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For the New Superrich, Life Is Much More Than a Beach

32 points by shalmanese 11y ago

holdenc 11y ago
Was this paid for by Jean Pigozzi? Very little new information on the lives of globe trotting wealthy elite.
cosmolev 11y ago
Nothing interesting.
narrator 11y ago
Meh, if you did all that stuff and didn't buy anything and took coach flights and rented a little boat for the yacht stuff it would probably cost maybe about $50k a year (probably a heck of a lot less actually). The hard part, of course, is getting invited to the billionaire parties. That would make a really hilarious travel blog: The relatively poor guy going to all the rich people events.
harywilke 11y ago
An Add for a private jet company masquerading as a nytimes article.
x5n1 11y ago
Why do the superrich spend most of their time around their own types. Would it not be much more fun to hang out with people who didn't have their level of wealth so they could really show off and everyone would come out better.
- fsk 11y ago
  If a superrich person was hanging around with an average joe (or even a 1%er), it would be an unequal relationship. It's like asking why supermodels don't hang out in ordinary bars.
  - x5n1 11y ago
    > it would be an unequal relationship that's not a bad thing.
- lgas 11y ago
  Unless you're an evil dick, bragging about your new $700k sports car or your $10m yacht to someone who's struggling to find a way for their kid to go to college or to get medicine for their sick grandparents is not that much fun. Bragging about your new $700k sports car or $10m yacht to your super-rich buddy who last month bragged to you about their new $600k sports car or $9m yacht is much more likely to be enjoyable. Plus in the real world it's not just about bragging. Believe it or not super-rich people have problems too, and they are problems that only other super-rich people are likely to be able to commiserate with them about. And in general, members of any group -- computer nerds, artists, dock workers -- tend to hang out with other people from their same groups because they speak the same language and have overlapping experiences, etc. They "get" each other.
- joshu 11y ago
  People don't seem to deal very well with this. They ask for money pretty much continually. You eventually end up in hardcore avoidance mode, unfortunately.

32 points by shalmanese 11y ago

holdenc 11y ago

Was this paid for by Jean Pigozzi? Very little new information on the lives of globe trotting wealthy elite.

cosmolev 11y ago

Nothing interesting.

narrator 11y ago

Meh, if you did all that stuff and didn't buy anything and took coach flights and rented a little boat for the yacht stuff it would probably cost maybe about $50k a year (probably a heck of a lot less actually). The hard part, of course, is getting invited to the billionaire parties. That would make a really hilarious travel blog: The relatively poor guy going to all the rich people events.

harywilke 11y ago

An Add for a private jet company masquerading as a nytimes article.

x5n1 11y ago

Why do the superrich spend most of their time around their own types. Would it not be much more fun to hang out with people who didn't have their level of wealth so they could really show off and everyone would come out better.

fsk 11y ago
If a superrich person was hanging around with an average joe (or even a 1%er), it would be an unequal relationship. It's like asking why supermodels don't hang out in ordinary bars.
- x5n1 11y ago
  > it would be an unequal relationship that's not a bad thing.
lgas 11y ago
Unless you're an evil dick, bragging about your new $700k sports car or your $10m yacht to someone who's struggling to find a way for their kid to go to college or to get medicine for their sick grandparents is not that much fun. Bragging about your new $700k sports car or $10m yacht to your super-rich buddy who last month bragged to you about their new $600k sports car or $9m yacht is much more likely to be enjoyable. Plus in the real world it's not just about bragging. Believe it or not super-rich people have problems too, and they are problems that only other super-rich people are likely to be able to commiserate with them about. And in general, members of any group -- computer nerds, artists, dock workers -- tend to hang out with other people from their same groups because they speak the same language and have overlapping experiences, etc. They "get" each other.
joshu 11y ago
People don't seem to deal very well with this. They ask for money pretty much continually. You eventually end up in hardcore avoidance mode, unfortunately.