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30 Times People Made It Clear To Everyone Else They’re Rich Without Even Trying
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Institute for Policy Studies has been tracking the rapid growth of rich Americans' assets, and it's become one of the most disturbing reminders of inequality during a crisis that has devastated ordinary families.
As the U.S. approaches 1 million deaths from Covid-19, the country's billionaires have seen their combined wealth rise over $1.7 trillion, a gain of over 58 percent during these challenging times.
So when internet personality Bilal Harry Khan tweeted about the disconnect between the classes, it really struck a chord with other Twitter users.
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"Overhearing rich people's conversations always cracks me up," Bilal said. "The things they casually do in their social lives truly remind you how broke you are." In just a few days, his words received 136,000 likes and, more interestingly, inspired folks to share examples of these exact situations.
From 60-year-old ladies hitting it off by talking about their mansions to a student complaining about having to attend her dad's hotel openings, here are some of the most outrageous ones.
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You’re making money (hopefully great money) by flaunting your assets. Is it weird that I’m mixed on this. Strange way of redistributing wealth. But… good?
U.S. corporate after-tax profits hit a record high of $2.5 trillion in the third quarter of 2021, further enriching wealthy executives and shareholders. One factor behind the profits spike, according to writers Sarah Anderson and Brian Wakamo, is the fact that giant corporations have used the excuse of pandemic-related supply chain bottlenecks to jack up prices for gasoline, food, and other essentials.
Workers, particularly those at the bottom end of the wage scale, have gotten some long-overdue pay increases, but these were not the result of any employer largesse. Instead, many have gone on strike and taken other actions to leverage their power at a time of pandemic staffing challenges. Unfortunately, rising consumer prices are taking a bite out of those wage gains.
Most of those rich ppl know deep down they don't deserve that wealth, hence they have huge imposter syndrome which makes them A grade a holes and stingy af.
I disagree. These people actually “absolutely” believe they are entitled to everything they have and even more $$$. They also think that if you don’t have $ it’s because you’re not good enough and don’t deserve it. That’s why they don’t tip.
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I was a pizza delivery driver in the 90s/early 2000s. Same thing. The richer they are, the less they tip.
I delivered pizza in the 80's. Same. My area covered some of the wealthiest neighborhoods and then regular homes and apartments. One time, delivering to a beautiful home, the wife yelled back to her husband "How much should I tip?" He replied "nothing, let them work for it like I did". I'm standing there thinking that is literally what I am doing, working.
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Ppl who have struggled/are struggling, empathize with other folks in the same life struggle. And because of this, they are more willing to help. It's ironic and wonderful all in the same act of kindness
Hmmm. I have read that Door Dash drivers can choose their deliveries and may not even pick up your order if there is no tip included. Guess this driver is the exception.
Once it's rejected by drivers enough, doordash will up the base price til someone takes it. If someone's food ever takes 2 hours, the tip wasn't enough to cover the gas to deliver it. As a former pizza deliverer i wholeheartedly agree with this. Spending 4$ in gas to deliver food then someone stiffs you is absolute c**p
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One of my sons did a deep dive into the psychology of the rich. He said in their minds, they are their money and their money is them. Whereas money is a tool for me, to enable me to pay bills, etc., to the wealthy it's their whole identity. Something threatening the loss of any of those funds is like a physical affront. They equal their wealth, their wealth equals them, and without it they have no worth as a human being. Also explains the arrogance of the wealthy - those who aren't rich have no worth. I'm far from being wealthy, but at least I'm aware that I have worth that isn't dependent on how much money I have.
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There's also the saying: You learn how to save money from rich people. Sad really...
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Rich people are often misers. This is how they got rich. They might splash out on some things, often to project an image, but on others they are utter tightwads.
They did not get rich by saving money, they got rich by inheriting it and/or exploiting people.
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I used to sell potatoes at my parent's farm. The people driving in with a big BMW or Porsche SUV were always those who complained the potatoes were too expensive. Well if you splurged so much on your car that you can't feed your family with potatoes, you should go to Aldi instead.
I use DoorDash a lot. I also live out in the middle of nowhere. I always tip the highest amount. When I get my hair or nails done, I always tip 25%. Most of the time (like yesterday) it only amounts to 6.25. However, there are really wealthy people where I live that tip like c**p. Tipping well makes me a good customer and they, in turn, take extra care of me. It's a win-win situation. If I cannot afford to tip 25% for the service I receive, then I cannot afford the service. I need to wait until my finances are better.
