People Are Sharing The Strange Experiences They Have With Rich People Pretending To Be Poor
Being poor is not trendy; it is a harsh reality for many people. So why would rich people cosplay it?
Some people do not know how strange they sound when they try to look broke while living very comfortably. From thrift-store bragging to fake hardship stories, the internet has plenty to say about rich people who seem determined to cosplay poverty.
In this roundup, people share the little habits, outfits, and excuses that make wealth feel impossible to miss, even when someone is trying hard to hide it. The reactions are blunt, funny, and a little too relatable, especially when the people doing it seem to think nobody can tell.
Here is what people noticed, and why the whole thing keeps getting under everyone’s skin.
1. Surely the only reason people can do minimalism is if they have a big house to hide all their junk, right?
Source2. People who intentionally get their shoes scuffed! That's half the shoe's life gone! You know they're rich because they KNOW they can afford to buy new ones.
Source3. Rich people pretending they couldn't cope during the pandemic was so annoying! We're not all in this together! You have stable housing, a job you can work from home, and staff to wait on you!
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That complaint lands with a lot of people.
4. Like, seriously?
5. Being able to afford eco-friendly products is a privilege, but a rich person's carbon impact is still probably greater than a poor person's!
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6. The best part of quarantine was seeing inside people's houses and discovering who was rich.
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7. Yeah, this has BRPE (Big Rich People Energy).
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To all the rich people thinking, "oh, they're just jealous of us!" Well, we're not jealous of you; we're just envious of your ability to be fake-poor rather than real-poor!
This one says the quiet part out loud.
9. Intentional holes in clothes.
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10. Do rich people seriously not think that we can notice?
11. Bosses who pay minimum wage yet live a life of luxury, and then still complain about how low their profits are? If you can't afford to pay your employees, you don't have an effective business!
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12. Money can't buy happiness, but it can pay my bills!
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13. Rich people hate the commoners.
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14. This is a really specific assessment of people who live on ranches.
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15. Just say it!
16. Rich people who shop at thrift stores because it's "trendy" drive up the prices so that poor people, some of whom only have thrift stores as an option, can't afford them anymore.
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That frustration is hard to miss.
17. These people are not fooling anyone, especially not car salesmen!
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18. You can usually spot these types of rich people by their shoes, anyway.
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19. Dear rich people: even if you try to hide it, we can all see it!
For more of these responses, and to add your own, head on over to the place for all things weird, wacky, and crowd-sourced: Reddit. Find the thread "What screams, "I'm rich but I pretend I'm poor"?" here.
There you can add all of the things that you think rich people do to pretend that they are poor, as well as check out the rest of the answers.
Poverty isn't a fashion statement; it's a sad reality for lots of people. Cosplaying poverty is such a weird thing to do. Honestly, I would rather a rich person go out on their yacht than pretend that they live in a dinghy with holes in it.
Maybe money doesn't buy happiness, but I think it definitely buys a less stressful life. Being poor and worrying about how you’re going to pay for everything you need to survive sucks. So until rich people understand the reality of that, maybe they should quit being faux-poor.
Do you have an example of something that rich people do to make themselves seem less rich? Make sure you share the annoying thing in the comments below.
May this kind of fake humility stay far away from your feed.
