31 Spoiled, Entitled, Out-Of-Touch People Who Are Surely Too Clueless To Survive A Day Outside Of First-Class
If you've ever had to take the deepest breath in the world because you just heard something almost too privileged to be real, you're in the right place. Recently, people on Reddit shared the most out-of-touch thing they've witnessed a rich person say or do, and I had to lie down for a while after reading through it. Here are some of the top comments:
1."My friend's sister, who is attending medical school, said, 'Did you know some people's parents don't pay for their school?'"
—mercfan3
2."'I wish my kids qualified for financial aid.' She thinks financial aid is a benefit everyone else gets that she's losing out on. Said by a woman brought up in an upper-middle-class family and married into another one. I don't know too many 25-year-olds with zero college debt, whose first house is a 4-bed single-family home and immediately put in an inground salt water pool, had two kids, then finished their basement with all the fixings."
"No. No, you do not want your kids to actually qualify for financial aid. Give up your giant house, pool, and regularly occurring vacations first. Oh, and you don't HAVE to pay your kids' full college tuition for their D1 schools, but you can easily afford to without eliminating any other discretionary cost in your life
This couple easily makes $350k, the husband is a partner."
—drunkpickle726
3."'Why don't you just buy a house? This apartment is awfully small for the four of you.' I loved the person who said this very much; he was like family, but my ex and I couldn't believe our ears when he said that. We both wanted to answer in a tone absolutely dripping with sarcasm, 'Gee, we never thought of that! We'll have to go shopping tomorrow. Would you like to write the check for the down payment since it's such a great idea and we don't have any money?'"
—Kind_Blackberry3911
"Man, one of the engineers at my office bought a house and then was nonstop pressuring me about when I was going to stop renting. Never mind that I'm an admin assistant, so I make a fraction of what he does. I was finally like, 'When you get our boss to give me a raise to match your salary, I guess?' That finally seemed to shut him up, but Jesus Christ, it was so tone deaf."
—ScroochDown
4."Girl I knew in high school was whining about how her parents cancelled their annual ski trip to Switzerland, and they had to settle for Jackson Hole instead. Poor girl, times were tough."
—HorrorSmile3088
5."'It's so easy to travel. Just save $100-300 every paycheck. I don't know why people can't do that.' This was right after college when I started paying back my loans while only making $18/hr. I told her, 'Lady, I'm lucky if I have $20 left over.' She looked shocked."
—Appropriate_Sky_6571
"Similarly, when people say you should spend your 20s traveling, seeing the world, and getting cultured before settling down. You think I don't want to?? That's expensive, plus, how am I supposed to get that many days off work??"
—VanillaMemeIceCream
6."My wife does work for high-profile clients. Often, you'll see a $20,000+ food order barely touched and, due to liability concerns, thrown away. I wish this was sarcasm."
—ElonsMuskyFeet
"I am a notorious post-event crasher because of this, complete with Tupperware.
Walked into a work event after it was over, and the crew was shoveling the food down; one looked at me, nodded, and pointed to the buffet. 'Take the whole tray,' they literally begged, 'cuz otherwise it goes right in the trash."
—DopeCharma
7."Someone told me they thought poor people just 'don't try hard enough' and that 'everyone has the same 24 hours.' It was wild how confidently they said it, like generational wealth, health, and safety weren't even factors."
—fatherballoons
"And just the damn randomness of life, I hate the 'don't try hard enough.' You could work 16 hours a day and give it all, and things just don't work out. Yet the guy who won a gamble will tell you how hard he worked and why everyone is able to achieve the same he did. Survivorship bias is a hell of a drug."
—sinjuice
8."My ex once said before a date, 'I won't wear my Rolex so you don't feel poor.'"
—leahlo
9."'I don't get why poor people don't just budget better.' Ah, yes, the CEO of life, right here."
—Any_Lingonberry_3948
"I know folks who grew up poor, fell into a good-paying job (at least in relation to their upbringing), and adopted this mindset.
I'm always like, 'How do you not remember where you came from?'
Good budgeting when you are poor is hard as hell.
I grew up fairly poor but do okay now, nothing to brag about, but I enjoy luxuries and a comfortable life that I'm quite thankful for — and I never, ever let myself forget where I came from.
That's in no small part because all it takes is one catastrophic illness or other bad turn in life to end up back there again.
But more importantly, it's because you've got to remind yourself that getting some lucky breaks doesn't make you better or harder working than someone else, it just means that you got lucky enough for your efforts to fall into place. I did work hard, yes, but there was also good fortune involved, too."
—bamisdead
10."I once worked for a company where the CEO was used to flying private. The company then opened its first office overseas. For this purpose, he needed to fly commercial for the first time in about 20 years. After the trip his secretary took great pleasure in telling stories after his first trip on how clueless he was about commercial air travel: not knowing how to deal with the security screening, limitations on carry-on luggage, and being much more at the mercy of airlines in terms of scheduling."
—thirdtimesdecharm
11."My therapist said I have generational wealth anxiety."
—SeaConstant1433
"How can i get that anxiety?"