Yep!! I would deliver steak dinners to the wealthy neighborhoods and get zero tip but the $10 McDonald's delivery are the ones that would give me between $5-$10 every time. Definitely had better interactions with the non wealthy that's for sure!
Some of the richest people I know are the cheapest people I know. They can be such tightwads, especially when it comes to tipping.
Unfortunately most people in those situations are living off credit and are most definitely not rich. They are actually so far in debt that you would be shocked.
I was a pizza delivery driver 30 years ago. Same thing. Deliver to the mansions, exact change. Deliver to the white collar house, $1. Deliver to the blue collar house, $2-3.
Probably because those with less know what it’s like. Wealthy people don’t know, or forgot
Fellow dasher here and it really is like that. I have delivered groceries to a small house in the bad part of town and gotten a $10 tip but delivered to the swanky part of town to a HUGE house car full of groceries and the tip was $0.18
If I cannot afford to tip, I don't order. Since the app the drivers have to have running on their phones (I couldn't even work that right now - no smartphone, would have to buy one, but don't want to yet ... just don't, no specific reason other than not liking touchscreens) is able to snitch, I silently give them about 2 € each time, no word, just a nod from me, from them, all well. It's meant for the guy who rode his bike here, and for about half an hour of work, added to their not-that-great wages, I think it is just about what everyone should do. Readjusted the amount this year, stuff got more expensive. Their stuff, too, so ... if I want to eat stuff from elsewhere at home, I go get it or I pay a damned tip. In the US, this is even worse than in the EU right now, but it's bad enough here that no one loves that job. Funny thing is, I'm an engineer, by no means a worthless kind of education, and don't make THAT much either, but just enough to get by.
Because …who feels it …knows it…rich people don’t need money 💰…they don’t think people it either !
I was once told that they don't make money to give it away and you don't stay Rich by doing so
I've delivered for Domino's for 14 years. Definitely good and bad in any given neighborhood, but it hurts the most being stiffed by the rich. I'm quitting in about 6 months, ironically marrying a rich, yet generous man. I am trying to come up with "quit" ideas. Can't wait.
There are several prominent case studies and analysis reports that provide insight into income inequality, income disparity, and income distributions in the U.S. and across the world.
The Urban Institute, for example, is one of them. In an analysis of 50 years of economic data, the institution showed that the poorest got poorer while the richest got much richer.
Between 1963 and 2016:
- The poorest 10% of Americans went from having zero assets to being $1,000 in debt.
- Families in the middle-income segment more than doubled their prior average wealth.
- Families in the top 10% had more than five times their prior wealth.
- Families in the top 1% had more than seven times their prior wealth.
Maybe she should cut out Starbucks.. and try to eat in more? Poor woman... LAWL.
In 2018, the Economic Policy Institute released a report showing a general trend toward increasing incomes of the top earners following the 2008 recession. Between 2009 and 2015, the incomes of those in the top 1% grew faster than the incomes of the other 99% in 43 states and Washington D.C.
Many factors can be associated with this trend, including salary stagnation for wage-earning Americans, tax cuts for the richest Americans, a loss of manufacturing jobs, and a soaring stock market that inflated the worth of corporate executives and hedge fund managers.
Post-recession, companies are also investing heavily to hire and keep workers with specialized skills in fields such as engineering and healthcare. This has caused reductions or new automation takeovers in other functions, pushing down wages for workers in less competitive positions.
Remember when Bloomberg explained tips on ‘poor people’ making less than $300,000 and tips on how to afford to live. So all us peasants down here making less than $300 …
According to a 2022 report by World Inequality Lab, the global bottom 50% captures only a very small share of global income, just 8.5%. This means that, on average, the bottom 50% earns slightly less than one-fifth of the global average, i.e. just $2,915 per year.
The global middle 40% earns 39.5% of the total: its income is very close to the global average, at $17,178 per year.
But the global top 10% earns 52% of the total, which is slightly over five times the global average. Its average income per adult amounts to $90,782 per year.
Global wealth, however, appears to be even more unequally distributed than global income. The poorest half of the world's population owns just 2% of total net wealth, whereas the richest half owns 98% of all the wealth on earth.
The bottom 50% owns, on average, $3,019 of assets (typically in the form of land, housing, deposits, or cash).
Among the richest half of the global population, the middle 40% owns just 22% of total wealth (on average $42,570 per adult), and the top 10% owns 76% (i.e. $573,350 per adult, on average, including a large share of financial wealth such as stocks and bonds).
"here...let me babysit for free to make up the difference. Oh wait...you don't pay me enough for that to happen!"
