“Because I started off poor, I view everything in terms of this.
Here’s what people said.
“I didn’t realize the social safety net rich people have.
u/ColdFIREBaker
3.
It is the same with things like moving, painting, house maintenance, and stuff like that.
It’s a pretty interesting divide just between the strata within the middle class.”
“Money makes money.
We’re buying some land that has a waterfall.
The money to buy the land came from ‘diversifying’ our assets and our financial portfolio.
We would take on some risk to build this house, getting another mortgage.
It wouldn’t be life-ending.
She would use three ramen packets for our family of four.
She would add rice to the ramen broth when we were still hungry.
Once we used something, it would disappear.
So we were frugal.
A financial disaster meant starving, losing your home, etc.
Did I spend my $10 for the week the wrong way?
I couldn’t afford lunch anymore and gotta starve for a week.
I never could have imagined that once you get enough money, it just makes more money.”
u/RlOTGRRRL
5.
“That it’s just easier to keep your home nice and clean when you have more money.
When your house is made of nicer fixtures, it cleans and stays clean easier.
The list is endless.
Those who don’t enjoy this freedom sacrifice our few hours on earth performing these mundane tasks.”
u/ndnman
7.
“Rich people eat a different meal for every meal and just like, throw out leftovers.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”
“While not rich rich, I still see everything as minimum wage value.
A can of Coke?
That’s like 1/5th of an hour’s pay; there’s no way I’m buying that.
No way I’m paying four hours of my wage to eat.
It blew my mind.”
u/EmeterPSN
9.
When I was a kid, we just stayed home every summer.
We never went anywhere and generally stayed within the same 200km radius of where we lived.
We didn’t have a lot of money.
Now I go on vacation twice a year and I’ve been all over the world.
The 17-year-old version of myself would be in awe.”
That kind of tradeoff doesn’t even occur to you when you’re fighting for every dollar."
u/Orange_Kid
11.
“‘Afford’ is such a weird term when you make more than your parents did.
“Being able to afford a moving company when moving homes…it’s a game changer.”
u/roastedoolong
13.
“There is absolutely no limit to being rich.
There is rich, and then there is wealthy.
Flying private on your own plane is rich.
Meanwhile, wealthy people don’t work unless they truly want to.”
“I would not say I am rich, but I am comfortably middle class.
My parents were stressed all the time, and I had no idea how freeing it feels tonotworry.
I can actually plan for the future, too.”
u/kinare
15.
“When we had our first children (twins) we were poor.
We went through the process and had two healthy boys.
A few years later, I had a stable job with medical insurance when we had our third child.
They didn’t push us out of the hospital so fast.
“They almost have a very different understanding of how the world works than non-rich people do.
It’s like the world is a game.
And they simply have a far better understanding of the rules and hacks.”
u/dingdongninja
17.
I am not super-rich.
My net worth puts me in the top 10%.
“How casually they talk about money.
It’s like they’re discussing the weather.”
u/CoffeeUpstairs4384
19.
“The more money you make, the more freedom you have at work.
As long as your work is getting done, you wont have any consequences.
Even if your work stops getting done, youll have weeks before anyone cares.
Meanwhile, there are more consequences for the employees making $18 an hour.”
“I grew up pretty poor, and my wife grew up insanely rich.
In her house, they would buy a new car.
This dawned on me when our washing machine broke, and I ordered the part on Amazon.
An hour later I saw she had ordered a new washer from Lowes.
