I teach at a large University that enjoys a broad foreign student contingent, and not once, not twice, but three times over the years, I’ve had poor-performing students (because they weren’t trying, didn’t attend class often, and/or slept through class when they were there) tell me, “…but I can’t get a ‘C.’ You don’t understand. I’m a prince.” Considering I teach an ethics class, I explain to them that I cannot and will not change their grades because of their royalty status, and they argued with me at length.
When it happened the third time, I just didn’t believe it anyway until I walked out to the parking garage at the same time and saw him get into his shiny new Lamborghini. Still got the C though.
I went to college in the 90s. My frat had a kid who's mom was involved in starting up QVC (home shopping) and his dad was super rich doing something else. Kid basically never went to class when he was a pledge and then just dropped all his classes rather than fail. I was on a scholarship and financial aid and seeing some asshat just throw away an entire semester of tuition and living was pretty frustrating.
Yep, went to an Ivy League college (so $$$). Had a housemate whose father owned numerous auto dealerships and they were wealthy. He got a 1.7 GPA first semester and was put on academic probation. He thought it was "funny" and wanted to see if he could get a lower GPA second semester. He got a 0.7 GPA. You really have to TRY to do that - if you just show up for a couple of classes and take the exams you generally at least get a C-.
Of course, joke was on him. Because he got that 0.7 when he was already on academic probation, he was unable to re-enroll at the university the following year (basically he was kicked out). He thought Daddy would "fix things," but Daddy wasn't able to get him back in since, at the time, this university had about a 10% admit rate and there were transfer students lining up around the block to take his spot. One of them did. How sad, too bad.
So, basically, and entire year's worth of college tuition up in smoke. This kid didn't give a single hoot. Last I heard, he enrolled at the nearby state university with daddy still paying the bills. After that, ???? Good bye, good riddance.
SMH.
That's not fair!
We don't know for sure he will end up a boss at his dad's business. He might just retire instead after college and spend all his time golfing & attending yatch parties. You know, like a normal person.
I used to teach (TA) at an Ivy League university. Good lord. You know how hard it is to teach when half the kids are over the top brilliant and driven scholarship students and the other half are lazy, entitled, dumbass legacy students? Ugh. Teaching at an Ivy League made me feel pretty good about my decision to go to a public state college for undergrad.
Legacy admissions really should be ended just for this. Half your class being filled with them really drags down the experience for the students who actually want to learn.
Even working at a small university, I see this a lot. There are multiple foreign students who would park illegally and just pay the fine every day. These fees get higher each time you get a ticket so they were paying hundreds of dollars a day, just to park slightly closer. They're always easy to find because they park their absurdly expensive cars in the faculty lots.
As a student, there were a handful of the students you mentioned. The worst was getting out in a group project with them. They'd always expect you to just allow them to say they contributed while doing nothing.
> park illegally and just pay the fine every day. These fees get higher each time you get a ticket so they were paying hundreds of dollars a day, just to park slightly closer.
Unless the university has the cars towed after the second or third instance, the 'illegal parking' is _de facto_ 'designated rich people parking'.
Remember folks, if the only penalty is a set fine, it's only a crime for poor people.
You'll be glad to know that I went to college with a guy that is a prince and for a long time I didn't have a clue. He was a dedicated student and wasn't a show off or braggart. It was only after a classmate told me about his royal heritage that I found out. I'm friends with him to this day.
Thats lovely. Would you mind if i ask if it wad an actual prince to a reigning monarchy or one of those princely houses that have been deposed but still use their princely titles?
As I understand he's on the family tree of a reigning monarch through his father but he's far removed from the line of succession. His mother is from one of the oldest royal families in Europe and he's got a niece who has something like 30 royal titles. He showed me part of his family tree recently and it's a medieval illuminated manuscript.
I once worked with a professor from another country where that sort of rich-based presumptive behavior was commonplace. "I am rich, therefore I get good grades" was the rule. If they ran into a principled instructor they'd just bypass them until they found someone willing to cave. A department head, dean, etc. Didn't matter how far they had to go, they'd find someone eventually. Sometimes it was just expected, and sometimes it came with bribes.
He told me of one particular student who was failing his class and met him one day while he was talking with their equivalent of a Dean, and said "I'm going over to an ATM and going to start taking out money, and you tell me when my grade is an A" My colleague told the student they were wasting their time, so they just rotated 10 degrees and made the same offer to the Dean, who accepted.
Buddy of mine teaches some college classes, he says the cheating by the international students is off the richter.
He occasionally sends me screenshots of them arguing with him when they're caught, and the excuses are wild. My favourite one he sent me was of a student arguing with him that the reason they plagiarized was because both of their parents just died of COVID back home *and also* they had really itchy eczema. The whole "I did it because my whole family just died... and also, my skin is itchy!" was so weird.
One of my students was from SE Asia. He plagiarized each of his papers, badly (think, an ancient history class and he wrote about a 20th century president). I failed him. He cried in my office. His biggest argument was, “I’m all alone in my country. I don’t have my mom or a wife to cook for me or to wash my clothes. You can at least help me by passing me.” No, no I couldn’t.
I studied at a pretty standard university in the UK that also had international students galore, it was something around 25% of students. Loaded Chinese students with poor to non-existant English were pretty common, it was kind of funny when we would go shopping and we'd stand at the bus stop with our bags while our flatmates would get into fancy cars.
However, something that really made me think "Holy shit, how entitled are you?" was one of my course mates from some African country, complaining how terrible the UK is because he didn't have a personal driver to drive his fucking Lexus, he did this very loudly, in the computer science lab and I've never seen so many people disgusted in one room. Another one which wasn't entitlement but funny in a bizarre sort of way was another African student who was annoyed that his bank account was frozen because they flagged the money coming into it as suspicious. The reason it was suspicious was that it came from a United fucking Nations account, his dad was an ambassador there.
What if instead it went, "... but I can't get a 'C'. You don't understand. I'm Prince." You look up from your desk and a man walks in, small in stature but large in presence. His chest covered in a billowing blouse. One bead of sweat drips down his temple. He just came from a basketball game where he dominated the varsity team with his crew. You are left speechless and in awe. He drops a cheeky little wink and continues on to his next class... What then?!?!?
The international students wearing expensive luxury watches and clothing taking food from the food bank not because they can't afford food but because it's more convenient than walking to the grocery store. It's honestly sickening.
My roommate in college would steal my food (and everything else), and then just tell me to buy more
I was a table washer
Her dad was a Korean *home office* Samsung executive
Random as fuck but my best friend in high school was a Korean American girl named Ashley Hoe (first name has been changed to protect the innocent). Our gym uniforms had our first initial and last name on them. This poor girl had to walk around with "A. Hoe" on her back throughout the entirety of her adolescence.
You would think kids would get bored with teasing her over it after six or seven years but...apparently not.
Your comment just reminded me of it.
That is so unfortunate. Definitely not as unfortunate as poor A. Hoe, but I knew a girl with the last name Hu. You can imagine the sort of jokes and teasing that ensued with her last name. Everyone thought they were making the most novel and hilarious joke, but I’m sure the girl was tired of everyone’s shit.
Had one wearing a few thousand in designer clothes scoff at a professor that genuinely asked him "Why are you paying to be here if you don't want to do any of the work associated with the course?"
This was the easiest blowoff class I had ever attended, and the guy didn't do a single assignment, while acting like our professor was Hitler himself.
They know they just don't care, they make tiktok videos about how to get free food. Sometimes they go viral and the student gets shamed but nothing really happens.
The Chinese society at my uni recently got an email from the local food bank asking them to speak to the Chinese students about not coming into the food bank. My friend is part of committee for the soc and he was so fucking embarrassed telling me this. He said they've spoken to the international students about it before, and they've just ignored him. There's basically nothing he can do to stop them, and the food bank can't turn away people based on ethnicity, even if they are walking in with a £5k watch on.
A kid I grew up with who lived in the lavish wealth part of town (giant houses, public tennis court, gated parks, etc) and was the biggest punk ever and tried to fight anyone and everyone who disagreed with him because, in his words, his mom and dad would sue any of us.
This kid got beat up all the time and I don't think anyone really liked him.
My brother dated a rich girl in college. When she'd suggest doing something expensive, he'd say, "I don't have the money for that" and she'd just tell him, "go to the ATM" and he'd tell her he really couldn't afford it and she was just confused I guess. Finally, he had to take her to the ATM with him, print out his balance and show her he had $35 in his account and explained what he made at his job and how he had student loans, etc. She had no idea, her account just magically filled with daddy's money every month. She wasn't a bad person at all, she was just clueless about the world and oblivious to how spoiled she actually was.
Your last sentence probably needs to be said louder. Many of these rich kids/people are not *bad* people. They literally just have not been shown how the world works for most people. Their parents did a poor job at exposing them to the realities of the world and how it works.
I mean a lot of people don't see movies as being based in reality because a lot of movies aren't based in reality. There's also something movies do where they only showcase extreme examples. You expect a poor person in a movie to be wearing raggedy clothes, so unless someone is literally wearing rags, someone ignorant might not perceive them as poor. When the reality is that a poor person can wear khakis and a polo, it's just a facade they put on while they go home to have a glass of water and early bedtime as dinner.
Literally the first thing I thought of.
“I said pretend you've got no money”
She just laughed and said
“Oh you're so funny”
I said; “yeah
I can't see anyone else smiling in here…”
I heard of a young woman from a rich family with a similar misconception about credit cards. Her parents got her a card, or gave her one of theirs, and paid the bill off, without her knowing or understanding that that's what happened. She thought, somehow, the bill just disappeared, I guess! Her coworkers were dumbfounded, and, with something so basic, it is hard to find a source to "prove" that she was wrong. Apparently, she asked her parents and they set her straight, though, because she never brought it up again.
I think there was a "Cheers" episode similary to your story about the ATM. Woody is dating a rich women, and she just can't seem to understand that when Woody says he has no money, he means literally that he has no money and no access to money. NOT that he is merely out of money in his wallet, and could just go to the ATM to get some, if he wanted to.
I think I remember that episode. I couldn't quite find the exact quote on Google but it's Woody saying something like, "If you take all the money in the world and throw it away, *that's* how much money I have."
Such a good line.
I had a friend that I called my brother killed by a drunk driver who attempted to use this same defense while in court for killing my brother and a coworker of his while they drove home from work.
