Money, money, money
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In the rich man's world…
Okay, the members of ABBA definitely know what it feels like to have plenty of money now. But do you know what it’s like to have all the money in the world, pandas? Chances are, you don’t, because 47.8% of global household wealth is in the hands of just 1.2% of the world's population, according to a recent Credit Suisse report. But while many people dream of winning the lottery or making millions working for a tech startup, let’s not forget that having access to lots of money will not solve all of your problems. In fact, it might make some of them even worse.
Wealthy Reddit users have been sharing some of the biggest downsides of being rich, so we’ve gathered a list of some of their most eye-opening responses below. I recognize that your first impulse might be to roll your eyes at affluent people complaining about anything, and trust me, I understand. But I urge you to keep an open mind, pandas, and upvote any of the answers that might shift your perspective on money a bit.
Keep reading to also find an interview with Shubham Kumar, founder of StartupTalky, to hear his thoughts on this topic, and then, if you’re interested in checking out a Bored Panda article discussing whether or not most rich people are actually “self-made”, you can find that right here!
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I come from a relatively upper-middle class family (doctor & professor parents) and I'd say the worst part is the assumptions a lot of people have about your life. I had a very dysfunctional childhood with symptoms of physical and emotional neglect from as early as I can remember but because I had a "posh" accent and my parents were wealthy nobody picked up on it, even my primary school teachers made jokes about how it was just a "quirky" family.
Just because a child is rich and their parents are polite and friendly, doesn't mean they're looked after or have a good home life.
I experienced this as a middle schooler, I was not the child in question, but a boy I knew. He was being horribly abused, buy his rich families "staff". He was able to talk to a few of his good friends. But, as we went to our parents, for guidance because we were afraid for him. And our parents, reached out for help through our school. The abuse intensified, with his parents largely not at home, the staff was informed that CPS was opening an investigation, on behalf of concerned parents. He was denied food at home, was locked in a room. Until he agreed to say he was lying to us for dramas sake. Our parents would not back down. And I loved my Dad, for being so steadfast. Knowing the boys father, he went to him directly. The Father, came home. Listened to his son, and fired the entire home staff. But, it wasn't enough. My friend needed help. He couldn't deal with his shame, and embarrassment of EVERYONE knowing. My friend hung himself on his 14th. He had been brutalized by an employee.
To gain more perspective on this topic, we reached out to Shubham Kumar, founder of StartupTalky, who was kind enough to have a conversation with us. First, we wanted to know if Shubham is even interested in accumulating wealth. "I want to be wealthy, but at the same time, I don't want to lose my freedom," he told Bored Panda.
"I think everyone should own their time," Shubham added. "Money is important, as it buys you time. But through my interactions with super rich people, I have learned that after a certain amount, it doesn't matter how much money you have."
People only pretend to like you because they want your money. It's extremely rare to find someone who actually likes you for being yourself. It's almost impossible to have a close relationship with anyone. I just want like a best friend who I can mess around with and tell them everything and like spending time with. It's really depressing
We also asked Shubham why so many people believe becoming rich will solve all of their problems. "Coming from a middle class family, I certainly say that money is the solution to 99% of the problems people have," he told Bored Panda. "If you have enough money, you won't think of petty things, and rather focus and use your time and energy to solve bigger problems, which can bring satisfaction to most people."
And while Shubham does believe that it is possible to have too much money, he's optimistic that we all have the potential to acquire wealth. "It's not rocket science; you just have to be disciplined in whatever you want to do. Of course, choosing this 'whatever' is the tricky part."
I grew up in a rich family. Allthough I havn't taken any money from them since I was around 16. But I lived at home for free until I was 20 and moved out. But by then I had been working for 2 years and spent the money well so I had around 14000USD of my own money I could do whatever I wanted with.
People knew my parents were rich, we had a huge house, cleaninglady etc.
I'd say the worst thing about being the son of rich parents is either the fact that EVERYONE expects you to be rich and successful, OR the fact that EVERYONE who knows you come from a rich family wants something from you. "Dude, youre rich as f**k you can buy me a beer", i've heard that like a million times and im sick of it.
I'm not rich. My parents are. I have more money than you becouse I dont spend 150 dollars on weed every week. Buy your own beer and get a job.
Ok, but if you lived at home for free, you did take money from them. You were not paying rent, and I assume, you were not paying any utilities. The rest of what you said, I totally get, but don't say you didn't take any money from them. You did, they just didn't hand you cash.
Commitment seems to be the key in making money, according to Shubham. "I see people flocking from one idea or organization to another, when something is not bringing results in a short span of time," he says. "Play the long term game, and you will see yourself grow very quickly."
"The job market is changing," he added. "Earlier Asian parents used to think only doctors and engineers could be wealthy. Today, you can earn a lot through following your passion of becoming a content creator, selling courses or even providing services to the ultra rich sitting at home. Don't rely on one source of income. Diverge once you have one income source set."
If you're interested in learning more financial advice from Shubham and his team at StartupTalky, be sure to visit their site right here.
I have reasonably well off parents - big house in a nice town, that sort of thing.
However, my brother and I were always taught humility. I had a job from 13 at a restaurant washing dishes, and I had to save for my first car. Yet people whose parents bought them their cars and never made them work still thought I was more spoiled because we had a bigger house.
The perception that you don't have to work for anything is the most infuriating thing. Yes, if I were in a tight situation my parents would help me, and others may not have that luxury. But I have never once in my 28 years had to ask for any financial help from them, and I don't intend to as long as I can help it.
The difference is that you can take risks. It changes everything about how you make life choices.
Spending time with other wealthy people.
It's total Russian f*****g roulette. Rich people are always either totally laid back, amazing people that you'd never know were rich, or they're psychotic, self obsessed, judgemental a******s whose life revolves around proving to you just how rich and awesome they are.
Non-rich dude that became a rich dude. To be honest the changes in your old friendships. I am lucky enough to have had a very lucrative career in a field I love and have become markedly more wealthy than my circumstances growing up. I grew up with a very close knit group of friends who are like family (around 10 of us) who have remained in the same socio-economic class after university.
