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This is not as rare as the article says. In fact, giving my experience around rich people I would say it it the normal thing. Most people believe what mass med
by Htsthbjig 12y ago
This is not as rare as the article says. In fact, giving my experience around rich people I would say it it the normal thing.
Most people believe what mass media tells them. The media talks about the actors, but not about the producers, they talk about the young sport star but not so much about the owner of the team, and so on.
And the main reason is: Most of them don't want to be famous, they don't want people stalking them for money whenever they go, or someone kidnapping their children. They don't need to show off their money. They live in good, but normal houses, and drive a 10 year car.
Most of them already made themselves, they don't need external recognition when they have the internal one. Most of them were naysed when they started their business(most people tell you "it wont work") or wanted to create something new and survived extreme negativity, so they are quite indifferent about what other people think about them(when you are super rich everybody wants to be your friend and the same person who told you "it wont work" the most now tells you "I always believed you were going to make it").
You have lots of them writing in HN with pseudonym. Like writers they want their words to carry a message from itself, not from the authority of the person who writes them, and it lets them interact with intelligent people in an equal level.
- 001sky 12y agoIt might not be 'rare' but the exceptions definitely prove the rule.
- trentmb 12y ago> they don't need external recognition when they have the internal one. If I may borrow a phrase from the Geto Boys: "Real gangsta-ass niggas don't flex nuts, cause real gangsta-ass niggas know they got em" It's an attitude I find quite endearing.
- jseip 12y agoWell said! Trenton - hat tip for the (on point) gets boys reference
- beachstartup 12y ago> They live in good, but normal houses, and drive a 10 year car. jeez, not this trope again. not all rich people are the same, because they are people. first of all, to buy a "good, but normal" house somewhere like SF or west LA or NYC requires you to be nearly-rich. if you aren't worth double the house's value in assets and have at least triple the mortgage payment as annual income, you're not going to have much money left over for anything else. that's not even rich. yes, some rich people are like warren buffet and live in a normal house and drive a 10 year old cadillac. but who do you think owns all those yachts parked in every marina in the world? or the incredible, huge houses and apartments that exist in every major city? who do you think buys all of the ferraris and lamborghinis and other exotics produced every year? who's buying private jet rides and, on a bad day, first class tickets at $10k a pop? here's a hint: it's not the middle class.