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What ever happened to the good old days when native inhabitants ate missionaries?
They are on a mission, to subvert and enslave a culture through religion.
And even richer churches. Religion is the biggest corporate lie ever perpetrated, and it still works.
It really depends on the group. My best friend's church went to Africa and donated food to people in need as well as volunteering in an orphanage and digging trenches for water pipes. It's not just a Christian thing either. My brother participated in World Challenge where they went to Borneo and dug trenches for irrigation for crops and other volunteer projects. Really the problem is when Christian (or any other religion) groups go and actually evangelise and try to convert people. I feel the OP should have been more specific. Plus it's not really a hobby.
My kids attended a VBS this sunmer that raised Thousands. In Nov we will go back box up necessities. They will be hiked and conoed in to very remote areas for families and children in need.
Just volunteered at a church for free summer bible class for kids. They donated items for homeless people, money for young single parents, and paid for and decorated casts for kids with club feet in Kenya. Those poor children can barely walk, dont have any options, their parents dont have rescources or finances. Eventually they can no longer walk or very painfully if at all and even become outcasts of society. So very sad.
We pay monthly for an entire family in South or Central America to have food, medical care, basic necessities ect. Thru a church that works with a worldwide program.
Spending donors money to tell a culture they are wrong and their book is the answer to famine and poor water quality. B******t!
“ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”. And then they only get one out of four accurately
The missionaries I know fund themselves to go on missions. The church only pays for housing.
I mean that's hardly a hobby. The people who do that are hardcore convinced it's super important to go and brainwash other people into believing in their imaginary friend too.
And with five stamps received for attending church services you get to see the dentist.
It’s not always like that, my churches missionaries go to different places and dig wells, provide food, and build homes all while sharing the gospel. Edit: why am I being downvoted? I’m sharing my experience in a church with missionaries
That does more harm than good. Untrained and inexperienced parishioners don't make good wells, churches, houses, or necessary infrastructure. It takes the work away from the local builders, truckers, maintainers, and workers in secondary roles, while not providing them with the institutional knowledge or satisfaction of building up their own communities. Proselytizing isn't going to solve any of their problems, either.
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Shooting elephants. They just stand there facing off to you, and you just shoot them. Sounds like a waste of time
Breeding and showing dogs, especially the tiny ones with the f****d up noses and tiny heads where their brains don't even fit anymore
I take issue with lumping all breeders together. There are waaay too many people out there continuing to churn out these more and more disfigured breeds and mass producing over saturated breeds that are already packing shelters. BUT, there are also people out there that genuinely love a specific breed and are willing to put in the time any money into breeding and raising healthy puppies. These are also the people that understand that if you're doing it right, you're not making a profit on it.
Canned hunts.
We can argue the ethics of hunting all day long. On the one hard, you have the cruel barbarism of fox hunting. On the other hand, you had paid permit hunting for big, exotic game (*where the permit only allows for specifically designated culls and profit goes directly to conservation).
But canned hunting? F**k. At least fox hunting and permit hunting require some measure of skill and afford some opportunity for the animal to escape.
Canned hunts are often marketed as "exotic game ranches;" places people go to get a guaranteed kill of a particular species. You know how you get that guaranteed kill? Because the game are fenced in and are often reliant on human care (so they have limited fear of humans compared to their wild roaming counterparts). There's nothing sporting about it.
Imagine going to a dairy farm and bragging about how you bagged a big cow. That's what canned hunting sounds like to others.
Talking down on poor people with things like "stop buying coffee and you'll be rich one day"
Collecting the same Rolex in different variations. And never wearing any because it's in a safe.
Paying to disturb an underwater gravesite because they got too bored in their mansion
this is on the list of "the submarine gets so much attention boohoo" well then STOP TALKING/JOKING ABOUT IT
Lobbying politicians to enrich themselves and cut corners for their respective businesses to the detriment of everyone, including themselves in the long run. They have to breathe the same air everyone else does.
Playing at who builds the biggest rocket to 'colonize other planets'
people that collect luxury clothing brands and shoes and than never wear them.
In my experience working for rich people in China they usually wear the item once and when their social rivals have seen it throw it away.
Buying an expensive car and then keeping it in your garage without ever actually driving it.
There's a guy from Canada who bought a Lamborghini I think and he drives it everyday, even during winter somehow.. People called him crazy because it's not the most suitable car for their climate, but he said he didn't spend all that money he worked for so he can have a delicate toy in his garage, he wants to enjoy it.
