" There are very few issues that money can not massively aid to prepare . "
Rich people loveeee to talk about poor people and why others aren’t as rich as them. But most of the time, what they say is super out of touch.
So when Reddit userStatisticianEvery733asked, “What is something rich people say that is bullshit?” I was ready to hear about all the stupid crap rich people say that we all know is false. Here are the most clueless statements people submitted.
1."‘Money doesn’t solve everything.’ Although technically true, I can’t think of a problem I have currently that wouldn’t be solved by wealth: job stress, family stress (related to money), debt, exhaustion with the housing market, worry about retirement, lack of time during the day, health concerns (many of which are actually money concerns), feeling down about life due to lack of time to pursue my own interests…the list goes on."
— u / dlc12830
2.Similarly, “‘You can’t fix problems by throwing money at them.’ You can when the problem is they don’t have enough money. Specifically thinking about public schools for this one.”
— u/120minute
" As if ' hiring someone to furbish up it ' or ' get a replacement ' was n’t throwing money at outlet . There are very few event that money can not massively help to prepare . "
— u / ControlOdd8379
3.And also, “Money can’t buy happiness.”
— u / PolyThrowaway524
4.“I actually work for a few wealthy people, and the amount of times I’ve heard ‘I’m poor’ or ‘I have no money’ is absurd. I’ve actually said something (nicely) a few times because they both have talked in front of the other staff like that and it’s just ridiculous.”
" They are multimillionaires . I do some clerking for them . away from the very large homes , multiple cars , boat and excessive vacations , they have gobs of money in their banks accounts ( savings and checking ) not to note stocks and retirement . "
— u / Pristine_Desk_5277
5."‘We all have the same 24 hours in a day.’ Not if you have to cook, clean, shop, wash up, laundry, work 9–5, travel in traffic, budget groceries, etc…"
— u / Martini_Man _
" Like , technically sure , however , somebody who has to take public transportation everywhere does not have the same 24 hours as somebody who has a railroad car and number one wood or private jet . "
— uracil / SoVerySleepy81
" A rich admirer I had could n’t understand how it could take me hours to design and grab food market . I have to check for coupons , ongoing sale , etc . , and project repast accordingly , then take the metro to the close grocery store computer memory and back . Meanwhile , he just ordered his groceries online and had them delivered to his doorstep . Same 24 hours a day indeed … "
— u / isopode
6.“Live within your means. Like, all I buy is enough food for one meal a day and gas to get to and from work, and I’m still living paycheck to paycheck.”
— uracil / throwaway0227033687
7."‘We aren’t rich. We are comfortable.'"
— u / Bunneh717
8.“When rich businessmen/entrepreneurs claim that not paying their fair share of taxes helps them invest in their community and provide jobs. Everyone should pay PERIOD.”
— u / medusamagpie
" Bezos is n’t making Amazon if short people do n’t fund the building of roads and bridges for him to birth software package . Or if we did n’t build the cyberspace for him to sell those package . Or if we did n’t fund public education to train an able workforce to work up the troupe for him . Or if we did n’t pay police officers to block up people from punking him out of his heritage .
The ample welfare disproportionately from what taxes fund , and they should be made to pay disproportionately into the taxation base when they get richer . Not to ' punish ' their winner , but to enable it . "
— u / franky_emm
" ' If you cut corporate taxes they will engage more people . ' Never cultivate . Why engage more people than you need ? "
— u / Popular - Play-5085
" The wealthy are already spending what they want to spend . You only need so many houses , car etc … Giving more money to the wealthy in the cast of tax cuts , subsidies etc . , only stimulate an growth in wealthiness disparity , as we ’ve see happening since about 1980 .
Same with corporations . Big tummy are already at a point of equilibrium regarding match the requirement of their customer . gift more money to big potbelly is n’t going to make them to expand and/or increase recompense to their employee ( lol , who ever fucking think they would do that ? ) They ’ll increase earnings to the owners / investors / shareholders etc . They ’ll pull strings the market place to their advantage via stock buybacks which were made legal right around the time Reagan had begin implementing his ' trickle down ' economical policy . I ’m sure that was just a coincidence tho , right ? "
— u / postSpectral
9.And that money “trickles down.”
