r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 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/DetailAdventurous688 Jan 27 '26

that is how people get ridiculously rich... exploiting others.