Signs someone grew up rich

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Anonymous wrote:I find folks who are comfortable interacting with “help” and are super kind and engaging with folks from many different walks of life were brought up with a certain level of wealth as being good at a cocktail party and comfortable with one’s owns charms is super important

Hahaha, one dead giveaway is use of the term “help” to describe all service workers.

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Anonymous wrote:They expect people to treat them well even if they don’t treat people well.

Every time.

(This doesn’t apply to people who grew up rich and who treat people well. Who do exist. I’m friends with some! I don’t hate rich people. I’ve just found that if you meet someone who is rude and expects others to be unfailingly deferential, they without fail grew up rich.)

Disagree. I think that's new money who doesn't treat "the help" well. The truly rich that I've known are extremely polite, well traveled (but don't make fun of those who don't know) and extremely well educated.

I grew up UMC in a very UC place. You rarely could tell the difference. Sometimes it was the private jet vs commercial airlines, sometimes the fancy summer camps vs regular summer camps, sometimes the boarding schools they went to, mentions of nannies vacationing with them.... The truly rich often downplayed their lives. Sometimes their money was also tied up in trusts too. A lot of UC live like middle class.

It's just really a different language that you can't speak unless you also are UC.

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They are incapable of doing for themselves and they need "help" to get through regular daily activities.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with the vocabulary and grammar. This is what you get with elite private schools.

Lot's of travel.

I got it from middling public schools, and an elite public college.

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Clear, articulate speech with an expansive vocabulary.

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My MIL can’t drive because she grew up with a chauffeur and can’t cook because she had a chef. The first time she changed one of my kid’s diapers she wiped the poop with a towel because she didn’t know about wipes thanks to nannies. I have many more stories. Anyway her father squandered the entire fortune and now she’s middle class.

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Anonymous wrote:They are incapable of doing for themselves and they need "help" to get through regular daily activities.

See Bella Hadid having a nervous breakdown when she no longer had a stylist to dress her.

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Anonymous wrote:Clear, articulate speech with an expansive vocabulary.

Lol nope

This is regular people’s idea of what rich people are.

I’ve noticed baby boomers of all races write and speak better than millennials. Studies show this as well.

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Anonymous wrote:They ask questions like “Should I buy a first class or economy ticket for my teen’s nanny when we go on vacation?”

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Anonymous wrote:They ask questions like “Should I buy a first class or economy ticket for my teen’s nanny when we go on vacation?”

Nah! This is absolutely new money.

Rich either do not care about this kind of expense and will buy the first class ticket, OR they will not think twice about letting nanny sit in the economy class. Rich will not ask this question. In both of their options, they will not second guess about the OPTICS. Optics is a new money issue. Born rich are oblivious to optics because they live in another universe.

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They have confidence

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Anonymous wrote:Clear, articulate speech with an expansive vocabulary.

I got that from reading a whole lot of books and living with my extremely smart, well read, well informed mother. We were not even close to rich. She was a GS-10 and my father often did not pay child support.

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Anonymous wrote:They have confidence

Yes, like an easy confidence that life will fall into place for them. Some of the richest people I knew in college and graduate school were the most casually dressed—they aren’t trying to impress anyone.

Also, if you talk to them long enough, they will often mention classic rich people vacations. Like if it’s clear they’ve spent a lot of time in aspen or vail, or certain islands (the fancy ones).

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Anonymous wrote:You really can’t tell who grew up “rich” but you can tell who grew up with class.

This. DCUM has one vision of rich and it is an old-money WASP. There are many different versions of rich, have we learned nothing from Trump? And that's not even the worst. A lot of these PPs are alluding to old money. I can assure you the mafia principessas whose parents made money in "asphalt" and don't have high school degrees but live in 12 million dollar homes and go to school for "hair design" meet basically none of the above posted.

Class is not defined only by money, it just is not. The old guard would be the first to tell you this.

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Anonymous wrote:They lack a fundamental understanding of how the world works for the rest of us.

+1000