“‘How could your family accountant let that happen?’
Recently, Reddit userMonthIcy1askedabout the most out-of-touch things people have heard from the wealthy.
People did not hold back and absolutely skewered the rich.
Check out what they had to say:
1. u/Trappist_1984
2.
“I was at a high-end kids' clothing resale store.
Her 8-year-old had wandered off into the store and came back with something she wanted to buy.
Mom: ‘No, sweetie, we don’t shop here.
We only come here so poor people have nice things to buy.'”
u/gfanonn
3.
“A coworker asked me what bank had my safe deposit box.
I said I didn’t have a safe deposit box.
She said, ‘But where do you keep your jewels, then?’
This was twenty years ago, and I still remember it.”
u/DiscountArmageddon
4.
“‘How could your family accountant let that happen?’
u/irrelevanttrumpeter
5.
I had no words.”
u/the3secondrule
6.
“I needed a bicycle to get to a new job.
I found someone online selling a really nice bike for cheap, so I got in touch.
The bike was in a garage full of supercars and classics.
u/Key_Kong
7.
“I was at a cocktail party at a beachfront house on Isle of Palms, SC.
Everyone was in private equity, Manhattan-based.
I was chatting with someone, and they asked me, ‘Where is your beach house?’
u/jaw719
8.
Another coworker then went to pull up his apartment complex and pointed out the trailer park next door.
He didn’t believe us when we explained that people lived in those trailers.
He thought that was only something that happened on reality TV shows.
u/pathofuncertainty
9.
The dude was SHOCKED poor people exist, and one was in his office.”
u/Easy-Bee
10. u/evcour7
11.
“During the pandemic, senior management held company-wide calls about mental health and wellbeing.
One piece of advice always stuck with me.
I had a choice between facing different walls.”
u/hauntingruby1975
12.
Me: ‘Ahh, I don’t think I can make it this weekend.’
Rich friend: ‘Oh yeah, I looked and saw it was only coach available.
Don’t be embarrassed; I don’t blame you for not wanting to sit next tothem.
‘Me thinking: ‘Does this guy truly think that’s why?
Lol, I just earn average money.'”
u/Qiimassutissarput
13.
“It’s just so easy to just drop a grand at Target, y’know?”
u/Mesmerotic31
14.
“I work for a startup based out of San Francisco.
They went to top 10 business schools, they ‘summer’ in Tahoe, that kind of thing.
(Nobody raised their hand) ‘Wow, I’m surprised.’
I said, ‘Does warehouse count?’
And the entire room erupted in laughter.
To them, I’d just told a very enjoyable joke.”
u/Conscious_Raisin_436
15.
“My boss is an attorney.
Laughing somewhat ruefully, she said, “I cant believe I forgot to include that.”
The client and I quietly locked eyes with a shared understanding of how out of touch that was.”
u/MerleRoss5x
16.
“‘Look, if you’re that stressed, you should just do what I’ve been doing recently.
Every two months, I go on a Disney Cruise!
Sometimes, I go even more often!'”
u/Swankified_Tristan
17.
“I was talking to the owner of the building where my old work/clinic was.
He was taking his wife back to Germany on vacation for the third or fourth time that year.
I mentioned how jealous I was.
He told me that the only way I was going to go was to ‘just do it.’
He said that too many people wait for the right timing and don’t just take themselves traveling.
Rent was about 40% of my income.”
u/wrongbutt_longbutt
18. u/lovely_Nataliaxx
19.
He replied that he, too, was having car problems.
The roof on his convertible wasn’t opening.
This was his third car.”
u/MouMouMan
20.
I told him how much I loved the car and dreamt of owning one someday.
The car’s owner looked at me confused and said, ‘What do you mean?
We sell them right here, you know?’
u/kiss_miss_muffinx
21.
I was getting paid $10 an hour as a pastry chef at a catering company.
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."
u/Princess_Coldheart
22. u/Brave-Side-8945
23.
He said something like, ‘It’s always there; what do you mean?’
The look of genuine confusion on his face was just something else."
u/PumpkinSpicedBimb0
24.
“They lived in Boston, and we were talking about how small condos are there.
u/Lumpy-Honey-1406
25.
“‘Why can’t you just get a new couch?
It’s almost time for summer furniture anyway.'”
u/Atheist_Alex_C
u/Supertoast64
27.
“I was a live-in super of a building in Boston.
The building had 43 units, and 40 were occupied by college kids.
She started pounding on my door, demanding that I turn her electricity back on.
I checked her circuit breakers; they were fine.
“Me: ‘You didn’t tell the electric company that you were the new tenant?’
Tenant: ‘What’s the difference?
Why do they need to know it’s me?’
Me: ‘They need to send you a bill for electricity usage.’
Tenant: ‘Now I know you’re messing with me.
YOU DON’T PAY FOR ELECTRICITY!”
She moved out two days later of embarrassment, her parents having paid for breaking the lease.”
u/stryker511
28.
I can’t control nature sorry, lady, you’re not getting your deposit back.”
u/iast68
29. you could’t live on 90k a year!'"
u/mladyKarmaBitch
30.
I called him on that when he said his family wasn’t really that rich.
‘It was just good timing.’
u/KhaosElement
31. u/Organic-Roof-8311
32.
Ah yeah, so reducing restaurant dinners from 0 to 0 and the pub tab from 0 to 0.
My colleague left the zoom mid-way through."
u/cobarbob
33.
“‘How do you only have one dishwasher?’
u/redjessa
34.
“I taught high school math at a private school for wealthy kids.
The lesson was about compound interest and how it’s calculated.
A student raised their hand and asked why should we know this.
I couldn’t reply after that.”
u/_Doda
35.
“Last year at an elite university.
I was studying in the library with the kid of wealthy landowners.
She made the casual claim of how proud she was of us funding ourselves through uni.
Whereas everyone else was being made to go by their parents.”
u/Short-Price1621
36.
“‘I pay 13k for private school.
They need to figure out why my kid has behavioral problems, not me.'”
u/Real_Statistician_75
37.
She posted on social media about it.”
u/Funnybunnie_
38.
“My boss at the time made between 5-10x more than I did.
u/Boredom-Warrior
39.
“I did some medical volunteer work in Haiti post-earthquake.
I stayed in a Christian missionary compound because the clinic I worked at was supported by the mission.
Like if that’s what you took away from that, I cannot help you.”
u/whetherpigshavewings
40.
“Back in 2006, I was working at a movie theater.
The guy gets a large drink and popcorn, which comes out to about $20.
I was 17 and making $6.25/hour at the time.”
I told him that was one of the most entitled things I ever heard.”
