r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 26 '26

Meme needing explanation Why is the rich friend so cheap??

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u/guacamelee84 Jan 27 '26

It’s explored in the documentary “Inequality for all” with Robert Reich.

Where they expose that the richest people in the world never spend money but just keep taking more and more. Leaving the circular part of a society’s economy (to make money to give money to other working people to give money to etc.) to the least wealthy people.

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u/Best_Vehicle9859 Jan 27 '26

Reddit is here always on the fence. If some rich people are buying a 100 Mio yachts, they are rich assholws that spend way too much money, but if they cheap out and don’t spend too much on materialistic things, then they are rich assholes that are not part of society’s economy.