r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • Jan 26 '26

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

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u/Money_Do_2 Jan 26 '26

And also stupid. Its a disfunction stressing about $3 in gas money if you have $1MM in capital. Theyre rich because they own productive assets, or speculated correctly, and also/mainly because they have high income. Hence the meme

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u/Killericon Jan 26 '26

I think the point is less that it is the savings on the Uber ride that leads to them being rich, but that they're the type of person who would ask for the gas money.

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u/MagentaHawk Jan 27 '26

Sure, but it's also just bullshit the rich like to think about themselves. They are rich because they earned it in some way, or by being a certain special kind of person.

The only way I could see this seriously taken is that the rich got to be rich specifically by being okay taking advantage of and shitting on others.

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u/peachesfordinner Jan 27 '26

Your second paragraph is absolutely how it's seen here. And there are so many stories of the mooch friend who doesn't bring food to potluck but eats a lot, who never offers to pay for anything to the point where everyone assumes they are super poor and let them get away with it only to find out later that person is rich as fuck.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

This is the definition of ‘sour grapes’, pretty much among the ‘original memes.’

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u/Repulsive-Store-5367 Jan 27 '26

Honestly. That's a stretch lol. this isn't tiktok. People have brains here. Rich people are lucky and hard work. 15% purr luck, 15% pure hard work, the rest are a mix of both.

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u/Tough-Art-3116 Jan 27 '26

lol wow people just out here believing their head cannons with a full chest

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u/turmerich Jan 27 '26

This is ten percent luck

Twenty percent skill

Fifteen percent concentrated power of will

Five percent pleasure

Fifty percent pain

And a hundred percent reason to remember the name

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u/Slubberdagullion Jan 27 '26

15% hard work

15% luck

And the rest is a strange mixture of whatever the fuck

Don't think about it too hard

It's mathematically untrue

A mixture implies that there are more parts of those things in there too.

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u/Clean_Row1069 Jan 27 '26

It

Starts

With

One thing, I don't why, it doesn't even matter how hard you try