— u / PissedOffPup
" We in fact get far less from the embodied worldly concern than before . toll getting enhance by the same companies that do n’t increase the salary . It is literally the opposite word . "
— u / Empty_Ad_4630
10.That they’re “‘self-made.’ That $100m head start wasn’t that big of an advantage.”
— u / Saint - Carat
" Even those who depart with " nothing " typically get a hidden edge somewhere . Take one of history ’s best representative : Mr. Rockefeller . Yes , he lacked the hard currency in the menage , also miss the kind of married couple or parents to impart him into high society . So how did he start his imperium ? In school he was sitting next to the Word of a banking house — a man who could take up ' some ' money with few head asked and afterward on could lend out immense sums for securities that only exist on paper . …. A very , very profitable friendly relationship that top out when Standard Oil was officially forced to be break up and a presumably ' barely fluent ' Mr. Rockefeller combined with a certain friend brought up all the fish filet piece leaving the unprofitable relaxation for the competition . "
" Bill Gates ’ private high school wasoneof the very few schools with a electronic computer in 1968 . "
— u / TheGrandeCaja
" Also , his momconvincedthe board at IBM to use Microsoft for their O . She was on the panel of manager at another companionship , where the Chairman of IBM was also a board member . "
— u / gsr142
11.Or similarly, “‘I worked my way up from the bottom!’ When the bottom is freshly graduating with a fully paid-for degree by mommy and daddy. Then starting a business with a $2 million loan.”
— uracil / BadHigBear
12."‘I worked hard for what I have.’ Implies people doing without don’t work hard. They work just as hard if not harder, for far less."
— u / SisterNaomi
13.“You’d have more money if you didn’t spend it on coffee and avocado toast.”
— u / teethalarm
" Just write money , do n’t grease one’s palms expensive coffee , and in just one or two unretentive millennium , you could buy your dream planetary house ! "
— u / pselie4
" They literally think it ’s iced coffee tree defecate us pitiful and I ’m like okay , I fling on Starbucks a few time a month , but every other daylight I ’m drinking smutty ass great value coffee so idk perchance it ’s the net bill going up every year and the expensive policy that does n’t cover anything and the $ 75 copay . Maybe it ’s the rip increase every class or the car payments and the fact that I have n’t had a pay increase in literal YEARS . "
— atomic number 92 / casuallycruel420
14.“Just work hard and you can get to where I am someday.”
— u / AcanthaceaeKind6554
" If someone puzzle out hard , and a pot of things happen in a very specific order that lead to great succeeder , that soul instantly assign all of the success ( usually financially ) to their hard work and little else .
hoi polloi fail to realize how many external element play into someone climbing that ladder to becoming very well off financially in their several field . Many factors upon which they as an somebody had slight to no restraint over to begin with .
Yes , someone doing the bare lower limit is far less likely to go up that ladder as tight , if at all versus someone who ’s busting their excrescence and cultivate indefatigably to further their calling . That being said , the person busting their prominence can do so , and still go nowhere . No one owe that soul anything , least of all their employer .
So what , they ’ve die ' above and beyond . ‘Some employers reward that kind of work ethic …. others exploit it and put up walls , keep dangle the carrot , and would rather keep you in billet right on where you are . "
— uranium / Luke5119
15."‘If I was able to pull myself up by my own bootstraps, anybody can do it.'"
— u / minstrelgardener
" Remember the original phrase was something like , ' As useless as trying to perpetrate yourself up by your own bootstrap . ' "
— u / badwolf42
16.In times of turmoil, when rich people say, “‘we all need to make sacrifices.’ Just google private plane flights and emissions, or the mansions and vacations of the rich. That’ll radicalize you real fucking quick.”
— uracil / spehizle
17.Also during times of turmoil, when a company or rich person says “We are in this together”…especially when it’s accompanied by “now, more than ever.”
Suggested byu/3nviousandu/2ndprize
" Christ live , commercial message from 2020 were insufferable . "
— atomic number 92 / Pvt_Wierzbowski
18.Or similarly, “We’re all in the same boat.”
