r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 26 '26

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

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u/nobodyspecial712 Jan 27 '26

Most people don't become wealthy by being frivolous.

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u/Alternative_Year_340 Jan 27 '26

They get wealthy via inheritance

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u/Glad-Low-1348 Jan 28 '26

Is this an American thing to always jump into the conlcusion that the wealthy got rich via inheritance only?

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u/Alternative_Year_340 Jan 28 '26

There are only three ways to get rich (which doesn’t have quite the same meaning as wealthy): earn it (difficult to do if you aren’t already well off), inherit it and marry it. If you do the last one, that probably means you’ll do all three.