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Money can be a blessing and a curse. Especially if you didn't have to work hard and just happen to have it.
According to clinical psychologist Dr. Tian Dayton, children of wealth often begin life with prescribed identities and a sense of social and financial superiority.
The absence of struggle and adversity can hinder their development of resilience and empathy, leading to a distorted worldview where entitlement replaces gratitude.
Interested in real-life examples of this, Reddit user ThrowRAmagicia posted a question on the platform, asking people to describe the worst cases of "rich kid syndrome" they had ever seen. Here are some of the most memorable replies.
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#1
Not sure if this is worse case... but... actually a rich kid being nice.
In college, there was a Saudi Arabian kid who's father bought him a new Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV. Paid in full. I was casual friends with him and his roommate.
His roommate was a year behind him, and just an average dude from the US.
He graduated and is in process of moving back to Saudi Arabia, to work at his father's company.
He just handed the keys to his roommate and gave him the Jeep, signed the title over to him. The roommate didn't have a car. He said his roommate was a good friend to him and wanted to give him a goodbye present.
The roommate drove that Jeep until he couldn't drive it anymore, many years.
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
exactly, there's many a rich entitled brat out there that would just let the car sit in a scrapyard/landfill instead.
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Rinso the Red 1 year ago
My college had a lot of foreign students (nearly a third of our population). At the end of the year, many would throw TV's, computers, etc. into the pond because they couldn't bring them back with them and/or it was just easier to get a new one once back home.
Sunny Day 1 year ago
That's common with all college students. They have to clear their dorm room for the summer, and they're flying home. Can't afford to ship all that stuff, and all their friends have the same problem, so - it ends up in the dumpster. (Moral - go dumpster diving at colleges when classes end in May.)
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
This is much more The Best Case Of “Rich Kid Syndrome” They’ve Ever Seen.
athornedrose 1 year ago
the brazillian exchange students did this, kind of. they go there and one bought a hummer and the other bought a mustang because he thought his friend was "too flashy" with the hummer. didn't gift them to anyone though. just brought it in to sell it back after 2 years when they went home. we asked why they didn't just lease it or something, and they're like "nah too many restrictions on mileage and stuff. buying is more convenient"
Elio 1 year ago
We had a rich dude from Saudi Arabia in one of my math study groups. He was alright but definitely confused by the idea that I didn't own a car because my mom and dad had blue collar jobs. And that I worked part time. I made a pretty ok hourly wage considering it was the recession but I typically worked 10 hours a week. (The recession also escaped his understanding.) He did buy me cough syrup once when I was sick. It was Delsym, which is the good stuff.
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Five Years 1 year ago
I went to school with a kid who's dad owned a big furniture company. The guy drove a brand new 1969 green Z/28. I got to ride in it a few times.
Susan Teter 1 year ago
Just goes to show...a friend is a friend - no matter how much or little $ you have.
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#2
Me: You can't park here, it's a handicapped space!
Them: That just means it costs $250 to park here
And that's when I realized fines should scale to income
The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
Sweden and other Norwegian countries do set fines based on income.
Bogdan Chelariu 1 year ago
"Other Nordic countries" maybe?! There aren't more "Norwegian" countries! Norway in itself is a country!
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Kylie 1 year ago
I realise it's a stock photo, but have you ever noticed how many disabled spots have those honking big pickups?
Jrog 1 year ago
'cause they don't fit in normal parking spots. I mean, it's a major A-hole move, but I am not surprised that a dumba** who bought a land-bound-aircraft-carrier as his daily drive has not enough common sense to understand that his dumb decisions don't excuse him from parking it on handicapped spaces.
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Jon Steensen 1 year ago
Fines are just the fees you pay for doing business...apparently, if you are rich enough.
DB 1 year ago
Good point. How about if the level of services you receive from the government scales to taxes paid?
You stole that from Robocop 1 year ago
Used to have a boss who lived next to the car pound in Chelsea, he'd go out and double park on the King's Road if he was drinking so a) he wouldn't have to waste time finding a parking spot and b) someone would drive his car home.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Some places tow your vehicle, especially if you're a repeat offender 🙂
kitteh floof lover 1 year ago
or have it towed. sometimes inconvenience works better than a fine.
"Those born into wealth do not necessarily learn the lessons of climbing the ladder towards success," Dr. Tian Dayton, the author of Emotional Sobriety, told Bored Panda. "The necessity to work can develop self-discipline and doggedness, it is normalizing in that one is thrown in with others who are also trying to move forward in life. One has to learn to work with others; to get along, to take the lead, or to follow and be a team player."
According to the psychologist, "wealthy people can sometimes afford to isolate themselves in a world of privilege that doesn't develop these traits." She also added that wealth can set high standards of what we think of as achievement, making a child born into it feel that nothing they do will ever measure up to their family's.
"This can be debilitating," Dayton said. "If the family values equate money with achievement, they may feel that acquiring wealth is one of the only ways to feel successful."
#3
Barbie and her daughter. I worked at a bank and a young girl came Into the bank complaining her credit card wasn't working. I told her it was maxed out and she needed to make a payment. The absolute look of shock and confusion on her face... you can tell she had absolutely no idea what the f**k we were talking about. "What do you mean a payment?? This is my money! I go shopping and put it all on this card what am I supposed to do? You need to figure this out!" When I tried to explain that credit cards aren't free money she said I was a liar and to figure it out cause I'm obviously new here. The manager gets Involved and she's so pissed she calls her mom... Barbie to come in. She literally looked like Barbie and that was also her name. SAME ISSUE! had no idea what we were talking about. Cards just pay for things! She has never paid a bill in her life. Hers has always worked... I explained that her card was set up that her husband would automatically pay it in full each month and she didn't understand. Long story short finally the husband comes and tells them to go to the car. Asked me to make it so all the daughters bills come out of his account. Worst part is she came back in and gave me this "see told you you're an idiot" look. The bill was f*****g wild too... She got this card a month ago and put over 10k on it. The wifes card was so outrageous I wouldn't even believe anyone could support that. What I dont get is how neither lady even understood the concept of money... It was just "I get whatever I want and this card does it"
Michail Nickolaides 1 year ago
It seems that you married the wrong husband
Load More Replies... Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
There are people who are clueless about credit cards. Back in the early eighties, I worked at a rental car company that was affiliated with Sears and used to accept their credit cards. I remember talking to one of their credit department customer service representatives, who told me he had people call him who got their card with, say, a $500 credit limit. They would do something like buy a major appliance with it and max it out. Then they would make ONE payment of like $25, and thought that one payment restored the whole $500 limit on their card! Makes you just shake your head and go “Damn!”, doesn’t it?