As my income grew, naturally my life changed - I moved to a fancier suburb closer to work, started to buy nice things, travel for work etc. I also started to notice some of my oldest friends start acting differently toward me. I'm not a show off or ostentatious with my money, but I do buy things that none of my friends can afford (nice watches, furniture, art etc). I feel they are uncomfortable when they are around my place - though they never say anything snarky. Sometimes their wives and SOs will make comments like "wow you must be doing really well" or asking me how much a painting cost and my friends become visibly uncomfortable (and look pissed off with their partners) and it just makes everything awkward.
They don't expect me to pay for things, it's almost the opposite. I sometimes try to treat my friends and I feel it makes them uncomfortable. Eg. if a band we loved growing up are in town and we want to go I will offer to get us all the best (more expensive) tickets. Now I know they would all love to experience that, but they seem uneasy accepting the gift. I dont want any recognition or anything in return for it - the money is seriously no big deal for me. I just want to have an awesome night out with my mates. Most of the time they will accept and then insist on giving me the money after the fact and it makes me feel like an a*****e cause I know they wouldn't have bought tickets that expensive in the first place. Another example is when I end up giving over the top gifts at weddings etc. I just want to give my friends the best gift I can afford and something I know they would love but I feel it makes them uncomfortable that they cant reciprocate.
My mates still love me and I love them (they even regularly say they are proud of me etc) but I feel there is this weird void between us now that our lifestyles are so different. I've become very self conscious of my wealth around my old friends and most of the awkwardness is probably due to my own insecurity of not wanting my friends to think money has changed me :( sucks man.
I don't understand all this "people only want me because I'm rich" stuff... are you walking around telling people about your trust fund?? I know poor people with extremely expensive cars, people who find designer clothes in consignment shops, people with tons of class and no cash. why don't you wait to reveal the money until you know what kind of person they are?
People act like you can spend money all the time. Just because I'm wealthy doesn't mean i like to waste my money on fast food or useless crap I don't need
I wouldn't say rich but I had the most money out of my group of friends and it was always every weekend the same questions "can you get bud?, I'm starving can you get some food for me bro?", or the classic "Let's go out and do something tonight." And sometimes I didn't mind buying food if I was hungry too but all the time it gets a little ridiculous how much people will use you for money.
I was the human ATM machine for some people and I wasn’t even THAT wealthy. These people were jerks
I currently have no income. (new college grad. job hunting. hurray.) But I went to a school full of honest-to-goodness trust fund babies, people who have summer houses in different states and all that. The worst part from my observation is that people think if you're rich, nothing bad can happen to you. And it's true that money can protect you from a lot of things: it feeds you, clothes you, can pay for good doctors, etc. But it doesn't protect from things like infidelity, mental illness, cancer or other serious illnesses, abusive relationships, broken families, or sexual violence. And if any of those things happen to you and you're wealthy, people think you're an ungrateful moron if you talk about it. Money can't necessarily fix those things. I get the whole "check your privilege" thing, but rich people face a lot of the same stuff as poorer people.
The difference is having the means to get yourself out vs knowing there’s no hope. Living without hope… thats the end.
feeling s****y because of something then feeling guilty because you feel like you're being ungrateful and feeling more s****y
I was raised in a wealthy house and basically it made me resent the f**k out of rich people. Regardless of how you get to where you are, I don't necessarily appreciate how some richfolk are perfectly fine with having all of their s**t done for them without taking good care of their help or good compensation for services. For example having someone cleaning your giant a*s house for about the same price as a normal house. I think that's stupid
Again, this is a small percent of "rich". A family with an income of $300,000 a year is rich. However they cannot afford a live-in maids or nannies. Even $500,000 a year, so top 1%, is not enough, in the USA and most of Europe at least, to pay for full time help at that level. Most will pay for somebody to clean their house once a week, but that's usually it.
There are none. I grew up poor, govt housing, public schools, worked/studied hard and am not apologetic to anyone. Expensive cars, watches, etc. I actually do value money and people that know me, know Im not going to pay every time, or give them money etc. Dont have many friends cause of it, but who cares, I grew up an only child, no one was ever there to help me, so I like it better this way. Have a small circle of friends who I trust and quite frankly dont care about the rest
This is how you do it! All of these other folks saying they pay for everything or get used for money... Just don't! Drop the idiots who do that to you!
Having people devalue your accomplishments because your parents are rich.
Being given every advantage means your only job is to not screw it up so, congrats? You’d have to be as stupid as, say, Donald Trump to be so terrible at being rich as to fail to beat the market.
People don't think of you as a real person anymore. I grew up in a lower-middle-class family, worked in my Dad's liquor store and delivered newspapers, I graduated college deep in debt, I've been evicted from apartments for late rent, been chased by debt collectors, and spent one entire summer riding a motorcycle to work (sometimes in pouring thunderstorms) because my car's engine block cracked and I couldn't afford a new one. Saved a lot on gas, though.
However I was an outstanding computer programmer and was invited to join a startup company that eventually went public, so I was able to retire at a very early age. I'm still pretty much the same person but now I'm classified as "wealthy" so I'm now a "thing". So I lost many of my old friends who can't think of me as still being an actual ordinary person.
The other problem with being a "thing" instead of a person is that specifically that "thing" is a "target". One aspect of being considered wealthy is a phenomena known as the "Rich Man's Tax". Basically it's considered praiseworthy to cheat rich people out of their money. So, if I need a plumber to come fix something he'll look at my house and try and charge me triple rate. And many people reading this will say "good for him, stick it to the wealthy bastards" well F**K YOU IN CAPITAL LETTERS. I'm still the same person I've ever been and I don't like being cheated. But it's a symptom of our society - people bash the wealthy and try and cheat them but everyone wants to *be* one (for example, the billions spent on lottery tickets).
Compared to the tax and responsibility evasion by the rich, your plight is nothing
'Must be nice' because if I dare complain, that's what I'll hear.
I'm a rich kid so I automatically lose the moral high ground in any conversation. I've gone the whole poverty route, worked overnight crew as a Target stockboy, but it doesn't matter because I'm 'fake poor' and can always ring up my daddy if things get tough.
I've actually heard poor people complain about Barbara Eichenrich's *Nickle & Dimed*. "Well, she was only pretending to be poor . . . " Ummm . . . .she's trying to help out poor people by showing how it's impossible to make ends meet on a minimum wage salary. Show a little gratitude!
I come from a wealthy family. Not to the point where people know our names, but to the point where if we drop the company name in most European countries, people get worked up.
