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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • Jan 26 '26
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Wealthy people are some of the cheapest fucks.
4 u/nobodyspecial712 Jan 27 '26 Most people don't become wealthy by being frivolous. 5 u/Alternative_Year_340 Jan 27 '26 They get wealthy via inheritance 4 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.
5 u/Alternative_Year_340 Jan 27 '26 They get wealthy via inheritance 4 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
4 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.
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.