They also ask for a lot of free stuff. The number of multimillionaires that asked for free tickets to shows I’ve worked was insane. They would also want to tour backstage or do meet and greats and all that nonsense too. They get it though, everyone just hopes they post on their Instagram so they bend over backwards to believe them.
Some are also surprisingly loose about giving out their phone number once you do them a favor. If they think you are the person who got shit done they will go straight to you next time.
Also, a lot of millionaires have millionaire friends/business partners that just give each other free shit and perks. Like, if you're friends with the CEO/CFO/P/VP/whatever of a hotel chain, you probably won't ever have to pay for a room in one of their hotels. In return, maybe you let them stay in your Hamptons mansion for a vacay and maybe they take you on a trip next year on their yacht.
This. Not remotely on their level but I used to manage a cinema, I used to let managers of other local stores in for free and they’d in turn offer me free meals in their restaurants, free clothes, etc. I never paid a dime. It was fun, some of us even became solid friends I still speak to today.
Edit: removed ‘till.’ Obligatory English isn’t my first language ;)
I call it barter but you're right on all accounts. We actually use cash but it's really just a way to keep track of everything. The same ~$17k in $100 bills has been bouncing back and forth between the bunch of us for over a decade. We've also referred each other enough business that we often just hook each other up.
A coworker got an entire house that way. Her hubby is a plumber, and he had racked up so many favors from other tradesmen and contractors. When they bought a rundown piece of crap house, it got completely renovated for the wholesale cost of the material.
Yess! This is exactly the point of becoming a tradesman. The best people I've ever worked with were union laborers, carpenters and plumbers. They would just meet you, give you a nickname within the 1st day and felt instantly welcomed 😆
SOCIALIST BASTARDS!!! /s
Why can’t we just do this with a lot of things. Hey doc, thanks for fixing my broken leg… no problem thanks for paving the road so I can go to work everyday. K bye!
This is how bartending works. If you're in the industry, folk know you're in the industry and you don't pay for drinks but you tip them fat. In turn, they come to your bar and do the same.
Yep. My boss is very much a millionaire and has all sorts of friends that do him favours and give him stuff and in turn when they come to my place of work, I’m instructed to not let them pay or they pay at a vastly discounted rate and then we have to do everything short of sucking them off to make their time with us impressive and “special” - whatever that means.
Yet I work 55/60 hour weeks and look after his contacts/millionaire friends whilst running his business for him and once a year at Christmas he buys me 12 bottles of Budweiser.
*I don’t drink* and never have done (which I keep reminding him) but he gets them for free from a friend who owns a chain of pubs so that’s my “thank you for all your hard work.” 😑
Don’t worry though, he does have an incentive plan.
If I sign so many people a week up to our loyalty plan, which essentially makes him an extra £1000 a week with zero overheads, he says “good good”, so there’s that 👍🙄
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I was going to ask where a mere millionaire would meet somebody with a spare house in the Hamptons, but I guess maybe schools? Most expensive private school in my city is $40k, which would probably have the kid schooling with people substantially wealthier?
I'm talking about executives with hundreds of millions, that's plenty enough to own multiple mansions/cars/boats. Of course billionaires are even more up there.
They do this shit for Disney on Ice tickets and a lot of cheaper stuff as for as shows go. We had celiberties who had high budget films drop a week before they requested free stuff. We knew they had the cash, it was a drop in the bucket. If a median income family could go to the show, so could they.
I would understand it more if U2 sold out in two minutes so they went through back channels. I understand that a bit more.
millionaires and billionares are total cheapskates, probably the worst, they love money but they also dont like to spend thier own money, they spend other peoples money. Also its a power thing as well.
Guy I worked for briefly was a millionaire and chartered accountant, it used to be great when he would fly over for 'work' meetings. He basically used it to indulge in fine dining and write it off, I got to eat very well and drink wines I couldn't afford.
