20+ out-of-touch remarks from entitled wealthy folks: 'How could your family accountant let that happen?'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jan 19, 2025 2:00 PM EST

It's remarkable what out-of-touch people think real problems are. For those of you who are eagerly anticipating the upcoming third season of "The White Lotus," there is no need to wait because there are countless clueless rich people online and all around us if you look carefully enough.

These are the kinds of people who stress about not being able to take their personal cleaning crew on vacation with them. You know, the people whose casual attire is at least three times as expensive as your formal clothing. The people who have never known a universe in which they have had to take part in doing their own taxes. Take a look at this compilation of out-of-touch comments folks heard online, along with some commentary from yours truly.

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    the3secondrule Living outside Jackson Hole, This sister of a friend told me how hard it is to live there. You have to fly in your help (cleaning, yard work) from Salt Lake. I had no words.
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    The concept of "flying in your help" is supremely foreign to most people.

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    D. A coworker asked me what bank I used for my safe deposit box. I said I didn't have a safe deposit box. She said "But where do you keep your jewels, then?"
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    It's always amusing when you learn that a coworker of yours is inexplicably wealthy. 

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    PckMan Being told by a guy who has not worked a day in his life. and living off of inherited money that poor people are poor because they don't invest their money right.
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    Ah, don't we all love to hear rich people explain what poor people are doing wrong?

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    г. . While working for a valet parking service in the Santa Barbara area years ago, a woman hired us for a jewelry showing she was having at her giant house in Montecito, and while we
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    were waiting for guests to arrive, my boss informed me that when the guests get in their cars to leave, that I needed to be sure to close their car doors or else they would just drive off with their doors open. As they're so used to people closing their car doors for them.
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    K. . I needed a bicycle to get to a new job. Found someone online selling a really nice bike for cheap so got in touch. Took two trains to their house to buy the bike
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    and when I got there it was a mansion. The bike was in a garage full of super cars and classics. They asked me where my truck was to load the bike on, when I told them I was riding the bike
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    home they laughed and before I knew it everyone in the house had been called to the garage to hear how I was riding the bike 3 hours home in the dark. No one offered me a lift, they just acted blessed at how they didn't have to do such things.
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    Monotonegent When they tell me I should just take off and go somewhere for a week. Even if I made the money, I'd be eating the time itself from the no pto I get
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    This lack of awareness when it comes to taking time off resonates deeply with most employees! What is this unlimited PTO you speak of, sir?

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    Princess_Coldh... Back when I was in my early 20's my beat up old car broke down in my job's parking lot when I was about to drive home. I was getting paid $10 an hour as a pastry chef at a catering company.
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    This was barely enough to cover my rent. I was obviously pretty distraught over my car dying. My boss (company owner) ended up saying to me- 'Why are you so upset? It's just a car! Just buy another one!" I couldn't even respond, I just looked at her like she was crazy.
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    irrelevanttru... "How could your family accountant let that happen?" When talking about how growing up, we couldn't pay the bills and had our water/electricity shut off multiple times.
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    Boredom-Warrior My boss at the time made between 5-10x more than I did. We were talking about big purchases like a car or house and he says something along the lines of "well you'll get a great deal since you'd all cash purchaser."
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    I just kind of smile and nod, knowing that, on my salary that he was aware of, I was not even an all cash purchaser of groceries.
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    Conscious_Raisi... I work for a startup based out of San Francisco. I'm a remote employee halfway across the country, and am therefore a sort of 'second class citizen'. My direct peers who work in SF make at least double what I do,
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    and they almost all had extremely privileged upbringings. They went to top 10 business schools, they "summer" in Tahoe, that kind of thing.
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    I was in the home office a few months ago for our annual kickoff meeting, and one of the speakers polled the room: "Has anyone here worked at Amazon?" (nobody raised their hand) "Wow, I'm surprised."
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    I said, "Does warehouse count?" And the entire room erupted in laughter. For certainly, I'd just told a very enjoyable joke.
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    DryTown "If you can't afford childcare, just hire a nanny. We love ours!"
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    WoodedSpys "Why did you take your car to get 'looked at'? Just get a different one. I dont know why you waste your time with repair men like that."
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    mladyKarmaB I was an assistant making just over 50k a year and i heard someone on the board of directors say, "of course he [mayor of a city] stole the money. You can't live on 90k a year!".
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    Vegan_Harvest Borrow money from your parents and start a business.
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