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
Wow! I just can't...🙄 How do they survive each day??
Load More Replies... Bogdan Chelariu 1 year ago
They understood the concept of money very well! In the end, they were spending outrageous amounts monthly! What they never understood was the concept of working for said money and not depend on someone else for every little thing that isn't spending!
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
I know of the opposite, My Dad's brother was a Marist Brother. He taught science at one of there schools in taiwan and hong kong. He had never had a pay check or money, everything he needed was taken care of by the Order. The nuns cleaned and cooked, no electric bill, he had no clue. He came to Europe to see the family. My parents house was having some building work so he stied with me in my two bedroom apartment. He didn't even no how to make coffee or a sandwich, work the washing machine. He was like a fish out of water in my place. He could just sit in silence for hours. I was in my late 20's at the time and my life was very busy and he couldn't figure out what I was doing half the time.
B 1 year ago
Meanwhile I used my inheritance to get my husband & myself out of debt we accrued when he first became disabled & waited 6 months to get approved for disability. Now work 9 hours a day to keep us out of debt
LRRRR 1 year ago
That's pretty rough and very unfair. But respect for making the responsible choices and for trying to/managing to keep yourselves out of debt!
Load More Replies... Angrykitten 1 year ago
I work in credit cards, stuff like this happens way more often then you would think
Kare Deter 1 year ago
At one point in my life I almost declared bankruptcy over being $5,000 in debt because I had no other way to buy food. Paid my bills by the system of .. who will call every day and who will take $5 this month and let the rest ride.
Thrillion 1 year ago
Nothing wrong with bankruptcy. Its a function of our society so people can be free from financial mistakes or hardships. Credit will recover better without the burden.
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Edward Finger Hands 1 year ago
The behavior is not great but seems to me to be reflective of women not being allowed to have financial literacy historically and, though it doesn’t seem like it here, it can be a form of financial abuse.
Rebecca McManus 1 year ago
And here's me calculating that come June I'll be debt free after 8 years of watching what I spend. I'm not going to spend £10k in a month though.
#4
I worked at an upmarket boarding school for a while, living in the girls dormitory as a dorm matron. One of the girls was (we suspected) the daughter of a Russian oligarch and was obscenely wealthy and badly behaved.
One of the biggest social events of the school year was a winter ball, and the girls had their dresses planned months in advance. The oligarch's daughter had a designer gold dress that she told everyone who would listen about how it cost 6k. Bear in mind she was just barely 14.
Anyway a couple weeks before the ball she did something truly heinous, and I ended up grounding her from attending the ball. Oh boy, the tantrums and attempted manipulations the next two weeks were absolutely bonkers, but I'm not budging.
She ended up cutting the dress into ribbons and throwing it in the dumpster in order to "punish me". Unfortunately for her I'm not her real mum and didn't pay for it so I didn't care.
Szzone 1 year ago
I hate ologarchs, but if this particular one heard the story of their daughter's punishment, they would peobably thank this person for educating the spoilt kid.
Saint Thomas 1 year ago
You'd think... most likely they would have done everything they could to have her fired.
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We also got in touch with the person who started this discussion, Redditor ThrowRAmagicia.
"I live in a college town where there is a pretty significant population of rich, entitled families and also students," they started, introducing the origins of the post. "So I am aware of some students whose families pay $2,000/mo for their rent during college and I was curious to learn more about these types of people/families."
The Redditor said the common theme amongst the replies was "just a completely skewed and sheltered worldview that rich kids have."
#5
Worked at a mine in Northern Canada. Owners delayed the cargo boat for 5 days, at millions of dollars in penalties, so that they and their friends could come and watch it come in. Disrupted everyone's leave because of it. When they finally got there, they decided to get drunk and missed the boat coming in. So millions of dollars down the drain, disrupting everyone's family life, just to act like morons and miss it.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Why do people who have "more money than sense" always have so much money?
Load More Replies... Donkeywheel 1 year ago
I doubt this one very much. Looks like made up gossip spread by people who didn’t know the actual reason.
MushroomHead22 1 year ago
was this last year? and if so wasn't it due to weather and the water being too elevated that the boat couldn't safely get through?
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Let me guess. This owner was NOT also the company founder, but their kid/grandkid/other descendant who grew up wealthy and inherited the company. Well, like so many other nepo babies, if this is an indicator of how they choose to run the company, they will bankrupt it soon enough. Folks, if you own a company and want your kid(s) to run it after you retire, please have them work their way up from janitor while they’re in school, so they have a clue how it actually runs before college, and won’t impose any of the f****d up theories they learn in business school when it’s their turn at the helm. Be sure to tell your employees in each department your kid(s) matriculate through to NOT treat them any differently than anyone else. Tell them that if your kid f***s up, they are to be treated like any employee who f***s up. No special treatment, period. They need to have real world experience of work, so they truly understand what their employees go through every damned day.
#6
I had a roommate in Uni who threw her change away. Anything under 5£ would go straight to the bin.
I put a "change drawer" in the hallway outside her room, and we threw an end of year party with the funds. One can hope it taught her that even coins have value, too, but I doubt she changed her ways entirely.
Rahul Pawa 1 year ago
I absolutely do not care about pennies. As far as I'm concerned they shouldn't exist anymore. Nickels too.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
It costs 2.4 cents to make each penny. A nickel costs 10.41 cents to make. The zinc for the pennies come from three different Canadian companies. Canada stopped using pennies in 2013.
