EAT THE RICH

Nine Infuriating Ways The Wealthy Are Out Of Touch

When you reach a certain level of wealth, you just become untethered from the rest of humanity.
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When someone lives their whole life as a rich person, it becomes incredibly difficult to relate to us normies. The challenges we face, outside of death itself, often don't even cross their minds. As such, even holding a normal conversation can be exceedingly challenging with someone who might as well be living in the clouds.

Redditor u/MonthIcy1 put out a call for unhinged stories from the ultra-rich, and AskReddit had plenty of instances to share. It seems any normal person in the proximity to the rich has a "let them eat cake" tale to tell.

Whats the most out of touch thing you heard from rich people?
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Thousands and thousands of comments have come through with stories that make our blood boil. But we know you have a job, and can't spend all day browsing a single Reddit thread, so we've picked out the most eye-roll inducing examples below.


Flying in your servant class is not a problem the rest of us can empathize with
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Maybe if you paid us more, we wouldn't be flipping out over a dead car
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We have the same number of hours in the day, but not the same Scrooge McDuck piles of cash from Grandpa
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Corruption is excused for the wealthy, petty theft gets demonized for the poor
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What, no jewels? Disgusting
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The rich would all die within a day if they didn't have full-time babysitters
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As it turns out, humans need things to survive, not just for fun
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The pandemic really brought out the class blinders for the rich
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Yes, working in the warehouses that keep our society from falling apart is hilarious, Mr. Moneybags
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