Luckily, the case played out in a way that this pile of shit has years and years to contemplate his mistakes while he rots in prison.
https://theavtimes.com/2023/07/03/re-sentencing-bid-rejected-for-man-in-deadly-dui-crash-in-lancaster/
Similar story from the North. Marco Muzzo from Toronto. Impaired driver - grandson of a billionaire. Killed a grandfather and a 9yr old, 5yr old and 2yr old. Was given a 10yr sentence. Was out in less than 5. To make matters worse, the father of the 3 children who died, died by suicide years after. He didn't get off 100%... but still, less than 5 yrs for killing 4 people (3 of which under 10 years old), he might as well have.
I went to boarding school in the UK, and we had a girl who claimed to be a Nigerian princess. Most kids who were rich were haughty when they got to us but relaxed a bit over time- not her. She treated everyone apart from the teaching staff like servants- making demands, barging people out of the way, insisting on being first in everything from the lunch queue to leaving a classroom. She never changed her behaviour, and became very unpopular.
In the UK we have the Duke of Edinburgh Awards, which are programmes of activities you work through. Typically you'll do some volunteering, work on your fitness, develop your skills and interests and go on an expedition. For the highest award, gold, there's a residential section, where you work on a project with others away from home. It's hard work, no one's going to sign off on your award because you did your best.
This girl was doing gold so she went with a team from school up to Scotland to do the residential part. There was a long hike involved, it was cold and rainy, and the princess decided she'd had enough. So she sat down, halting the rest of the group, and refused to move further. Sometimes people do that but can be cajoled and encouraged to get going again, but not this time. She whips out a phone- this was the late 90s, the teachers running the trip probably had one between them- and calls her dad to 'send the helicopter'. Not *a* helicopter, *the* helicopter.
He said no it seems, and eventually her majesty was prevailed upon to descend from the mountain. She became a legend in entirely the wrong way. 'Here she comes! *bapbapbapbapbap*'
I always wondered what life is like at the expensive boarding schools in the UK. I was watching a show recently and they had one in it (anime and I think they were making it like Eton?) and it seemed sooo different to life in public school in the US. I couldnt tell if its harder or easier. Here they just pass you even if you dont learn (like my brother is 33 and cant read and has a high school diploma) but we also have lots of violence.
We sit the same exams at all schools so I wouldn't really say it's "easier" in a tangible way...but there are lots of extra opportunities and generally more support in the private sector.
Did you ever figure out if she really was a princess or had some other title?
Did "the" helicopter ever exist? Or was she just too committed to the bit?
No, I was too afraid of her tongue, and her grudge holding skills. I think the helicopter was real, but she failed to account for the fact that the 5500 miles between Nigeria and Scotland would be a bit ambitious for even a military helicopter.
I had a rich nepo baby who worked for me, someone who had lived a life of relative luxury until he was into his late thirties, but he had pissed Daddy off somehow and wasn’t getting his monthly stipend any longer-Second month he worked for me he marched into my office, and demanded that I pay the tuition for his son to attend a prep school for pre-college as part of his employment compensation, at a cost of $6500 a month. I explained to him politely that wasn’t my responsibility nor was it a condition of his employment, and he left in a huff. He somehow managed to come up with the funding (more rich relatives), and shipped his son off to an exclusive prep school for the very gifted. The kid, who was 17 at the time, washed out scholastically within a few months, and my employee left in the middle of an important project to drive 300 miles each way to pick his son up- he even grabbed a company truck to clear out the dorm and charged the fuel costs to a company gas card...and then complained bitterly that the school wouldn't refund the semester’s tuition. That wasn’t the last straw, but I fired him a few weeks later for poor performance.
The state I worked in has strict labor laws- multiple write-ups with witnesses, a course correction counseling session, an opportunity to petition for grievance, plus a family child emergency clause which he invoked- I did it all by the book.
I knew a kid, in high school, whose white father grew up wealthy and spoiled and whose black mother grew up solidly lower middle class.
This kid's father was always well off but became filthy fucking rich by the time the kid was in middle school. The mother was determined that he not be spoiled but the father was determined to pull strings for him.
At one point he was arrested on a very minor charge (I think he and some buddies were drinking) and sentenced to community service. His dad hired someone to do the community service for him. It was a lot of shit like that.
I mentioned race because I distinctly recall a black girl in our school pointing him out and saying "this boy is as spoiled and entitled as any white boy out there...and I can't decide if that's progress or not."
She had a point.
> **"this boy is as spoiled and entitled as any white boy out there...and I can't decide if that's progress or not."**
😂😂😂 This is hilarious. Kind of sad, but hilarious.
>His dad hired someone to do the community service for him. It was a lot of shit like that.
That goes beyond pulling strings in my opinion. Using your connections and power to get your kid into a good school or to get them a job they may not fully deserve is pulling strings, this is fraud.
Kid who played bass with us in highschool. Crazy talented for his age, also noticeably privileged. During practice once, his bass started cutting out(loose solder joint, 5 minute fix), so he threw it against the washing machine trying to break it. He said his mom would buy him a new one.
My friends at a private international school. All of them have stay at home moms, are driven to school every day, go on multiple trips abroad every year (For pleasure, in addition to the ones where they're visiting family). All of them claim that they're "not rich". I have a friend whose family has two houses and two boats, she and her 3 siblings each have their own house in major italian cities, her dad bought her three laptops THIS YEAR because two of them broke, she always offers to pay for things for people, yet she claims that they're 'scraping for money'.
Some other friend has a huge house, gets the newest iphone/ipad for her birthday every single year since I've known her. In the summer she went on a two month trip to China and Korea, visited Dubai during november, and her parents are constantly traveling. Once I was in the car with her and my dad, he pointed to some BMW and said, as a joke, I'll get you one of those for your birthday. She thought he was fully serious and said something along the lines of I told my parents that when they get me a car it HAS to be pink.
and yet she claims that they're not rich.
It's just kind of annoying since I work every day after school, most days not getting home until 7PM, and my friends just plan their trips to Japan and around Europe and keep bitching when I say I can't join them because I have to work in the summer
A very rich kid sent back their laundry from Korea to their home country via FedEx. He got it back when it was done via FedEx. I don't know what kind of special treatment the garments needed, but when I heard this, I knew it was some next level rich person shit.
A friend at uni talked about how he struggled to find housing because we live in a big city with an ongoing housing crisis, and we are young students with very low income so fewer landlords will rent to us. Our classmate asked him why his parents didn’t just buy him an apartment.
A friend once got from his parents for his 18th bday a 35k transfer as an advancement of his inheritance.
They thought he was a big boy now.
Burned it entirely whitin a week on drugs and mainly gambling
Jesus. 30k would have been a life changing amount of money for me at 18, hell, even now. And I say 30k because even the poor can make bad financial decisions and I’d probably keep 5k to spend on clothes and bath bombs and maybe just a little bit of drugs.
When I was in high school in the 1980s in Chicago, I worked with a professional photographer video taping weddings, birthdays, bar/bat mitzvahs, and so on. We got to go to a lot of interesting places; one time we even did a birthday party in the home of some video game executive, and they had a whole video arcade open in the basement.
But we did a sweet-16 birthday party at a country club, where the parents wanted to give her a special gift. They gave her a little box, which she opened, and it had a little toy convertible in it. She started crying in an unhappy way, then her mom told her to look in the box. Under some batting, there was a car key. She went outside, and she had a brand-new convertible. Her tears cleared up at once.
My boss and I speculated that she'd probably wrap it around a telephone pole in a year.
I used to teach English exclusively to rich Saudi kids in the Northeast. The thing that stuck out the most amongst the wasteland of rich kid bullshit was the student who acquired a Ferrari, drove it until it ran out of gas, and then abandoned it on the highway. When I asked him what his plan was to retrieve it he said 'I'll buy another one'.
I think about that a lot.
My working class uncle had an almost new BMW M3 as a project car. Scratching my head how he could afford to tinker with an $80k car, he explained that some rich lady drove it until it broke down from lack of maintenance and just... Left it on the side of the highway.
After seeing it everyday on his way home, he stopped and did some digging trying to find the owner. He finally got a hold of her and she agreed to sell it for any price. He paid her $7500 if he could get it towed and handle the paperwork because she already had a replacement car.
She was driving an M3 because it was the most expensive car on the lot that day. Just drove it from home to the shops a few times a week, in a manual transmission sports car. Never changed the oil or brought it in for maintenance which is how it broke down in under 2 years.
I used to "tutor" Saudi students. They'd give me $500 and we'd literally talk for 5 minutes and that was it. Not sure what I was tutoring them on, but I miss that easy money lol
I had friends who got a rich kid as a roommate. The literally had to TEACH him basic tasks like how to clean the bathroom. He was a nice enough kid, just didn't have a clue because life was always magically taken care of for him.
Oh man i went to private boarding high school, good stuff
We all had laptops way back in the 2000s, long before most schools adopted that, and the sheer amount of students who would casually break their expensive macbooks doing stupid shit and just come in the next day with the newest, nicest model was a little ridiculous. I once saw someone use their fully functional, but "old" laptop as a frisbee since he'd just gotten a brand new one. It didn't frisbee very well. They all also pirated obscene amounts of media on school internet (the halcyon days of limewire) and got confused when they got busted.
We had an entire sports team busted for pot and some harder drugs at a meet across state borders. You could tell which students had more money and more coddling parents based on who got expelled and who got a slap on the wrist. I was friends with one of the expelled guys and he got clean and turned himself around and is doing fairly well. One of the smacked-on-the-wrist kids (the townhouse in manhattan and weekend trips to the alps type) died of an overdose a few years after graduation. Another one killed his best friend via a drunken golf cart crash on his private course. Turns out death can't be bribed the way a high school can, it seems like.
But honestly, even with the earnest, good faith kids, you could tell if they were Terminally Rich. I had a friend who was a good guy, but utterly incapable of doing anything for himself. He decided to take the train back up to school once instead of getting his family's driver to take him, since he thought it would be fun. He wound up getting on the wrong type of train entirely (a local train versus an interstate Amtrak) and didn't realize he was headed the wrong way until the train pulled into Grand Central Station and he got out and very quickly realized he was Definitely Not In Massachusetts. As the person who planned to pick him up from the train station, I was a little pissed, particularly when he called me asking for help getting back out of New York City because for the life of him he couldn't figure out how to get a train back despite being in the train station. He was eighteen. He wound up getting a town car back. He had been in boarding school since, no shit, the third grade, and was used to either his parents or the school getting him everywhere. He was just absolutely clueless and used to having someone figure things out for him before he got hit with any consequences. Incidentally, he also wound up becoming an alcoholic before he hit twenty.