The worst part of it is that everyone thinks your life is perfect. To the rest of the world, your life must be perfect, because you're rich.
Some of the time, that's true. I've gone to the best schools, the best doctors, best restaurants, best vacation spots - I won't deny that in many ways, I've had a blessed life.
However, my dad worked his a*s off. I spent most of high school living alone in an apartment off a trust fund, because he was never home. Before him and my mom split, I endured years of emotional and sometimes physical abuse from her. I grew up with epilepsy, and horrible acne (used to get called scrambled egg face). Life is life - mine might be easier in some ways, but it has absolutely been harder than others, and being rich, no one gives a second thought to the fact that life might not have been totally perfect for me.
Literally no one thinks rich people have perfect lives and no problems. That's another projection. Everyone knows the rich have their problems but their economic privilege renders them in a completely different league. This dude's biggest complaint was that he was living off a trust fund. And his physical and mental health issues? Yeah, they suck, but his economic status gave him tools and resources which renders them far less damaging than they would be for a poor person. Edit: Wasn't expecting to get downvoted HERE of all places.
You never really know if your relationships are genuine or if it's because people want something from you. I met my wife and my close friends before I made a lot, so I'm not worried about them, but I do about almost everyone else. I never really knew why rich people hung out with other rich people, what difference does money make right? Well it kind of does. I realize it's because you get a better sense of where you stand with people that don't want anything from you.
I might be way too cynical, but I buy cheap clothes and hide the wealth because I'm afraid of how new people will change around me if they find out.
Other people's envy and/or bitterness. Pain is pain. Money alleviates some pains, but not others. It can't undo death, or serious trauma.
Having your pain denied because others can't empathize with you is incredibly alienating. I think that cuts both ways; it affects the poor who aren't able to make their pain understood because the wealthy aren't confronted with the same problems. And it affects the rich who can't make it understood that money doesn't make you invulnerable, much as it seems it might.
We are all human. Some have tougher lives than others. Money is one, but not the only factor.
I have some sympathy for rich people when it comes to the problems that truly affect everyone equally, like mental illness, growing up with abuse or neglect, etc. Those things aren't easy for anyone. For the other stuff, like people treating you like an ATM, the ultimate solution is a more equal society. The price of everything is going up, and just coping with everyday life is ridiculously difficult for a lot of poor people. It shouldn't be surprising that poor people will try to get money from rich people when rich people have created a society that is miserable to live in when you're poor, and designed to keep most people poor. So I hope all the wealthy folks bemoaning these problems are going to pay their full share of taxes, donate to charities, pay their employees generously, get politically active to pass laws that will create a more equal society, and encourage other wealthy folks to do the same. As the saying goes, the love of money is the root of all evil.
Not super rich, but my parents did alright. However a lot of friends I went to college with weren't in the same boat. It amazed me that most of them had never traveled to another country (I grew up in Asia as an expat, so "normal" for me was going visiting countries for school trips). The girl I'm dating right now is struggling to pay for an incredibly cheap college (tuition is about 6k a year), whereas my parents are able to put me and my brother through medical school at the same time. Granted, I had a scholarship through undergrad and earned enough at my on campus job to pay my living expenses, but I'm not paying s**t for my first year of medical school.
Another reason it's different is because my parents were self made. Their parents emigrated to the US and my parents were born there. Their families were pretty poor growing up. Now, I've grown up with everything but I'll be lucky to be even half as financially successful as my father was. And I'm going to be a doctor. Unless I go into an incredibly competitive specialty that I'm not interested in, I won't make anywhere near as much. So much for that.
TLDR as a kid of wealthy parents it skews my sense of normal, and it's hard for me not to take things for granted like education. Also, pressure to succeed.
The worst thing is when people *judge* your character by how you spend and donate your money.
That's because "their" money was usually the result of the hard work of people who are paid a lot less. For a corporation to make money, they have to pay their workers less than what the workers contribute. For every $100 of value that the workers provide, they're paid substantially less than $100. The rest of the value goes for higher pay for upper management, for the bonuses for upper management, and for the capital gains of the stockholders. People like Elon Musk are becoming Billionaires because they pay their workers far less money that the workers are worth to company. Every person making money off of the stock market is living off of the hard work of the people who actually do the manual work.
That I should be happy. I have all the resources in the world, so I should be able to afford the things that make me happy including the top mental health professionals.
I'm f*****g miserable and really hopeless because I have tried everything and don't feel better. Literally my doctors are now just telling me to keep holding on and that apparently breakthroughs in science are coming that would help me.
And other people make me feel guilty that I'm not happy because I'm so privileged. People assume I'm not grateful or that I'm spoiled. But really I'm just sad and empty. I've been called "poor little rich girl." I just don't think thats fair because I think about suicide all the time.
I would do anything to have my only problem be money. I don't think people realize what a luxury that is. It sounds like paradise compared to depression.
But back to your question. It is the expectations that others have for me. I just can't live up to them. I'm a waste of an opportunity.
Maybe you can volunteer and give back instead? You don't have to be this Nobel prize winning astronaut - just leave the world a better place than you found it.
People expect you to pay for everything and they will invariably order the most expensive things (food, liquor, etc). I don't mind paying at all and I know how bad this sounds, but to me, the cost is irrelevant. But when people make zero attempt to pay, it's very disheartening and I will rarely meet up again with someone who does that.
When I meet someone who could be a potential friend, I am vague about where I live, lifestyle, etc because I want to let the friendship grow without the issue of money. Eventually the person will figure out my situation and the best people are the ones who don't change as a result, but some people simply get weird around you and it can be uncomfortable. Rich people often hang out with other rich people simply because it's less complicated, not because they may like the person a lot.
I know there's all different sorts, but if someone else is paying for my dinner, I always specifically look for the least expensive options that still sound good. I suppose for comedic effect, I should say I always order the second most expensive thing so that I won't offend the rich person.
Due to different circumstances I'm quite wealthy considering I'm a student, and despite doing my best to hide it to prevent people being false friends, and judgemental, people inevitably clock on to the fact you've got a bit of money. They then judge you, and constantly drop snide comments, about really petty things. Example, I don't have to buy rock bottom price own brand spirit / drinks / food. I don't go buying grey goose or w/e which i've seen people do to simply show off, I'm not buying tables and ordering moet in clubs, but just because I can afford to buy premium vodka or branded drinks, don't take it out on me simply because you can't.
