'It only cost me $10,000': 20+ out of touch comments made by rich people

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    Arm - "It's so much more convenient to have a sauna in your house."
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    Font - r/AskReddit. Posted by D u/Always_Wandering What's the most out of touch thing a rich person has said to you? 20 hours ago
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    Font - Jefe Bezos 19 hr. ago Me: Yeah I love flying. I have a nice flightsim setup at home. Wish I could do it for real. Owner of the company: Yeah the real thing is so much better. You should buy a plane. I love taking mine out for trips. Me: You sign my checks. 11.3k Reply Share
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    Font - scmillion 18 hr. ago One of my former coworkers grew up in a wealthy family and married into more wealth, but they decided she should work anyways. She was outside her car crying one day, waiting for her husband to pick her up, saying she couldn't drive her car because a light was on. My buddy looked, it was a low tire pressure light. He asked if she wanted help filling up the tire. Her sobbing response "This is a Mercedes! You can't just put air in the tire!!" 6.7k Reply Share
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    Font - o bombasticfox. 13 hr. ago In college, I made most of my money cleaning and tutoring for rich families. Here are the highlights. "It's so much more convenient to have a sauna in your house." "We ordered our wallpaper from Europe. It's the only way to go." "I just bought the empty lot next to ours so we won't have neighbors." And my personal favorite: Rich person's kid: Gosh, I can't find any babysitting jobs. They've been taken by the 1%. Rich parent: Honey, you are the 1%. 6.5k Reply Sha
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    Font - tbh3900 13 hr. ago I was working at a car dealership and saw the owner pull up in a $250k Porsche GT3. Told him how much I loved the car and dreamt of owning one someday. Owner looked at me confused and said "what do you mean? We sell them right here you know?" Totally blew my mind that he didn't realize his employees couldn't afford the cars they were selling. 6.3k Reply Share
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    Font - SsurebreC 17 hr. ago They lived in Boston and we were talking about how small condos are there. They were lamenting that they had no space and, as a result, they had to buy another condo (this was Beacon Hill) because they ran out of space to store their Persian rugs. 5.3k Reply Share
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    Font - nobody2u 18 hr. ago Boss: My wife and I decided that you and your wife should join us in the Caribbean. I'lll pay for everything. Me: We appreciate the offer but we won't be able to afford it. Boss: Why? Me: I'd have to hire someone to watch the kids. Boss: What? Surely your nanny can handle that! 4.2k Reply Share
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    Font - Open-Ad-189 15 hr. ago. edited 15 hr. ago "I have no hair on my body! You should have your husband take you to get laser hair removal! It only cost me $10,000" ...maybe in my dreams She was the Mayors daughter and I was catering her dogs birthday party Reply Share 3.8k
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    Font - max-peck edited 18 hr. ago . 19 hr. ago. "You've never been to Disney? Did your parents not love you or something" 3.8k my parents were raising three kids working two jobs on poverty wages. Reply Share
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    Font - nlights999321 - 18 hr. ago . Built a 3mil+ house for a couple. After the neighbors built their home, we're talking, and the wife says "that little house is so dinky. We have a joke going that we call it 'the helps house'. " Now this is still a 750k-1 mil home no less. Just struck me as not very grounded 2.5k Reply Share
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    Font - Lvsucknuts69 · 14 hr. ago . I was talking to my manager about a mistake on a check. Me: This isn't even enough to cover my daughters day care for the month. Her: Well what did you do with the money you were just paid? Ma'am. Food, rent, electricity, and car payment. Boom, check gone. 2.4k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - PM_ME_THEM_TOES_GURL. 16 hr. ago "Money has been tight so we have to wait a couple more weeks before we break ground on the new air conditioned stable for the horses" 1.9k Reply Share
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    Font - ZoharTheWise 20 hr. ago "How often do you go sailing?" Said by the guy that knows I was struggling financially. ↑ 1.8k Reply Share
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    Font - headcase-and-a-half 13 hr. ago My boss is an attorney. A client who was filling out her financial statement for a divorce realized that she had forgotten to include her student loans on the report. Laughing somewhat ruefully, she said "I can't believe I forgot to include that." And in a bright, sunny, voice my boss laughed and said "I sometimes forget that I own a boat!" The client and I quietly locked eyes with a shared understanding of how out of touch that was. ↑ 1.6k Reply Share
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    Font - Snoochey 16 hr. ago My CEO's daughter was talking to me and she now lives in the UK. She bought a place in London. I mentioned I have some family over there that I've always been interested in visiting, and hoped to see it one day. Her response? Just go. Definitely, it's as easy as buying a plane ticket. She had no idea why I hadn't gone yet. 1.6k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - char-le-magne. 13 hr. ago I dated a rich guy who loved my authenticity, and he would pick me up in one of his dad's cool collector cars and take me to record stores. When I went to visit him I showed up in my grandpa's old Ford f150 truck. He asked me why I drove around in that thing. I shrugged and said "because I'm poor." And he said "no you're not." It was like I ruined his whole hipster aesthetic and he realized I wasn't grunge. Reply Share 1.3k
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    Font - Annual-Intern5669 19 hr. ago I was between jobs and a bunch of my friends told me that I should take the time to go travel the world. Like a) just because someone doesn't have a job doesn't mean they can just up & travel the world- in fact the opposite is more likely, but also b) you motherfi thought the reason I wasn't traveling the world because I hadn't thought of it? 1.2k Reply Share
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    Font - Waste_Coat_4506 - 17 hr. ago Met a guy on a backpacking trip that said he couldn't understand why all these backpackers stayed in hostels when there are so many hotels around. I pointed out that most of us have budgets and hostels are cheaper. The thought had just never occurred to him that we can't all afford that. Same thing with restaurants. He just never considered that nicer places aren't in everyone's budget. 1.2k Reply Share
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    Font - Aulm 20 hr. ago edited 18 hr. ago "What's your families private jet policy? They charge you?!?!?" A friend from school had apparently grown up incredible wealthy. Freshman year we were talking about spring break and I mentioned I was hoping to afford gas money to drive somewhere. He thought I meant "jet plane" gas money and was curious why my parents would charge me to use the family jet. We do not have a family jet....
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    Font - 2nd story: (years after the college one above. This was a handful of years back) "You should join one of our golf club or country clubs this year. Initiation fees got reduced to only like $40k a person for some so its basically free the first year." (Yes, he was members at multiples of each. I don't remember the exact cost but it was well into the 5 digits each)
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    Font - I should mention this person and family do not show off the money and are very free with it to friends. It just comes thru unbeknownst to them a lot of time because they think thats the norm. 795 Reply Share
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    Font - Nanatomany44. 15 hr. ago I worked for Medicaid. The big bugs at the state government level had a "poverty exercise" where they had to try to budget at poverty level and live on it for 3 days. "My, that was SO difficult!" No I pal - that whole idea me off so bad. ↑4.1k ↓ Reply Share ...
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    Font - - 19 hr. ago BrushYourTeeth "It's only $1,000." Ok, . Then give it to me! ↑ 1.8k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - Several_Dwarts 16 hr. ago . I worked for a very wealthy lady. Her son graduated college (with some useless degree) and she put him to work answering phones. She also bought him a car. "Can you believe it? I told her I wanted a blue car." She didnt get him a blue car so he asked her to paint it. She refused. I could see his naivete as he spoke since he truly thought this was something I could relate to. Sorry kiddo, I had to work at Chuck E Cheese as a teenager to be able to afford to buy

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