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“I mean it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?”

Although Lucille Bluth was dead serious when she uttered those words on Arrested Development, we as the viewers found the line hilarious because we could never imagine a person saying such a thing. However, that might just be because most of us are not hanging around extremely wealthy people very often...

Reddit user JustDadThanks sparked a conversation by asking others to share the most out of touch things they’ve heard wealthy friends and family members say, and it turns out that Lucille Bluth might fit right in with them. From having no concept of money to being unable to comprehend that everyone else does not take luxurious vacations year round, we’ve gathered some of the most ridiculous quotes from rich people that prove that money doesn't buy you self-awareness. Keep reading to also find an interview with Linda McQuaig, co-author of The Trouble with Billionaires, to hear her insight on the topic. 

Be sure to upvote the replies that you can’t believe were said in real life, and let us know in the comments if you have ever had a conversation with an affluent person that would warrant a spot on this list. Then if you’re interested in yet another Bored Panda article that will make you want to eat the rich, check out this story next.

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30 Times Rich People Made It Clear To Everyone Else Just How Out Of Touch They Are Without Even Trying The wealthiest person I know: “Oh you get seasonal depression? Why don’t you just go to the Caribbean for a week and the Mediterranean the next? It always helps me.”

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want to but my yacht is in the drydock. How on earth am I supposed to get there? Pfft, those arrogant super rich people with a private jet and TWO superyachts.

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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

Like uh huh. Life must be so hard.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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

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

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

“What are you doing here?”

“I work here”

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

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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

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

“My parents were just responsible”

So we’re mine. They were poor.

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

My jaw hit the floor.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

He was genuinely shocked...

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Oh man, my roommates and I were going out for dinner (burgers, nothing fancy) and I was driving us. I mentioned I couldn’t do something one of them wanted to do later that week because I couldn’t afford it - I was like 22, working two part time jobs, pretty broke. She told me she hated it when people said they couldn’t afford to do things because they just spent the money on something else and could spend it on that if they really wanted to. I was like, well I spent it on my car insurance for this month? And she doubled down and insisted that I HAD the money but I was prioritizing something else (yes, my car insurance). Very awkward conversation!

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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

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

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

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If only more people thought about their capacity to raise a child(ren), be that financially, physically, emotionally or mentally. Not everyone is capable of being a parent. Sadly, the people who do actually consider these thing, in differing circumstances, would probably be great parents

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The OP's mistake was to try to defend her and her husband's plans and decisions in the first place. When people demand "Why don't you have children yet?", the best response is to c**k your head to one side and give them a disapproving glare. (The second-best way is to reply "That is, quite literally, our f*****g business.")

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Wysteria_Rose
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Similar reaction I get when I tell people who ask if we will have more kids (aside from my bonus kids) that we are waiting to be a little more settled financially beforehand. "Oh, well then you'll NEVER have kids! There's never a perfect time!" True, but never said I was waiting for the perfect time, just the time that I won't have to struggle to pay for baby things/needs as well as which bill to pay for the month.

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Pizzagirl 91
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I wanted just one child of my own. Now I've got twins and a stepdaughter. Anyone should always remember: Even safe s*x can get you pregnant. Even one pregnancy can land you with several children. Even one child can bring challenges you never dreamed of. - If you think you're ready for a child, think if you could handle two, and give enough of your love, time and money, and still be satisfied with your choice. If the answer is yes, THEN you might be ready to try.

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Kate Jones
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think this is the problem with a lot of people's thinking. If I had a child, I'd want to give them the very best upbringing I could. If that means that I prefer my kid to be homeschooled or to go to private school where they may get a better or specialized education, or if I want to live a certain way without struggling and I decide that I only want to have one...I feel like there's this pushback from family and friends sometimes as to why we would 'limit ourselves' to only having one because, like you said you 'make it work'. I don't want to make it work- I don't want to struggle for the sake of simply having more children. People who are trying to make more responsible decisions get so much pressure from people around them or they're treated like something is wrong with them if they decide to invest their time and money into one child rather than spreading everything thin for the sake of having more family.

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Bear Family
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was at the tail end of my 20s and STILL think I had alot of growing up to do before our kids started being born. Thank goodness I had DW. While I may be very technically minded, she was and is the brains of our marriage.

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Mary Elliott
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People need to mind their own business about the personal choices of others regarding children, especially if they don't want to have uncomfortable conversations. Although, honestly, as an old person, my best advice to young people is DON'T DO IT. The world is going to be largly unliveable in another 60 years, because the door has already closed on preventing radical climate change. I feel so sorry for my 4 year old great nephew. I'm glad I only have another 30 years left in me, max.

