Is anyone here a billionaire?

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Anonymous wrote:No, but I’ve met one of the Rales brothers, who founded the Danaher company and are billionaires.

His daughter went to Holton-Arms and was friends with my sister. He was fairly reserved the couple of times that I met him. Comically and stupidly, I somehow thought that billionaires would all have flamboyant personalities.

Like gay people?

No, more like Trump. What can I say? I was a teenager at the time.

Trump was never a billionaire. He’s a good liar.

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I personally know two, both of whom are heirs to fortunes from family businesses in Asia. Both of them have MBAs from elite schools and work at basically normal jobs and lead low-key lives as seemingly average working parents. It mystifies me tbh, why would you choose to work a W2 job when your annual interest income is more than anyone could ever spend in a normal lifetime? Wouldn’t you rather do philanthropy projects and sail around the world in a mega yacht???

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Anonymous wrote:I personally know two, both of whom are heirs to fortunes from family businesses in Asia. Both of them have MBAs from elite schools and work at basically normal jobs and lead low-key lives as seemingly average working parents. It mystifies me tbh, why would you choose to work a W2 job when your annual interest income is more than anyone could ever spend in a normal lifetime? Wouldn’t you rather do philanthropy projects and sail around the world in a mega yacht???

I don’t know any billionaires so I’m going totally based on gossip etc. but I believe normal income people are much less dysfunctional. I would prefer to hang out with regular people, hide or downplay my wealth, and not be with the super wealthy.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who is a billionaire. She’s pretty normal. You’d never know it if you met her.

You wouldn’t know at all? This is fascinating.

Does she have an air of relief about her? Calm? Something else?

If I knew I could spend $100,000 every day, everyone would be able to feel the sense of relief coming off of me.

lol
+100

I would love to see a study on the happiness of extremely wealthy people. I imagine it’s very very hard to trust people and to develop close relationships with people. That said, I would take a billion in a heartbeat!

The billionaires or close to it are usually well known and their public lives are too. Elon Musk doesn’t do well and his transgender child hates him. The guy who invented Snapple killed himself. So did others who were caught breaking laws. Allan Weisselberg was a billionaire and is in jail for his willingness to break laws and incredible greed.

They have problems just like everyone else. If I won the lottery of 1 billion I couldn’t give it away fast enough.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I wrote some albums. Began recording at age 16 and currently sell out stadiums no problem.

It’s you! You’re the problem.

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I am but I need to stop visiting this site because everyone is being rude about the appearance of my bae at NYFW (and then they started in on me too)

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I am Bill Gate but I am locked out of my email account. I can log baack in but I need you to give me One Hudnred Dollar. send it to me and will give Handsome Reward.

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I know the granddaughter of a billionaire. Her husband has a normal job. They had kids pretty early and she is a SAHM with a full time nanny. Their house is worth several million (bought in their 20s) and everything they buy is extremely expensive but not flashy (i.e. a plain t-shirt for $500).

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I drafted an extremely long message but it wouldn't let me post the first time

I'm from a family that's almost billionare status and spent time around a few different billionaires.
Attended elite N.E. prep school and was in private school before boarding school (and had a team of tutors around the clock to make sure grades were good).

Growing up, there's so much staff constantly around you that these people begin to fade away and become like art on a wall. Security, drivers, groundsmen, housekeepers, butlers, nannies, and a chef just kind of blend in since they're around so much as a kid.

At boarding school I had a great time and there were a few secret groups like the Diamond Club (this is beyond niche so if you don't know don't worry).
That world is small. Gossip spreads like a wildfire and everybody knows everybody, even if you think there's no way, there's some connection.

There's always some type of connection. Whether through family, business, boarding school, vacation, etc. it seems as if everyone tends to go to the same places and knows the same people and rightly so.

I have a hard time making friends with people in my age group who I didn't grow up with / know from other wealthy friends. I have to either hide my wealth and limit the type of conversations I have to be more inclusive and if they do find out about the wealth they make it awkward and try to get me to pick up tabs or feel as if I can sponsor events (I can I just don't want to).

