'Find a rich boyfriend then': Top 20+ out-of-touch comments made by Karens, bosses, and rich people

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 8, 2023 4:00 PM EST

People certainly live in their own little bubbles, don't they? Maybe it's not just Jon Hamm's character in 30 Rock who has his own false sense of reality and his own inflated sense of self. We all are shaped by the communities we were raised in and the environments we choose to expose ourselves to, which unfortunately means that a lot of us have no sense of how others live. This might explain larger issues in the world, but it also trickles down the most fundamental social situations as well. For instance, the ways in which an entitled student from a wealthy family engages with a teacher are likely explained by these differences in worldviews. The same goes with a boss talking to an employee about the problems with his beach house. In short, people have trouble getting out of their own bubbles and checking themselves before speaking. 

These folks, who shared the most out-of-touch comments they heard via this r/AskReddit thread, understand this phenomenon all too well. Keep scrolling to see what they had to say. For more compilations like this, check out this list of stories in which management had to fire employees on day one.

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    r/AskReddit Posted by u/nlwfty 19 hours ago What's the most out-of- touch thing you've heard someone say?
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    Heavens10000whores 23 hr. ago With a hefty storm approaching England, a politician advised those in its path that they should maybe leave, and go to their second or third homes, to be safe 18.3k Reply Share
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    blarg-zilla 22 hr. ago "You seem sad" My mother to my sister, at her husband's funeral. 14.2k Reply Share
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    DO pjsans 23 hr. ago . My dad (who is now the Director of Accounting for the school district I teach for) was talking about how my starting pay was way more than his starting pay. I said, "well, yeah... The cost of living has increased a ton since then." This mother straight up said "no it hasn't." He started working there in 1992. This conversation happened in like 2017 (about a year after I started working there). Again, he is the director of accounting. 12.6k Reply Share
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    wildblue2 1 day ago I went to an Ivy League college with lots of children of extraordinarily wealthy families. When discussing inequality and its effects on housing, my professor briefly mentioned how mortgages are out of reach of a growing number of Americans. The girl next to me stopped the class, and with a confused face asked the professor why people don't just buy their homes in cash outright because "surely the interest means it will cost them more over time." The professor was dumbfounded
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    NovusNebula - 1 day ago Aren't you a bit too old to have a grandma?" A neighbor when I told her my grandma just passed away. 9.5k ↓ Reply Share
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    ExaminationLucky6082. 1 day ago Something like: Give a rich person $500 and they will invest into $1000. Give it to a poor person and they will spend it in a week. Yeah exactly give it to someone who's needs are met and they can save...give it to someone who needs to eat/pay rent etc they will spend it to survive! 9.2k ↓ Reply Share
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    pastelchannl 23 hr. ago when people were complaining about not being able to afford housing/food/living in general, one of the Dutch ministers (I think he was a minister or at least the leader of a party) said something along the line of 'well, find a rich boyfriend then'. ah, yes, that will solve the crisis! 8.0k Reply Share
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    Kittytigris 1 day ago You should just go door to door to see if they're hiring. And don't take no for an answer! You need to call every day so they'll remember you! - again, courtesy of my mother, who last worked in the 80's before being a full time SAHM since. Other gems also include, 'you need to be happy to work OT, don't worry about the compensation, your boss would be happy with your dedication and promote you.' I couldn't convince her that things changed since then and working isn't like w
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    RhaegarJ. 23 hr. ago The wife of the business owner complaining to the employees about how she's underpaid for working there. She literally owns the building and her family make 300-500k profit a year. All while underpaying the rest of the staff. 5.5k Reply Share
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    Hopeful-Moose87. 23 hr. ago "I don't know why people get big mortgages. Just save up for a few months and pay cash for a starter home!" 4.3k Reply Share
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    lomi08 1 day ago I was waxing a woman's eyebrows once and she was complaining that sometimes after she gets a massage the pillow leaves a circular indent on her face and she can't go out to lunch after. She then asked me if that ever happened to me? I was like maam i wax people for eleven bucks an hour; I'm not going out to lunch lol, let alone getting massages. 4.1k Reply Share
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    amboomernotkaren. 23 hr. ago my boss once told me to have "the maid" drop my car at the shop. 3.1k Reply Share
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    agingcatmom · 23 hr. ago edited 22 hr. ago • My former landlord and his wife dropped by to tell me and my financially struggling 20- something roommates that they were raising the rent, by nearly 25%. They said, "We noticed on Craigslist that neighbors had higher rent so we're doing the same." The wife then earnestly reminded us that we've been great tenants but maybe we just needed to find some higher paying jobs. Edited to add: You guessed it, the place was a dump with zero repairs (he'd ignor
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    cooldart61 23 hr. ago A guy in college was trying to find common ground with us when we were discussing how difficult it's been paying for college "I don't have college debt, but my parents are forcing me to only choose 2 new apple product upgrades this year instead of 3." 2.9k Reply Share
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    n Digital-Dopamine - 20 hr. ago • edited 20 hr. ago Co-worker: "You'll be able to buy a home once you get your inheritance" Me: "I won't have an inheritance, my family isn't well off" Co-worker: "Of course you have an inheritance. Everyone's parents leave them an inheritance. I'm sure they're just keeping it a secret from you to surprise you." Said to me by my co- worker who's parents are both doctors, while my mom had recently been laid off and my dad was too sick to work. 2.3k Reply Share
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    Le Phenix484 1 day ago Idk if that counts but... A friend once told he for sure doesn't want to have kids. Next sentence he talks about how clever he is because he can use a condom two times. He just rolls it on the otherside and he is ready to go again. I literally died laughing on the floor because he was dead serious and couldn't see the mistake 100 2.1k 2.1k Reply Share
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    Far_Meal8674. 22 hr. ago "People in the slums have the same chances and opportunities as everyone else", with absolutely no freakin' clue how poverty crushes the soul. 1.9k Reply Share
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    JU GloriouslyGlittery. 1 day ago I don't remember exactly what she said, but my coworker was having a conversation with an older board member about housing being so expensive. The board member complained that millennials don't know how to save money and talked about how she freezes leftovers instead of getting takeout as an example of being financially responsible. Years later, I still think about the boomer with a lakeside property who thinks we just need to save our leftovers to afford a home.
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    Dirac_comb 22 hr. ago "You won't be happier at work if we pay you more, but we need to figure out why workplace happiness is so low" coming from a guy that made 10x what I did, and was born into old money. ↑ 1.6k ↓ Reply Share
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    Thick-Worry5028 - 23 hr. ago "What do you mean you've never vacationed in the South of France?" 1.3k Reply Share
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    fosterhamster - 23 hr. ago "Why don't you ask your parents to buy a house for you to live in while you're in school?" Said to my son 877 Reply Share
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    so_not 21 hr. ago "Rent is so expensive. You should buy a triplex and rent the other units out instead." Ma'am triplexes cost about a million. How on earth am I supposed to get approval for that if rent is an issue for me? 832 Reply Share
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