— u / stupididiot3_14159
" We are all in the same gravy holder , but it ’s not like a Caribbean sail . It ’s more like the Titanic , where the third class drown . "
— u/544075701
" Nah , more like you ’re work in the steam boiler way to pay up for nutrient and board on the ship . "
— u / suplex_11
" We ’re essentially all like the crew of the Titanic , whose families received letters show that their dead congener were no longer employee of the ship’s company as of the time the Titanic pip the iceberg , and could they please air $ 50 to cover the uniforms they did n’t return . "
— uracil / warrencanadian
19.One specific example? When a bunch of rich celebrities got together and recorded the “Imagine” video, as if an off-key song by rich people who would be just fine without their jobs or ability to leave their homes would fix everything, or make anyone feel better.
Suggested byu / Jaegernaut-
" Omg , that COVID video still pisses me off . All the celebrity singe in their mansions while millions of people with minimal wage job had no study . "
— u / OnTheEveOfWar
20.Similarly, when celebrities complained about being stuck at home in the pandemic…in their luxury homes. For example — “Wasn’t it Ellen DeGeneres who was complaining about how being stuck in her mansion was like being in jail?”
— u / tinfoil_toast
21.“Even better was two months later when they (along with the ‘small business owners’) all complained that the little wage slaves would never return to work again because they finally knew what a living wage looked like through the unemployment support programs.”
— u / deaddodo
22.Specifically, the whole “nobody wants to work” thing businesses and rich people kept spouting…including Kim Kardashian.
Suggested byu / gus248
23.“‘This is the hardest thing we’ve ever had to do’ (cue layoffs of thousands while writing themself a bonus)."
— u / onespicyorange
24.“Poor people are just lazy! If they really wanted to not be poor anymore, they’d just [insert solution here that involves money or time the poor person doesn’t have, because they are poor].”
— u / badb - gasconade
25.“When it comes to starting a business, selling a product, or chasing your dream: ‘All you need is passion’ (or some version of that). I’ve heard successful people give this advice because they don’t know what else to say, but every rich guy I know has zero passion for the product they sell. … They care about if it can make money, about holes and demands in the market, or about creating those demands. They have passion for making money.”
— uracil / Zanzoken814
26.Relatedly, “‘If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.'”
— u / lrry_fsh_710
" I ’ve had job I ’ve loved ; sometimes , they were still diddlyshit job . "
— u / Betteroffinapinebox
" I know plenty of masses who find that doing what they love for a animation caused them to accrue out of love with it after a while . "
— uranium / MagicBez
27.“‘I’d rather go back to when I was broke and happy.'”
— u / NMJay92
28.“That they deserve their money. Nobody ‘deserves’ money. We need it. It is a way to get resources. It should be shared.”
— u / Gengis - Kant
29.“‘More money, more problems.'”
" Might be true in the absolute actual sense in terms of “ number of problem ” , but in the sublime scheme of things the scale leaf of those problems is drastically lower .
I would rather deal with 100 ' I ca n’t keep raceway of all the thing I bought’/‘My admirer keep wanting more money’/‘My fancy Italian railway car keeps crack down because Italians do n’t know how to make cars properly’/‘Oh no , the contractor on my 2d house souse on me ' every single daylight for the ease of my living if it meant I never had to cogitate , ' Okay , if I skimp on groceries and just do n’t have lunch for the next week I ’ll be able-bodied to make rent in full on the first ' again , even once . "
— u / FoucaultsPudendum
30.“Any form of socialism is communism.”
— atomic number 92 / Hendri32
" Even dear , just introductory human decency is socialism . I do n’t like living in the richest society on earth and a huge chemical group of selfish dick think providing child free meals at school is bad or not worth drop money on . "
— u / rasa2013
" The fact that we ’ll shell out trillion for the war machine - industrialise coordination compound without any qualm , but feeding our own country ’s hungry small fry for a few million is up for public debate is in fact , cruelty . "
— atomic number 92 / LeahBean
31.“That you get rich by providing goods and services to people. The rich get rich by inserting themselves in a system that underpays those who actually provide goods and services.”
— atomic number 92 / CIWA28NoICU_Beds
32.And finally…"‘I got rich doing these 10 things I mention in my book.’ No, you got rich with the money desperate gullible idiots give you when they buy your bullshit book."
— u / Flyinpotatoman
Submissions have been edited for length / clarity .