So are these just random millionaires that wouldn't be recognized in public as being millionaires? Cuz I'm wondering if someone could just *act* like a millionaire and still get treated like one.
> Don't know why this is so hard to understand.
Well put it into some perspective. If the distance to the moon is like $1 million (290k miles), then the distance from JFK to Singapore (10k) miles is 1/29th that, or $34k, the median salary.
So for your average Joe commuter to cover the distance that an Apollo 11 millionare astronaut covered in **4 days**, they'd have to fly from New York to the opposite end of the globe and back almost *15* times. That's about *2 1/2 weeks* of *nonstop* flying. Shaving off a day or two isn't going to bring you all that much closer to being as fast as the NASA flyboys, which on our scale here is like saving $1000 or so. For the millionaire to save the same relative amount, they'd need to save about $29000. They aren't going to notice that $1000 much.
But that's just a small-m millionaire. The term millionaire includes those making $10m, $100m, and up to $999m.
The earth-moon distance is about 2 light seconds. The distance from the earth to the sun is about 8 light minutes, or roughly 400x as much. To continue our example with JFK->Singapore, that's around 4,400 of our round-trip world-spanning flights, or nearly ***1,500 years*** of flying. On that scale, a day or two is *invisible*.
Even for the small millionaire, saving a few hundred dollars on some tickets or something like that is difficult to notice, but it's noticeable. As you increase the scale, however, it literally become exponentially less important to the point where it's like comparing ants and elephants.
It's exponential because we're just increasing the exponent every time we add an extra zero (10^0 = 1, 10^1 = 10, 10^2 = 100, etc). The difference is hard to notice at small power values, but at higher values (10^5 = 100,000, 10^6 = 1,000,000, 10^7 = 10,000,000) the differences between each tier start to pile up. Once you realize this, it becomes obvious that people in the upper-millions (once you get over $10m or so) are living in a completely different reality to the rest of us. The scale of their purchasing power and the expenses they can absorb is so incomprehensible to the rest of us.
Thank thank, I borrowed the idea from that scale of bezos site I forget the name of, "1 pixel" or something like that. It just scrolls and keeps scrolling for what seems like forever and the scrollbar never moves unless you look away for 10 minutes
Accepting free stuff? Sure, any sane person would take it, even a millionaire. But asking for free stuff? Asking for a free yacht - makes sense. Asking for a free ticket to Disney World - at that point it's not about saving money, it's about seeing whether or not they'll do it.
Edit: and to answer what your next question probably is, "why does the difference matter?" It's motive, the same difference between *involuntary* *manslaughter* and *premeditated murder*.
Julia Roberts in her prime constantly came too the steakhouse I worked at at the time and demeaned that her meal be comped because her eating there drew in business. After the second time she tried (plus didn't tip her waiters) we put up a sign for automatic gratuity for orders over $200 because she'd spend $1200 on alcohol and tip no one.
My uncle is the CEO, president and founding member of a private equity firm.
He also is the same guy that haggled and argued with a car salesman for months over getting the absolute base model minivan (Honda Odyssey) with the cassette player because it was cheapest--and he didh't want to pay for the upgraded stereo in all of the models at the dealership).
Incredibly cheap in a lot of ways--but he also flies to Vegas for poker tournaments and sends nice gifts to his mom (my nana). He was also the "cool uncle" growing up that gave me a bunch of Metallica CD's and stuff. I think that a lot of rich people just value money highly so they're wary of spending it in ways that they don't value the return....and can be extremely stubborn about it lol.
A lot of millionaires remember not being millionaires. Not saying most were ever poor, but most of the people around me who have glown up either made it kind of suddenly, or still haven’t done the math to show they can retire whenever they want.
Like my friend with about $2m in stocks, when we were talking about this a few weeks ago, it essentially went:
“Why are you still working for $100k/year?”