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Susanne B
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those who critize someone for having none og too few children are probably just jealous becuse that someone have less trouble making ends meet.

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Mike Ipsen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your friend is partially right actually. I doubt he could explain why though. The amount of available credit (percentage-wise) has a large impact on your credit score. So if you have a credit card or two you can manage responsibly (pay it off every month) then if would raise your score. Easiest way is to just put bills you would normally pay on the card(s) and then pay them with the bill money you spend anyway. If you use a rewards card like airlines miles, then you can get very cheap flights occasionally too. Not knowing how to use a system to your advantage just keeps you down.

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Kate Jones
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree. I'm a banker and a lot of people don't understand how credit works. Your rating doesn't generally have to do with the amount of credit you have, it's how it's used. That's why sometimes people who have no credit cards, pay off their cards before they're even due, or even have no debt are sometimes not approved for loans when they do apply. Your creditworthiness is dependent on how you responsibly use credit, not how you *don't* use it at all. Banks want to make money so they want to see that you pay your bills on time but if you constantly pay it off before the interest is assessed then they don't consider you a good risk. Making regular, on-time payments is the best way to build your credit. Which is why secured credit cards are offered to people trying to rebuild bad credit. You put $500 on a card and then use it and make monthly payments. Little to no risk for the cc company, they make interest and you still get a good bump in your credit for making on time payments.

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D Gibson
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If more than one kid is too expensive then just remain childfree . Having only one child is very selfish , to my way of thinking. I have a nephew who is an only child. His parents are wealthy and he had a great life , traveling , life experiences, stuff, cars,education , etc. when he was young. His parents are in their 70s and he worries how he will cope (emotionally) if /when they become infirm . He is not wealthy & he & his wife prefer to raise their own kids on the money they earn. He does feel alone at times and I think his parents would be surprised and ashamed that their choice has adversely affected their only child to such a degree. He wonders what it would be like to have a sibling to share the burden of his demanding & selfish parents. I try to reassure him that having siblings does not always make life easier or more pleasant. Of course he doesn't believe me 8-)

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Sami-Jo Ross
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents tried for years to have another kid before they found out my mom is infertile. Thank God they didn't because we're barely afloat as is.

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Nightshade1972
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My MIL was nine years older than my FIL. They married when she was in her early 30s, and he was in his 20s. They tried for ten years before my wife was born--my MIL was 42 when she had her. That's why my wife is an only child. Fortunately, she had a lot of cousins to play with when she was growing up.

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Bear Family
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had two b/c that is what we were supposed to. And we love them dearly. We have friendly who chose not to have kids for reasons - and we think that is the right answer too. Maybe in 2022 - even the better decision. I think a portion of humanity thinks we need population growth and I'll bet those are primarily religious or business reasons. I feel differently. I think instead of 350M Americans, we might be better off with 200M Americans. Likewise in other parts of the world.

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Parriah
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My sister is childless by choice and the flack she gets is huge. How is that even selfishness? The selfish ones have kids they don't really want or just wanted for attention then forgot about.

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Madre_Dr4gnZFly
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If not for "Uncle Sam", my kids might never have been born. All 3 were born in military hospitals while I was active duty.

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MellonCollie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How would applying for credit cards fix your credit? I suppose this is for the US? What kind of credit would that be?

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Stephanie Paich
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Credit in the US is complicated. Basically, you want to prove that you pay your bills on time, but you also wanna prove that you'll borrow a little bit of money all the time forever. You don't wanna borrow too much, but you also don't wanna borrow nothing because if you've never had a loan (or haven't had one for a long time) companies don't know if they can trust you to pay them back. How long you've had your credit card accounts open, how much income you make vs how much access to credit you already have, and how many cards/loans you have at once all affect your credit score and it's a delicate balance.

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N Gregory
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um... Unless you'd told your friend you had medical debt, their suggestion wasn't necessarily a dumb one. Or a privileged rich person one either. Not every poor person with no credit has medical debt and getting (and using responsibly) a credit card might help them.

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Tabitha
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is not always easy getting approved for a credit card, and when you've got no credit, the only cards you're typically approved for are those with high interest rates, which is not helpful when you're already poor.

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

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Bored Retsuko
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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

Me: Yeah... exactly.

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

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

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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Yoga Kitty
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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Mike Ipsen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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