20+ Out of touch people who acted entitled: 'Just buy the place you're renting'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Feb 12, 2025 11:00 AM EST

Every friend group has that one person who's a bit out of touch. They're the friend who has no problem plunking down their credit card to spend thousands of dollars on new clothes and shoes. This friend is always driving a brand new car, somehow. You try to talk to them about your average Joe type of problems, like working late hours or struggling to make ends meet, and their eyes just kind of glaze over. You still love that friend, but at the same time, it can be quite off-putting to watch as your pal is blissfully unaware of the struggles everyone else is dealing with. 

These people below have also had some encounters with people who were totally entitled and out of touch with reality. Some folks are so used to tossing wads of cash at their problems that they think everyone else can do the same. Uh, no, if there was money to fix the problem, it wouldn't even be an issue worth mentioning! The people below shared the most infuriating things their wealthy BFFs and entitled acquaintances said, which you can read all about down below. 

Up next, read about some mildly infuriating moments, like one person who was stunned to discover that "My roofer [is] asking for a tip on a $2,600 roof repair."

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    RAND DOI ME 4270320 ENOTE VLOP COPY 100 PEDERAL RESERVE NOTE WE 42703207 A ES COPY UNTI DE 'My multimillionaire boss [is] complaining about the cost of sending his daughter to boarding school' 100 WE427032074 100
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    Whats the most out of touch thing you've heard someone say?
    via u/AnonymousBedrotter56
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    Mundane-Prune-4... "just buy the place you're renting so you don't waste your money and turn a profit" CEO of my job who was pulling in a pension from his government job, and two part time salaries from the two positions he sat on. When I said how could I afford that, he asked if he wasn't paying me enough. I said no and he left my office.
    via u/Mundane-Prune-4504
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    Come on, man

    Altruistic_Group787 Idk if this is an out of touch thing to say but my cousins. husband is 30 and didnt know you had to pay for water and electricity...
    via u/Altruistic_Group787
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    Donkvid731 When I couldn't afford something and my rich friend said "just check if you have any more money lying around"
    via u/Donkvid731
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    TearAwkward My boss (who makes 300K+) said we should be grateful for them cutting some of our holiday pay, because "legally we don't have to give you any." I'm quitting as soon as I can find another job lol
    via u/TearAwkward
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    Reasonable-Ad-949 "You work too hard, that's why you're so stressed, you need to take a vacation and relax in Italy for a week or two." Why didn't I think of that!? I'll just go shake some money off my money tree and be on the next flight.
    via u/Reasonable-Ad-949
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    Left_Mix4709 I was traveling through a particularly poor part of the USA with some hippie friends on a hippie bus, I do not consider myself a hippie. The people who lived there had tin sheets and pallets and other, basically junk materials put together to make their homes. As someone who didn't grow up with a whole lot of money, not as bad as this, I
    via u/Left_Mix4709
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    b_a_c_girl Just recently. My multi- millionaire boss complaining about the cost of sending his daughter to boarding school in the U.S. (70k a year)... saying it was unfair for Europeans because we pay much higher taxes than Americans... and he knows my annual gross salary, for which I work very very hard, is a bit less than one year of tuition.
    via u/b_a_c_girl
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    Own_Jellyfish5980 At a wedding I attended back in my 20s.. This person grew up with four homes (one internationally). After he and his brother moved out, parents built ANOTHER home. A 10 bedroom -- each with its own full bathroom house on the edge of a golf course. Gym, wine seller, sauna, room with a full bar,
    via u/Own_Jellyfish5980
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    pool table, roulette table, poker table etc, and get this.... a room with one of those golf simulation things despite literally living ON THE GOLF COURSE which they could use year round.... A couple of direct quotes from people at our table, just to set the scene: "I'm planning to buy my wife and I a plane." "I proposed to my girlfriend at a castle I rented in
    via u/Own_Jellyfish5980
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    Europe." "I think my next plastic surgery will be xyz." ..and apparently the bridal party took a 3 minute limo ride to the club house where the wedding was. At the ceremony there was a 15 minute firework show. Whole thing probably cost $500,000.
    via u/Own_Jellyfish5980
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    And during dinner, one of the parents gave a speech and I sh you not they said "I'm so proud of these two. They've had nothing handed to them in life and have worked so hard to get to where they are today." I still haven't picked my jaw up off the floor.
    via u/Own_Jellyfish5980
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    Salt_Description_... Why can't they just pay their credit card debt with their money. I went to a top private school, we were all wealthy. At least my parents gave me some sense of empathy and understanding of the world for others. She couldn't get why people were in debt when I had to explain they didn't actually have money to begin with
    via u/Salt_Description_973
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    That's quite the flex

