My cousin, through work, has access to the search history of a Fortune 500 CEO and noticed it was full of exactly what you’d expect: searching a liquor store site for their most expensive wines, private jet bookings to small private islands, that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah, we all knew that! I’m not talking about luxury experiences and displays of power.
But what are the strange parts that regular people wouldn’t guess?
For example, someone on reddit recently posted that their job is to duplicate a wealthy person’s home items across multiple cities. Clone their house meticulously so their boss just travels with a phone. It’s pragmatic but egregious.
Months ago I ran across an interesting trick for quantifying the purchasing power of a wealthy person vs an average person, by scaling down their net worth (or salary IDK I’m not a money-ologist) then compare the thought process you’d undertake when purchasing an item of equivalent value.
So to get in the mind of a billionaire, lets say you have a net worth of $60K, so divide 60,000/1,000,000,000 to get 0.00006. Now how much does a jet cost, let’s say 1.5 million, just pulling a number out of thin air. Scale that down using the 0.00006 multiplier we get just $90. So a billionaire puts about as much thought into buying a jet as you might purchasing an OK pair of shoes or a water flosser. Not quite trivial but also not something you’re likely to mull over for weeks.
But let’s reverse that. What’s something you wouldn’t think twice about bying? Maybe a $2 candy bar from a vending machine? Divide that $2 dollars by .00006 to get over $33 thousand dollars. That’s a pretty common yearly gross salary for a lot of skilled workers, and a billionaire treats it with the same care you’d treat with a $2 vending machine purchase.
I’m into ham radio, which can be a deceptively expensive hobby. Some of the other guys in my local club have a significant amount of money, or at least a lot more money than I do, and that really does effect how they think and act. They’re all perfectly nice and helpful people, but sometimes they give advice that simply isn’t useful for a guy in my tax bracket. “Just get a resonant antenna” or “just put up a tower” they say, as though I have the land for a massive HF antenna with ground radials or a 40 ft tall mast. Bruh I live in a single-family home in an HOA.
Prof G followed this methodology to explain that to elon musk, spending 300 million dollars on the midterms is the same as a person who has a million dollars, going out for a 300 usd dinner. or me going out to buy a sausage in the corner butcher shop.
fucking scandal.
HOA can’t fuck with HAM radio towers.
Seconding, in the US, most states and the FCC have protections for amature radio equipment, there are a few introduced bills that would encourage emergency radio preparedness and extend the protections to federal law.
My sister runs in billionaire circles. Her daughter was invited to a birthday party along with the rest of her class (2nd grader I think it was). The parents had rented a 737 to take everyone to Disney. My sister said no haha
Paying 30k for a fully decorated Christmas tree.
Not strange enough? I don’t know, it’s all fucking strange to me!
Paying 30k for a fully decorated Christmas tree.
Especially strange to me, as I assumed decorating the tree was part of the experience.
I think the most strange part of people who live wealthy lifestyles is all the mass rape, pedophilia, torture of trafficked people, mass starvation of the masses and belief they’ll magically live forever as AI versions of themselves
I heard of an individual that would use hand towels as disposable wipes. They would just buy new ones and throw out the dirty ones instead of washing them.
washing them.
…having them washed. Rich people don’t wash shit.
This, actually. At my last job, I worked for some filthy rich people. Somehow, doing laundry got brought up, and I was complaining about how it felt endless to the owners, and they agreed. “The worst part is having fold everything!” I said. The one owner tells me that she doesn’t actually have to fold anything because she has a service that washes, dries, and folds all of her laundry. She was complaining about having to put it away… ONLY putting it away…
Tbf an average person can get that same service from a laundromat
I’m poor and I don’t wash shit, I just flush it! ;-)
Savage. I prefer my turds polished.
Only the filthy rich.
Apparently banks don’t like it if you make $300k in cash withdrawals on a monthly basis. I know of someone who likes to keep that much in a safe at home for “walking around money”. I guess it really messes up a bank to have all their cash on hand disappear in one go.
Another strange thing is home photoshoots. There are whole magazines dedicated to photoshoots of rich people’s homes. It’s usually ads for their interior decorating vanity business, but sometimes it’s just to show off.
The right bank could do that on a regular basis, but yeah not without some kind of standing agreement on paper. They’d definitely want to be able to plan for it. If it’s a smaller location 300k could easily clean them out, jesus.
The photoshoots thing is particularly strange to me. I don’t like any strangers seeing into my house, let alone a whole magazine’s worth.
I know a couple of rich people. One of them hired a state senator as their attorney.
It’s totally on the up and up for the most part, but there is the implication that this puts influence in the senator to vote in favor of their second employer.
Like these rich people also run their own business and their business is funded by a billionaire, so they’re using billionaires’ money to fund their own lifestyle while also using that money to hire attorneys and senators to help their lifestyle continue.
Funding a family because they had an affair with the wife that produced a child.
not that weird or super rich but I know someone who gives private swimming lessons to peoples kids in their own pool in their garden