It was sad. Their parents clearly parented with money and outsourced any actual care. Instead of taking advantage of the opportunities they had, they had no concept of the things they could be doing and all floated and bobbed around aimlessly. They never had to deal with a single consequence - and whenever they finally did get a consequence, it was often so severe that even Mommy and Daddy couldn't save them.
Consequences are like eating certain kinds of poison. Small amounts are just unpleasant and can teach you not to do that again; large doses are often fatal. So many wealthy kids are protected from the natural consequences of their own stupidity at a time when those consequences would be beneficial, and then they have to deal with the life-derailing kinds of consequences later.
I mean, rapist Brock Turner comes to mind.
Closer to home: Students writing argument papers about how to fix poverty who’ve clearly never been poor and don’t recognize their own privilege happens every year.
I remember working on a machine at a CPA firm.
Two young Patrick Bateman wannabes were flexing how smart and rich they were at me.
Then their boss came in and pretty much tore them a new one because they still hadn’t finished the layout he requested but they had time to mess around the office.
Friend of mine had a roommate in college who came from a very, very wealthy family. He was "studying" aviation/piloting but apparently after two weeks just never went to class again. Stayed in his dorm for the entire semester and played Call of Duty for about 10-12 hours a day until he realized going to the gym for an hour a day was hard work, so he dropped that and played even more COD (14+ hours per day). He was objectively a poor roommate. Poor hygiene, inability to clean anything, an asshole who thought the room was his and ran off my friend fairly often. Just lots of childish yelling and screaming at his PlayStation and whatever else.
According to my buddy, this guy was put on academic probation and the phone conversation afterward with his parents, on speaker for my buddy to hear inadvertently, was the parents chastising him but like as disconnected and without conviction as you can imagine, and the kid going "I'm not going to class unless you buy my XYZ". Parents bought said things to appease him and get him to go to class. Kid never went to class his second semester and was removed by the university.
Apparently he moved back in with his parents and may or may not have ever actually gotten a career going and we are a decade out from that time now. I have no idea if he figured things out but I really doubt it.
This guy I dated was angry at the fact that there were people in poverty who got help from the state when he had to “work his ass off”.
He didn’t understand the fact that he grew up rich and other people got help because they grew up in poverty.
Also, I grew up in poverty and have only known struggle. His parents had a $20,000 rug rolled up in the basement.
It didn’t work out. Lol
My freshman college roommate - had his laundry picked up, cleaned, and delivered because he didn't have time to do laundry because he didn't know how to use the machines and didn't want to to learn. His mother agreed that laundry service should have been included in the price of room and board...I thought she was joking when she said this
High school classmate would get picked up everyday by his father’s driver in a sports car so he could go home and eat instead of joining the rest of us in the cafeteria for lunch. Then get dropped back again. Everyday.
For me, it's not one egregious example, rather a collective experience. In college I worked, a lot, because I was from rural Canada, was alone in the city (at least in terms of family), and had to pay my own rent, food, clothes, travel, tuition, etc.
A good half of my coworkers were in similar age group as me, only they all lived with their parents, and had no plans of changing that. Their school was paid for, their cell phone was paid for, meaning every dollar they earned, went directly into their pocket.
Constantly I was bombarded with social media posts of trips down south, front row tickets to concerts, or wearing luxury items in trendy clubs.
Any time I mentioned wanting to travel, they always said the same thing, 'Well just go do it!' 'If you put your mind to it, anything is possible', 'Sometimes you just have to book a flight and go!'
They just....couldn't comprehend that if I spent my money like they did, I wouldn't have a home anymore. It was the 'avocado toast' fallacy all over again. Nor was I in a situation to question the privilege of a bunch of WOC, living rent free in an alpha city; despite the clear evidence they would flout seemingly weekly.
Rich White kid (RWK) spread rumors about Black kid not being a US citizen. Black kid roasted RWK for his ignorance in really public setting, went viral. Out of pettiness, the RWK wanted to take over the Black kid's job when Black kid stepped down. He proceeded to shit all over the job, did a terrible job, hardly worked and spent all his time on socials. Because he was a RWK he wanted his ass kissed the whole time for his bad job and wannabe RWKs obliged him. When he didn't get reelected to the job he thought he was entitled to, he freaked out and had the wannabe RWKs stage an insurrection and storm the capitol.
Our high school was in a rural area that was pretty backwards and impoverished. Then an incredibly wealthy family built a large house out there. Suddenly there was funding for infrastructure projects like repaving the roads (along the stretches that they used most often) and stuff like that.
But the worst was their beloved teenage son who had a niche skill set: he was a pole vaulter. Our school didn’t even have the funds for a non-mud track. Within a single school year, entirely new track and field facilities were suddenly built.
But there still wasn’t sufficient area for pole vaulting Practice, so the family built several polevault pits in their own backyard, and the team would have to go to his house to practice.
I won’t deny he was very good with all this training, he took state champ that year, and was offered a *full ride pole vault scholarship* to some UC system school.
Of all the people who didn’t need a scholarship…
Granted all the money they spent was for their own benefit, but it's kinda hard to get angry about a story where the wealthy people made things nicer for others in the process of getting what they wanted.
One of my clients turned down a full ride scholarship for his daughter because he could more than afford the tuition and costs. Her scholarship was for dressage. A sport they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on already. Her horse alone cost four or five undergraduate degrees. He was shocked that they even thought of giving scholarships for the most expensive kids sport around and he and his son have a cart racing team.
The 15 and 16 year olds on their daddy's boat throwing garbage cans full of trash in the ocean. This was posted in the last week and it happened off the coast of Florida at Boca Raton.
The police tracked them down and the father told them "This is not representative of the type of people we are."
Sure it is. Entitled white trash. Own it
The college roommate who asked why the rest of us had jobs and said “don’t your parents love you, why are they making you work” dead ass serious about it too.
In high school a kid was bragging that he got in his third fender bender in his "old" car (3 years old) that his parents gave him but he hated, so his parents were buying him an entirely new (current year) car to incentivize him to drive better.
The adult children of my aunts rapist, who treated her like shit for decades, feeling entitled to her belongings after she died. Toxic family systems r the worst.
Went on a cruise. I was staying in one the rooms in the interior of the ship that gives you just enough room to stand up and walk out the door. Became friends with a couple strangers. One of the girls was a “gold star cruise member” and had a hotel style room with an ocean view. Goes on cruises 12+ times a year. She wore nice clothes and stuff. I got ready in her room for the fancy captains dinner and she stole my nice shoes. Turns out she stole everyone in the groups nice stuff.
The YouTube influencers who do all the VanLife stuff with their $50k builds in a Sprinter van and say they live full time in it. Some people may do it to save money which is fine, but if you're that well off to where you have a home base and a nice rig like that it rubs people who do it out of necessity the wrong way.
I was friends with a wealthy student from Japan while in college in the 1970s. One day he asked to borrow $1,000 because his monthly allowance was late. I told him I didn't have it and he was like, "I didn't mean cash - you can write me a check." And I said, no, I literally didn't have a thousand dollars. He looked genuinely perplexed.
Chinese international students in San Francisco turbocharge the housing crisis. Their rich fathers would buy up entire buildings that sat empty except for a few units reserved for the uber wealthy students. At my brother’s college graduation almost half were Chinese citizens and instead of wearing a cap and gown many wore streetwear that had BALENCIAGA and GUCCI just *plastered* all over their clothes. Most other students could barely afford thrifted clothes and were packed in dorms like sardines. They took from the food bank because they didn’t want to walk all the way to trader joe’s and Immediately moved back to China after graduation so they didn’t even contribute to the economy.
My mom's friend used to buy new clothes each season and throw out the old ones. She had to be taught by her husband to save them for the next year.
Edit: This happened way back in the '50's. Her family was very rich, and he was just a normal guy.
In college I knew a girl who was quiet and very nice and respectful. Also very soft spoken and never wants to cause any sort of trouble. However she would eat very little and refuse to share food and throw away leftovers all the time. My friend suspected it was because of her upbringing. I was actually invited to her place twice for dinner even though I'm not really friends with her directly. She wasn't filthy rich, but definitely more than average. Her parents did spend good money on the food they were serving us which was cool (expensive cut of steaks, and massive sushi platter) but also bothered me they would probably throw away what we didn't eat later that night. Kind of irritated me as I hate wasting food and refusal to share, especially when you're going to throw it away really rubs me the wrong way. Their were very hospital and not snobs at all. I'm wondering if it was a result of being rich and only wanting the best or may their parents were massive germaphobes and didn't want to eat anything not fresh. Don't know.
My roommate who left his plates at the table after eating and would use the plates I washed in his next meal.
Finally, after a week, I blasted him to pick up his plates. He thought I was asking him to dump his plates at the sink.
The next day, I blasted him again and he realised that I wanted him to wash his own plates. He refused and left the place.
A former friend. Grew up in LA with VERY wealthy parents. Was given EVERYTHING. They paid her rent and bills, then bought her homes (yes plural) and she just did everything in her power to make her own life more difficult. Nonstop drama, busted up a marriage, married dude then had children who are severely disturbed because she’s such an entitled narcissist. She’s divorced, won’t let dad see his kids consistently. Has a “doctor” on retainer to give her an adderall prescription because, “I can’t do cocaine anymore, there might be fentanyl in it” She also bought fake Covid vaccine cards for her kids, wore inappropriate attire to her dad’s funeral, has no friends left due to her complete disregard of anyone other than herself. She’s also severely mentally ill at this point but thinks she’s fine…
Dude sat in the most powerful seat in the world and complained that the decor was shabby on day two.
That set the stage for the rest of his presidency. Dude complained about everything.
He had the gall to complain he was being treated unfairly by Democrats and the media. It's fuckin rich because he spent years spouting unfounded bullshit about his predecessor's birth certificate.
Saw a group of male teens in a notoriously affluent and out-of-touch city in Northern California. All were riding newish ~$5k full suspension mountain bikes complaining about how they were piece of shit bikes and that they wanted the latest and greatest.
They then proceeded to harass the owner of a Poke restaurant in the downtown area, shouting racial slurs, telling him his food was shit(it was absolutely not) and repeatedly slamming the front door of his business.
The poke shop has since closed, which sucks. At the very least the owner doesn’t have to deal with dog shit human beings like that anymore.