Load More Replies...Dayton agrees that wealthy kids can be seen as those who have it all, which can also present a fair chunk of challenges. "This can mean that people don't judge them for who they are but for what they have," she explained. "Peers may turn their natural envy into judgment, or they may choose to be with them not only because of a natural affinity but for the inevitable perks that surround being connected to wealth."
"There is no more serious form of this than in marriage," the psychologist highlighted. "A wealthy young person may have someone who wants to marry them to attach themselves to wealth rather than basing the marriage on true love. This is an injustice to the wealthy person and a danger wealthy young people may face."
"Another function of status is that it can get comfortable, and it is bestowed on the wealthy person simply because they share a family status. The status can have the effect both of making them feel overly secure because of the way they are seen or insecure because while they do have status, they have no sense of having earned it," Dayton said.
#7
Encountered a bunch over the years directly and second hand, but the most recent one that sticks out was from a friend who's a drum teacher at a fancy private school. He's not technically employed by the school, so he bills the parents directly. Went to check his account and found a few more 0s than there should be in his teaching account. Turned out he'd accidentally billed one set of parents 40'000 instead of 400 and they just paid it anyway.
LuckyL 1 year ago
Sooo, did he start raising his prices? Did he keep the money? ^^ Important questions
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
Of course her told the parents. He's a drummer, not a lead guitarist.
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Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
I mean, if it was Billy Cobham, they probably just said "it's worth it"
Ty Stratton-Quirk 1 year ago
Was it his fault, or did the parents not realize that decimal points are a thing?
#8
Guy in my family was doomed from the start. His grandpa left him a 200k trust just for being the first born and before you know it, he's got an unwarranted sense of self importance. Went on to squander that 200k because he refuses to do an honest day's work, preferring the impossible dream of becoming a CEO immediately and having millions at his disposal. Despite having an MB in business management, he's run 6 endeavors into the ground to avoid getting a job while conning his parents into enabling him.
Now he's 50 and has no prospects. But still refuses to just work. Every time I feel sad about not having enough income to realistically retire, I remind myself I could always be him, 50 years old with a 30 year gap on my resume. At least I'm TRYING.
Owen 1 year ago
That guy is too far gone. And I doubt he'll EVER understand where he went wrong. Just where everyone else (in his mind) did.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
He could run for President. There is a precedent,
Load More Replies... Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
You know, $200 grand isn’t a fortune nowadays. If he had simply put that money into a managed investment account and gone to work like the rest of us, he could be sitting pretty for retirement by now. Especially if he continued to work until normal retirement age, and if he also invested a portion of his salary of all those decades. Thirty years ago, $200,000 could’ve bought him some properties he could’ve fixed up and rented out, and if he’d also continued working, he would have that passive income to retire on. Man, if I ever came into a nice chunk of change like that, there are so many things I would do to ensure it grew into an even bigger chunk of change. Seems the wrong people get bankrolled and the rest of us—-who would actually appreciate the windfall and do good and constructive things with it—-are left to struggle. My parents sunk money into one of my brothers who was pretty much of a deadbeat. They even bought him a house, and adjusted the down payment so the financed balance carried a monthly payment he could afford. They never did anything like that for the rest of us kids, and some of us truly struggled and would’ve greatly benefited from it, including paying them back , once we got securely back on our feet. My deadbeat brother, on the other hand, never appreciated and merely squandered everything they did for him—-and trash talked them behind their backs to anyone who would listen.
Lauren S 1 year ago
I was thinking the same. $200K isn’t an incredible life changing amount of money. Don’t get me wrong, I can only dream of being gifted something like that! But I also know I couldn’t simply quit my job and live off of that.
Load More Replies... Seadog 1 year ago
I went to school with all the sons and daughters of all the doctors and lawyers in town. I'm just a country boy so I never fit in in their eyes. I began working retail at the age of 7 so as we got older, working is just a day in the life for me. It makes me smile to see all of them working because mommy and daddy's money ain't paying their way.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Are you describing Donald Trump? Haven't many of his businesses failed? And the only banks that would bail out were Russian. Now we know why, because he was deceiving all the American banks.
BJ Hage 1 year ago
Sources? Successful entrepreneurs typically fail with their business ventures but dust themselves off and try again.
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When I was at university I was friendly with a guy who lived on my floor who was from a rich family, like his family had villas in Spain and Italy as well as a big house in the countryside in the UK.
He was actually quite a nice bloke, but he regularly came out with things that only a rich kid could say.
He once tried to be relatable by mentioning how annoying it was when you didn't realize your cleaner or gardener were in the house and how awkward it was.
Like, brother, most people just clean their own homes.
As I said, he was quite a nice bloke, he wasn't being malicious but he was just so sheltered from what the average person has to go through.
Ansi 1 year ago
Trying goes a really long way when it comes to these things. 👍
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 1 year ago
these situations are really common here. We have something like a 40% unemployment rate and 10% middle class, the other 50% basically struggling to survive. So most middle class - ie about 8m people - have servants.
GlitterPanda 1 year ago
Sounds like a boss of mine. We were talking about extra-curriculars my kids were choosing at school and my boss said something along the lines of "Do they even have Hone-Ec anymore? We just had maids so our schools never had that class."
Views of why people are rich have changed significantly over the past years, with a growing share of Americans (65%) saying the main reason someone is wealthy is because they possess more advantages than other people. Far fewer think it's because they have worked harder than others (33%).
ThrowRAmagicia shares this sentiment and thinks that because of it, the rich and the average folk can never truly understand one another, either. "Rich people are either born into their lifestyle or they had a ton of luck. They will never comprehend what it's like to never be able to get what you desire," they said. "Getting everything they want is just a given."
#10
When the heir to a fortune threw a fit because his personal chef was on vacation and they had to settle for a takeout order
Bogdan Chelariu 1 year ago
Guess lobster doesn't quite hit the spot if your personal chef doesn't catch it and throw it in a pot right in front of you...
