Yahoo Lifestyle 24 Things People Are Fed Up About When It Comes To The Upper Class, And I'm Curious If You Agree With These Hot Takes
No matter where I go, I hear people complain about the prices of things. However, when people in the tax bracket who could afford expensive eggs complain about prices, it's just annoying, ya know? People on Reddit flooded the comment section of this thread, sharing the other irritating things rich people do or say. Here is what they said:
1."I watched a rich person in an interview say, ‘I’m just like everyone else’ while casually mentioning they own a private island."
2."They often don’t appreciate how proportionally expensive, mind consuming and stressful it is to be poor."
3."How out of touch they are with average life. Their 'solutions' to things don’t actually make any sense."
4."How they equate wealth with intellectual and moral superiority."
5."When they claim ‘money isn’t everything’ while living in luxury."
6."They often fall for their own lies about how they achieved their wealth."
7."They believe their money can get them out of answering for actions that would put a poor person behind bars forever — and are often right."
8."Their support of policies that ruin normal people."
9."When they think they truly earned all of it themselves and owe nothing to no one — it’s almost always absolutely false."
10."How they waste what they have."
11."How detached from reality they can be."
12."When they act surprised by the price of something, even though they could buy it 10 times over."
13."Their inability to recognize their own privilege and assume that everyone has access to the same things they do."
14."When they pretend to need to economize like the rest of us. A woman in our village was reaching out in our local Facebook group about where to find cheap but good ski base layers because she was 'going to be spending a lot on her heli-ski trip.' Like, give me a break. If you can afford a heli-ski trip, I am very sure that you can also afford some long underwear. I think the whole thing was a humble-brag ploy to signal to the community how wealthy she is."
15."Their inability to recognize their own privilege and assume that everyone has access to the same things they do."
16."Trying to teach people how to get rich."
17."Not controlling or teaching boundaries to their kids. The kids have a sense of ego that being rich equals 'better than you' and 'I can get away with anything.'"
18."Arrogance."
19."That they think being rich also means they're smart."
20."I literally have a friend (let's call them X) who doesn't understand that there are people alive where they CANNOT come up with $50 at all. X grew up so affluent that their parents completely covered college. X doesn't understand that I have a sibling who wouldn't be able to pay a $50 bill right now because they're waiting for their next paycheck to come through. X thinks everyone always has at least SOME money in the bank. It's frustrating."
21."When they give well-meaning advice, it sometimes is terribly dated or out of touch."
22."Adult child of rich parents here. When my mom wants me to do something I can’t afford, she always says, 'Can’t you just budget for it?' without understanding what that means."
"For example, she often nags me because I don’t get my hair highlighted as often as I did in high school (when she paid for it) because it costs $400 per appointment. When I explain that I can’t afford to go as often, she asks, 'Well, it’s important that you look presentable. Why don’t you just budget for it?' I AM budgeting for it, Mom. Limiting the number of times one does something to save money IS budgeting!"
23."They have no concept of hard work. Old money that is."
24.And finally, "They can never admit they're well off. Everything is always, 'Oh yeah, on paper, yup, but I'm barely scraping by!' Bullshit. Or they never admit they're lucky or got assistance, 'Everything you see here was me and me alone, yes my father was a billionaire, but I used my own blood, sweat, and tears to inherit his fully functioning business!'"
Is there anything you find annoying about the rich? Share it with me in the comments below!
