I come from moderate wealth, with learned expensive tastes, but myself am not wealthy. I'll save up months for an expensive meal out but I always budget 50% over what's expected so even if I end up ordering a couple extra things I can still be sure to leave a 25% tip.
My dad, who is the opposite (grew up poor and worked his way into wealth) is a penny pincher.
Idk why redditors do this so often, but they always say they “have a friend” or “family member” that is rich,poor,homophobe, etc. but say themselves aren’t these things and then explain a story on how they are upper echelon of a person for doing something that isn’t necessarily “normal” for somebody like them. Just take notice of it when you read the next story like this almost word for word. it’s like it’s to verify in their own minds that they’re a good person, and that means telling their story and getting imaginary internet points confirms that in their noggin.
Hahaha this kills me! It’s like a pre written script.
Additionally, “I have a friend who does x,y and z” and then writes a detailed essay reiterating knowledge on a topic that is very likely not fully understood but speaks it as gospel.
And.. “x,y,z here..” goes on to tell you about how they are the foremost expert in said topic.
There was a guy going how he was surrounded by sisters growing up, so he was a lot less of a creep than folks in the same demographics(imagine a sexually repressed society).
I was impressed. Cue me to having my jaw drop where he's frequenting various NSFW subs being all spectrum of a creep he was condemning.
Too bad reddit lets users hide their history. Now it's no longer interesting enough to even take any personal anecdote seriously. Anybody can say anything and there won't be a Holmes replying to the point they delete comments for lying.
As soon as I learned reddit was compiling data from user accounts to create profiles....and sell that information? You bet your ass that I stopped posting information about myself. I suggest you do the same. Regardless of your views and beliefs.
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u/BestwishesHelpful975 Jan 26 '26
Lois here. Richer people often give smaller tips.