Shocking Quotes: The Astonishingly Tone-Deaf Comments from the Wealthy Elite
An old boss looking at buying a new car. “I thought it’d be around $180-200,000 but when I found out it was $250,000 I had a bit harder time justifying it”
Or when talking about the resort he was building in Thailand.
Moving into the dorms freshman year of college, I overheard a girl absolutely losing her s**t because her mum was “only” giving her $200/week. We lived in dorms, had required meal plans and weren’t allowed to have cars on campus, what are you spending that much money on?!
I’ve never gotten an allowance in my entire life. The very notion of someone handing their kid $800 every month is still completely baffling to me.
When I first met my GF’s aunt, we were chillin’ in her giant house, giant kitchen, freshly renovated with all the trimmings. Beautiful place. I look over and notice she’s got these real tall s**g rugs in a couple of the rooms and I ask her how she vacuums the things because, well inquiring minds want to know! She replies with “Well first of all…you’re assuming I clean my own house…”
Then I knew, ok we’re on that level. All she had to do was say it any other way that sounded less pompous.
One of my friends is insanely rich and doesn’t really take a no for an answer.
Calls me in the middle of the week (it was Tuesday) and informs me that I am going to Cyprus with him for two weeks, flight is going to be in three days if I agree. Let me inform you that I am a student, I have a part-time job and two cats.
It was really nice of him to take me on a trip, but I can’t since I live a middle class life. Took me one hour to explain to him why I can’t go.
I work at a private school and they give each student their own iPad when they enter pre k and use them all the way up to 6th grade.
One of my fourth graders who had been there since pre k told me that she thought everyone in the world is just given an iPad when they are born.
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