Same for food, I'm in the fortunate enough position to not have to buy aldi / lidl, and can afford to buy the food I like even when its not on special. I can go to the more upmarket shops and afford their ranges. I don't flaunt my money or brag about it, I don't even discuss it, I just keep to myself and buy the food that I like. But the amount of times i've had people dropping snide comments about what I eat, and the brands of food I eat, petty s**t like that is too many times to remember. (I wouldn't even mind if I was buying gold plated beluga caviar, but I'm talking like, regular s**t). Like, I'm well aware that I can get a spaghetti bolognaise ready meal for a quarter of the price in aldi, but I don't want it, and preaching at me about it every time I go to get something out the fridge is just poking your nose in where its not wanted.
Like also I can afford to get the train to uni, which is more expensive than getting the bus. Again, snide comments. Or getting a cab home from a club at 4am instead of walking back for an hour, then if someone can't afford it, offering to pay for them, but they'll decline my offer and get funny over the fact I got a cab home.
Its just petty s**t like that that really gets to me. Its unnecessary. I don't flaunt or waste money at all, I don't look down on people for buying own brand if thats what they want to do, its their prerogative and its not my place to comment on what they eat. I just keep myself to myself, yet people can be so quick to judge and pass comment.
Edit: Romantic relationships can be very difficult as well, like whilst people may not know you've got a bit of cash when you start dating, soon after they realise, and 9/10 times their attitude changes, and you're expected to suddenly cough up for everything they want, at which point you have to dump them because you begin to realise the only reason they stayed with you was for money. I had a relationship that was quite serious once, and I really opened up to her, and when we were discussing the future, I mentioned that given my situation, my family have written clauses into trusts that I must have a prenup, but it shouldn't be an issue cause I know your not here for that. Yup, she upped and left the week after because 'we weren't going anywhere the relationship was dead.'
Sometimes other people feel like they're entitled to my money. Its kind of hard to explain. For example, Im supposed to pay for everything else and if I don't then its a problem. Or, all shop owners or whatever sell me everything way over priced. If i try to bargain I get a death stare, and if they're rude enough they will actually say that I'm rich and it wont matter to me if I pay a bit more. That's not how it works!!!
I'm not rich, and never have been. In fact, I used to be poor as f**k. All that being said, I am at times very sympathetic toward rich kids, because they always had a "safety net" that hinders the development of their work ethic. If I am truly honest with myself, it is not my "work ethic" that got me my first few jobs. I hated that s**t. The cover letters, the interviews, the waking up early for a newspaper route, the days where I spent my weekends mowing lawns while my wealthier friends went to the beach. Fuckkk That. But I do believe it was my lack of a "safety net" that has conditioned me to be the hard worker that I am today. Rich kids are born without the choice of being rich or not, but due to their environment, if they didn't get a job they still had a source of income or some sort of support. If I didn't get a job, I was homeless.
Being born rich or poor is out of our hands. I believe being born poor comes with a huge advantage that rich kids don't have and that is the necessity for a work ethic. Being born poor means you are born within an environment where not working is not an option. It was my environment, not me, that developed my work ethic that is invaluable in my own life today.
Disclaimer: obviously I made some huge generalizations about rich kids and families. I have known multiple rich kids that grew up to have excellent work ethics. But as a whole, this is what I have perceived to be true in my own life.
Without being born rich, I taught myself to appreciate everything as if I were rich, because it adds an extra layer of humility to life: What if THIS weren't available? Zero base. A paved street? Wow. Wealth is an attitude as well as circumstance. Complainers and whiners are losers. Raise yourself.
This is going to get buried because I'm late to the thread but here goes. My dad founded a tech company about 10 years ago now it's grown in size and is publicly traded, the market caps gone over 1billion before but it's only worth about 400milion.I don't know his exact income but it's a lot. But anyways I have to say the worst part is being "rich kid" in my group of friends, I go to public school and almost all dirt poor like they live in trailers and s****y houses and whenever they come over to my place for the first time it always makes them view me entirely differently.
The second worst part I got to say is everything is always related to my dads work. Everybody seem to know me as Mr. Boss guys son. For example as I'm typing this comment my dads hosting a party at our house. There's several hundred people here, tons of employees for the party, and a lot of people who have worked for my dad and their family's. I originally walked around with a name tag that just had my first name on it and only a few people talked to me/knew who I am. But then my mom said I should put my last name too and everybody suddenly started saying "Oh you must be Mr.boss guys son." And then they would start talking about what the company is up to and various things my dad is involved with. I felt so out of place I just hid in my room and went on reddit. Still contemplating whether I should back outside.
I feel like this kid's attitude is what really sucks. The kids probably view him differently because he shows off his house and stuff in it, while he views the places they live in as "s****y houses" and trailers. I also get wanting to be your own person, but he just sounds annoyed that people want to talk to him because they know who he is. It's just small talk...I'm sure they don't know what else to say.
Sounds like I'm bragging but I'm not but I've more money than I'll need and tend to be generous, paying for my daughters' groceries etc but I'm sure both of their partners think I'm showing off, throwing my money around.
Two physician family:
#1: ENT+Ophthalmologist~$1m/y
#2: Family doc+Pediatrician~$300k/y
Neither poor by any measure, but insanely different realities with the same expectations.
People think your private plane is a f*****g free taxi service. They get so angry when you don't lend it out as such. I get requests to use my plane on a weekly basis from people I know. "Hey Panther, it would really make my wife's birthday more special if our group could use your jet to get us to and from Vegas." I shut them up by telling them I will have the pilot call them to arrange things. He then tells them how much it will cost to charter the flight and they usually drop the request pretty quickly. Only once have they called back expecting me to foot the bill.
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It must be nice to have these problems about how others look at you without worrying about how you'll pay your bills AND eat.
