• TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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    17 days ago

    American: time to get back to the grind to pay for all this. Can’t take a vacation day or my boss will think I don’t worship capitalism

    Euro: damn, I just get to do this because my great great granddad and his buddies unionized

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      17 days ago

      The wealthy people I know aren’t the Hollywood stereotype.

      They drive 10 year old cars, live in nice homes but not McMansions, etc.

      In particular they take vacations every year, long ones, to places like Hawaii, Italy, Greece, etc.

      To see them on the street you wouldn’t know how wealthy they are.

      The meme here is of the California posers or Appalachian temporarily rich (who are my people - you see this every time there’s a boom).

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        17 days ago

        That sounds like upper middle class, where they still work for their money, like lawyers and surgeons and dentists. At that wealth level it’s still stupid to buy or lease a brand new car, and they still mix in with locals and go grocery shopping.

        Not that they aren’t doing much better than most, but that’s not what rich means. If you’re working a “day job” like lawyer/dentist, you’re probably not rich.

        The real rich fucks, you wouldn’t see them on the street because they stop doing shit like that. They are the true owner class. They make money because they literally own shit and rent it out. Gated neighborhoods at minimum, pay other people to buy groceries for them and cook for them, pay other people to do all sorts of shit so they don’t mingle with the lower classes, and sometimes just working from other countries and moving around because they can.

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        17 days ago

        Region probably doesn’t matter as much in an age of social media. The inexperienced rich haven’t developed their own style or taste so they copy Andrew Tate and other grifters. Capri pants and loose blouses might be the next big thing.