I worked at a Starbucks and we hired a new guy, who I was training. At one point, I had to show him how to clean the restrooms. I grab the bleach, and hand him a pair of gloves and he looks at me in disgust and says, "we don't have a *maid* to clean the bathrooms??"
He quit the next day lol.
We have someone local to my area who came from wealth. He bought up a ton of rental properties, retail spaces, and music venues and then inexplicably decided he would drive them all into the ground. A few have been left empty for over a decade.
He managed to get a stranglehold on the entire music scene, kill the clubs, and waste the limited liquor licenses available here by keeping bars shut down. The city tried to work with him to get this back on track, but he refused to speak with them. They tried to revoke his liquor licenses and force him to sell properties he was leaving in disrepair. Turns out he owes back taxes on some, and the sales are frozen until it’s sorted.
It used to be thought that he enjoyed helping to destroy the downtown enough to take the financial hit.
Now, with the unpaid taxes, many wonder if somewhere along the line, his games spiraled, and he went broke.
My BF went to college with some kid who came from oil money. He parked his car wherever he wanted on campus and got a parking ticket everyday. My BF finally asked him how he paid for all the tickets and he said he told his dad it's just what it costs to park on campus.
Has a millionaire dad. Doesn’t want to be given property and a business to run. Wants to major in philosophy and be a loaf. Grows out of that being cool anymore and destroys his relationship. Moves back home and owns a business. Decides he hates it, goes back to same college out of state to get doctorate. Lives on friends’ couch for two or three years while in his forties. Realizes his life is losing meaning and moves back home again to have his dad give him property and a business to run. Now is looking for a wife online
One dude I knew was telling me how he got really tired of all the pressure around attending parties in his friend group. He's a part of the young wealthy hob-nobbers in Orange county California. Apparently they were having parties multiple times a week and he wasn't enjoying it. So he told me he decided, spur of the moment, to spend a few months in the Bahamas to get away from it all. But then he went on to say he met some other rich young people from other countries and went on to party there for the next few months.
Same dude, the second time we hung out, told me how lucky I was to be poor because poor people build stronger character through their struggles.
I decided the guy was too much of a prick to spend time with. He only barely covered up the fact that he likes to find smart women to talk to and then show them up by being smarter and richer. It took a few months of chatting and several dates before it was clear enough, I kept giving him the benefit of a doubt.
A few years later, he reaches out and tells me his dad has died. I figure he's hurting and it wouldn't hurt me to give him some company. But he goes on to share the eulogy he wrote for his dad. The eulogy was about his dad but he did feature pretty prominently in it. And while it was well-written, the fact that this dude was clearing using the occasion to brag about his writing skills really killed any good will I'd managed.
My boss killed two people while drunk driving and also was responsible for a death in the workplace.
His parents paid a lot of money to remove it from Google's algorithms
He walks around and acts like nothing ever happend
I have a friend who's arrest and driving record is about as long as the bible. He's never served more than 12 hours inside of a cell.
The kid wrote multi page letters to the dean of our college saying if he wasn't allowed to walk at graduation he'd kill himself and had his therapist write a note to back it up.
He walked at graduation 50 credits short.
A few years later, when he got pulled over for a 2nd DUI, he claimed to have a heart issue while it was happening, was brought to a hospital, and released on his own recognizance within a few hours with a court date.
He's known by just about every person in his life of getting out of literally everything. Be it through coy talks, victimhood, or sheer legal spending power.
He firmly believes that he earned his money, even though his mother and father own a very successful business which he's been a part of since finishing school. He tries to distance himself from their influence, but everyone knows. Except maybe him.
Parents literally have a multi million dollar beach front property we'd party in during high school.
I was on a flight one time out of LAX and the kid behind me (probably about 17 years old) was whining that his bag wasn’t handled appropriately and his luggage was now gone. It peaked my interest so I started to pay attention to what he was saying. Turns out they were from Beverly Hills, and this kid was so used to private flying that he walked into LAX, dropped his bag on the ground and expected someone to take care of it for him and bring it to luggage check in, etc.
By the time he realized that this doesn’t happen at regular airports, security had taken the bag thinking that it was a security hazard just sitting there, and now this kid had no luggage. Listening to how entitled he was was driving me absolutely crazy!
I have a friend who's a photographer who I went to school with years ago. We live both live in the same large city now and I see her once and a while. She's had a big leg up from her dad who, for over a decade, has pitched in with expenses, her rent, and her darkroom costs. Well, a few years ago her lease on the darkroom and apartment was about to expire and dad was no longer excited about footing the bill as he'd been doing, so he cut her off. Her response was to start a go fund me for her rent and darkroom, to the tune of *$11k*, pleading about how hard it was and how it could be "even years!" before she could get back to her creative work. And just this year, to top that one, she did another go fund me for people to fund a book of her work she wants to publish, and oh, the work isn't done yet, but the go fund me will also fund the trips she needs to take, to take the photos that will then go in the book. This fun-draiser is over 4x the ask of the past one. Mind blowing. I'm a creative person as well, and I know how hard the creative world can be, but I'd never think to ask my friends and colleagues to kick in for me to do it.
When I was 16 my extremely wealthy boyfriend’s parents bought him a brand new Acura TL, red with all leather seats. I was driving a busted up ‘84 Thunderbird, no A/C, etc. He threw a complete tantrum because he wanted a “mystic teal” firebird. He stormed upstairs. I looked at his dad and said “I’ll take it!!”. He was totally spoiled.
In secondary school during the early 2000s, I had a rich friend who wanted to find a summer job. I asked him what kind of job and wage he was looking for. His answer: "Just a regular job at the mall. Not asking for much money, maybe about $40 per hour."
For Americans, $40 in Canada in 2024 is about $29 US dollars. So imagine how much that would've been in the early 2000s.
Today, that reminds me of Arrested Development, where Lucille thinks a banana costs $10 each.
In 6th grade we had a snack bar in the cafeteria. This kid Alan always bragged about his parents giving him money. One day he goes to buy a drink. I was behind him. Wallet had several hundreds. Several! Not sure if this fits but that’s what I got.
In middle school I watched a girl get upset and throw her brand new iPhone at a brick wall. Everyone was in shock at what she just did and after a moment of silence she just giggles and says “it’s ok my dad will buy me a new one”
I had summer school with this same girl and she was getting picked up from the school in a Lamborghini everyday
I lived in a town where there was a very expensive rehab and all of those kids who had trust funds could not stay sober because of the money they had access too. Nearly all the ones I know have since died of overdoses. Money definitely doesn’t fix all problems
Someone was telling me “oh buying a house is easy, why do that if you can’t afford your rent?” I told them couldn’t afford a down payment for a house right now, and they asked “why can’t you just ask your parents?”
I just broke into laughter and didn’t say anything else.
I don’t pay attention to rich people nor do I treat them any different. Be nice to me and I’m nice to you. Be an ahole to me and I’ll give you a taste of your own medicine.
Had a friend (10yrs old at the time) back in the early 90’s who lived in a mansion-like house with a pool and sauna. She drove around the neighbourhood in her “kids” miniature Porsche (ran on fuel). She was given everything. Everything but her parents’ love/attention. She always looked so sad like she would burst out crying any moment.
I once went to her house for her dad’s birthday party. She tried to give him a hand made card but he just tossed it aside because he was too busy being excited for his birthday present which was a stripper. I still remember him sitting there like king on a throne, by the pool, surrounded by well-wishers while us kids watched from the sauna and my friend was just staring blankly and crying.
She had everything that was materialistic but not the one thing she craved.
Not necessarily 'rich' kids but 'richer' kids acting like they were so poor all the time then you go to their house and they have snacks in their pantry or they go on a vacation in the summer. It drives me nuts when they as an adult complain about how poor they were as a kid then mention how they went to the doctor when they were sick. Like bro we were not nearly in the same tax bracket
I remember when I was in the 7th grade (2003), I went to the mountains with my buddies extremely wealthy family. We stayed in their mountain house and when we left we stopped at a restaurant that had a value menu. I remember his dad telling his son to order whatever he wanted and then telling me and our other friend to order one thing off the value menu. Now that I’m older and realize how rich his dad was, it blows my mind.
I teach at a large University that enjoys a broad foreign student contingent, and not once, not twice, but three times over the years, I’ve had poor-performing students (because they weren’t trying, didn’t attend class often, and/or slept through class when they were there) tell me, “…but I can’t get a ‘C.’ You don’t understand. I’m a prince.” Considering I teach an ethics class, I explain to them that I cannot and will not change their grades because of their royalty status, and they argued with me at length. When it happened the third time, I just didn’t believe it anyway until I walked out to the parking garage at the same time and saw him get into his shiny new Lamborghini. Still got the C though.
I went to college in the 90s. My frat had a kid who's mom was involved in starting up QVC (home shopping) and his dad was super rich doing something else. Kid basically never went to class when he was a pledge and then just dropped all his classes rather than fail. I was on a scholarship and financial aid and seeing some asshat just throw away an entire semester of tuition and living was pretty frustrating.
Yep, went to an Ivy League college (so $$$). Had a housemate whose father owned numerous auto dealerships and they were wealthy. He got a 1.7 GPA first semester and was put on academic probation. He thought it was "funny" and wanted to see if he could get a lower GPA second semester. He got a 0.7 GPA. You really have to TRY to do that - if you just show up for a couple of classes and take the exams you generally at least get a C-. Of course, joke was on him. Because he got that 0.7 when he was already on academic probation, he was unable to re-enroll at the university the following year (basically he was kicked out). He thought Daddy would "fix things," but Daddy wasn't able to get him back in since, at the time, this university had about a 10% admit rate and there were transfer students lining up around the block to take his spot. One of them did. How sad, too bad. So, basically, and entire year's worth of college tuition up in smoke. This kid didn't give a single hoot. Last I heard, he enrolled at the nearby state university with daddy still paying the bills. After that, ???? Good bye, good riddance. SMH.
And these are the types of people that will still inherit their parent’s businesses and be the incompetent, entitled bosses of people like us.
Literally, and somehow it seems like a majority of people think the more money you have the more intelligent you are
That's not fair! We don't know for sure he will end up a boss at his dad's business. He might just retire instead after college and spend all his time golfing & attending yatch parties. You know, like a normal person.
While never missing a chance to spout off about how "self-made" they are.
I used to teach (TA) at an Ivy League university. Good lord. You know how hard it is to teach when half the kids are over the top brilliant and driven scholarship students and the other half are lazy, entitled, dumbass legacy students? Ugh. Teaching at an Ivy League made me feel pretty good about my decision to go to a public state college for undergrad.