Based on the comments, I think a lot of people simply hate the ‘rich’. Yes some of these posts seem like complaining, and yes it would be harder to be poor and having these problems, but being ‘rich’ doesn’t define the person. Growing up in ‘rich’ families might make them spoiled brats, but you don’t get to define them by saying all of the problems could be solved by money. Yes it would solve a LOT of problems but I think there is a lot of hate towards seemingly ‘rich’ people who might have earned the money themselves (cue people saying I’m stupid) or through other stuff and is totally not sticking it in other people’s faces. Some of them might have ‘rich’ families and stuff. I really hate the term ‘rich’ being blatantly used in a negative way to describe a person if they’re not deserving it. Except from the a******s. I know I will at least have 10 downvotes for this thing but it isn’t hate or spam so I guess so be it.
The comments on these are more revealing of the reader than the poster. I like BP because in general the people on here are lovely, but bring money into the equation and people lose a lot of empathy for each other.
I don't want to be rich per se. I just don't want to have to worry about making rent every month.
i refuse to look at this article. And if it’s sooo hard, how about instead of owning 5 hundred thousand dollar cars, you do the sensible thing and give some to the community a mile away from you where there are hungry children.
Something about money brings out the worst in people, regardless of their own personal financial situation. I'm guilty of it: I've said that one of the "space gazillionaires" could spend some money on fixing Detroit's water problem and be a hero, but it's none of my business how anyone spends their cash. Others complain about how the poor spend their money. How many times have you heard someone making snarky remarks about what folks buy with food stamps, or why a crappy car has new rims? We all do it, and it's a combination of greed, envy, and anger at our increasingly debased oligarchical version of capitalism. Eat the rich/starve the poor/stop buying lattes and you'd afford a house etc. It's our crappy economic system that creates unhappiness all around. When we step in to opine on how others use/misuse their money it's meaningless drivel.
Yeah, it's just SO hard being rich, is it? Your trust fund puts you in a higher tax bracket and your maid keeps cleaning away your cereal bowl too quickly? Oh boo friggin hoo....get off your privileged, fourteen carat horse! This article has done nothing to enlighten me to the 'struggles' of rich people - all it's done is p**s me off. Sure I'll get down voted for this but sod it.
Author: I have a problem... Comments: Shut up! You can make rent and don't have to worry about food on the table. I guess if a rich person breaks the leg and can pay off without going into debt, their leg doesn't/shouldn't hurt anymore with that logic. Better yet let's bully them into apologizing before others for feeling the pain while having money. Should we find the most unlucky person, compare ourselves to them and shut up alltogether maybe? And I'm not a rich person, nor I say all rich folks are good. I'm just against people dismissing problems and feelings of others because of some quality or another.
I'm a manic depressant and bi polar. That being said, anyone who says money doesn't buy happiness has never stood outside with their kids in line at the food bank.
Aw, the trials of being able to afford treatment for those medical problems, hire a good lawyer for other problems, and then just go out of the country until someone else cleans up your messes... says nobody but the wealthy. ANd, yes, they do b*tch like that. My SIL married a guy who is legit severely wealthy private-helicopter style, and to hear him talk, he's the most afflicted guy since Jonah was inside a whale.
I don’t think I’ve ever in my life read an article with so many bitter, envious, mean-hearted commenters. Yeah, people who grew up rich maybe got a head start. But holy c**p, it’s not like they chose their parents or their own upbringing. Maybe being able to afford therapy and nice things takes the edge off of the injuries we all suffer, but there’s no need to bully them for it.
Having worked as a nurse in a hospital where I could, on any given shift, be looking after the most powerful and/or richer than god, I assure you it doesn’t matter how powerful or rich you are, you’re either an a****** or you’re not. I’ve looked after people who are from the same unbelievably rich families. One man was the nicest, most down to earth & contributed a lot of money to better society. The brother was an a******. I’ve looked after one man who was genuinely pi$$ed off & embarrassed by how Admin fawned over him. He knew. They just wanted a brand spanking new MRI. He insisted to be put in a regular hospital room. No 2 room or 1 room suite for him. He never treated any of us like “the help”. I cared about him because like anyone else, he had a serious health issue that required surgery. That’s it. Others, they think I’m their indentured servant, not their nurse. A******** are everywhere. But some get to be a***** in a much nicer environment.
Hey, I've got a genuine question here so please don't downvote: why does everyone hate rich people so much? It just seems weird that everyone tries to make/obtain money in life, but when you make enough of it or are born into it people suddenly don't like you? What if the rich people are philanthropists and give lots of their money to the poor and to charities? Is there some secret fine line of class so that you aren't poor but also aren't rich? If not, why do people not want to be poor but also don't like the rich? (Sorry if any of this sounded rude, I didn't intend it to be haha)
What's with the "acthchually, you had your parents to help you in case of emergency" ? So many people (outside very poor countries) have that, most common folk aren't forced to move out at 14, they can ask their parents for money or stay at their house. And what's with "but you won't deal with huge student and medical debt"? People comment this when the op doesn't even mention their country. By that logic, citizens of developed countries (except US) are spoilt, ungrateful and should stop complaining about anything because they get free insulin and cheap (or free) university education, when others don't. The worst part is, people here going "others have it much worse, shut up" would also be considered rich by standards of very poor countries. Working from 17 as a waiter would be a dream for 10 year old factory workers. The americans who can't afford college after highschool are privileged conpared to the milions who can't afford going to school in the first place. In the eyes of someone with no access to medical aid due to war, terrorists etc., americans have it easy because they can at least buy medicine and go to a functioning hospital.
My grandfather is a multimillionaire. The one time I brought it up, my friends immediately wanted to know why I had such a small house and only dressed in hand me downs and thrifted clothes if that was the case. My father was cut off by my grandfather for having different opinions (my grandfather is a narcissistic a*s). I haven’t brought him (my grandfather) up since.
Honestly I could only stomach to read about 1/4 of this garbage, thank you to all in the comments giving reality checks. I was getting the sense that this website is getting full of entitled judgemental click bate but this is the final straw.
Rich People Problems... really? REALLY? Wow... uhm... I suppose the fact that there are so many posts in this list that **many of us can't even hope to relate to** helps to... illustrate even more harshly... uhh... I dunno - I got nothin'.