—kosommokom
12."I did private duty home health for an extremely wealthy woman who had round-the-clock home care employees. I came to work one evening and was getting her ready for bed, and I noticed that she had several new yoga pants and casual tops hanging in her closet with the tags still on. I commented how cute they were, and she told me that her day shift worker had taken her shopping at Target, and asked me if I'd ever been there, followed by saying she 'never knew stores like that existed.' (Of course, she didn't know because everything she owned came from Neiman Marcus, Saks, Gucci, Prada, etc.)"
"I laughed and said, 'Sweetie, if Target excited you that much, Walmart will blow your mind. You can get new tires on your car while you grocery shop, or get a new TV and even patio furniture.' She said, 'Are you kidding??! Well, then that's where we're going tomorrow!'"
—Minimum-Career-9999
"That is actually very endearing. Kinda scary, but I love the attitude of enjoying the new opportunities. She might have been fun if that positive spin continued."
—scattywampus
13."I worked my way through college doing housecleaning, babysitting, and retail jobs. Met a girl who laughed at me and said her father wanted her to know about the REAL working world, so every summer he got her hired by one of his client firms in the oil business. Bitch, please. The HARDEST part of the real world is getting a chance. And he hid that from you."
—chockerl
14."'I don't know why people need remote work. I just had someone who drove my kids to school, so it didn't interfere with my work schedule.' You really think everyone can do this?"
—Electronic-Shower726
15."'I don't understand people who go to Disney World and don't stay in a villa or one of the deluxe resorts! It's just not the same or not even close to worth it to be at the poor-people value resorts!' Said to my husband and I who were on our honeymoon while staying at a value resort. We are both teachers and saved up for YEARS to make that vacation happen."
"We were just so grateful to be able to 1) take a honeymoon and 2) go somewhere that we both love but can't go to regularly because of how expensive it is.
Opened my eyes to how so many people can't look past their own perspectives and gave me an understanding of where entitlement might come from."
—Belle0516
16."A former friend of mine had a fight with her parents about some boy she met on Snapchat. The parents were 100% in the right. Guess what the punishment was. She wasn´t allowed to wear her designer clothes for a week. A week. She was so mad. It was so weird and a big reality check for me. I knew her parents were rich, but then I realised how different our lives were."
—Icy-Rule-7248
17."'If you don't like this town, then move.' As if coming up with thousands of dollars to relocate and start over is just readily available. Yes, Priscilla, I would love to just move. How about you slip me about 10 grand so I can?"
—meh_alienz
18."My roommate in my freshman year of college asked me, 'So when is the cleaning lady coming to collect our clothes to be washed?' Ummm...what now? She honestly thought that someone came around, picked up dirty laundry, washed and folded it, then returned it to us and thought that was part of our dorm fees."
—readingreddit4fun
19."I'm planning a wedding and I've had MULTIPLE people tell me my wedding should be black tie because 'what grown adult doesn't own a tuxedo?'"
—atlanduh
20."My ex grew up very wealthy and genuinely thought that when you're shopping for something, you should buy the most expensive item because it's the best. Also, he was so clueless that he thought that silver that tarnishes must be poor quality."
—sqplanetarium
21."'I'm so happy to not go on vacation for a bit.' My coworker said this when she went abroad six times in one year. Different countries each time."
—Maleficent_Count6205
22."I wasn't spoiled. I had to clean out my horse's stall myself."
—DoTheRightThing1953
23."'I work hard, I should be able to travel wherever I want,' in a conversation about Indigenous people who were asking tourists not to come there because they saw it as harmful to their community."
—StrawbraryLiberry
24."A girl I met travelling has fallen into an influencer pyramid scheme. I put up with it until she made a post saying the following: 'Unpopular opinion: if you're poor and you have a smartphone, then it's your fault.' Instant unfollow."
—maryg1503
25."Refer to a speeding ticket as their 'go-fast license.'"
—Trips-Over-Tail
26."'I don't care about politics.' Dude, people's lives and rights depend on this shit."
—lifeincolour_
27."I teach at an upper-middle-class middle school. I had a 7th grader extremely upset because his parents revoked the credit card privilege on his phone. He bought a bunch of designer clothes, and I guess racked up a bill. The kid was so mad, saying, 'It's not even their money! It's a credit card. Get over it, bro.' I tried to explain that you still have to pay the credit card company, it's not free money, but he wasn't hearing it."
—SinfullySinless
28."One of my friends was complaining that she and her husband received no help from her parents when they went to buy their first house and that she had to use her trust fund instead."
—stablerslut
29."Girl I was dating had a 'rough' month and needed $200 for a car repair. Casually said she'll just take out $5k from a savings account her parents gave her (with $125k in it) to treat herself for all the stress it caused her to bring the car to the workshop 2 miles away."
—Groundbreaking-Tax-4
30."A wealthy girl once told me, 'We don't have as much money as everyone thinks. Last year, we barely had enough money to put in the pool house.'"
—mattysatty_380
31.And finally, "Having a military parade for your birthday."
—wonderererere
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