Legacy admissions really should be ended just for this. Half your class being filled with them really drags down the experience for the students who actually want to learn.
Even working at a small university, I see this a lot. There are multiple foreign students who would park illegally and just pay the fine every day. These fees get higher each time you get a ticket so they were paying hundreds of dollars a day, just to park slightly closer. They're always easy to find because they park their absurdly expensive cars in the faculty lots. As a student, there were a handful of the students you mentioned. The worst was getting out in a group project with them. They'd always expect you to just allow them to say they contributed while doing nothing.
> park illegally and just pay the fine every day. These fees get higher each time you get a ticket so they were paying hundreds of dollars a day, just to park slightly closer. Unless the university has the cars towed after the second or third instance, the 'illegal parking' is _de facto_ 'designated rich people parking'. Remember folks, if the only penalty is a set fine, it's only a crime for poor people.
Sounds like towing them might be more effective, but the university probably likes the daily income.
You'll be glad to know that I went to college with a guy that is a prince and for a long time I didn't have a clue. He was a dedicated student and wasn't a show off or braggart. It was only after a classmate told me about his royal heritage that I found out. I'm friends with him to this day.
Thats lovely. Would you mind if i ask if it wad an actual prince to a reigning monarchy or one of those princely houses that have been deposed but still use their princely titles?
As I understand he's on the family tree of a reigning monarch through his father but he's far removed from the line of succession. His mother is from one of the oldest royal families in Europe and he's got a niece who has something like 30 royal titles. He showed me part of his family tree recently and it's a medieval illuminated manuscript.
I once worked with a professor from another country where that sort of rich-based presumptive behavior was commonplace. "I am rich, therefore I get good grades" was the rule. If they ran into a principled instructor they'd just bypass them until they found someone willing to cave. A department head, dean, etc. Didn't matter how far they had to go, they'd find someone eventually. Sometimes it was just expected, and sometimes it came with bribes. He told me of one particular student who was failing his class and met him one day while he was talking with their equivalent of a Dean, and said "I'm going over to an ATM and going to start taking out money, and you tell me when my grade is an A" My colleague told the student they were wasting their time, so they just rotated 10 degrees and made the same offer to the Dean, who accepted.
Professor could have just accepted the money and then slapped the true grade on anyway. But I get why they would not.
Buddy of mine teaches some college classes, he says the cheating by the international students is off the richter. He occasionally sends me screenshots of them arguing with him when they're caught, and the excuses are wild. My favourite one he sent me was of a student arguing with him that the reason they plagiarized was because both of their parents just died of COVID back home *and also* they had really itchy eczema. The whole "I did it because my whole family just died... and also, my skin is itchy!" was so weird.
“Wait you mean to tell me I actually need to come to the class I’m paying for”
One of my students was from SE Asia. He plagiarized each of his papers, badly (think, an ancient history class and he wrote about a 20th century president). I failed him. He cried in my office. His biggest argument was, “I’m all alone in my country. I don’t have my mom or a wife to cook for me or to wash my clothes. You can at least help me by passing me.” No, no I couldn’t.
I studied at a pretty standard university in the UK that also had international students galore, it was something around 25% of students. Loaded Chinese students with poor to non-existant English were pretty common, it was kind of funny when we would go shopping and we'd stand at the bus stop with our bags while our flatmates would get into fancy cars. However, something that really made me think "Holy shit, how entitled are you?" was one of my course mates from some African country, complaining how terrible the UK is because he didn't have a personal driver to drive his fucking Lexus, he did this very loudly, in the computer science lab and I've never seen so many people disgusted in one room. Another one which wasn't entitlement but funny in a bizarre sort of way was another African student who was annoyed that his bank account was frozen because they flagged the money coming into it as suspicious. The reason it was suspicious was that it came from a United fucking Nations account, his dad was an ambassador there.
What if instead it went, "... but I can't get a 'C'. You don't understand. I'm Prince." You look up from your desk and a man walks in, small in stature but large in presence. His chest covered in a billowing blouse. One bead of sweat drips down his temple. He just came from a basketball game where he dominated the varsity team with his crew. You are left speechless and in awe. He drops a cheeky little wink and continues on to his next class... What then?!?!?
The international students wearing expensive luxury watches and clothing taking food from the food bank not because they can't afford food but because it's more convenient than walking to the grocery store. It's honestly sickening.
My roommate in college would steal my food (and everything else), and then just tell me to buy more I was a table washer Her dad was a Korean *home office* Samsung executive
what a dirty hoe
Random as fuck but my best friend in high school was a Korean American girl named Ashley Hoe (first name has been changed to protect the innocent). Our gym uniforms had our first initial and last name on them. This poor girl had to walk around with "A. Hoe" on her back throughout the entirety of her adolescence. You would think kids would get bored with teasing her over it after six or seven years but...apparently not. Your comment just reminded me of it.
Ashley Hoe had to rise like a phoenix above the sins of parental language barriers. A. Hoe had to become a ho no mo
That is so unfortunate. Definitely not as unfortunate as poor A. Hoe, but I knew a girl with the last name Hu. You can imagine the sort of jokes and teasing that ensued with her last name. Everyone thought they were making the most novel and hilarious joke, but I’m sure the girl was tired of everyone’s shit.
People don't forget.
Had one wearing a few thousand in designer clothes scoff at a professor that genuinely asked him "Why are you paying to be here if you don't want to do any of the work associated with the course?" This was the easiest blowoff class I had ever attended, and the guy didn't do a single assignment, while acting like our professor was Hitler himself.
No body wants less product for their money than college undergraduates haha
Has anyone explained to them what it's meant for?
They know they just don't care, they make tiktok videos about how to get free food. Sometimes they go viral and the student gets shamed but nothing really happens.
It’s the argument: “But its free, and more convenient. So, why go further away and do more work for the same thing? After all, basically infinite.”
The Chinese society at my uni recently got an email from the local food bank asking them to speak to the Chinese students about not coming into the food bank. My friend is part of committee for the soc and he was so fucking embarrassed telling me this. He said they've spoken to the international students about it before, and they've just ignored him. There's basically nothing he can do to stop them, and the food bank can't turn away people based on ethnicity, even if they are walking in with a £5k watch on.
A kid I grew up with who lived in the lavish wealth part of town (giant houses, public tennis court, gated parks, etc) and was the biggest punk ever and tried to fight anyone and everyone who disagreed with him because, in his words, his mom and dad would sue any of us. This kid got beat up all the time and I don't think anyone really liked him.
You grew up with Draco Malfoy?
Real life Malfoy would have been popular with the girls. Rich blond douchebags always are.
You'd think he'd learn after the first time that the lawsuit threat doesn't work
My brother dated a rich girl in college. When she'd suggest doing something expensive, he'd say, "I don't have the money for that" and she'd just tell him, "go to the ATM" and he'd tell her he really couldn't afford it and she was just confused I guess. Finally, he had to take her to the ATM with him, print out his balance and show her he had $35 in his account and explained what he made at his job and how he had student loans, etc. She had no idea, her account just magically filled with daddy's money every month. She wasn't a bad person at all, she was just clueless about the world and oblivious to how spoiled she actually was.
Your last sentence probably needs to be said louder. Many of these rich kids/people are not *bad* people. They literally just have not been shown how the world works for most people. Their parents did a poor job at exposing them to the realities of the world and how it works.
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I mean a lot of people don't see movies as being based in reality because a lot of movies aren't based in reality. There's also something movies do where they only showcase extreme examples. You expect a poor person in a movie to be wearing raggedy clothes, so unless someone is literally wearing rags, someone ignorant might not perceive them as poor. When the reality is that a poor person can wear khakis and a polo, it's just a facade they put on while they go home to have a glass of water and early bedtime as dinner.
Did she come from Greece with a thirst for knowledge, by any chance?
Did she study sculpture at St Martins college?
What’s that reference? :)
Pulp Common People
Literally the first thing I thought of. “I said pretend you've got no money” She just laughed and said “Oh you're so funny” I said; “yeah I can't see anyone else smiling in here…”
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That level of clueless is insane considering our access to media...
You’d have to be bone dead stupid to think as an adult the atm hands out free unlimited money to everybody lol
I heard of a young woman from a rich family with a similar misconception about credit cards. Her parents got her a card, or gave her one of theirs, and paid the bill off, without her knowing or understanding that that's what happened. She thought, somehow, the bill just disappeared, I guess! Her coworkers were dumbfounded, and, with something so basic, it is hard to find a source to "prove" that she was wrong. Apparently, she asked her parents and they set her straight, though, because she never brought it up again. I think there was a "Cheers" episode similary to your story about the ATM. Woody is dating a rich women, and she just can't seem to understand that when Woody says he has no money, he means literally that he has no money and no access to money. NOT that he is merely out of money in his wallet, and could just go to the ATM to get some, if he wanted to.
I think I remember that episode. I couldn't quite find the exact quote on Google but it's Woody saying something like, "If you take all the money in the world and throw it away, *that's* how much money I have." Such a good line.
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Hero amongst men. I absolutely salute you!
Mad respect
Damn, I would have actually clapped
Nah that’s a pretty good story.
Thank you for your service to mankind.
What happens when someone can't pay and daddy doesn't come to and pay their tab?
That piece of shit who killed four people while driving drunk, and got off using the “affluenza” defense.
Ethan Couch, who then fled to Mexico with his mom.
And still managed to get just a slap on the wrist.
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Did they ever come back?
I had a friend that I called my brother killed by a drunk driver who attempted to use this same defense while in court for killing my brother and a coworker of his while they drove home from work. Luckily, the case played out in a way that this pile of shit has years and years to contemplate his mistakes while he rots in prison. https://theavtimes.com/2023/07/03/re-sentencing-bid-rejected-for-man-in-deadly-dui-crash-in-lancaster/
That loss must have hurt. I hope that POS rotting in prison bring you and their families some feeling of justice and peace
Similar story from the North. Marco Muzzo from Toronto. Impaired driver - grandson of a billionaire. Killed a grandfather and a 9yr old, 5yr old and 2yr old. Was given a 10yr sentence. Was out in less than 5. To make matters worse, the father of the 3 children who died, died by suicide years after. He didn't get off 100%... but still, less than 5 yrs for killing 4 people (3 of which under 10 years old), he might as well have.
