My grandma was a millionaire (nobility, rich dad, rich husband). She didn’t have to worry about money whenever she wanted to do/buy something and she could have clothes made. She’s also had a lot of political influence purely because she knew the right people.
She always drove an Opel Kadett, had a 2 bedroom house with an artist’s mezzanine and then a 2 bedroom flat when she could no longer walk the stairs. Could afford a carer every day when she got ill. Didn’t spend a penny on anything ostentatious (that was “common”), spent plenty on travelling around the world.
Her occasional “do you know who I am” attitude made me cringe, but for the rest she was pretty normal, really 🤷.
PS am not rich, she had the audacity to have a ton of kids (and the title went to the eldest son).
My mom was a cleaning lady, and some of her clients were among the richest people in Canada. The last few years she worked, she started struggling physically so I went in to work with her to help, and I met all of her employers. Every one of them were very nice people. Not every rich person is an evil asshole. We’re still friends with some of them.
They can be the nicest people you know, yet, still bastards because their fortunes are stolen from the backs of those who labored due to how our economic system is structured to distribute ownership of resources. It is based on the diametrically oppositional interests of workers versus the interests of owners/shareholders. What is good for one is intrinsically bad for the other.
Owning class makes their money from the profit of companies they have share in or are the executives of. Profits are Revenue minus Expenses. Worker wages, benefits, upgrading/fixing equipment and working conditions, etc… are all Expenses. This means that there is always the dichotomy between money going to Profit, thus the pocket of the owning class, or to Expenses, thus going to workers in the form of wages, benefits, or improved working conditions.
Same thing with “ACAB”. Police are pigs not because they are assholes (though most are, that’s a different topic), but because of their systemic function in society.
Every once in a while the bank ceo would show up, so a lot of his buddies would show up and do banking business. Lots of times that meant they’d be cashing checks bigger than 10k and then having absolute bitch fits about us needing their social and profession for the CTR. Without skipping a beat, they’d go get our do nothing ceo and then he’d come out and accuse the teller running the transaction of sucking at their job and to just do it and put his initials on it. We’d then call our lower level boss and she’d say, “Just run it through with these details from the last time this asshat showed up” and We’d never mention that we still did all of the reports to our CEO despite being told not to.
Idiot would have got the bank shut down by the government if anyone actually listened to his nepo-grandpa ass.
in some sense everyone reading this is rich on the global scale of wealth
You need to set a bar for rich. How much in fixed assets and how much income per month or year?
By world standards you’re probably rich.
Let’s say a millionaire
I had dinner a few weeks ago with a CEO who makes millions per year. The restaurant itself was exorbitantly expensive by my standards, he kept the $100+ cocktails coming to everyone at the table, and he casually dropped the price of something he bought on a lark ($60K). He seemed extremely relaxed, like everything in life was for him and was going his way. It was fairly intimidating. But he was a good listener, too.
Depending on what your job is, you may never even meet the rich person you work for.
or those who worked for really rich people
Technically that includes students working at McDonald’s or any supermarket.
those who worked for really rich people
The rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
I mean … what are you curious about?
What’s the day to day like? No stress about bills, rent, etc feels like?
If we’re just talking “don’t worry about money day to day” then I’m that, but that’s more about being a couple who both work with low expenses (no kids). I never really think about how much money I have in my account, or worry about bills or rent or anything. I can’t afford to buy super expensive stuff all the time, but it doesn’t feel like a hardship to not buy the latest flagship or constantly upgrade stuff, and if I do want something I just get it.
Not stressing about money is fucking amazing, ngl. It creates this relaxed sense of calm, even when things are difficult. I certainly didn’t always feel like this, I’ve been unemployed, and so broke that I’ve been starving and wandering the street in the hope to find a coin that someone dropped so I could buy something to eat. When you don’t have enough money everything is difficult and any new crises is anxiety inducing.
Now, if something goes wrong while travelling, I just book into a hotel, while before I’ve had to sleep rough because I missed a flight and couldn’t afford a room. I never worry about the price of a restaurant or how overpriced a drink is (partly because I rarely eat / drink out so it’s not a big expense) . But that attitude of not having to check prices, or order the cheapest options, is so liberating. I think people who’ve never been poor have no idea how exhausting and stressful it is to constantly be on your guard and how feeling guilty about the cost can even ruin the enjoyment of the treats you do allow yourself.
Just because we work for them doesn’t mean we are also rich. They pay the same rate as anyone else.
The question is explicitely not only asking for poor folks that worked for rich but also rich persons working for very rich persons.
Lol if you think poor people don’t also work for the very rich. How do you think they got rich if not by exploiting poor people?
The question is explicitely not only asking for poor folks that worked for rich but also rich persons working for very rich persons.
not only
Unsure how accurate it is, but I heard most rich people are not generous.
I’ve met several billionaires at this point, and there wasn’t really a commonality between all of them except their wealth.