If you are an adult and you have more money than you could ever use, you automatically f*****g suck and I hate you because you do not deserve that money. Just cause your grandaddy got lucky or worked hard, you should not be the 1%. Donate your f*****g money. If you're wealthy, or upper-middle class, cool! Great! I have no problems, because you're using exactly what you need for a comfortable life. Even if you set some aside for your kids to be well off, i dont really care. If you have more money than you could ever use and you're hoarding it like f*****g smaug, you are a bad person.i don't care how hard it is to be rich, or how mean I am. I know that you're a human being with thoughts and feelings. You also f*****g suck unless you get rid of that extra money fast. I'm expecting downvotes here but you cannot f*****g convince me otherwise. People are dying broke in the streets. No one should be hoarding money like that.
I grew up poor but through hard work, my wife and I are comfortable. We're not rich by any means. We can afford many nice things and budget ourselves. Every year we take a vacation to wherever we want. My mom and sister...they always said, "Must be nice". Then I have to say, yes it is, growing up poor, working our tails off for the things we have and enjoy. We're treating ourselves. Often too, I'd say yea, it is, you wouldn't know because yall refused our offers to take a vacation. I'd say too, must be nice to sit at home, be miserable about everything, talk smack on everyone around you and act like a victim of society.
I wish I was rich and people used me for my money instead of being poor and being used by the rich because I have no money
Wtf is wrong with people? In a threat about "rich" people opening up on some negative asepcts of being wealthy 50+% of the comments are making a fuss about how they dare to complain - which is the whole point of the threat and they are simply fulfilling it.. It like making a fuss about water being wet..
People are out here acting liking there are only two economic classes... the western middle class can also generally afford treatment and most of the other 'rich perks' like a safety net/saving money by living with the parents/etc that commenters are bitching about under the posts. While most of the wealthy people in the posts are most likely trying to compare themselves to the middle class rather than the poor... Like the one where his friends got gifted a car by their parents while the wealthy guy had to work from age 13 to get one, yet the friends assumed he was more spoiled than them because his family is more wealthy... Those friends are not remotely poor and he's not comparing himself to poor people. He's comparing himself to middle class people who also don't have to work to support their family but instead just not work at all, who most likely also live with their parents for free and have parents who can pay their healthcare etc. Yet the comments are all about poor people even though it is very clearly not about them. Most commenters here don't realise that having internet access and free time to read and complain about dumb articles like these makes them extremely privileged compared to more than 75% of the planet, either. Someone having more money than you is 0 reason to be an unemphatic ahole about them expressing struggles on a reddit thread where they were literally asked to do that. I generally hate the rich but jfc most of y'all specifically are super immature and sound even more unbearable than the rich, ngl.
Wealth is an aspect of power IMHO. I'd a close friend, scion of a wealthy and politically potent family -- he said he showed visiting governors and senators where the bathrooms were in the family mansion -- but he turned his back on all that, working as a commercial exterminator (he learned which eateries to avoid patronizing) and septic-tank pumper. The high life was not for Dave, no way. YMMV.
There are nice wealthy people, and there are a-holes. People think I'm rich, because of how I live. (House in France, and "don't work", which is BS.) I don't have money to waste. I often skip meals so my animals don't have to. I don't go out. I grow my own veg, I have chickens for eggs. But hey, because I have a big house, I must be well off. I'm not. I make do. However, if I do have some money to "spare" (I don't really) and a friend needs help, I will help if I'm able. But there is really only one true friend here, the rest are just... users. And I'm basically done with being used. So "No" is my go to answer these days.
Some of these people really don't have a clue what it's like to be poor or even "just" middle class. Sure, money can't buy everything, but not having to worry about where your next meal comes from or how to pay for life-saving medicine is already an enormous privilege. That said, I feel that some of those people have genuine concerns, like those wondering whether anyone actually likes them as a person or just bc they have money etc. And then there are those people who are like, "poor people are just jealous" or "just don't buy so much avocado toast" as if being poor was some kind of moral failing and not a systemic problem. Those are the people we are talking about when we say "Eat the rich".
I"ve never been financially rich, and I've been in extremely tight financial situations in the past, to the point I had no idea how I was going to feed my then-8 y.o. son (he took the initiative and told my parents/his grands, and suddenly we had loads of groceries to work with). I've worked for rich people; didn't hate them, didn't hate their wealth---they didn't flaunt it, and just looking at them, no one would ever have known they were rich---but I've also worked for rich people who had that "I'm far better than you" attitude, and they didn't pay a living wage. Now I'm retired after decades of working in healthcare, still not rich, but very happy with the spiritual wealth I have.
A lot of bitter people in this comments. The bitterness reeks of entitlement too. Let people feel however way they want as a Person who has money and the most assets in my family there's nothing worse than someone looking at you and expecting handouts and wanting to be bailed out when they mess up which is almost 100% of the time.
Is.... is this satire? Because most of these are incredibly ridiculous.... how hard it must be for your friends to treat your PRIVATE JET LIKE A TAXI..... That's so sad. Like... how can you ever recover from that? Meanwhile most ppl can't even afford to take a fucken taxi down the street.
I was an economically disadvantaged student at a prestigious and expensive university. I met lots of wealthy "peers" who treated me as if I was invisible. To be honest, if I managed to befriend someone wealthy, I tried to be as normal in expectations as possible. That is, until I saw them willfully squander money without any compassion to the reality that I lived. Watching people snort thousands up their noses when I struggled to eat definitely would change my behavior and expectations of them. I once watched $5k of tequila be consumed in a single round of shots. Was I thankful to be included? Sure. But that excess would usually hinder a sincere friendship with them. It's hard to scrape together $20 for a night out, only to watch people spend $2k in 4 hours in front of you. That lack of awareness and compassion always doomed any sincere friendship.
Poor rich people!!!! They have more problems from you that have no money to pay your rental, your food, that you can't go to the college or you have not insurance and can die from a severe disease ............
Everyone this thread needs to listen to Pulp’s Common People. Especially the line “everyone hates a tourist” referring to rich kids slumming it. The safety net that wealth offers is extraordinary, none of these kids are going to wait two weeks for a GP appointment, or think about the £5 goes on the gas meter, or on food.
Bored Panda is a Lithuanian website that publishes articles about "lightweight and inoffensive topics". Check out this Wikipedia entry about B.P. Judging by the comments I read on this particular entry alone I'd say a vast majority of people were offended.
It must be nice to have these problems about how others look at you without worrying about how you'll pay your bills AND eat.