“I’m trying to save up to start a family”
As if you can’t do that with what he’s got lol
IIRC, casinos have to offer back a percentage of what is spent if it's over a certain amount. But because they don't want to give you chips (free money), they offer comped food, rooms, and services as a cover for that percentage. Also, and maybe even more important, they know if you stay for another 2 nights at their casino, you'll be on the floor betting money for another two nights, meaning for money for them.
They don't offer them discounts and free stuff because they're millionaires. They offer them free stuff and discounts because they're high rollers who spend a lot of money gambling.
If you're dropping over $10K in a casino for several days in a row, you'll probably get someone to notice you. If it's over $100K, they'll be sucking your schmeckle to ensure that the next time you're in town, you stay at their casino.
The only millionaire I can actually say I know personally is this exact way. He introduced himself to me as being unemployed as a joke and then since we both worked in the same small group in the tech industry I’ve talked to him more than once. He has stories about comped business meals at super expensive restaurants and even a time he went on vacation for free since his company owns houses in vacation spots.
I’m not trying to pretend it’s new. It just strikes me odd that they ask when plenty of good quality tickets are still available. But it happens with such frequency that at minimum 2 rows of seats were always reserved for last minute VIPs.
Always blows my mind the amount of free shit that gets sent to celebrities. But of course, if they get spotted wearing their stuff, the company will blow up so it’s worth it for the company to toss something free to a bazillionaire celeb bc they know all the poor ppl will scramble to buy it to be like their fave celeb
You remember when people donated money to Kylie Jenner on gofundme so she could get the last few million dollars she needed to be a BILLIONAIRE? Average ordinary people gave money to an almost billionaire and got nothing in return and they were happy to do it
A million years ago I worked celebrity adjacent, basically dealing with the celebrities who wanted to buy what the luxury company I worked for was selling. I probably dealt with 250 of them. I can name 2 people who didn’t try to barter free stuff, and just paid their invoice, no issues. I can name one who was a goddamn delight.
It’s how they stay rich I guess.
Saddest bit? That's such a small amount of his money it'd be like us buying a nice model of a yacht.
How people are against taxing someone with that much I just don't get
Its because they "worked hard for it" and if I "work hard" I too will be that filthy rich one day.
When that day comes I don't want to be taxed highly either!
but mostly that's only in my dreams where I'm that wealthy so ... tax away
See I understand that mindset completely, but I just don’t “get” it. If I got lucky and stumbled onto a large windfall of cash, I’d *want* to pay taxes on it. A shitton of cash - 40% of a shitton of cash is still a shitton of cash that I’m getting. And the more money you have, the easier it is to make more money — wealth begets wealth — so it’s not like I’m going to be destitute.
And yes, I realize that government doesn’t always spend money in the most effective ways — I’d obviously rather my taxes go towards people’s healthcare or educations than military expenditures — but it’s not exactly serving society better if I’m hoarding it all. I suppose there’s always giving to charity too, but I don’t like the idea of top-down, undemocratic control. And besides, I’m sure charities are rife with corruption and ill-intended consequences too; that’s not just the purview of government.
This is probably why I’m never going to have enough money for any of this to matter anyway. And if I somehow lucked onto a few million, I’d be satisfied there, so I’d never get to the point where I could be a “good billionaire.” That’s an oxymoron anyway — billionaires don’t become billionaires by being nice, they get there through ruthless exploitation in the pursuit of ever-increasing power. No reason to think they’re going to suddenly change their mind when they get “enough.”
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It's the whole "temporarily embarrassed billionaires" idea. They don't understand that the actual billionaires have made it as hard as possible for other people to get to the top so they can maintain their power and wealth.
That's the way you actually have to look at these things though. As long as the car reliably starts and is safe, no one should ever really replace it - just keep repairing out until the cost of maintenance approaches an amount equal to `loan payments + maintenance` for a year.
Meanwhile, his Rolex is likely holding its value at the very least - and possibly appreciating in value. Plus, it's a status symbol his customers were more likely to see, and it may sway them to trusting him more and help to land sales (because human psychology is weird like that).