Mike Loux 1 year ago
well, lobster vs Red Lobster just isn't the same. In that the former doesn't taste like a*s.
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ShellsBells 1 year ago
Apparently, he wasn't that rich, couldn't even afford to have two personal chefs. Peasant.
#11
Saw a post about a kid who was angry because his parents bought him a new high end BMW instead of a Mercedes. He intentionally wrecked the BMW.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
My kid would blow a gasket if I got her a Mercedes instead of a BMW. Mercedes has blinker lights.
Odin Schmidt 1 year ago
Not in Connecticut they don't! Nothing here has working turn signals. And, there's no stop signs any where in the state, NONE!
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Christopher Crockett 1 year ago
I met a young lady years ago. From a stupidly rich English family, went to the posh private schools, the works. But, she was very down to earth and always insisted that her parents were wealthy, not her. She showed me pictures of her car, a Citroen 2CV (a French "people's car" that looks like a tin snail), complete with pictures of the engine rebuild she did herself. She said that she used to drive that into school and park next to the popular girls' Mercedes and Bentleys just to annoy them. Money doesn't always equal snottiness... this lady got it!
Five Years 1 year ago
Bought a 325 IS BMW for $1300. I'd drive that thing hard on my paved, back country road to do ambulance calls. I'd be glowing after the nine miles.
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
Videos of a mom who bought her 16 yrs old daughter a Tesla (I think. In any case, a high end hybrid. The girl threw a fit because she wanted a Mercedes. Want to reach through the screen every time I see her.
Paul Gerrard 1 year ago (edited)
Know a family that is wrealthy. As eldest male child approached sge to drive his dad promised him a car. He envisioned high end AMG Porsche or BMW. He was give a old utility. Son was furious. He was told if he looked after this vehicle and dint wrecknit or lose his license in years to come his dad would buy him something better.
#12
I worked for billionaires a few years ago as a nanny. I sat in for story time @ the kids private school. We were reading a children’s book about African students who go to school in mud huts. Basically, we learned that the kids need to work together to rebuild the school after every rainy season because the mud hut washes away… or something like that.
The teacher asked if any of the kids had questions after we finished the book. The first question was “is this about public schools?” The children were 8 years old.
Rahul Pawa 1 year ago
This is about an 8 year old asking a question in school. This doesn't belong on this list.
Astro 1 year ago
That’s very reductive. There’s definitely a reason this is on this list, I’m sorry you missed it.
Load More Replies... Christopher Crockett 1 year ago
"No dear, at public schools the community has to rebuild the teachers each summer because they lose their youthful idealism and become bitter, jaded and want to quit."
John Dilligaf 1 year ago
considering the state of the public schools in some places, and the utter contempt and hatred some segments of our society have for the public school system, this sounds like a valid question.
Astro 1 year ago
The private school student was asking if the story was about public schools.
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However, Dr. Tian Dayton is more optimistic. "Underneath it all we all have very conventual, human needs, the need to be seen and accepted, and valued, and loved for who we are."
"If these values are placed before others, understanding follows," she said.
#13
Ex friend of my wife, daughter of fairly wealthy business owner. This girl threw a hissy fit at a friendly gathering, complaining about how her father (CEO) had given her (VP of operations-honorary title) a $200K yearly bonus… after she had already prepared her taxes. She was now going to have to go back to her accountant.
Patricia Steward 1 year ago
That isn't even a first-world problem. That's an alien world problem.
John Dilligaf 1 year ago
I understand her POV totally. I, too, get upset when unexpected $200K bonuses throws my tax preparations out the window. That is, I mean I would understand if I got an unexpected $200K bonus - or any bonus at all really.
Lee Stone 1 year ago
How would this work? Did they prepare her taxes before the year ended or is the bonus retroactive? Someone with tax insight enlighten me because I can't wrap my head around needing to update your prepared taxes (for the prior year) after receiving a bonus the current year. Oh, or maybe she pays her anticipated taxes quarterly and she's complaining about this throwing that calculation off?
David Wallin 1 year ago
You're right; the timing is off. She is likely a cash-basis taxpayer, so a "retroactive" bonus paid in 2024 for 2023 is taxed in 2024.
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#14
I saw a kid who threw out his clothes after he wore them. He legit didn’t understand the concept of washing clothes. When he came to college he had a copy of his parents Amex platinum card. He would literally stop by a store after school and buy clothes for the next few days.
Nae who and where 1 year ago
Why not donate the clothes then? Give them away to friends/classmates? Anything, other than throwing them away!
Steve Hall 1 year ago
New clothes from any store are covered in fabric preservativs and other shopper's fingerprints. That is not clean in my book.
Firstname Lastname 1 year ago
As much as a female I would love to have an eternal source of new underwear (period blood is a pain to clean when there's an accident), I love my wardrobe too much to let it all go.
#15
John F. Kennedy didn't know the depression was going on while growing up. (could be apocryphal)
"Kennedy later claimed that his only experience of the Great Depression came from what he read in books while attending Harvard University. For John, this privileged childhood was interrupted repeatedly by chronic bouts of illness."
MushroomHead22 1 year ago
the difference between 1930 and the 2010s+ is access to information. an 8 year old today has access to a substantial amount of info at their disposal. a kid in 1930 had their parents, a newspaper, the radio etc... they couldn't just look anything up whenever they wanted.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
On the other hand kids today are awash in a tide of information, whick can make sorting true/importanf from false/unimportant just as difficult (see flat earthers). Either way, though, they learn what 1) is deliberately taught to them (school, friends, family,...), and 2) what information they seek out themselves, be it via the internet, print media from library books to magazines, or tv. If they're not interested and are not taught they can easily avoid knowing quite a lot of things, then and now.
