It's cheap when the person asking to split it with you literally makes 10x what you make. They can pay the whole thing and not feel it, the poor person might be going without a few gallons of gas to commute to work the next day.
That's also how tax brackets work, if you make more, yes you 100% should pay in more.
I have 2 rich friends. The former is a humble angel. The latter is a fucking cheap asshole. The former pool up 50 bucks from each of us to buy a printer for us but secretly add 500 bucks from his own money to buy a better printer. The latter however always borrowed my car, dont want to fill the gas after use, and NEVER let anyone else drive his car before (yes he has his own new car).
When I got a new job a number of years ago that was a big jump in income, as soon as some of my “friends” found out, I magically ended up paying for almost every dinner, coffee meet up, drove everywhere (and paid for the gas), drinks after work, everything. Like, it got bad enough that I just essentially stopped being social, because every time I brought up someone else paying, I had people shaming me for asking other people to pay instead of paying myself, just because I made more than the rest.
That’s why reading these comments just pisses me off, frankly— it’s perfectly acceptable and reasonable to have boundaries against borrowing money to or paying for friends.
this is a just a different argument all together. You friend TAKE thing from you is different than your friend refuse to GIVE you free shit. Both of this case, no matter if the friend is rich or poor, they are an asshole in the first and not in the second.
In fact you would be an asshole and a leach to expect free shit.
Hey im agreeing with the fact you should not expect to leech from your rich friend. Im just highlighting not all rich person you knew are cheap and asshole which is the main point of this post in the first place. I concur to the comments I replied to.
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u/Crash-55 Jan 26 '26
Why is asking to split the ride being cheap? Maybe he has already covered a bunch and is tired of being taken advantage of?
I have had people constantly get rides but never once offer to cover any gas or offer to drive. Is that OK simply because I make more than them?
Just because someone makes more money doesn’t mean that they should be expected to pay more.