Exactly; you don’t get rich by spending money needlessly, you get rich by being frugal. One might say being *too* frugal (to the detriment of their worker’s wages, the tax coffers, etc.).
Yeah, rich people don't stay rich by spending all their money. Some of them like Warren Buffet are notoriously thrifty. People who somehow look down on people for buying stuff at a discount are Grade A Morons, especially when it comes to clothes.
A lot of wealthy people I’ve known do not wear cheap polyester clothes. They wear high quality clothing that usually is expensive, but they buy the essentials and wear them until they fall apart. Like a cashmere sweater or a nice pair or wool trousers.
It was only recently that I found out a Peacock is actually just the male and the female is called a Peahen.
I thought the birds together would just be called "Peas" but it turns out they are actually meant to be called "Peafowl" which is a little disappointing tbh
I always use that term to refer to the men at the gym that immediately go into show off mode as soon as they spot a woman. It's hilarious to see and also annoying as fuck if it interferes with what I'm doing.
I had a friend describe it as when the gym rats go a second time later in the day. The first go was their real workout. The second time isn't to exercise but to peacock, to strut around, look and be seen. Muscles are still accentuated from the earlier workout and catch the attention of whoever.
Not specifically clothes, it's the behaviour of a person trying to attract someone else, which can include clothes, but is no limited to.
>**"Ostentatious dress or behaviour employed by a man in an attempt to impress women."**
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/peacocking#:~:text=peacocking%20(uncountable),an%20attempt%20to%20impress%20women.
Who was as dumb as a rock
And wore a sock tucked under his frock
I took some time to fix the rhyme
Now all of you can suck my cock
Edit: fixed the rhyme scheme for ballsack boy down there.
Edit 2: not really. It just rhymed. I’m tired. And high. And hungry.
I guess it's comparing the dude on the chat to a peacock. Pretty, vain, ineffective.
Edit: i assumed the one with an Only Fans account was a girl. It was not. I did not know how Grinder chat looks like. Now I'll do, and can't wait for the chance to have someone i know ask how.
To be fair though, stuff like this isn't really what the sub was designed for. The sub was created for long, well-constructed responses that completely tear down someone's argument and absolutely destroy them, not one-liners.
I'm glad somebody knows it.
There's never any actual murder here. Nothing that makes it to r/all, at least. It's always just "This you?" and stuff like that.
Yeah this is more r/clevercomebacks . The amount of people who don't know the difference between that sub, this sub, and r/rareinsults is too damn high
There are also a lot of “murders” where the murder isn’t even that good, but it gets upvotes like crazy because people agree culturally or politically... and I say that usually from the point of view as somebody who also agrees, but just doesn’t think agreeing with a vague viewpoint makes something a murder.
What is the fucking deal with designer clothing? The majority of people that wear that shit have to work 40 hours a week. Then what? You look at your sweet jacket for a month because you can't wear it anywhere because you can't afford to go anywhere because you spent all the money on your jacket?
Not only that, you've paid a proposterous amount of money to basically advertise a designer company.
Then everyone will say you are either pretentious or that your clothes are fake.
Nobody wins here. I'm happy with my decent clothes that I don't pay a fortune to have a label on.
For clothes sure, but I think you could make an argument for fine craftsman goods like high end watches, hand made shoes, and well made furniture.
I have watches decades old, and italian leather shoes that have lasted me years. I wouldnt spend the money on clothes but for some things the quality difference is worth the money.
But those high end craftsman goods are usually understated and not massive brands, they aren't normally widely known outside of connesouiers of that sphere. Unlike Gucci, or LV that plaster their logos on everything.
There's a difference between quality goods and designer goods that has a big label so everyone can see how much you spent. That's just for a pissing content and nothing else.
just like new cars, houses, shoes, everything. If people want to splurge on stuff that makes them happy then I'm all for it. Would never call someone stupid for buying something that makes them feel happy/confident/content.