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Rahul Pawa 1 year ago
He would have been 10 or under during the Great Depression. This doesn't belong on this list.
kath morgan 1 year ago
I couldn’t tell you much about what went on in the news when I was under 10 either 🤷♀️
David Roughton 1 year ago
JFK was only 12 years old when the stock market crashed. He probably only read the funny pages at that time
Paul Gerrard 1 year ago (edited)
You thinkbTrump understands what a family must sacrifice and choose to raise kids. ? He would have no idea what a loaf of bread, a pack of butter and milk cost. In a debate that and what ot costs to go to a doctor and buy antibiotics shoukd be asked.
James King 1 year ago
The TDS is strong in this one. What is this, nine years of him living rent-free in your head?
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Me and a buddy were in our PC tech class senior year talking about how cool it would be to get Alienware gaming laptops. A junior that had class with us piped up and unironically said "why don't you just tell your dad's so they'll buy them for you". We had to explain that our dad's couldn't afford to do that and he truly didn't understand. Apparently his father is a chemist and helped invent the main component in luminol that makes blood glow.
Jasmijn 1 year ago
His father must be very old considering luminol was first synthesised in 1902 in Germany and first used on a crime scene 1928.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
Have you considered that maybe his dad got so rich that he invented time travel?
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#17
I went high-school in a working class neighborhood. Most of the students were middle class, and most of my friends were on the lower end of that scale. One girl I hung out with was smoking hot, but dumb as a post. She started dating a guy from a near-by private school. One night a bunch of us went to Pizza Hut and she brought him along, first time most of us had met him. He had no idea what Pizza Hut was or what they served. We had to explain the place to him and he actually said, "I've heard of pizza, never tried it." Dude was in high-school and never had pizza, Apparently, the only restaurants he had ever been to were high end fine dining places.
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
In many ways it’s sad. None of these were taught that they have it good, thus cannot comprehend. Without some grounding factor ( I.e., taught and shown that the rest of the world do not their.). They will stay clueless and raise even more clueless kids. When the money runs out, which it frequently does when people don’t realize that there is another world. They will then mostly fail, turn to ever worsening ways of handling. This is sad.
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No Clue 1 year ago
Exactly. I was wondering what that has to do with anything. Probably jealous that she was "smoking hot" but not with OP.
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B 1 year ago
threw a surprise 40th for my husband & made it the kids party he never had. Rented a place out that had mini golf & bumper boats. Gave away goodie bags & had ice cream cake. One of his friends that grew up in Italy ( moved here as a teenager) . Had never heard of Ice cream cake. He couldn't believe the entire cake was made of ice cream must have eaten 3 pieces. It was a cultural thing We still laugh whenever we have ice cream cake
#18
My old job did this event in Minnesota, where all accountants had to attend to learn about the company’s culture and stuff. So we were all sitting down into tables, and they decided to do a workshop exercise where they scattered all accountants into random groups, and gave us these cards with questions we had to answer; as a fun exercise.
Everything was fine up until one girl pulled out the question, “What was the worst thing you have experienced, and how did you handle it?” So accountants at the table were going in turns to talk about different things, passings of parents/spouses, addiction, sickness, divorces…..etc, and I kid you not, this 21 year old Kyle said this when it was his turn, “Yeah my dad is a pilot and my mom is a surgeon and I’m a lonely child. So on my birthday, I usually travel the world, and one time, when I were in Japan, I tried Kobe Beef for the first time, and it was amazing. When I went back to the US, I had an argument with a restaurant owner because they were also serving kobe beef but I knew he was scamming the customers because actual Kobe Beef is not legitimate unless they are prepared in Japan. They kicked me out of the restaurant and I was never kicked out from anywhere.”
Everyone was quite and speechless, and one lady said she is not in the mood to continue the game after he was done lol.
BrownTabby 1 year ago
I’m gonna be real, that question never should have been asked to begin with. My trauma is not a fǔcking corporate exercise, and I don’t especially want to hear about other people’s trauma in a professional setting either.
Panda Kicki 1 year ago (edited)
I was expecting it to be " worst thing you experienced at work" and was puzzeld about the trauma parade. Work related mishaps (not colleagues dying or so) could be a interesting ice breaker. I was the only staff not having food poisoning (due to I hate cray fish) when a whole bus full of mentally disabled persons covered the floor in poo. Litterary. I felt so sorry for them but was also totally exhausted trying to help all, we was a a restauran. And it was a trip far from home. The bus driver covered the entire bus in plastic before allowing us on when we finally could go home.
Awkward lady 1 year ago
I would have been tempted to make something up, that was fairly neutral, eg when my hamster died...I certainly wouldn't tell anything about my real life. I did have to do that once, and it blew the interview up, and got me nowhere, only upset.
Leah Banks 1 year ago
I worked at a job that regularly asked questions like that, both in group settings, and one on one weekly with our manager. Sometimes they were work oriented like, "what was one goal you wanted to accomplish at work this week that you didn't" but other times it was more like "tell us about the most depressing moment of your life." The worst was, if you opened up in one on one, but didn't speak up during group exercises, managers would often 'encourage' you by saying "oh tell us about the time you blah blah blah", spilling details about your one on one meetings. After these trauma bonding sessions, we had to exercise together (it was a big chain of gyms I worked for). The whole experience was so odd and uncomfortable, I only lasted 3 months...I thought I was there to sell gym memberships, not go through weird cult like group therapy!
