Does anyone remember "The Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous?"
What a show!
The lives some of these people live are UNBELIEVABLE!
Money can buy just about anything!
Then we went on to watch everything "KARDASHIAN!"
Which showed us just how crazy extreme wealth can be.
And a lot of the people who have can be even crazier!
One of the most intriguing things about wealth is all of its secrets.
Redditor bryany97 wanted to hear the secrets of the filthy rich, so they asked;
"What's something rich people do that the average person has no idea about?"
SAFETY
"Kidnapping insurance."
- PraiseGodBaby
"My first wife was an insurance adjuster for some super-wealthy clients and she always said to me, 'If we ever win the lotto, the first thing that we get is kidnapping insurance."'
- punkwalrus
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The Yacht Life
"I made friends with a guy who was the captain of one of the yachts of a Russian oligarch. He told me about how they have support yachts for the main yachts. The support yachts sail ahead to a destination, set up the island, clean up locations after the main client has left, resupply the main yacht, bring tenders like extra jet skis to the location, etc. I knew people had yachts. I did not know people had yachts for their yachts."
- ohimnotarealdoctor
Twiblings
"Not me, but a friend of a friend worked for a crazy rich family and the wife had a surrogate for all of her kids. They were genetically hers and her husband's, but she wasn't interested in carrying them. Even wilder, she hired two surrogates at the same time so they could have 'twiblings' meaning that each surrogate would carry a child so they would be born around the same time."
"Apparently, the surrogates had to sync their cycles and everything so that the timing would work out right. Of course, they were well taken care of and everything was paid for, but man, twiblings. Who woulda thunk it?"
- xstitchnrye
College Life
"When their kids go to college, (very) rich people will buy them a condo rather than put them in a dorm. This is especially true in high population/university dense locations like Boston or NYC."
"Then at graduation, they’ll sell the condo, and the profit from the four years of appreciation will pay for a good portion of tuition."
- BarToStreetToBookie
"My mom cleaned the house for one of these kids who went to a private school in our town. The kid had his own cook and driver. When school was over they gave my mom all the furniture and then asked her to move to Mexico and work for them there. They owned a bunch of restaurants and lived in a fenced-in property with guards. My mom had lived through WW2 and just wanted to stay in Canada."
- Double-Freedom-4479
What's up, Doc?
"Doctors on call. I have several clients worth between 20-50 million, and all of them pay a premium price for a doctor on call. Literally any time of the day. 3:30 in the morning, your foot hurts? Doc answers. Mid, do you need a script ASAP? Doc fills it. Need an appointment first thing in the morning/last minute? Doc makes room. The level of healthcare given to those who have unlimited money is truly one of the most amazing and sickening things I’ve seen."
- taintedchops
Overnight...
"With no planning, get in your plane, fly two hours for dinner, maybe spend the night, and then fly home."
- Next-Device-9686
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Continuity
"I know a rich person who has a 'Director of Continuity' - their job is to make sure that every one of the family's homes has the same streaming services, magazine/newspaper subscriptions, food in the fridge, clothes in their closets... Like if they bought a hoodie that dude really likes, try to have one in each house so he doesn't have to worry about transporting it."
They also coordinate things like if they take the PJ to a far-off destination, where are the plane's linens getting laundered and where are they picking up food for the return trip."
- MesWantooth
Separate Ways
"I knew a family that went on trips to exotic locations several times a year. They all traveled first class on different planes. In case something happened, It wouldn't greatly impact their business holdings."
- Creative-Invite583
"Many companies have policies about this for business travel once you reach a certain level of influence/leadership. Especially c-suite. Must take separate flights, cars, etc."
- lilephant
Work Use Only
"I used to work for a billionaire. He rented a whole other mansion to use as an office."
- ultradip
"I worked for a billionaire family for a while as well. They had a mansion on a peninsula in an extremely high-cost-of-living area. The kind of place where neighboring properties were in the $5-$20 million dollar range. They decided they didn't want to have neighbors anymore so they bought the other 5 mansions on the peninsula and now own the whole damn thing. I'm told 3 out of the 6 houses they own have sat completely empty for over a decade."
- Rdub
Educational
"I have read that rich people talk to each other about money in a way that middle-class people would not do. The rich educate each other about how to get better money management, tax benefits, etc."
Many people in the middle class were raised to believe such discussions are irredeemably tacky."
- Tipitina62
"This is definitely true."
"Money and finances being taboo topics have prevented generations of people from improving their situation through greater understanding and knowledge."
- Pict
SURPRISE!
"There are restaurants and social clubs hidden in plain sight that the general public has no idea even exists. They don’t even advertise themselves. The only way you’d know is if someone with money brought you there (as I was)."
- Trollselektor
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Keepin' it Fresh
"Weekly deliveries of fresh flowers."
"Those large floral displays that five-star hotels have in their lobbies, rich people have similar displays in the foyer to their homes, with new displays delivered every week or so. Plus flowers for the rest of the house. Can easily cost $2,000 a week."
"Plus additional deliveries for winter and summer homes."
- AardvarkStriking256
Crazy Connections
"REALLY rich gated/private communities, many that are out in lesser thought about states like Montana (there are a lotttt of higher up/wealthier government and agency/CIA/FBI/etc folks who retire in that part of the country). It gets insane, and for some, the exclusivity gets to levels of needing other rich people to vouch for you to get in before you can even buy a crazy expensive home. Some of those places are more like a gated entire town vs a community/suburb."
"This winter fancy house picture has made the rounds on Reddit before, and it's an example of some of what I'm talking about. The address of that house is 6 Aurora Borealis Way, Big Sky, MT 59720 (I had to do some hardcore internet sleuthing to uncover the address, through some random PDF doc I found online lol), which is in a private community called the 'Yellowstone Club' -- and these are just the winter vacation homes/communities, which are usually the 'smaller' homes of uber-rich folks, so all that to say there are levels to this s**t!"
"Also, the mansions in New England are the craziest ones in the country to me, more so than LA or NYC. There are some hyper-wealthy, OLDDD money mansions in that part of the country."
- ruffznap
Security
"I worked at a place where the CEO wouldn't show up sometimes to the office, so we just chatted with his bodyguard cause he had nothing to do. So, yeah, a bodyguard at the office - in case he wants to show up."
"Whenever the CEO showed up, he had security everywhere. This is strange because I've seen other CEOs/founders around in Silicon Valley and they didn't have much of a security presence."
"Only after working at the company and realizing how disgusting, toxic, and despicable that place was, I finally understood why he needed security."
- SomeGuyInSanJoseCa
I want a spare mansion.
Even if it's just for storage.
Ok, maybe that's extreme.
I wouldn't mind a quick trip to Paris for dinner though.
The need for security and concerns for safety is a lot to deal with in the end.
Life is forever a give and take.