    Miserable-Button... 'We just have our cook make it' he was an out of touch rich kid that bragged about being rich to the point that his wallet was stolen 4 times, his twin sister is completely normal. But I think he's weird because his family either named their restaurants after him or named him after their restaurants so it's like their whole business is for him
    via u/Miserable-Button4299
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    was feeling a bit down about seeing the situation. There was a woman on the bus, who was very ....let's say well off because of her parents. She looked out the window with a fairly disgusted look on her face and said "I don't understand why people live like this."
    via u/Miserable-Button4299
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    Everyone on the bus looked at her as someone said "They probably don't exactly have a choice...." It was fairly quiet for a while.
    via u/Miserable-Button4299
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    Bearded_Solution My old boss to me "You shouldn't stress about money. I never do."
    via u/Bearded_Solution
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    HENDERSHOULDE... "I don't get why people use food stamps. Just budget better"
    via u/HENDERSHOULDERS
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    MotherPhoker I went to a nice private school that had a new policy for financial aid that went to anyone whose household made less than $80k per year. This girl rolled her eyes and said "who makes that little?"
    via u/MotherPhoker
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    katystahp 2 of my coworkers who lived at home with their rich surgeon families throughout college and still hadn't moved out, who have never paid a single bill in their lives, who work 6-8 hours a week for beer money, who were gifted their new fancy cars and don't buy their own food etc, saying that anyone our age (25-30) who
    via u/katystahp
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    doesn't at least have a $20k emergency savings account is just asking for it, being so irresponsible with their money like that.
    via u/katystahp
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    arebello34 My granddad to my mom when we drove 1200km to visit them. My mom said, it was a long trip, he replied, "I didn't ask you to come visit me" After 6 years, we don't have any plans to ever come back there.
    via u/arebello34
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    HarpieLady13 I lived in an area and went to school with a lot of wealthy kids, but my family didn't have a lot of money. One time I was staying at a friend's house and she had a really nice MacBook and I said I wish I had one and she was like, "just ask your parents for one for Christmas."
    via u/HarpieLady13
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    Most Christmases I barely got any presents because we couldn't afford it...
    via u/HarpieLady13
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    dino_74 Was explaining to my boss why his technical "solution" is not possible. His response: "Your a smart guy, you can figure it out"
    via u/dino_74
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    Level_Fun1610 "We're calling in an attempt to collect a debt. Can't you ask a friend or family member to loan you the money?" If I had friends or family with money to loan me, would I have gone into debt in the first place?
    via u/Level_Fun1610
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    zaxldaisy A man who was paying me $12 an hour told me to not bother fixing my car and instead but a new one because my "time was worth $20 an hour". When I pointed out he was only paying me $12 an hour, he said "Are you being ungrateful?!".
    via u/zaxldaisy
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    KitFan2020 To my daughter aged 22 and earning 25K a year... 'Have you thought of getting a mortgage and buying a house rather than renting?' My daughter... 'Let me know if you see anything on rightmove for 100k within a 30 mile radius Auntie Sandra'
    via u/KitFan2020
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    GratuitousSadism That poor people ride coach in planes. I suppose anyone who can't afford plane tickets probably doesn't qualify as human to the person I heard say that.
    via u/GratuitousSadism
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    Affectionate-Ear7... I used to work a pretty physical job, for a very out of touch business owner. She was pretty notorious for walking by us as we were all sweating and working our off, and say things like, "Well, at least you won't have to go to the gym today!"
    via u/Affectionate-Ear7424
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    Yeah, b . How lucky! That's going to save me a ton of time
    via u/Affectionate-Ear7424
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    Kids just don't understand

    Armyofducks94 "Just have your dad give you money" - 17 year old highschool friend Like my dad was gonna give me money to go to the mall
    via u/Armyofducks94
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    sagitta_luminus "Well, you don't want your wife opening her Louis Vuitton purse and pulling out a Coach wallet."
    via u/sagitta_luminus
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    Sla... This was years ago, but my Dad always used to say I need to learn how to golf because that's where you go to schmooze with the boss. Dad, I was 12. And it was like 2006.
    via u/Slackjawed_Horror
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    Very uncool of them to say

    snoopynad My old roommate once said to me "I don't understand why people can make fun of me for being rich but I'm not allowed to make fun of them for being poor."
    via u/snoopynad
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    PrettyBoyPixie "Nobody wants to work anymore kids these days are so lazy" uhm no? Ppl just ain't hiring and the Job market is horrible
    via u/PrettyBoyPixie

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