Yet this Redditor wanted to hear some more. So he asked fellow netizens, “What is the most rich thing you’ve seen wealthy people say/do casually?” From invitations to spontaneous trips to Dubai to living in French chateaus, the people of r/AskReddit delivered.
Bored Panda got in touch with the Redditor who posted this thread. u/CoolCoast7853 was kind enough to answer some questions for us. Read our conversation with the Redditor below!
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“I wanted to break out of the bubble of my rich crowd of people and at least be a little self-aware of the struggles people go through, especially since I’m going abroad for college soon and will be interacting with people from contrasting backgrounds.”
“Of course, there are instances where some of my friends’ experiences are surprising to me too; my parents are not billionaires, but there are people in my system [whose] parents are,” u/CoolCoast7853 admits.
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“There are plenty of rich people [who] don’t have outwardly displays of wealth. That does not change their net worth, but it does display an extent of self-awareness towards the rest of society. I wanted to know about privileges that the wealthy believed [were] expected and standard but aren’t for the better half of the population,” the Redditor clarifies.
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“It is possible that this was just because of the crowd my parents chose to hang out with, however. My parents and their friends spend money, but they don’t waste it. I suppose a lot of the responses involved unnecessary expenditures that could have been put to better use,” the Redditor observes.
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That’s because it isn’t just about the money itself, Professor Mark Fenton-O’Creevy, a professor of organizational behavior at the Open University, told The Guardian. According to him, people who have money also have security, freedom, power, and status.
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