Being cheap. One of my friends has the money to buy the restaurants we eat at, but if we split an item she’ll fraction out how much she puts towards it. “I only ate 1 slice of pizza and there are 6 in total, so I’ll put down 1/6.” She also factors this into tipping. Drives me mental.
I just watched on Netflix rich Arabs cloning camels by the dozen because that first camel was really pretty.
I used to work at a very pricey private school and one the big donors took it upon himself to make these big-a*s sculptures of extinct birds from around the world and then he would make a big deal of installing these things in the last place the bird was seen, even if it was in the middle of the jungle. And he paid people to follow him around and make a documentary about it. The sculptures weren’t even good, but can you imagine disrupting an ecosystem to put your piece of c**p homage to an extinct animal in it?! How does that even make sense?
The school had to kiss his a*s to keep the money flowing and allowed him to install one of his sculptures on the school grounds. Then they made all the middle schoolers spend an afternoon watching his vanity—oops I mean documentary—and making carrier pigeons out of paper cutouts. It was a big joke.
Challenging other wealthy individuals to cage match MMA fights.
Making one dollar bets with other rich people that disrupts and ruins normal people's lives. Social experiments and such.
Basically using regular people as playthings.
Even though I enjoy the taste, collecting ultra expensive wine and not ever drinking it. Technically it can be an investment, but if they never sell it then its not really an investment IMHO.
Wine collectors who don’t drink their bottles are a tiny small minority. Most of them are willing to age their wines for decades for the pleasure of drinking an excellent old wine. And they usually know everything there is to know about the best time to drink any bottle (not all wines are meant to be kept in a cellar for years)
12 metre yacht racing. Like standing fully clothed in a cold shower and tearing up hundred dollar bills. By the million.
Submarine rides to ship wrecks.
This list would be shorter if the same hobby wasn’t repeated on here
My mom used to love watching the Barrett-Jackson Car Auction, specifically the one held in Scottsdale, AZ where they sell very expensive cars. She would always tell me that if she ever bought one of those expensive cars she would never put it away in storage, she would drive that thing all over the place.
Collecting high-end trading cards. Even worse is buying high-end unopened boxes/cases to open. Drake spent an estimated $200k on unopened cases looking for [one specific card.]
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apart from all the hobbies that hurt animals or people, who cares? Lot of hate here in this article.
These “us vs. them” exercises confuse me. Lots of hate on BP masquerading as piety.
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I don't really care what rich people do with their money, but I hate the idea of buying things and then just storing it as an investment. I especially hate it when it's to create artificial demand. Recently, banks and financial institutions have been playing this game where they buy up all the real estate and then just sit on it. Thousands of houses and buildings in a single city sitting empty to drive up the price so they can sell for a profit. The problem is, this kind of manipulation is a house of cards. It's an unsustainable game of musical chairs. A charade. Once the panic-selling starts for real, it'll all crash down, and just like the subprime mortgage disaster, the government will pay off the losses of the financial institutions, banks, and corporations that played the game, while the rest of us suffer another recession or even depression because of their stupid games.
I think this hoarding for investment thing is bad when it's goods that other people actually need, such as real estate, food, medicine and so on. If someone collects and hoards rare stamps or expensive wine, there's no harm done.
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apart from all the hobbies that hurt animals or people, who cares? Lot of hate here in this article.
These “us vs. them” exercises confuse me. Lots of hate on BP masquerading as piety.
Load More Replies... I don't really care what rich people do with their money, but I hate the idea of buying things and then just storing it as an investment. I especially hate it when it's to create artificial demand. Recently, banks and financial institutions have been playing this game where they buy up all the real estate and then just sit on it. Thousands of houses and buildings in a single city sitting empty to drive up the price so they can sell for a profit. The problem is, this kind of manipulation is a house of cards. It's an unsustainable game of musical chairs. A charade. Once the panic-selling starts for real, it'll all crash down, and just like the subprime mortgage disaster, the government will pay off the losses of the financial institutions, banks, and corporations that played the game, while the rest of us suffer another recession or even depression because of their stupid games.
I think this hoarding for investment thing is bad when it's goods that other people actually need, such as real estate, food, medicine and so on. If someone collects and hoards rare stamps or expensive wine, there's no harm done.
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