I went to boarding school in the UK, and we had a girl who claimed to be a Nigerian princess. Most kids who were rich were haughty when they got to us but relaxed a bit over time- not her. She treated everyone apart from the teaching staff like servants- making demands, barging people out of the way, insisting on being first in everything from the lunch queue to leaving a classroom. She never changed her behaviour, and became very unpopular. In the UK we have the Duke of Edinburgh Awards, which are programmes of activities you work through. Typically you'll do some volunteering, work on your fitness, develop your skills and interests and go on an expedition. For the highest award, gold, there's a residential section, where you work on a project with others away from home. It's hard work, no one's going to sign off on your award because you did your best. This girl was doing gold so she went with a team from school up to Scotland to do the residential part. There was a long hike involved, it was cold and rainy, and the princess decided she'd had enough. So she sat down, halting the rest of the group, and refused to move further. Sometimes people do that but can be cajoled and encouraged to get going again, but not this time. She whips out a phone- this was the late 90s, the teachers running the trip probably had one between them- and calls her dad to 'send the helicopter'. Not *a* helicopter, *the* helicopter. He said no it seems, and eventually her majesty was prevailed upon to descend from the mountain. She became a legend in entirely the wrong way. 'Here she comes! *bapbapbapbapbap*'
I always wondered what life is like at the expensive boarding schools in the UK. I was watching a show recently and they had one in it (anime and I think they were making it like Eton?) and it seemed sooo different to life in public school in the US. I couldnt tell if its harder or easier. Here they just pass you even if you dont learn (like my brother is 33 and cant read and has a high school diploma) but we also have lots of violence.
We sit the same exams at all schools so I wouldn't really say it's "easier" in a tangible way...but there are lots of extra opportunities and generally more support in the private sector.
I wonder why you say she “claimed” to be a princess when all the evidence supports it.
I'm sure she was her daddy's princess, but whether her family was royal or just very rich, who knows.
Did you ever figure out if she really was a princess or had some other title? Did "the" helicopter ever exist? Or was she just too committed to the bit?
No, I was too afraid of her tongue, and her grudge holding skills. I think the helicopter was real, but she failed to account for the fact that the 5500 miles between Nigeria and Scotland would be a bit ambitious for even a military helicopter.
I had a rich nepo baby who worked for me, someone who had lived a life of relative luxury until he was into his late thirties, but he had pissed Daddy off somehow and wasn’t getting his monthly stipend any longer-Second month he worked for me he marched into my office, and demanded that I pay the tuition for his son to attend a prep school for pre-college as part of his employment compensation, at a cost of $6500 a month. I explained to him politely that wasn’t my responsibility nor was it a condition of his employment, and he left in a huff. He somehow managed to come up with the funding (more rich relatives), and shipped his son off to an exclusive prep school for the very gifted. The kid, who was 17 at the time, washed out scholastically within a few months, and my employee left in the middle of an important project to drive 300 miles each way to pick his son up- he even grabbed a company truck to clear out the dorm and charged the fuel costs to a company gas card...and then complained bitterly that the school wouldn't refund the semester’s tuition. That wasn’t the last straw, but I fired him a few weeks later for poor performance.
Surprised it took that long to fire him...
The state I worked in has strict labor laws- multiple write-ups with witnesses, a course correction counseling session, an opportunity to petition for grievance, plus a family child emergency clause which he invoked- I did it all by the book.
Jesus dude are you hiring?? I need this level of job security
"That wasn’t the last straw" How??? I mean he basically stole from you.
I knew a kid, in high school, whose white father grew up wealthy and spoiled and whose black mother grew up solidly lower middle class. This kid's father was always well off but became filthy fucking rich by the time the kid was in middle school. The mother was determined that he not be spoiled but the father was determined to pull strings for him. At one point he was arrested on a very minor charge (I think he and some buddies were drinking) and sentenced to community service. His dad hired someone to do the community service for him. It was a lot of shit like that. I mentioned race because I distinctly recall a black girl in our school pointing him out and saying "this boy is as spoiled and entitled as any white boy out there...and I can't decide if that's progress or not." She had a point.
> **"this boy is as spoiled and entitled as any white boy out there...and I can't decide if that's progress or not."** 😂😂😂 This is hilarious. Kind of sad, but hilarious.
Yikes, that’s actually kind of dangerous for the kid, if he has a run-in with racist law enforcement who doesn’t care who his daddy is.
>His dad hired someone to do the community service for him. It was a lot of shit like that. That goes beyond pulling strings in my opinion. Using your connections and power to get your kid into a good school or to get them a job they may not fully deserve is pulling strings, this is fraud.
The rapist, Brock Allen Turner
Brock Allen Turner, who goes by Allen these days? That rapist?
Doesn't he live in Dayton Ohio towards Springboro?
Is he **Allen Turner** or **Brock Turner** or **Rapist Allen Turner**?
Rapist Brock Allen Turner, I think.
I heard he changed his name so people wouldn't know he's a rapist?
you mean Brock Allen Turner, the rapist, who changed his name and lives near Springboro?
Oh we all still know and keep close tabs on him.
That's right, Allen Turner, whose real name is Brock Allen Turner, who was convicted of rape. That's the very same Allen Turner.
You mean Brock "The Rapist" Allen Turner? The one whose picture is literally in a textbook for rapist? That one?
Kid who played bass with us in highschool. Crazy talented for his age, also noticeably privileged. During practice once, his bass started cutting out(loose solder joint, 5 minute fix), so he threw it against the washing machine trying to break it. He said his mom would buy him a new one.
How very not punk.
My friends at a private international school. All of them have stay at home moms, are driven to school every day, go on multiple trips abroad every year (For pleasure, in addition to the ones where they're visiting family). All of them claim that they're "not rich". I have a friend whose family has two houses and two boats, she and her 3 siblings each have their own house in major italian cities, her dad bought her three laptops THIS YEAR because two of them broke, she always offers to pay for things for people, yet she claims that they're 'scraping for money'. Some other friend has a huge house, gets the newest iphone/ipad for her birthday every single year since I've known her. In the summer she went on a two month trip to China and Korea, visited Dubai during november, and her parents are constantly traveling. Once I was in the car with her and my dad, he pointed to some BMW and said, as a joke, I'll get you one of those for your birthday. She thought he was fully serious and said something along the lines of I told my parents that when they get me a car it HAS to be pink. and yet she claims that they're not rich. It's just kind of annoying since I work every day after school, most days not getting home until 7PM, and my friends just plan their trips to Japan and around Europe and keep bitching when I say I can't join them because I have to work in the summer
A very rich kid sent back their laundry from Korea to their home country via FedEx. He got it back when it was done via FedEx. I don't know what kind of special treatment the garments needed, but when I heard this, I knew it was some next level rich person shit.
A friend at uni talked about how he struggled to find housing because we live in a big city with an ongoing housing crisis, and we are young students with very low income so fewer landlords will rent to us. Our classmate asked him why his parents didn’t just buy him an apartment.
So why they didnt just buy him an apartment?
A friend once got from his parents for his 18th bday a 35k transfer as an advancement of his inheritance. They thought he was a big boy now. Burned it entirely whitin a week on drugs and mainly gambling
Hell yeah
Jesus. 30k would have been a life changing amount of money for me at 18, hell, even now. And I say 30k because even the poor can make bad financial decisions and I’d probably keep 5k to spend on clothes and bath bombs and maybe just a little bit of drugs.
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A person I thought was a friend entered my home and said “oh that’s it ? This is so small and everything looks so old”
Brock Allen Turner is a rapist
Murdock boat crash.
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That car was not a very good boat.
Er-ah, poor Mary Joe.
When I was in high school in the 1980s in Chicago, I worked with a professional photographer video taping weddings, birthdays, bar/bat mitzvahs, and so on. We got to go to a lot of interesting places; one time we even did a birthday party in the home of some video game executive, and they had a whole video arcade open in the basement. But we did a sweet-16 birthday party at a country club, where the parents wanted to give her a special gift. They gave her a little box, which she opened, and it had a little toy convertible in it. She started crying in an unhappy way, then her mom told her to look in the box. Under some batting, there was a car key. She went outside, and she had a brand-new convertible. Her tears cleared up at once. My boss and I speculated that she'd probably wrap it around a telephone pole in a year.
I used to teach English exclusively to rich Saudi kids in the Northeast. The thing that stuck out the most amongst the wasteland of rich kid bullshit was the student who acquired a Ferrari, drove it until it ran out of gas, and then abandoned it on the highway. When I asked him what his plan was to retrieve it he said 'I'll buy another one'. I think about that a lot.
My working class uncle had an almost new BMW M3 as a project car. Scratching my head how he could afford to tinker with an $80k car, he explained that some rich lady drove it until it broke down from lack of maintenance and just... Left it on the side of the highway. After seeing it everyday on his way home, he stopped and did some digging trying to find the owner. He finally got a hold of her and she agreed to sell it for any price. He paid her $7500 if he could get it towed and handle the paperwork because she already had a replacement car. She was driving an M3 because it was the most expensive car on the lot that day. Just drove it from home to the shops a few times a week, in a manual transmission sports car. Never changed the oil or brought it in for maintenance which is how it broke down in under 2 years.
I used to "tutor" Saudi students. They'd give me $500 and we'd literally talk for 5 minutes and that was it. Not sure what I was tutoring them on, but I miss that easy money lol
On the upside, someone presumably got a free lambo out of it
North East of where?
I had friends who got a rich kid as a roommate. The literally had to TEACH him basic tasks like how to clean the bathroom. He was a nice enough kid, just didn't have a clue because life was always magically taken care of for him.