The sentence, "You just have to hire someone to screw your..." could have ended very differently.
"We should note that when we measure global wealth inequality using market exchange rates, rather than purchasing power parities, then there is even more inequality," the report noted.
"The global bottom 50% owns less than 1% of total wealth and the global top 10% nearly 82% of it. To summarize ... the world is marked by a very high level of income inequality and an extreme level of wealth inequality."
I wonder how those people would cope if their parents suddenly went broke. And by broke I mean not 2 cents to rub together and miles deep in debt.
The World Bank noted that although global poverty has more recently resumed its pre-pandemic downward trajectory, between 75 million and 95 million additional people could be living in extreme poverty in 2022 compared to pre-COVID-19 projections, due to the lingering effects of the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine, and rising inflation.
Research suggests that the effects of the current crises will almost certainly be felt in most countries through 2030. Under these conditions, the goal of bringing the global absolute poverty rate to less than 3 percent by 2030, which was already at risk before the pandemic, is now beyond reach, unless countries take swift, significant, and substantial policy action, The World Bank believes.
The poor poor little fragile thing that has to go get free food and entertainment.....
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A lot of people will scream "you're just jealous!" No, guys, its not jealousy. It's knowing that the work of people scraping by are the reason these people can live like this. There's always "little people" down the chain getting their butts kicked and labor exploited so people can stay out of touch with them. That's where the anger comes from.
Who else wants to build a guillotine, and seize a few trillion in US$, and buy the US a healthcare system, and an upgraded power grid?
No way! I'd rather sleep hungry and cold than to threaten the weiner shaped rocket ship billionaire industry.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The rich are different from you and me." Ernest Hemingway purported to reply, "Yes, they have more money!" And, lastly, George Bernard Shaw, "The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine." But if you think a "revolution" will help, just remember when one completes a "full" revolution, one ends up in the same place one started.
(2 of 2) Second one was being in my first class on the first day in University and the girl behind me is complaining to her friend that her Dad bought her a BMW instead of the Mercedes she wanted and how angry she was. I turned around and said, "my first car was a '71 Used Chevy 4-door with faded blue paint...and I didn't even own it...my Dad did. Be grateful for what you have." The people on either side of me (friends of mine) all snickered..and she stopped complaining.
Along these lines - first class on first day of college and there is a girl, dressed to the 9s, hair and make up done, wearing designer heels, carrying her LV bag and whatever at 0730!!! My pajama pants and oversized hoodie wearing a$$ became best friends with a fellow pajama pants and oversized hoodie gal from that class. That friend later explained to me that "the rich are loud and the wealthy are quiet" (that's also when I found out my friend's family had more money than they knew what to do with) The point is that flashing your money around, and treating people like sh!t makes you look like a dbag to everyone, across all social classes. It's a bit beautiful that those moments can bring us all together lol.
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(1 of 2) The two I remember was the doctors that were at the hospital cafeteria talking about their Rolex watches and which one was better. they're dropping $40k price tags. I walked past them, flashed my watch and said "Casio...costs $10 and I've had it for 10 years. Waterproof, stop watch, alarm and has never been slow." They shut up.
The best one I ever had was a posh guy I studied with at University who once told us he was going to visit Chatsworth at the weekend (for reference to non-UK, Chatsworth is one of the UK's best country houses- and a major tourist attraction). Everyone assumed he meant visiting as a tourist. No. He was invited over socially by the family who owned it.
A young Indian actor recently spoke about having it hard and his parents don't give a s**t regarding his expenses... They pay in extreme cases. Something of this sort he mentioned.... in the same breath, he spoke about having to buy a pre-owned lamborghini at Rs. 1 Crore (huge money) instead of a new one at Rs. 3 Crore (bigger money). He is a decent guy... not a fan but seems nice. But yes.. this statement was something else.. got trolled massively
University was in a rich area, I did a lot of house sitting and babysitting to make money. One family’s big screen tv was a bit fuzzy. Gave it to me for free so they could go get a new one. Got it back to the dorm and turned a little k**b on the back of it and fixed the fuzziness. Most people were actually really generous!
I'm a certified broke but I will gladly pay for conveniences whenever I can. I sprained my back last year and never fully recovered so now I pay my teenage cousin $20 and whatever he wants for dinner to clean my baseboards and wipe down my cabinets every other week. Takes him about 30 minutes to do what would now take me 2hrs.
Once overheard a girl at the high school I went to say she paid 108 dollars for a pair of leggings. A pair of leggings.
