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People Reveal The Most Out Of Touch Thing A Rich Person Has Ever Said To Them

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No matter how empathetic we are, or how hard we try, there are just some things we can't understand without walking in someone else's shoes.

That said, people who live with more privilege can say some especially out-of-touch things.


Prepared to side-eye, Redditor BananaBR13 asked:

"What was the most out-of-touch with reality thing a rich person ever said to you?"

Invest in Property

"My boss asked me why I didn’t just buy a house in her neighborhood instead of renting an apartment. The houses there were $300-500,000 (very pricy for my area), and she was paying me nine dollars per hour…"

"I had literally just applied for food stamps."

- Far-Owl1892

Dress Shopping

"A coworker of mine was talking with a parent once (summer camp in a rich town). The parent mentioned how she loved my coworker's dress, and wanted to know where she bought it, with the stipulation that it cost under $10,000…"

"It turns out she had bought the dress on clearance for something like $10."

"When she explained this, the parent just laughed like it was a joke, saying, 'No really, how much was it?'"

"I've never seen someone thaaat out of touch."

- _Decal08_

What Paid Vacation?

"Not a quote from the person, but my sister and I were planning a weekend trip with our two cousins, and one of them just could not understand why we couldn’t make the trip longer and couldn’t seem to understand the concept of taking time off work and that we can’t just not show up whenever we feel like it."

- SensitiveCycle1098

Yeah, Because That's the Same.

"I was complaining about mortgage payments, and she said, 'I know, I finally just took the money out of savings and paid mine off so I wouldn't have to worry about it every month.'"

- Frosty-Shower-7601

Yay for Trust Funds

"I overheard a girl (one of my wife’s cousins, whose dad is very, very wealthy) say, 'Yeah, things got really rough for a bit there, I even had to pull money from my trust fund.'"

" I actually laughed out loud and she looked at me disapprovingly because I wasn’t in the conversation."

"This same girl gets an allowance (separate from the trust) of $6k per month. When she turned 21, she posted on Facebook, 'Hooray everyone, I finally got a raise this week!'"

"Everyone was congratulating her on her hard work, which is funny because she doesn’t have a job, it just meant her monthly allowance increased because she got older."

- masterpate

Tales from the Gift Closet

"One time a client’s kid gave a coworker an iPad. Brand new, unopened box. My coworker was a little uncomfortable receiving such an expensive gift from a kid."

"The kid just said, 'Don’t worry, I just grabbed it out of the gift closet.'"

"We were confused, so we asked him what a gift closet is."

"Apparently, their family keeps a whole closet loaded with stuff like this - Apple Watches, cameras, iPads, etc so that whenever they need to give a gift, they always have something on hand."

- El_mochilero

Dishwashers

"In college, I was washing a bowl in the sink and someone said, 'That's the weirdest thing about college for me, not having a dishwasher.'"

"I said, 'Man, I didn't have one until high school and it was s**t so it couldn't clean pans.'"

"Him: 'Oh, I meant like someone to wash the dishes for us...'"

"Me: 'You're joking, right?'"

"He was not joking, but I got invited to their upstate place for spring break so that was cool."

- Bron_3

Oh Yes, the Nanny...

"My husband was on a business trip w some rich people in Hawaii. They asked why I didn’t come."

"He told them I was home with the kids."

"The guy said, 'Well, couldn’t the nanny just stay with them?'"

"Nice enough guy. Just out of touch for sure."

- Xceptionalcmonplcness

Gotta Have That Car

"Back when I worked in payroll, a doctor yelled at me because his administrator didn’t process his bi-monthly incentive on time so it missed his check"

" He was supposed to go pick up his new Mercedes with that money (it was 6 figures) so he threw a fit to have a check cut that day."

"Two weeks later, that same doctor did not approve a check to be cut for an hourly employee whose hours (two weeks' worth) didn’t get approved on time because it was only $1000 and they wouldn’t miss it."

"I had to go above him to get it approved because I knew that employee would definitely be negatively impacted by not being paid on time."

- jtuley77

Tell Me Something I Don't Know

"2008, Great Recession: My job was cut from full-time salary to hourly, and then my hours were cut regularly."

"My boss, the business owner who was in the midst of a company-paid whole home remodel, handed me my paycheck and said, 'Wow, you don’t make s**t!'"

- toomuchisjustenough

So Closeminded

"I didn't go to college for seven years after high school due to struggles with alcoholism and bipolar disorder."

"A kid I worked with asked me what I was doing working and going to school at 25, and when I said I took time off due to personal issues, his response was, 'Wow, if you're not making at least 100 K a year at 25, you've basically f**ked your life up.'"

- D**nGoodOwls

Why Didn't We Think of This?

"Why have roommates at all? I don't think anyone I knew had roommates. Seems like too much trouble. Just spend the extra hundred on rent and live in peace."

"Said by an 80-year-old man."

- DarthDregan

Cheaper to Replace Than to Fix

"'If your car is broken, why don't you just go buy a new car?'"

"He was dead-pan serious."

- waywardcowboy

Travel Those Feelings Away

"'Oh, you get seasonal depression? Why don’t you just go to the Caribbean for a week and the Mediterranean the next? It always helps me.'"

- spicyhooligan

Five-Figure Months

"I have a friend and she is very wealthy. She was talking about finding a charity for Christmas."

"I mentioned that there were people going places and paying off Christmas layaways. I mentioned a town I grew up in as a possibility. I told them the per capita income is 9k."

"And she said, '9k a month!!!! How do those people live!'"

"Then I had to tell her it was 9k a year. She was floored."

"She is actually a very very sweet and caring person and donates millions a year to so many wonderful places and causes."

- Aromatic_Mission_165

While these people likely meant well, it's eye-opening to see how little financially privileged people understand about how people in lower income brackets live.

Hopefully some of the people in these stories had their eyes opened and were able to make a difference, especially that last one.

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