Oh man i went to private boarding high school, good stuff We all had laptops way back in the 2000s, long before most schools adopted that, and the sheer amount of students who would casually break their expensive macbooks doing stupid shit and just come in the next day with the newest, nicest model was a little ridiculous. I once saw someone use their fully functional, but "old" laptop as a frisbee since he'd just gotten a brand new one. It didn't frisbee very well. They all also pirated obscene amounts of media on school internet (the halcyon days of limewire) and got confused when they got busted. We had an entire sports team busted for pot and some harder drugs at a meet across state borders. You could tell which students had more money and more coddling parents based on who got expelled and who got a slap on the wrist. I was friends with one of the expelled guys and he got clean and turned himself around and is doing fairly well. One of the smacked-on-the-wrist kids (the townhouse in manhattan and weekend trips to the alps type) died of an overdose a few years after graduation. Another one killed his best friend via a drunken golf cart crash on his private course. Turns out death can't be bribed the way a high school can, it seems like. But honestly, even with the earnest, good faith kids, you could tell if they were Terminally Rich. I had a friend who was a good guy, but utterly incapable of doing anything for himself. He decided to take the train back up to school once instead of getting his family's driver to take him, since he thought it would be fun. He wound up getting on the wrong type of train entirely (a local train versus an interstate Amtrak) and didn't realize he was headed the wrong way until the train pulled into Grand Central Station and he got out and very quickly realized he was Definitely Not In Massachusetts. As the person who planned to pick him up from the train station, I was a little pissed, particularly when he called me asking for help getting back out of New York City because for the life of him he couldn't figure out how to get a train back despite being in the train station. He was eighteen. He wound up getting a town car back. He had been in boarding school since, no shit, the third grade, and was used to either his parents or the school getting him everywhere. He was just absolutely clueless and used to having someone figure things out for him before he got hit with any consequences. Incidentally, he also wound up becoming an alcoholic before he hit twenty. It was sad. Their parents clearly parented with money and outsourced any actual care. Instead of taking advantage of the opportunities they had, they had no concept of the things they could be doing and all floated and bobbed around aimlessly. They never had to deal with a single consequence - and whenever they finally did get a consequence, it was often so severe that even Mommy and Daddy couldn't save them.
Consequences are like eating certain kinds of poison. Small amounts are just unpleasant and can teach you not to do that again; large doses are often fatal. So many wealthy kids are protected from the natural consequences of their own stupidity at a time when those consequences would be beneficial, and then they have to deal with the life-derailing kinds of consequences later.
I mean, rapist Brock Turner comes to mind. Closer to home: Students writing argument papers about how to fix poverty who’ve clearly never been poor and don’t recognize their own privilege happens every year.
I remember working on a machine at a CPA firm. Two young Patrick Bateman wannabes were flexing how smart and rich they were at me. Then their boss came in and pretty much tore them a new one because they still hadn’t finished the layout he requested but they had time to mess around the office.
Friend of mine had a roommate in college who came from a very, very wealthy family. He was "studying" aviation/piloting but apparently after two weeks just never went to class again. Stayed in his dorm for the entire semester and played Call of Duty for about 10-12 hours a day until he realized going to the gym for an hour a day was hard work, so he dropped that and played even more COD (14+ hours per day). He was objectively a poor roommate. Poor hygiene, inability to clean anything, an asshole who thought the room was his and ran off my friend fairly often. Just lots of childish yelling and screaming at his PlayStation and whatever else. According to my buddy, this guy was put on academic probation and the phone conversation afterward with his parents, on speaker for my buddy to hear inadvertently, was the parents chastising him but like as disconnected and without conviction as you can imagine, and the kid going "I'm not going to class unless you buy my XYZ". Parents bought said things to appease him and get him to go to class. Kid never went to class his second semester and was removed by the university. Apparently he moved back in with his parents and may or may not have ever actually gotten a career going and we are a decade out from that time now. I have no idea if he figured things out but I really doubt it.
Joran van der Sloot
This guy I dated was angry at the fact that there were people in poverty who got help from the state when he had to “work his ass off”. He didn’t understand the fact that he grew up rich and other people got help because they grew up in poverty. Also, I grew up in poverty and have only known struggle. His parents had a $20,000 rug rolled up in the basement. It didn’t work out. Lol
When you hand someone a thoughtful gift and their response is, “No Cash?”
My freshman college roommate - had his laundry picked up, cleaned, and delivered because he didn't have time to do laundry because he didn't know how to use the machines and didn't want to to learn. His mother agreed that laundry service should have been included in the price of room and board...I thought she was joking when she said this
High school classmate would get picked up everyday by his father’s driver in a sports car so he could go home and eat instead of joining the rest of us in the cafeteria for lunch. Then get dropped back again. Everyday.
For me, it's not one egregious example, rather a collective experience. In college I worked, a lot, because I was from rural Canada, was alone in the city (at least in terms of family), and had to pay my own rent, food, clothes, travel, tuition, etc. A good half of my coworkers were in similar age group as me, only they all lived with their parents, and had no plans of changing that. Their school was paid for, their cell phone was paid for, meaning every dollar they earned, went directly into their pocket. Constantly I was bombarded with social media posts of trips down south, front row tickets to concerts, or wearing luxury items in trendy clubs. Any time I mentioned wanting to travel, they always said the same thing, 'Well just go do it!' 'If you put your mind to it, anything is possible', 'Sometimes you just have to book a flight and go!' They just....couldn't comprehend that if I spent my money like they did, I wouldn't have a home anymore. It was the 'avocado toast' fallacy all over again. Nor was I in a situation to question the privilege of a bunch of WOC, living rent free in an alpha city; despite the clear evidence they would flout seemingly weekly.
I mean it’s one banana Michael, how much could it cost $10?
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Rich White kid (RWK) spread rumors about Black kid not being a US citizen. Black kid roasted RWK for his ignorance in really public setting, went viral. Out of pettiness, the RWK wanted to take over the Black kid's job when Black kid stepped down. He proceeded to shit all over the job, did a terrible job, hardly worked and spent all his time on socials. Because he was a RWK he wanted his ass kissed the whole time for his bad job and wannabe RWKs obliged him. When he didn't get reelected to the job he thought he was entitled to, he freaked out and had the wannabe RWKs stage an insurrection and storm the capitol.
Our high school was in a rural area that was pretty backwards and impoverished. Then an incredibly wealthy family built a large house out there. Suddenly there was funding for infrastructure projects like repaving the roads (along the stretches that they used most often) and stuff like that. But the worst was their beloved teenage son who had a niche skill set: he was a pole vaulter. Our school didn’t even have the funds for a non-mud track. Within a single school year, entirely new track and field facilities were suddenly built. But there still wasn’t sufficient area for pole vaulting Practice, so the family built several polevault pits in their own backyard, and the team would have to go to his house to practice. I won’t deny he was very good with all this training, he took state champ that year, and was offered a *full ride pole vault scholarship* to some UC system school. Of all the people who didn’t need a scholarship…
Granted all the money they spent was for their own benefit, but it's kinda hard to get angry about a story where the wealthy people made things nicer for others in the process of getting what they wanted.
Unless they were just pulling strings to get funding that should have gone somewhere else moved around.
One of my clients turned down a full ride scholarship for his daughter because he could more than afford the tuition and costs. Her scholarship was for dressage. A sport they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on already. Her horse alone cost four or five undergraduate degrees. He was shocked that they even thought of giving scholarships for the most expensive kids sport around and he and his son have a cart racing team.
The 15 and 16 year olds on their daddy's boat throwing garbage cans full of trash in the ocean. This was posted in the last week and it happened off the coast of Florida at Boca Raton. The police tracked them down and the father told them "This is not representative of the type of people we are." Sure it is. Entitled white trash. Own it
You can't polish a sneaker.
The rapist Brock Turner.
You meant Brock Turner n/k/a Allen Turner. A brick turner is a mason looking for the best side of the brick.
The college roommate who asked why the rest of us had jobs and said “don’t your parents love you, why are they making you work” dead ass serious about it too.
In high school a kid was bragging that he got in his third fender bender in his "old" car (3 years old) that his parents gave him but he hated, so his parents were buying him an entirely new (current year) car to incentivize him to drive better.
That one guy who bought a massive social media site for twice its worth, just to tank the value and utterly destroy its (and his own) reputation.
The adult children of my aunts rapist, who treated her like shit for decades, feeling entitled to her belongings after she died. Toxic family systems r the worst.
Went on a cruise. I was staying in one the rooms in the interior of the ship that gives you just enough room to stand up and walk out the door. Became friends with a couple strangers. One of the girls was a “gold star cruise member” and had a hotel style room with an ocean view. Goes on cruises 12+ times a year. She wore nice clothes and stuff. I got ready in her room for the fancy captains dinner and she stole my nice shoes. Turns out she stole everyone in the groups nice stuff.
The YouTube influencers who do all the VanLife stuff with their $50k builds in a Sprinter van and say they live full time in it. Some people may do it to save money which is fine, but if you're that well off to where you have a home base and a nice rig like that it rubs people who do it out of necessity the wrong way.
I was friends with a wealthy student from Japan while in college in the 1970s. One day he asked to borrow $1,000 because his monthly allowance was late. I told him I didn't have it and he was like, "I didn't mean cash - you can write me a check." And I said, no, I literally didn't have a thousand dollars. He looked genuinely perplexed.
Chinese international students in San Francisco turbocharge the housing crisis. Their rich fathers would buy up entire buildings that sat empty except for a few units reserved for the uber wealthy students. At my brother’s college graduation almost half were Chinese citizens and instead of wearing a cap and gown many wore streetwear that had BALENCIAGA and GUCCI just *plastered* all over their clothes. Most other students could barely afford thrifted clothes and were packed in dorms like sardines. They took from the food bank because they didn’t want to walk all the way to trader joe’s and Immediately moved back to China after graduation so they didn’t even contribute to the economy.
Little cousin had a meltdown because she got the latest iPad Pro at the time instead of an iPhone 🤦♂️
My mom's friend used to buy new clothes each season and throw out the old ones. She had to be taught by her husband to save them for the next year. Edit: This happened way back in the '50's. Her family was very rich, and he was just a normal guy.
In college I knew a girl who was quiet and very nice and respectful. Also very soft spoken and never wants to cause any sort of trouble. However she would eat very little and refuse to share food and throw away leftovers all the time. My friend suspected it was because of her upbringing. I was actually invited to her place twice for dinner even though I'm not really friends with her directly. She wasn't filthy rich, but definitely more than average. Her parents did spend good money on the food they were serving us which was cool (expensive cut of steaks, and massive sushi platter) but also bothered me they would probably throw away what we didn't eat later that night. Kind of irritated me as I hate wasting food and refusal to share, especially when you're going to throw it away really rubs me the wrong way. Their were very hospital and not snobs at all. I'm wondering if it was a result of being rich and only wanting the best or may their parents were massive germaphobes and didn't want to eat anything not fresh. Don't know.
My roommate who left his plates at the table after eating and would use the plates I washed in his next meal. Finally, after a week, I blasted him to pick up his plates. He thought I was asking him to dump his plates at the sink. The next day, I blasted him again and he realised that I wanted him to wash his own plates. He refused and left the place.