#19
Not sure if this fits this question entirely (maybe more so just entitled here but still want to share) — We are currently on vacation in Mazunte, Mexico and one of the nights we went out to dinner, a huge American family came in from Michigan and just started being obnoxious. They were so loud, rude to the waitress, and just annoying — the grandparents (or maybe parents) were basically fighting the whole time, so it just helps paint a good picture of what was going on in a tiny restaurant and their party of about 17. One of the younger girls (maybe mid to late twenties) was just saying the craziest s**t the whole dinner. One of which included her stating that anytime she goes out with family (and they are paying) that she makes sure to order the most expensive things on the menu. Fast forward to her needing the bathroom — we had seen someone else go and we knew you needed a key and the bathroom was around the corner, I tried telling her but she either didn’t hear me — or chose to ignore me — she got up— kind of poked around a little bit and then opened a random closet. We saw her disappear into it and we through for SURE she would come out quickly because we knew she would have to realize quickly that she wasn’t in the bathroom. Unfortunately not the case — this girl stayed in there for a good amount of time — made some loud noises falling over miscellaneous metal material / typical shed things and came out a bit later. She came out unfazed. When another member of her party quickly asked where the bathroom was — she clearly stated you needed a key and told them it was around the corner. At this moment we were pretty sure she used the bathroom in this shed. The audacity of this girl. She knew exactly where the bathroom was and just completely disrespected and intentionally disregarded using the actual restroom knowing where it actually was. We quickly ate our meal and got up to leave, but I we just needed confirmation that what we thought happened happened — so I went into the shed and sure enough — she went to the bathroom on the floor. We were just in shock — I came out and just stared at her. She wouldn’t even look our way. We couldn’t believe it. Can’t even imagine what type of person would do something like that as a visitor to another country while she knew she did something terrible and wasn’t bothered a bit. We informed the owner as we paid and pointed her out in front of the entire restaurant and her whole family. Literally insane.
Bogdan Chelariu 1 year ago
Exiting the shed, I would've screamed loudly enough so all the restaurant to hear "Who the hell would p**s on the shed floor" then point her out to the owner, so he could kick her out and everybody would know what she did and that she did it!
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago (edited)
I worked in a JC Penney’s at one time. A woman came out of the dressing room and announced that she hadn’t wanted to stop shopping, so she had just, defecated in the dressing room. They called security and got her cleaning supplies so she could clean up her mess.
#20
An international student at my university had never been exposed* to even the _idea_ of porn. When he was informed of its existence, he bought three more computer monitors so he could take in as much “content” he’d missed out on as possible while simultaneously doing his homework, gaming, and/or watching (non-porn) movies. He wasn’t even jerking off to it, just immersing himself in the experience. And the aftermath? None. He absorbed it and continued being the same cheery, respectful, accepting guy. After graduation he returned to his home country and inherited a hazily-defined company worth more money than god. *He was _horrifically_ sheltered growing up: When asked if his family had a house or apartment, he replied that the closest translation he could find was “compound”, and that he’d only left for weddings and funerals.
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago (edited)
Almost certainly a land where religion has made religiously uptight government. I went to school one year in the part of Fairfax VA, where, at the time at least. Most of the embassy staff workers live around there. I knew a few guys, who were from overseas, that were like this guy. The two that stand out: one carried a wad of colorful bills. He’d show his wallet to people who’d get impressed he’d laugh and tell us it was actually worth a few pennies. He also told us he was the son of a sheikh- then say, laughing, that it didn’t make him special as he only had 42 siblings. The other one lost 17 family members in the Iran revolution that gave Khomeini rulership. He’s was very kind. I ran into him several years later when I was a cashier. I saw him and he saw me. I said his name, he said mine. We never spoke again. The last words he said were “ I never did find my family.” That’s 30+ years ago, and it still harms my soul.
Five Years 1 year ago
I was workin g on a ranch in Southern Idaho that had a pig barn. Somehow they got these two Japanese kids to work the barn. One of them showed me his family house that was a nice house with no others around it. Apparently he came from a wealthy family but when it came time to go back to Japan he wasn't having it. He'd rather stay in the wide open spaces of America and attend to stinking pigs.
#21
Said "eat the Rich!" unironically than drove away in their new Bugatti to go back to their family mansion
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
It may cost a fortune, but it looks like a weird vacuum cleaner attachment.
Bart 1 year ago
I doubt this one as they are hard to get. Fun and useless fact: "the average bugatti owner has 84 cars, 3 jets and a yacht" according to the president of Bugatti
Delenn 1 year ago
So the average bugatti owner is an a*****e who does not care about the enviroment
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#22
My cousin married into a rich family.
At one point he was saving up for his dream car and his sister in law had bought an expensive one but gave it to him for free and bought another because the one she bought was the wrong colour.
My cousin drove it whilst waiting to save up for the one he wanted.
Fellfromthemoon 1 year ago
The SIL gave a nice present, pretending that the car did not suit her, just not to embarrass OP's cousin.
Szzone 1 year ago
That's also what I think happened. Wrong color? That doesn't really happen. You pick the color. SIL was being generous and also classy.
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Skullface VonHornhelm 1 year ago
Wouldn't it be more practical to just get the first one repainted?
#23
I used to be a busser at a high end restaurant. I’m talking one of the top 5 most expensive in my state.
Most customers were rich, but most were nice.
I remember this one kid, who was a prick.
Whilst I was carrying a stack of plates from another table, the kid asks me to take his empty soda glass.
Whilst taking the glass, I drop all of the heavy plates. Kid and his whole family start laughing at me whilst I go get a broom.
Please don’t be an a*****e st restaurants 🙏
René Sauer 1 year ago
why did you try to take the glass? Just say " sorry, but I am full and can´t carry any more stuff. I will take it when i come back."
#24
Kid had a 'laptop smashing party' at my old college, so his parents would be forced to buy him a new one.
#25
It happened recently with another adult at the charity organisation I work at. It's a charity organisation so the money is s**t. That means either you're in poverty or you have a rich partner/parents usually.
I was talking to a colleague who is also from another country and told her I wasn't going home for Christmas. A flight to my home country for Christmas would've been like $1500usd. Just too much for me to spend right now. First Christmas without my family. My colleague was confused and asked why my family didn't all just fly out here then lol
MushroomHead22 1 year ago
this stock photo chick is often in shambles it seems. she has really s****y colleagues.
Ralph Kretschmer 1 year ago
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Jenny Mason 1 year ago
"A flight to my home country for Christmas would've been like $1500usd. Just too much for me to spend right now. First Christmas without my family. My colleague was confused and asked why my family didn't all just fly out here then lol"
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3 Otters 🦦 1 year ago
People without money say stupid things like this too. It starts with “Why don’t you just (fill in the blank)”. Sigh, people.