Based on the comments, I think a lot of people simply hate the ‘rich’. Yes some of these posts seem like complaining, and yes it would be harder to be poor and having these problems, but being ‘rich’ doesn’t define the person. Growing up in ‘rich’ families might make them spoiled brats, but you don’t get to define them by saying all of the problems could be solved by money. Yes it would solve a LOT of problems but I think there is a lot of hate towards seemingly ‘rich’ people who might have earned the money themselves (cue people saying I’m stupid) or through other stuff and is totally not sticking it in other people’s faces. Some of them might have ‘rich’ families and stuff. I really hate the term ‘rich’ being blatantly used in a negative way to describe a person if they’re not deserving it. Except from the a******s. I know I will at least have 10 downvotes for this thing but it isn’t hate or spam so I guess so be it.
The comments on these are more revealing of the reader than the poster. I like BP because in general the people on here are lovely, but bring money into the equation and people lose a lot of empathy for each other.
I don't want to be rich per se. I just don't want to have to worry about making rent every month.
i refuse to look at this article. And if it’s sooo hard, how about instead of owning 5 hundred thousand dollar cars, you do the sensible thing and give some to the community a mile away from you where there are hungry children.
Something about money brings out the worst in people, regardless of their own personal financial situation. I'm guilty of it: I've said that one of the "space gazillionaires" could spend some money on fixing Detroit's water problem and be a hero, but it's none of my business how anyone spends their cash. Others complain about how the poor spend their money. How many times have you heard someone making snarky remarks about what folks buy with food stamps, or why a crappy car has new rims? We all do it, and it's a combination of greed, envy, and anger at our increasingly debased oligarchical version of capitalism. Eat the rich/starve the poor/stop buying lattes and you'd afford a house etc. It's our crappy economic system that creates unhappiness all around. When we step in to opine on how others use/misuse their money it's meaningless drivel.
Yeah, it's just SO hard being rich, is it? Your trust fund puts you in a higher tax bracket and your maid keeps cleaning away your cereal bowl too quickly? Oh boo friggin hoo....get off your privileged, fourteen carat horse! This article has done nothing to enlighten me to the 'struggles' of rich people - all it's done is p**s me off. Sure I'll get down voted for this but sod it.
Author: I have a problem... Comments: Shut up! You can make rent and don't have to worry about food on the table. I guess if a rich person breaks the leg and can pay off without going into debt, their leg doesn't/shouldn't hurt anymore with that logic. Better yet let's bully them into apologizing before others for feeling the pain while having money. Should we find the most unlucky person, compare ourselves to them and shut up alltogether maybe? And I'm not a rich person, nor I say all rich folks are good. I'm just against people dismissing problems and feelings of others because of some quality or another.
I'm a manic depressant and bi polar. That being said, anyone who says money doesn't buy happiness has never stood outside with their kids in line at the food bank.
Aw, the trials of being able to afford treatment for those medical problems, hire a good lawyer for other problems, and then just go out of the country until someone else cleans up your messes... says nobody but the wealthy. ANd, yes, they do b*tch like that. My SIL married a guy who is legit severely wealthy private-helicopter style, and to hear him talk, he's the most afflicted guy since Jonah was inside a whale.
I don’t think I’ve ever in my life read an article with so many bitter, envious, mean-hearted commenters. Yeah, people who grew up rich maybe got a head start. But holy c**p, it’s not like they chose their parents or their own upbringing. Maybe being able to afford therapy and nice things takes the edge off of the injuries we all suffer, but there’s no need to bully them for it.
Having worked as a nurse in a hospital where I could, on any given shift, be looking after the most powerful and/or richer than god, I assure you it doesn’t matter how powerful or rich you are, you’re either an a****** or you’re not. I’ve looked after people who are from the same unbelievably rich families. One man was the nicest, most down to earth & contributed a lot of money to better society. The brother was an a******. I’ve looked after one man who was genuinely pi$$ed off & embarrassed by how Admin fawned over him. He knew. They just wanted a brand spanking new MRI. He insisted to be put in a regular hospital room. No 2 room or 1 room suite for him. He never treated any of us like “the help”. I cared about him because like anyone else, he had a serious health issue that required surgery. That’s it. Others, they think I’m their indentured servant, not their nurse. A******** are everywhere. But some get to be a***** in a much nicer environment.
Hey, I've got a genuine question here so please don't downvote: why does everyone hate rich people so much? It just seems weird that everyone tries to make/obtain money in life, but when you make enough of it or are born into it people suddenly don't like you? What if the rich people are philanthropists and give lots of their money to the poor and to charities? Is there some secret fine line of class so that you aren't poor but also aren't rich? If not, why do people not want to be poor but also don't like the rich? (Sorry if any of this sounded rude, I didn't intend it to be haha)
What's with the "acthchually, you had your parents to help you in case of emergency" ? So many people (outside very poor countries) have that, most common folk aren't forced to move out at 14, they can ask their parents for money or stay at their house. And what's with "but you won't deal with huge student and medical debt"? People comment this when the op doesn't even mention their country. By that logic, citizens of developed countries (except US) are spoilt, ungrateful and should stop complaining about anything because they get free insulin and cheap (or free) university education, when others don't. The worst part is, people here going "others have it much worse, shut up" would also be considered rich by standards of very poor countries. Working from 17 as a waiter would be a dream for 10 year old factory workers. The americans who can't afford college after highschool are privileged conpared to the milions who can't afford going to school in the first place. In the eyes of someone with no access to medical aid due to war, terrorists etc., americans have it easy because they can at least buy medicine and go to a functioning hospital.
My grandfather is a multimillionaire. The one time I brought it up, my friends immediately wanted to know why I had such a small house and only dressed in hand me downs and thrifted clothes if that was the case. My father was cut off by my grandfather for having different opinions (my grandfather is a narcissistic a*s). I haven’t brought him (my grandfather) up since.
Honestly I could only stomach to read about 1/4 of this garbage, thank you to all in the comments giving reality checks. I was getting the sense that this website is getting full of entitled judgemental click bate but this is the final straw.
Rich People Problems... really? REALLY? Wow... uhm... I suppose the fact that there are so many posts in this list that **many of us can't even hope to relate to** helps to... illustrate even more harshly... uhh... I dunno - I got nothin'.