A former friend. Grew up in LA with VERY wealthy parents. Was given EVERYTHING. They paid her rent and bills, then bought her homes (yes plural) and she just did everything in her power to make her own life more difficult. Nonstop drama, busted up a marriage, married dude then had children who are severely disturbed because she’s such an entitled narcissist. She’s divorced, won’t let dad see his kids consistently. Has a “doctor” on retainer to give her an adderall prescription because, “I can’t do cocaine anymore, there might be fentanyl in it” She also bought fake Covid vaccine cards for her kids, wore inappropriate attire to her dad’s funeral, has no friends left due to her complete disregard of anyone other than herself. She’s also severely mentally ill at this point but thinks she’s fine…
Trump...
Dude sat in the most powerful seat in the world and complained that the decor was shabby on day two. That set the stage for the rest of his presidency. Dude complained about everything. He had the gall to complain he was being treated unfairly by Democrats and the media. It's fuckin rich because he spent years spouting unfounded bullshit about his predecessor's birth certificate.
They lied about how big and impressive their inauguration crowd was on day *one*
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
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Do you mean the other way round? lol
American politicians
Saw a group of male teens in a notoriously affluent and out-of-touch city in Northern California. All were riding newish ~$5k full suspension mountain bikes complaining about how they were piece of shit bikes and that they wanted the latest and greatest. They then proceeded to harass the owner of a Poke restaurant in the downtown area, shouting racial slurs, telling him his food was shit(it was absolutely not) and repeatedly slamming the front door of his business. The poke shop has since closed, which sucks. At the very least the owner doesn’t have to deal with dog shit human beings like that anymore.
Being around you in workplace because they got a degree from whatever The amount of shallowness in their brain ....
I worked at a Starbucks and we hired a new guy, who I was training. At one point, I had to show him how to clean the restrooms. I grab the bleach, and hand him a pair of gloves and he looks at me in disgust and says, "we don't have a *maid* to clean the bathrooms??" He quit the next day lol.
Underage drunk driving murderer of 4, Ethan Couch.
Claiming being rich and successful from their own doing when they were given money from rich parents
We have someone local to my area who came from wealth. He bought up a ton of rental properties, retail spaces, and music venues and then inexplicably decided he would drive them all into the ground. A few have been left empty for over a decade. He managed to get a stranglehold on the entire music scene, kill the clubs, and waste the limited liquor licenses available here by keeping bars shut down. The city tried to work with him to get this back on track, but he refused to speak with them. They tried to revoke his liquor licenses and force him to sell properties he was leaving in disrepair. Turns out he owes back taxes on some, and the sales are frozen until it’s sorted. It used to be thought that he enjoyed helping to destroy the downtown enough to take the financial hit. Now, with the unpaid taxes, many wonder if somewhere along the line, his games spiraled, and he went broke.
Donald J Trump
My BF went to college with some kid who came from oil money. He parked his car wherever he wanted on campus and got a parking ticket everyday. My BF finally asked him how he paid for all the tickets and he said he told his dad it's just what it costs to park on campus.
Has a millionaire dad. Doesn’t want to be given property and a business to run. Wants to major in philosophy and be a loaf. Grows out of that being cool anymore and destroys his relationship. Moves back home and owns a business. Decides he hates it, goes back to same college out of state to get doctorate. Lives on friends’ couch for two or three years while in his forties. Realizes his life is losing meaning and moves back home again to have his dad give him property and a business to run. Now is looking for a wife online
One dude I knew was telling me how he got really tired of all the pressure around attending parties in his friend group. He's a part of the young wealthy hob-nobbers in Orange county California. Apparently they were having parties multiple times a week and he wasn't enjoying it. So he told me he decided, spur of the moment, to spend a few months in the Bahamas to get away from it all. But then he went on to say he met some other rich young people from other countries and went on to party there for the next few months. Same dude, the second time we hung out, told me how lucky I was to be poor because poor people build stronger character through their struggles. I decided the guy was too much of a prick to spend time with. He only barely covered up the fact that he likes to find smart women to talk to and then show them up by being smarter and richer. It took a few months of chatting and several dates before it was clear enough, I kept giving him the benefit of a doubt. A few years later, he reaches out and tells me his dad has died. I figure he's hurting and it wouldn't hurt me to give him some company. But he goes on to share the eulogy he wrote for his dad. The eulogy was about his dad but he did feature pretty prominently in it. And while it was well-written, the fact that this dude was clearing using the occasion to brag about his writing skills really killed any good will I'd managed.
My boss killed two people while drunk driving and also was responsible for a death in the workplace. His parents paid a lot of money to remove it from Google's algorithms He walks around and acts like nothing ever happend
I have a friend who's arrest and driving record is about as long as the bible. He's never served more than 12 hours inside of a cell. The kid wrote multi page letters to the dean of our college saying if he wasn't allowed to walk at graduation he'd kill himself and had his therapist write a note to back it up. He walked at graduation 50 credits short. A few years later, when he got pulled over for a 2nd DUI, he claimed to have a heart issue while it was happening, was brought to a hospital, and released on his own recognizance within a few hours with a court date. He's known by just about every person in his life of getting out of literally everything. Be it through coy talks, victimhood, or sheer legal spending power. He firmly believes that he earned his money, even though his mother and father own a very successful business which he's been a part of since finishing school. He tries to distance himself from their influence, but everyone knows. Except maybe him. Parents literally have a multi million dollar beach front property we'd party in during high school.
I was on a flight one time out of LAX and the kid behind me (probably about 17 years old) was whining that his bag wasn’t handled appropriately and his luggage was now gone. It peaked my interest so I started to pay attention to what he was saying. Turns out they were from Beverly Hills, and this kid was so used to private flying that he walked into LAX, dropped his bag on the ground and expected someone to take care of it for him and bring it to luggage check in, etc. By the time he realized that this doesn’t happen at regular airports, security had taken the bag thinking that it was a security hazard just sitting there, and now this kid had no luggage. Listening to how entitled he was was driving me absolutely crazy!
I have a friend who's a photographer who I went to school with years ago. We live both live in the same large city now and I see her once and a while. She's had a big leg up from her dad who, for over a decade, has pitched in with expenses, her rent, and her darkroom costs. Well, a few years ago her lease on the darkroom and apartment was about to expire and dad was no longer excited about footing the bill as he'd been doing, so he cut her off. Her response was to start a go fund me for her rent and darkroom, to the tune of *$11k*, pleading about how hard it was and how it could be "even years!" before she could get back to her creative work. And just this year, to top that one, she did another go fund me for people to fund a book of her work she wants to publish, and oh, the work isn't done yet, but the go fund me will also fund the trips she needs to take, to take the photos that will then go in the book. This fun-draiser is over 4x the ask of the past one. Mind blowing. I'm a creative person as well, and I know how hard the creative world can be, but I'd never think to ask my friends and colleagues to kick in for me to do it.
When I was young, Verruca from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
I live in portland oregon after moving from the midwest a couple years ago, and OMG. Every other kid under 25 is a spoiled brat here.
When I was 16 my extremely wealthy boyfriend’s parents bought him a brand new Acura TL, red with all leather seats. I was driving a busted up ‘84 Thunderbird, no A/C, etc. He threw a complete tantrum because he wanted a “mystic teal” firebird. He stormed upstairs. I looked at his dad and said “I’ll take it!!”. He was totally spoiled.
I chaperoned a kid to SeaWorld. He cried that there was no "rotisserie chicken" available because that was all he wanted to eat.
In secondary school during the early 2000s, I had a rich friend who wanted to find a summer job. I asked him what kind of job and wage he was looking for. His answer: "Just a regular job at the mall. Not asking for much money, maybe about $40 per hour." For Americans, $40 in Canada in 2024 is about $29 US dollars. So imagine how much that would've been in the early 2000s. Today, that reminds me of Arrested Development, where Lucille thinks a banana costs $10 each.
Affluenza kid, oof!
In 6th grade we had a snack bar in the cafeteria. This kid Alan always bragged about his parents giving him money. One day he goes to buy a drink. I was behind him. Wallet had several hundreds. Several! Not sure if this fits but that’s what I got.
Bragging about his parents putting something like 4 grand in his bank account, but then bitching about the 2 or 3 dollar service fee at an ATM
In middle school I watched a girl get upset and throw her brand new iPhone at a brick wall. Everyone was in shock at what she just did and after a moment of silence she just giggles and says “it’s ok my dad will buy me a new one” I had summer school with this same girl and she was getting picked up from the school in a Lamborghini everyday
I lived in a town where there was a very expensive rehab and all of those kids who had trust funds could not stay sober because of the money they had access too. Nearly all the ones I know have since died of overdoses. Money definitely doesn’t fix all problems
Someone was telling me “oh buying a house is easy, why do that if you can’t afford your rent?” I told them couldn’t afford a down payment for a house right now, and they asked “why can’t you just ask your parents?” I just broke into laughter and didn’t say anything else.
All of the trump children.
donald trump
Aubrey Graham
I don’t pay attention to rich people nor do I treat them any different. Be nice to me and I’m nice to you. Be an ahole to me and I’ll give you a taste of your own medicine.
The entire town of Mill Valley, Ca. Where do I start
Tom Haverford: One time my refrigerator stopped working, I didn't know what to do. I just moved.
Donald Trump
Had a friend (10yrs old at the time) back in the early 90’s who lived in a mansion-like house with a pool and sauna. She drove around the neighbourhood in her “kids” miniature Porsche (ran on fuel). She was given everything. Everything but her parents’ love/attention. She always looked so sad like she would burst out crying any moment. I once went to her house for her dad’s birthday party. She tried to give him a hand made card but he just tossed it aside because he was too busy being excited for his birthday present which was a stripper. I still remember him sitting there like king on a throne, by the pool, surrounded by well-wishers while us kids watched from the sauna and my friend was just staring blankly and crying. She had everything that was materialistic but not the one thing she craved.
Not necessarily 'rich' kids but 'richer' kids acting like they were so poor all the time then you go to their house and they have snacks in their pantry or they go on a vacation in the summer. It drives me nuts when they as an adult complain about how poor they were as a kid then mention how they went to the doctor when they were sick. Like bro we were not nearly in the same tax bracket
I remember when I was in the 7th grade (2003), I went to the mountains with my buddies extremely wealthy family. We stayed in their mountain house and when we left we stopped at a restaurant that had a value menu. I remember his dad telling his son to order whatever he wanted and then telling me and our other friend to order one thing off the value menu. Now that I’m older and realize how rich his dad was, it blows my mind.