#26
My ex girlfriend. She was born rich. Old money in the family. She *mostly* was a normal human. But her older brother had some interesting takes on life. He would get very exasperated with peasant concepts. I remember him saying "Why would anyone ever buy something if it's not the best?!" when shopping for a new jet-ski. He literally couldn't understand what would make someone buy a not-quite-best product in any category.
#27
They weren't even rich-rich, just upper middle class. They each received $50 gift cards from their grandparents to The Gap one year for Christmas. Only "they wouldn't be caught DEAD in Gap clothing!" So they threw the gift cards out.
Kylie 1 year ago
They couldn't think of maybe gifting them to someone else? Now that's entitlement.
Patricia Steward 1 year ago
Or resell them for cash, though that might be beneath them.
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#28
I had a dude I worked with that said he was mad at his dad because of he took 50k from his trust to go to Vegas for the weekend his dad would stop paying his rent. I was making 15 an hour and living paycheck to pay check. He used to also pull a few grand out and go to the strip club and give it to people who went with him. Then he would get hammered in 30 mins and leave, leaving the money with the people he went with, who would leave with his money. I was super jealous of him and his ability to spend money while I came from a poor family. In hindsight his life had to have been miserable, all of his friends were only his friends for money, he was constantly trying to show off his money, and used prostitutes constantly. He had to have been so lonely for relationships.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
I knew an escort that used to go to the casinos with guys like that, she would slip as many cash chips into her purse as possible and go back the next day and cash them. She could make more money like that then "escorting" most of the time the guys were so drunk they weren't able to use the service she offered.
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
A story like this begs the question "is it better to come from a rich but toxic family or from a poor but loving family?"
Awesome At Being Autistic 1 year ago
"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it."
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#29
Knew a girl who wouldn't wear the same outfit twice. She would spend thousands a month on designer clothes that she would literally wear for 6 hours then give away. At least she didn't throw them out! I got some nice clothes out of it! But damn! Really?
Rahul Pawa 1 year ago (edited)
This doesn't bother me at all. Sounds like she used it as a way to be generous. She was giving away basically brand new clothes. She found a way to be generous with her friends without the tension that often comes with giving a friend money directly.
#30
A girl I went to high school with once was making fun of people who wore Areopostale because she only shopped at American Eagle or nicer. Pretty sure she drove a Mercedes in HIGH SCHOOL. Where I live there's a mix of people. Not just rich or poor.
Wubedhheij 1 year ago (edited)
Why do people care about the most expensive stuff when there is better quality for the prices that it costs? I never understood that.
over it already 1 year ago
Lol and here I thought Aeropostale was fancy. It was out of my price range in high school and still is.
Heather Evans 1 year ago
I remember that. When American Eagle, Hollister and Abercrombie were the "it brands" Aeroppostale made the same styles but affordable. People would get trashed on for wearing that brand. You were better off wearing unbranded clothing. It really sucked to see that, I mean you could see the confidence wash of your peers face when they walked in the door content with their new and in-style clothing only to be shamed for it.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
The rich town I worked in used to have a high school parking lot filled with Corvettes, Jags, Mercedes', BMWs, etc. There was a Ferrari dealership just up the road from the high school, too.
#31
Not me, but my cousin. She goes to UBC and she said there are so many rich Indian kids there. A guy she was friends with casually gave her a 100 dollar bill as repayment for her buying him food. She stared at him like he was crazy and said she didn’t have the change to give back to him. He told her to take it anyway, since he could always ask his parents for more. Imagine being so rich you handle 100 dollars bills like they’re nothing special.
#32
From my personal experience - I went to a HS that had a fairly large amount of rich kids. I remember this one kid, pretty sure his name was Chase, and he was just ranting and raving in class because he could get any car he wanted except a Maybach and some other high end vehicle. I just remember thinking how f*****g stupid he sounded, as someone who was lucky enough to be given a 15yo car because someone passed away (I didn't know the someone) and the person who inherited the car just wanted to give it away.
That school had so many spoiled rich morons who cried about how hard their lives were while being general teenage a******s. It was kinda startling after coming from a HS in a poorer district where kids were just... normal kids. Idk.
#33
Once interned in LA with a super wealthy kid from NYC.
This is when Apple Watches first came out and he had one so it was somewhat of a big deal to have said watch. I asked how he liked it one day and he said had never recharged it after it died the first time. He followed by then saying he was literally just wearing it to be fashionable.
Ace 1 year ago
Wha? But they look terrible! Oh, hang on, fashion NE looks good, I remember. As you were.
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I unfortunately knew a guy who would insist that all women were vain harpies that had to be bought into any kind of relationship, or at least be impressed with how much wealth, expensive toys (he liked to take his parents boat out), and consumerist c**p you have. He was convinced any woman he wanted to talk to would only give him the time of day if she thought she might get a lot of value outta him. He was also incredibly bigoted and racist, and painfully loud-mouthed and unconcerned with social norms. He never got a girlfriend as long as I knew him. I wonder why. ETA: Let me be clear. On at least 2 occasions I was at a fairly big party, with guests including this guy and several women, and he would preach to the whole group, including them, about how materialistic and evil women are. It was surreal to watch
David 1 year ago
if you are rich you can pay for those services, and thus not an incel.
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Young fellow I know. Brought up playing violin, piano, organ. Had house in the Scottish Borders as well as 2-storey (!) London (!!) flat/condo. Went Cambridge. Completely self-absorbed and unable to empathise with anyone not a literal Earl or Marquess. Calls coaches/buses "prole mobiles" with complete seriousness and a pissy smirk. At least he isn't shy and enjoys his wealth lol
#36
• kid crashed his brand new mustang convertible on a Friday and drove to school in a new one on Monday
#37
I knew the members of Fallout Boy when they were in highschool through some other bands I was friends with. I remember seeing them at the Metro in Chicago on the first show of a tour they were going on. In the dressing room before the show one of them was bitching about his parents ONLY giving him a $500/week allowance for the tour and how he didn't think he could survive.