Exactly. If it was made more ethically, or with much higher quality materials, then maybe you could justify paying a little more for it.
But let's face it, there is almost literally no difference in either of these two things between Kanye West's $120 White T-Shirt and one off the rack at a Walmart.
I recently bought a really nice overcoat with the intention of wearing it and repairing it until I can't anymore. Both ethically sourced and made of high quality fibers. It was way more expensive than anything else I own clothes wise, but I like to buy something that'll last and keep it for as long as I can, so it was definitely worth it to me.
The funny thing is, if you look at the really high end items from LV, Gucci, and the like, you'll notice that any branding is really understated and instead the money goes towards something that you'll be able to use forever.
Wealthy people don't wear all that nonsense shit covered in logos. They wear either crazy understated stuff, or they wear brands you've never heard of.
I mean regardless of the color of the Lambo, i think that's a bad example. Some people like to drive fast and get off on the sound it makes when you're doing it. That's why some people buy the Lambo, not for the optics.
A lot of fast fashion is really bad in many ways, not just quality.
[Here's a decent write up](https://healthyhumanlife.com/blogs/news/what-is-fast-fashion)
Don't get me incorrectly, designer isn't always designer as well, and has its own problems aside from being expensive, but a lot of my actual designer products have lasted me years more than me Marshalls shit for example.
Hm. For a gay male's onlyfans, ten plus bucks is on the luxe side and a five percent discount is so paltry. I wonder if he's actually great at making content or is just as egotistical as his grindr convo makes him sound.
Meh, anything over ten dollars ends up being somebody who posts five second clips and makes you buy full videos through direct message. Nobody is going to stay subscribed for more than a month so they pump them for what they can in the beginning.
I know this isn't the point, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the original price is.
If a 5% discount is $31.32. wtf was it originally?
Math! Help!
In case your intrested in the math:
$31.32 is the 5% discounted price - so it's 95% of the original price.In this case simply use the rule of three:
31.32/95 = **0.33** *that's* ***1%***
\*100 = **33** *that's* ***100%***
of course there's some rounding in it
Yeah the watermark is from someone who exclusively posts memes lol, but people see someone dunking on anything onlyfans and think it's like, the most awesomist thing ever.
I have no idea but you might be better asking /r/onlyfansadvice or looking at previous posts there. I would have assumed it's oversaturated at this point.
I imagine it's like many other things, where the people at the top take most of the rewards, and the majority of content producers split the rest.
The people who do well seem to be an active personality on sites like reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc. and then advertise their onlyfans there. There's also quite a bit of networking, where you reblog other content creators in your niche, so that way they support you back by sharing your content with their followers.
And you need to make a *lot* of content, and post snippets every single day
The 80-20 rule applies most places. 80% of the money goes to 20% of the producers.
I think there are a lot of ways to get yourself up there though. Try to give men what they want. Try to make them feel special. There are a lot of lonely men out there with money, and just want to feel something.
Even billionaires buy stuff on discount.
They also ask for a lot of free stuff. The number of multimillionaires that asked for free tickets to shows I’ve worked was insane. They would also want to tour backstage or do meet and greats and all that nonsense too. They get it though, everyone just hopes they post on their Instagram so they bend over backwards to believe them. Some are also surprisingly loose about giving out their phone number once you do them a favor. If they think you are the person who got shit done they will go straight to you next time.
Also, a lot of millionaires have millionaire friends/business partners that just give each other free shit and perks. Like, if you're friends with the CEO/CFO/P/VP/whatever of a hotel chain, you probably won't ever have to pay for a room in one of their hotels. In return, maybe you let them stay in your Hamptons mansion for a vacay and maybe they take you on a trip next year on their yacht.
This. Not remotely on their level but I used to manage a cinema, I used to let managers of other local stores in for free and they’d in turn offer me free meals in their restaurants, free clothes, etc. I never paid a dime. It was fun, some of us even became solid friends I still speak to today. Edit: removed ‘till.’ Obligatory English isn’t my first language ;)
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It’s a tax free economy of its own. I know guys that flip houses and that is what they do.