Once I was on the bus sitting next to two 15 yo girls (in my country, everyone takes public transport, regardless if you are rich or poor). One girl was telling the other girl about her mom's birthday and how she only got a porsche as a birthday present from her father. And it was red and not in her mom's favourite colour. This really made me think about the different worlds we live in ...
I think it’d be fun to be rich, BUT for the purpose of giving to others. You wanna go to med school but can’t afford it? BOOM WEALTH GENIE. Little kid just wants a stuffed animal for Christmas? BOOM KID HERE’S TEN TO PICK YOUR FAVORITES
A lot of people will scream "you're just jealous!" No, guys, its not jealousy. It's knowing that the work of people scraping by are the reason these people can live like this. There's always "little people" down the chain getting their butts kicked and labor exploited so people can stay out of touch with them. That's where the anger comes from.
Who else wants to build a guillotine, and seize a few trillion in US$, and buy the US a healthcare system, and an upgraded power grid?
No way! I'd rather sleep hungry and cold than to threaten the weiner shaped rocket ship billionaire industry.
Load More Replies... F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The rich are different from you and me." Ernest Hemingway purported to reply, "Yes, they have more money!" And, lastly, George Bernard Shaw, "The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine." But if you think a "revolution" will help, just remember when one completes a "full" revolution, one ends up in the same place one started.
(2 of 2) Second one was being in my first class on the first day in University and the girl behind me is complaining to her friend that her Dad bought her a BMW instead of the Mercedes she wanted and how angry she was. I turned around and said, "my first car was a '71 Used Chevy 4-door with faded blue paint...and I didn't even own it...my Dad did. Be grateful for what you have." The people on either side of me (friends of mine) all snickered..and she stopped complaining.
Along these lines - first class on first day of college and there is a girl, dressed to the 9s, hair and make up done, wearing designer heels, carrying her LV bag and whatever at 0730!!! My pajama pants and oversized hoodie wearing a$$ became best friends with a fellow pajama pants and oversized hoodie gal from that class. That friend later explained to me that "the rich are loud and the wealthy are quiet" (that's also when I found out my friend's family had more money than they knew what to do with) The point is that flashing your money around, and treating people like sh!t makes you look like a dbag to everyone, across all social classes. It's a bit beautiful that those moments can bring us all together lol.
Load More Replies... (1 of 2) The two I remember was the doctors that were at the hospital cafeteria talking about their Rolex watches and which one was better. they're dropping $40k price tags. I walked past them, flashed my watch and said "Casio...costs $10 and I've had it for 10 years. Waterproof, stop watch, alarm and has never been slow." They shut up.
The best one I ever had was a posh guy I studied with at University who once told us he was going to visit Chatsworth at the weekend (for reference to non-UK, Chatsworth is one of the UK's best country houses- and a major tourist attraction). Everyone assumed he meant visiting as a tourist. No. He was invited over socially by the family who owned it.
A young Indian actor recently spoke about having it hard and his parents don't give a s**t regarding his expenses... They pay in extreme cases. Something of this sort he mentioned.... in the same breath, he spoke about having to buy a pre-owned lamborghini at Rs. 1 Crore (huge money) instead of a new one at Rs. 3 Crore (bigger money). He is a decent guy... not a fan but seems nice. But yes.. this statement was something else.. got trolled massively
University was in a rich area, I did a lot of house sitting and babysitting to make money. One family’s big screen tv was a bit fuzzy. Gave it to me for free so they could go get a new one. Got it back to the dorm and turned a little k**b on the back of it and fixed the fuzziness. Most people were actually really generous!
I'm a certified broke but I will gladly pay for conveniences whenever I can. I sprained my back last year and never fully recovered so now I pay my teenage cousin $20 and whatever he wants for dinner to clean my baseboards and wipe down my cabinets every other week. Takes him about 30 minutes to do what would now take me 2hrs.
Once overheard a girl at the high school I went to say she paid 108 dollars for a pair of leggings. A pair of leggings.
Once I was on the bus sitting next to two 15 yo girls (in my country, everyone takes public transport, regardless if you are rich or poor). One girl was telling the other girl about her mom's birthday and how she only got a porsche as a birthday present from her father. And it was red and not in her mom's favourite colour. This really made me think about the different worlds we live in ...
I think it’d be fun to be rich, BUT for the purpose of giving to others. You wanna go to med school but can’t afford it? BOOM WEALTH GENIE. Little kid just wants a stuffed animal for Christmas? BOOM KID HERE’S TEN TO PICK YOUR FAVORITES