#38
Roomate at unis parents were millionaires. She had the heating on 24/7. Full blast, 24/7. It didn’t have a thermometer like modern ones it’s just on or off on a timer. She regulated the temp by opening her window. She lived on the ground floor so if you turned the heating off she just walked out and turned it on again. I had to wear tank tops and shorts in my room in winter. Highest temp recorded was 28c in winter when normal is 20-21. Our gas bill (and this was 2010 or so when it was way cheaper) was £2000 for the year for a 2 bed house with a converted living room into a 3 bed. 900sq ft or so. She refused to pay and moved out. I sent her parents the bill and they quite literally paid without question and apologised. Bill was in my name and I had 5k a YEAR to live off. For comparison our rent was £250 a month. So my split of gas alone was HALF my rent. Not including tax or electricity. Just gas. Previous flat I paid about £10 a month in gas. To make it worse she lived alone there 5 out of the 12 months as the other two roommates went home and her family lived abroad. So per month I was there it was almost as much as my rent.
#39
Living overseas so daughter attends international school. Daughter (8) tells friend she forgot her backpack. Friend says “can’t your nanny just bring it?”.
#40
Be me: rich kid In summertime water fight Introduce *hose* Fellow rich kid: "I'm not allowed to get wet"
What do you think ?
GirlFriday 1 year ago
I went to university with an heiress, like Private Islands, rich. She was so nice and we are good friends to this day, but she didn't understand that not everyone had money like she does. For instance, she could not understand why our other roommate and I needed to be back on campus before the dining hall closed and why we just didn't go a local bar to eat. Um, the dining hall was included in our scholarships, it was the only way we could afford to eat.
Tempest 1 year ago
I studied abroad and met some of the worst privileged people there. During the height of the pandemic we were stuck in our home country with online classes due to travel restrictions to our university’s country and at the same time our country was going through one of its worst economic recessions in like a century because of the disruption in tourism at the time, making almost everyone struggle to live. My family is probably middle class and although we can’t afford to eat out frequently, we always managed to get 3 meals, but at that time even that basic necessity was nearly impossible for our family. So I couldn’t even imagine how hard it must have been to those who used to struggle beforehand. Anyway one ex-friend of mine from university was complaining how depressed she’s feeling being stuck at home (we all were feeling the same) and so her parents paid for her to go on a month long vacation to the USA where her sister was studying…
Jaeger (Jaeger) 11 months ago
I was at my friends house once and he asked his mom if we could run to the store so I’m not kidding the mom wiped out 100$ in twenty’s and handed it to him, I got a drink and a candy and I felt bad. He on the other hand went crazy and he kept the 20$ he didn’t spend..
DrBronxx 1 year ago
I had an ex-gf whose father owned a construction company. I never knew exactly how rich they were, but they were certainly richer than anyone I knew. We were in our mid-20s when we were going out. She was telling me one day about how, when she was home alone, she'd call her dad while he was at work, tell him she was hungry, and he'd send a member of his staff to the house, and take her to a restaurant. I was gobsmacked when I heard this. I asked "was this in high school or something"? And she said "no, now. I did it the other day". I couldn't get over it.
gmf 1 year ago (edited)
I was an awkward invitee to a party well above my wealth (about tuppence ha'penny) and social class (still no idea how that happened) and got the joy of watching an old money millionaire school a dotcom billionaire in the art of shutting the fsck up. Remember, kids - money talks, wealth whispers, and extreme wealth is invisible.
sharyn turnicky 1 year ago
To me, these posts just tells us that there are people in this World that would not be able to function or survive if the money disappeared.
GirlFriday 1 year ago
I went to university with an heiress, like Private Islands, rich. She was so nice and we are good friends to this day, but she didn't understand that not everyone had money like she does. For instance, she could not understand why our other roommate and I needed to be back on campus before the dining hall closed and why we just didn't go a local bar to eat. Um, the dining hall was included in our scholarships, it was the only way we could afford to eat.
Tempest 1 year ago
I studied abroad and met some of the worst privileged people there. During the height of the pandemic we were stuck in our home country with online classes due to travel restrictions to our university’s country and at the same time our country was going through one of its worst economic recessions in like a century because of the disruption in tourism at the time, making almost everyone struggle to live. My family is probably middle class and although we can’t afford to eat out frequently, we always managed to get 3 meals, but at that time even that basic necessity was nearly impossible for our family. So I couldn’t even imagine how hard it must have been to those who used to struggle beforehand. Anyway one ex-friend of mine from university was complaining how depressed she’s feeling being stuck at home (we all were feeling the same) and so her parents paid for her to go on a month long vacation to the USA where her sister was studying…
Jaeger (Jaeger) 11 months ago
I was at my friends house once and he asked his mom if we could run to the store so I’m not kidding the mom wiped out 100$ in twenty’s and handed it to him, I got a drink and a candy and I felt bad. He on the other hand went crazy and he kept the 20$ he didn’t spend..
DrBronxx 1 year ago
I had an ex-gf whose father owned a construction company. I never knew exactly how rich they were, but they were certainly richer than anyone I knew. We were in our mid-20s when we were going out. She was telling me one day about how, when she was home alone, she'd call her dad while he was at work, tell him she was hungry, and he'd send a member of his staff to the house, and take her to a restaurant. I was gobsmacked when I heard this. I asked "was this in high school or something"? And she said "no, now. I did it the other day". I couldn't get over it.
gmf 1 year ago (edited)
I was an awkward invitee to a party well above my wealth (about tuppence ha'penny) and social class (still no idea how that happened) and got the joy of watching an old money millionaire school a dotcom billionaire in the art of shutting the fsck up. Remember, kids - money talks, wealth whispers, and extreme wealth is invisible.
sharyn turnicky 1 year ago
To me, these posts just tells us that there are people in this World that would not be able to function or survive if the money disappeared.
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