People Consider The Most Out-of-Touch Sentiments Rich People Have Expressed to Them

Rich people, right? It's pretty easy to discern who grew up with wealth with a quick conversation. Not to say that's an inherently bad thing; some of my closest friends are complete trust fund babies. It's just that there's an inherent disconnect between those who grew up with and without money. One of the most extreme examples I've personally experienced is the anecdote my friend explained to me that her private school ran a poverty simulation to hopefully generate some sort of empathy or at least basic understanding within the students. What she had explained to me was just a regular weekday for me growing up. 

In an /r/Askreddit thread, Reddit user /u/Always_Wandering_ asked a similar question, "What's the most out of touch thing a rich person has said to you?" These are the sort of questions I enjoy. Absolutely everyone who grew up without money has a hilarious example of just how out of touch the bourgeoisie has become. And, as expected, there were a lot of entertaining responses. Check out what people had to say about the disconnected rich below!   

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  • 01
    Hair - What's the most out of touch thing a rich person has said to you?
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  • 02
    Font - Snoochey 22h 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.
    via u/Snoochey
  • 03
    Font - Flailing_Aimlessly • 22h My boss's wife grew up wealthy and then married an "heir to the throne" for a multi-million dollar organization. She is meandering around our office bullpen one day and brings me into the conversation, "How about you, where would you take your lady on a Honeymoon?" Me: I dunno, go to the coast for a week and just enjoy the sun. She laughed out loud at me and said "Oh my god, no woman will ever marry you unless you're going to take her on a Hawaiian honeymoon." At
    via u/Flailing_Aimlessly
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    Human body - Zohar TheWise • 1d "How often do you go sailing?" Said by the guy that knows I was struggling financially.
    via u/ZoharTheWise
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    Font - CapitanGay 21h ● At the height of COVID, I was living in a small apartment in NYC making $50K (def NOT in DUMBO). I put this beautiful view from Brooklyn Heights m/DUMBO as my Zoom background. For those who don't know, one of the most expensive areas of NYC. I had a meeting with a SVP who asks: "omg! Is that your view? Are we neighbors?!" No lady, you don't pay me nearly enough to be your neighbor.
    via u/CapitanGay
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    Font - freethet1tties . 23h i live in southern spain and here it's so hot during summer months that u can't even get out of ur house till 9-10 pm. a lot of people (including me) can't even afford having air conditioners in their houses and they just survive the hot temperatures inside as they can do it, usually spending the days sweaty and tired. A friend of mine lives in a huge house (one of the hugest i've ever been) with many rooms and an air conditioner machine in each one of them. A few day
    via u/freethe1tties
  • 07
    Font - BopbopHereWeGo - 20h 1 Award "Isnt it funny we are the same age but my dad bought me a condo and you have to work 2 jobs?"
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  • 08
    Font - nlights999321 • 23h 418 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-1mil home no less. Just struck me as not very grounded
    via u/nlights999321
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    Font - headcase-and-a-half 19h ● 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.
    via u/headcase-and-a-half
  • 10
    Font - SsurebreC 23h ● 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.
    via u/SsurebreC
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    Font - tbh3900 18h 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.
    via u/tbh3900
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    Font - Open-Ad-189 • 21h "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
    via u/Open_Ad-189
  • 13
    Font - Jefe Bezos 1d 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.
    via u/Jefe_Bezos
  • 14
    Font - scmillion 23h 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!!" Edit: To everyone wondering why sh
    via u/scmillion
  • 15
    Font - bombasticfox • 19h 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%.
    via u/bombasticfox
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    Font - Lvsucknuts69 - 19h 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.
    via u/Lvsucknuts69
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    Font - nobody2u 1d ● 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!
    via u/nobody2u
  • 18
    Font - char-le-magne . 19h 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.
    via u/char-le-magne
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    Mammal - PM_ME_THEM_TOES_GURL • 21h "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"
    via u/PM_ME_THEM_TOES_GURL
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    Font - Waste_Coat_4506 • 22h 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.
    via u/Waste_Coat_4506
  • 21
    Font - batphomet 22h ● I was venting to a school mate about not being able to have a car. She said "why don't you just ask your mom?" It literally broke my brain. Like yeah, why didn't I think of that?
    via u/batphomet_
  • 22
    Rectangle - BriRoxas 21h "Your just letting money stop you" yes it does that. Reply 1.3k ↓ Conchobar8 • 14h .... No, I'm letting my lack of money stop me!
    via u/BriRoxas, u/Conchobar8
  • 23
    Font - Several_Dwarts • 22h 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 a piece
    via u/Several_Dwarts
  • 24
    Font - Annual-Intern5669. 1d 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 thought the reason I wasn't traveling the world because I hadn't thought of it?
    via u/Annual-Intern5669
  • 25
    Font - Joygernaut 21h One thing I've learned about very wealthy people if they tend to hang around with other very wealthy people. I mean if I want to take a vacation to Aspen and go skiing I'm going to pay for that, between flight, equipment rental, and hotel?A wealthy person will just talk to their friends who will offer up there or multi million dollar chalet that they have just for Funzies. wealthy people will literally have a ski chalet that they rarely go to that houses all of their top of
    via u/Joygernaut
  • 26
    Font - Nanatomany44. 20h 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 pal - that whole idea me off so bad.
    via u/Nanatomany44

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