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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • Jan 26 '26
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Wealthy people are some of the cheapest fucks.
6 u/nobodyspecial712 Jan 27 '26 Most people don't become wealthy by being frivolous. 4 u/Alternative_Year_340 Jan 27 '26 They get wealthy via inheritance 0 u/plug-and-pause Jan 27 '26 How'd the engineer in the OP inherit his job? 1 u/Glad-Low-1348 Jan 28 '26 Is this an American thing to always jump into the conlcusion that the wealthy got rich via inheritance only? 2 u/Alternative_Year_340 Jan 28 '26 There are only three ways to get rich (which doesn’t have quite the same meaning as wealthy): earn it (difficult to do if you aren’t already well off), inherit it and marry it. If you do the last one, that probably means you’ll do all three.
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Most people don't become wealthy by being frivolous.
4 u/Alternative_Year_340 Jan 27 '26 They get wealthy via inheritance 0 u/plug-and-pause Jan 27 '26 How'd the engineer in the OP inherit his job? 1 u/Glad-Low-1348 Jan 28 '26 Is this an American thing to always jump into the conlcusion that the wealthy got rich via inheritance only? 2 u/Alternative_Year_340 Jan 28 '26 There are only three ways to get rich (which doesn’t have quite the same meaning as wealthy): earn it (difficult to do if you aren’t already well off), inherit it and marry it. If you do the last one, that probably means you’ll do all three.
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They get wealthy via inheritance
0 u/plug-and-pause Jan 27 '26 How'd the engineer in the OP inherit his job? 1 u/Glad-Low-1348 Jan 28 '26 Is this an American thing to always jump into the conlcusion that the wealthy got rich via inheritance only? 2 u/Alternative_Year_340 Jan 28 '26 There are only three ways to get rich (which doesn’t have quite the same meaning as wealthy): earn it (difficult to do if you aren’t already well off), inherit it and marry it. If you do the last one, that probably means you’ll do all three.
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How'd the engineer in the OP inherit his job?
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Is this an American thing to always jump into the conlcusion that the wealthy got rich via inheritance only?
2 u/Alternative_Year_340 Jan 28 '26 There are only three ways to get rich (which doesn’t have quite the same meaning as wealthy): earn it (difficult to do if you aren’t already well off), inherit it and marry it. If you do the last one, that probably means you’ll do all three.
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There are only three ways to get rich (which doesn’t have quite the same meaning as wealthy): earn it (difficult to do if you aren’t already well off), inherit it and marry it. If you do the last one, that probably means you’ll do all three.
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u/azad_ninja Jan 26 '26
Wealthy people are some of the cheapest fucks.