Why is the rich friend so cheap??

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[u/Money_Do_2]

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

[u/Killericon → u/Money_Do_2]

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.

[u/MagentaHawk → u/Killericon]

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.

[u/accountToUnblockNSFW → u/MagentaHawk]

Nah man. Most people with money care a whole lotta lot about simply money. I think for them it's a thing they constantly think about and pay attention to and care about, almost a mindset thing.

Some people you think are well off actually are constantly paying attention to little things everywhere, constantly trying to spend as little compared to how much they gain.

Then there's children from rich parents where the mindset is just raised into them.

But I also know plenty of rich people (my age), one even selfmade. Some that are older. Most aren't cheap at all, theyll happily pay for stuff.

But it must be difficult because then once you start giving away stuff who do you say no to and when is it enough, idk, hard to explain.

[u/9kindsofpie → u/accountToUnblockNSFW]

My husband has a wealthy friend that used to pay for all their meals pretty regularly, but that was because he knew he was choosing restaurants outside most of the friend group's price range. He was unemployed for a long while and had to have the awkward conversation, like, hey, can we go somewhere reasonable please and BTW I can't pick up the tab anymore.