20 TikTok Users Describe Rich People Having No Idea How Regular People Live

We all absorb things from our surroundings and learn from the things around us. However, with the rise of the internet, more knowledge has become accessible to most people regardless of age or class. Yet, some folks are still so ignorant about basic things and are so lost in their own worlds that they seem to not know what reality is.

#1

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“So I had this one friend in college and she didn’t ask me anything crazy, but she definitely made a lot of weird statements. And one of my favorites was when she was telling us how her family only uses the Audi for vacations. And I was like, “Oh, well, if your family only use the Audi for vacations, like what are your parents drive to work? ” And she was like, well, the Maserati, of course.” Of course, the Maserati like how stupid could I be? Of course, they just take the Maserati to work.”

#2

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“A friend asked me if I have a horse ? I was like what the hell do u mean a horse???”

#3

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“So I grew up around people who had, you know, a good amount of money. And some of my friends had so much money, they didn’t need to work. And because of that, they were just so lonely and no one actually liked them for them. They just kind of liked them for the stuff that they had and the experiences that they brought. Anyway, so they would call me in the morning and be like, “Hey, you want to hang out with me today?” And I’d say, you know, “I gotta go to work today. I can’t.” And they would be like, “well, how much do you make in a day? ” And I would tell them how much I made and they said, “Well, I’ll give you two times that amount of money. If you skip work and hang out with me today.” It doesn’t work like that.”

#4

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“I once had a student asked if the HOA where I live allowed me to put up my own Christmas lights because their HOA was really rigid and they had to hire out a third party contractor. They’re saying this while I am eating my lunch out of the container that my lunch meat comes in that I use as Tupperware.”

#5

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“When I was a barista at a coffee shop, I was kind of standing there cleaning up behind the counter. And then the people that were like sitting out in the lobby, at a table, were talking about something and they were like all pharmaceutical reps. And so one of them says something like, “imagine a really, really poor person, like a really like poor person, like someone who makes like $52,000 a year.” And everyone else just stoped because like, I was the manager and I was making $27,000 a year, so rich people can get f**ked.”

#6

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“I was telling my friend I didn’t have money to buy tickets to see my family in Dominican Republic. And my friend that has money told me “use your credit card.” I was like, “Dude, I don’t even have credit.””

#7

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“One time I had a rich person convinced me to go jewelry shopping with them, because they were like, “Tiffany, you have to go to this diamond store with us. The diamonds are literally so cheap.” And I was like, “You know, I’m not really in the market for diamonds right now.” And they were like, “No, you have to come.” And so I was like, you know, maybe they are really that cheap. I get to the store and I can’t afford anything. Nothing. And then that rich person comes up to me and she’s like, “Oh, Tiffany, you’re not getting anything?” And I have to be like, “oh, yeah, you know, it’s just there’s so many options. I’m overwhelmed, overwhelmed by the price tags.””

#8

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“People who grew up with money like literally look into your eyes and ask you something insane like “do you ski?””

#9

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“They were trying to figure out where we would go for a grade 12 trip and my friend suggested Punta Cana and I just like flat out said there’s no way I’d be able to afford that. And she was like, “Well, can you just ask your parents for like, $2,000?” Yeah, yeah….”

#10

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“This girl at uni once asked me if I “sail” !? Like yeah, I see what’s on sail and that’s what I buy.”

#11

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“A rich classmate once told me “we only go to vacation 4 times a year” that’s 4 more times than me?”

#12

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“My ex at one point asked me “how is it that hard to save up for a brand new car?” Honey there’s people that go their whole lives never get one.”

#13

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“So my wife didn’t grow up rich but she grew up very comfortable in a fairly affluent neighborhood and I grew up in poverty. But she one time when we started dating said to me in random conversation, “do you remember when we used to have like astronauts come speak at your school? You know, like the ones that were like the dads of your classmates?” No I do not remember.”

#14

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“I had a classmate a guy asked me why I was working a full-time job in college. He proceeded to say, “well don’t you know that your schoolwork is going to be affected by you working at that much? ” You think I want to work a full-time job and go to school?”

#15

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“A girl in college once told me it’s better to buy an apartment in NYC than to rent one as I was doing. ? I was like girl, I have a scholarship.”

#16

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“I had a rich friend recommended I talked to my family therapist.”

#17

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“I grew up with like a lot of rich Asian kids in the California and one day my friend was like, “How do you tell your parents when you don’t like the car they surprise you with? I was like, “What are you talking about?” She’s like,” Yeah, my mom just surprise me with this car for my 18th birthday. And I hate it because it’s like a Mercedes convertible. And I want a four door car like, it is so annoying. Like, how do I tell her to buy me another car?” And I was just like, “I take the bus every day.””

#18

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“My first year of teaching was wild for many reasons. But one of those is because it was quite the culture shock for me. So I had students who lived in environments so awful that I just couldn’t even wrap my brain around it. And then I had some students who at the age of 11, had more money than I will ever dream of making in my entire life. So it’s the end of the school year, and I had the student who was, you know, a really strong singer, and I told her, “You really should think about auditioning for this community theater show.” And she looked at me so seriously and said, “Oh, I would love to but we summer in Vermont””

#19

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“I had this co-worker. Her husband was very high up in McDonald’s corporate so they’re making a lot of money. Anyway she was trying to put some woman down and she calls her low rent. Low rent? She says that low rent b***h. Ma’am low rent? I’ve heard white trash, low class, whatever, low rent. I was like, “Isn’t low rent a good thing?” Am I a low rent b***h?”

#20

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“My ex thought it was my choice to not go to college and called me uneducated in front of his whole family. Sorry I don’t have money or an army dad.”