If you are an adult and you have more money than you could ever use, you automatically f*****g suck and I hate you because you do not deserve that money. Just cause your grandaddy got lucky or worked hard, you should not be the 1%. Donate your f*****g money. If you're wealthy, or upper-middle class, cool! Great! I have no problems, because you're using exactly what you need for a comfortable life. Even if you set some aside for your kids to be well off, i dont really care. If you have more money than you could ever use and you're hoarding it like f*****g smaug, you are a bad person.i don't care how hard it is to be rich, or how mean I am. I know that you're a human being with thoughts and feelings. You also f*****g suck unless you get rid of that extra money fast. I'm expecting downvotes here but you cannot f*****g convince me otherwise. People are dying broke in the streets. No one should be hoarding money like that.
I grew up poor but through hard work, my wife and I are comfortable. We're not rich by any means. We can afford many nice things and budget ourselves. Every year we take a vacation to wherever we want. My mom and sister...they always said, "Must be nice". Then I have to say, yes it is, growing up poor, working our tails off for the things we have and enjoy. We're treating ourselves. Often too, I'd say yea, it is, you wouldn't know because yall refused our offers to take a vacation. I'd say too, must be nice to sit at home, be miserable about everything, talk smack on everyone around you and act like a victim of society.
I wish I was rich and people used me for my money instead of being poor and being used by the rich because I have no money
Wtf is wrong with people? In a threat about "rich" people opening up on some negative asepcts of being wealthy 50+% of the comments are making a fuss about how they dare to complain - which is the whole point of the threat and they are simply fulfilling it.. It like making a fuss about water being wet..
People are out here acting liking there are only two economic classes... the western middle class can also generally afford treatment and most of the other 'rich perks' like a safety net/saving money by living with the parents/etc that commenters are bitching about under the posts. While most of the wealthy people in the posts are most likely trying to compare themselves to the middle class rather than the poor... Like the one where his friends got gifted a car by their parents while the wealthy guy had to work from age 13 to get one, yet the friends assumed he was more spoiled than them because his family is more wealthy... Those friends are not remotely poor and he's not comparing himself to poor people. He's comparing himself to middle class people who also don't have to work to support their family but instead just not work at all, who most likely also live with their parents for free and have parents who can pay their healthcare etc. Yet the comments are all about poor people even though it is very clearly not about them. Most commenters here don't realise that having internet access and free time to read and complain about dumb articles like these makes them extremely privileged compared to more than 75% of the planet, either. Someone having more money than you is 0 reason to be an unemphatic ahole about them expressing struggles on a reddit thread where they were literally asked to do that. I generally hate the rich but jfc most of y'all specifically are super immature and sound even more unbearable than the rich, ngl.
Wealth is an aspect of power IMHO. I'd a close friend, scion of a wealthy and politically potent family -- he said he showed visiting governors and senators where the bathrooms were in the family mansion -- but he turned his back on all that, working as a commercial exterminator (he learned which eateries to avoid patronizing) and septic-tank pumper. The high life was not for Dave, no way. YMMV.
There are nice wealthy people, and there are a-holes. People think I'm rich, because of how I live. (House in France, and "don't work", which is BS.) I don't have money to waste. I often skip meals so my animals don't have to. I don't go out. I grow my own veg, I have chickens for eggs. But hey, because I have a big house, I must be well off. I'm not. I make do. However, if I do have some money to "spare" (I don't really) and a friend needs help, I will help if I'm able. But there is really only one true friend here, the rest are just... users. And I'm basically done with being used. So "No" is my go to answer these days.
Some of these people really don't have a clue what it's like to be poor or even "just" middle class. Sure, money can't buy everything, but not having to worry about where your next meal comes from or how to pay for life-saving medicine is already an enormous privilege. That said, I feel that some of those people have genuine concerns, like those wondering whether anyone actually likes them as a person or just bc they have money etc. And then there are those people who are like, "poor people are just jealous" or "just don't buy so much avocado toast" as if being poor was some kind of moral failing and not a systemic problem. Those are the people we are talking about when we say "Eat the rich".
I"ve never been financially rich, and I've been in extremely tight financial situations in the past, to the point I had no idea how I was going to feed my then-8 y.o. son (he took the initiative and told my parents/his grands, and suddenly we had loads of groceries to work with). I've worked for rich people; didn't hate them, didn't hate their wealth---they didn't flaunt it, and just looking at them, no one would ever have known they were rich---but I've also worked for rich people who had that "I'm far better than you" attitude, and they didn't pay a living wage. Now I'm retired after decades of working in healthcare, still not rich, but very happy with the spiritual wealth I have.
A lot of bitter people in this comments. The bitterness reeks of entitlement too. Let people feel however way they want as a Person who has money and the most assets in my family there's nothing worse than someone looking at you and expecting handouts and wanting to be bailed out when they mess up which is almost 100% of the time.
Is.... is this satire? Because most of these are incredibly ridiculous.... how hard it must be for your friends to treat your PRIVATE JET LIKE A TAXI..... That's so sad. Like... how can you ever recover from that? Meanwhile most ppl can't even afford to take a fucken taxi down the street.
I was an economically disadvantaged student at a prestigious and expensive university. I met lots of wealthy "peers" who treated me as if I was invisible. To be honest, if I managed to befriend someone wealthy, I tried to be as normal in expectations as possible. That is, until I saw them willfully squander money without any compassion to the reality that I lived. Watching people snort thousands up their noses when I struggled to eat definitely would change my behavior and expectations of them. I once watched $5k of tequila be consumed in a single round of shots. Was I thankful to be included? Sure. But that excess would usually hinder a sincere friendship with them. It's hard to scrape together $20 for a night out, only to watch people spend $2k in 4 hours in front of you. That lack of awareness and compassion always doomed any sincere friendship.
Poor rich people!!!! They have more problems from you that have no money to pay your rental, your food, that you can't go to the college or you have not insurance and can die from a severe disease ............
Everyone this thread needs to listen to Pulp’s Common People. Especially the line “everyone hates a tourist” referring to rich kids slumming it. The safety net that wealth offers is extraordinary, none of these kids are going to wait two weeks for a GP appointment, or think about the £5 goes on the gas meter, or on food.
Bored Panda is a Lithuanian website that publishes articles about "lightweight and inoffensive topics". Check out this Wikipedia entry about B.P. Judging by the comments I read on this particular entry alone I'd say a vast majority of people were offended.