Furthermore, I work an entry level job since I'm fairly young and the people in the company aren't familiar with the amount of wealth (they do know I have some money though since my boarding school is listed on my resume) and again it's weird since I probably have more in assets at an entry level position than the entire company / my bosses.

The best is when a manager offers to pay and says one day I'll be able to afford paying them back or when I walk around DC and the strivers try to gauge you based on your outfit and the plethora of personal questions they ask which I will probably lie about. While may seem wealthy to a lot it's not. There's few real money here and a lot of UMC people here making 250k to a million a year think they're rich but really that's an inconsequential amount in the grand scheme of things.

I don't live off family money and don't really tap into it unless it's for medical or housing. I work a nice entry level job and live a pretty middle class life and the vast majority of people in my social circle and my day to day life in DC don't know / think I have money, but it's nice to know that barring a black swan event I'll be comfortable for my entire life.

I'm writing this because I feel trapped, I don't have anyone I can really talk to and open up about this and have a hard time even interacting with people in DC. I end up keeping in touch with a lot of high school / old friends and spend an enormous amount of time with family. There's so much strivers in DC that it's obnoxious and off putting.

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Anonymous wrote:I drafted an extremely long message but it wouldn't let me post the first time

I'm from a family that's almost billionare status and spent time around a few different billionaires.
Attended elite N.E. prep school and was in private school before boarding school (and had a team of tutors around the clock to make sure grades were good).

Growing up, there's so much staff constantly around you that these people begin to fade away and become like art on a wall. Security, drivers, groundsmen, housekeepers, butlers, nannies, and a chef just kind of blend in since they're around so much as a kid.

At boarding school I had a great time and there were a few secret groups like the Diamond Club (this is beyond niche so if you don't know don't worry).
That world is small. Gossip spreads like a wildfire and everybody knows everybody, even if you think there's no way, there's some connection.

There's always some type of connection. Whether through family, business, boarding school, vacation, etc. it seems as if everyone tends to go to the same places and knows the same people and rightly so.

I have a hard time making friends with people in my age group who I didn't grow up with / know from other wealthy friends. I have to either hide my wealth and limit the type of conversations I have to be more inclusive and if they do find out about the wealth they make it awkward and try to get me to pick up tabs or feel as if I can sponsor events (I can I just don't want to).

Furthermore, I work an entry level job since I'm fairly young and the people in the company aren't familiar with the amount of wealth (they do know I have some money though since my boarding school is listed on my resume) and again it's weird since I probably have more in assets at an entry level position than the entire company / my bosses.

The best is when a manager offers to pay and says one day I'll be able to afford paying them back or when I walk around DC and the strivers try to gauge you based on your outfit and the plethora of personal questions they ask which I will probably lie about. While may seem wealthy to a lot it's not. There's few real money here and a lot of UMC people here making 250k to a million a year think they're rich but really that's an inconsequential amount in the grand scheme of things.

I don't live off family money and don't really tap into it unless it's for medical or housing. I work a nice entry level job and live a pretty middle class life and the vast majority of people in my social circle and my day to day life in DC don't know / think I have money, but it's nice to know that barring a black swan event I'll be comfortable for my entire life.

I'm writing this because I feel trapped, I don't have anyone I can really talk to and open up about this and have a hard time even interacting with people in DC. I end up keeping in touch with a lot of high school / old friends and spend an enormous amount of time with family. There's so much strivers in DC that it's obnoxious and off putting.

Good on you for working. We did not have your family's levels of wealth. We did not have staff. I went to public schools but
I also worked an entry level job where my net worth was probably more than the company's. I also kept my families wealth ultra private. I see no reason to be flashy. Most of my friends have no idea of my net worth from family money and I like to keep it that way.

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Yes, but then the darn alarm clock woke me up.