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This is literally indistinguishable from the opinion of a person who does not know any wealthy people personally, and bases their understanding of “the rich” on
by DiggyJohnson 4y ago
This is literally indistinguishable from the opinion of a person who does not know any wealthy people personally, and bases their understanding of “the rich” on the behavior of social media influencers.
I’m sorry to put it so bluntly, but the “understating wealth” pattern of behavior is quite real and common.
- sokoloff 4y agoThis might be my own bias here, but "the rich generally do act rich" seems tautologically true to me. IOW, however the rich act is definitionally how the rich act, which is what I think GP might have been getting at. Whether the way they act is congruent with the way the average person thinks they act is the question. From knowing a few "never going to have to worry about money in this or the next couple generations" families, they mostly fly private but go to great lengths to not post or boast about that.
- pydry 4y agoPretty much. I was referring to attempts to display status, whether covert or overt. I think he thought I was referring to ostentatious displays of status like top hats and monocles.