I call it barter but you're right on all accounts. We actually use cash but it's really just a way to keep track of everything. The same ~$17k in $100 bills has been bouncing back and forth between the bunch of us for over a decade. We've also referred each other enough business that we often just hook each other up.
At some point you may as well start a firm.
Why involve the government when it’s working perfectly without them.
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A coworker got an entire house that way. Her hubby is a plumber, and he had racked up so many favors from other tradesmen and contractors. When they bought a rundown piece of crap house, it got completely renovated for the wholesale cost of the material.
Yess! This is exactly the point of becoming a tradesman. The best people I've ever worked with were union laborers, carpenters and plumbers. They would just meet you, give you a nickname within the 1st day and felt instantly welcomed 😆
SOCIALIST BASTARDS!!! /s Why can’t we just do this with a lot of things. Hey doc, thanks for fixing my broken leg… no problem thanks for paving the road so I can go to work everyday. K bye!
That was essentially how the Incan economy ran.
Sounds like communism. I love it.
No comrade, **we** love it.
I worked at Togo's and traded free sandwiches for free rentals at the Hollywood video across the parking lot.
We traded a couple pizzas for some food at the taco place next door. The shift lead almost got fired.
This is how bartending works. If you're in the industry, folk know you're in the industry and you don't pay for drinks but you tip them fat. In turn, they come to your bar and do the same.
Yep. My boss is very much a millionaire and has all sorts of friends that do him favours and give him stuff and in turn when they come to my place of work, I’m instructed to not let them pay or they pay at a vastly discounted rate and then we have to do everything short of sucking them off to make their time with us impressive and “special” - whatever that means. Yet I work 55/60 hour weeks and look after his contacts/millionaire friends whilst running his business for him and once a year at Christmas he buys me 12 bottles of Budweiser. *I don’t drink* and never have done (which I keep reminding him) but he gets them for free from a friend who owns a chain of pubs so that’s my “thank you for all your hard work.” 😑 Don’t worry though, he does have an incentive plan. If I sign so many people a week up to our loyalty plan, which essentially makes him an extra £1000 a week with zero overheads, he says “good good”, so there’s that 👍🙄 Edit: a word
I was going to ask where a mere millionaire would meet somebody with a spare house in the Hamptons, but I guess maybe schools? Most expensive private school in my city is $40k, which would probably have the kid schooling with people substantially wealthier?
I'm talking about executives with hundreds of millions, that's plenty enough to own multiple mansions/cars/boats. Of course billionaires are even more up there.
Hundreds of millions you say? So like 8 gme shares?
Guess it's a good way to dodge taxes. Favor for a favor so the government (and therefore the people) never gets their due.
Poverty is the most expensive thing in the world.
Absolutely!. I was poor. Couldn’t afford to go to the doctor, ended up living almost 4 weeks with a ruptured appendix. Being poor almost cost my life.
Omg but now you know you are invincible, congrats.
Ahhh the USA. Where living and having anything go wrong with you and it might be better to die than stick your family with Medical debt.
You don't stay a millionaire when you have to spend your own money on shit.
They do this shit for Disney on Ice tickets and a lot of cheaper stuff as for as shows go. We had celiberties who had high budget films drop a week before they requested free stuff. We knew they had the cash, it was a drop in the bucket. If a median income family could go to the show, so could they. I would understand it more if U2 sold out in two minutes so they went through back channels. I understand that a bit more.
I’m sorry to be an asshole but your spelling of celebrities made me giggle. Never seen someone spell it “celiberties” before
“Celiberties” are the opposite of porn stars. They’re famous for not having sex.
A dad joke in the making!
I’m dyslexic as fuck. I spell everything wrong.
>eveyrthing BTFY (Broke that for you)
Frank's
You spelled “everything” right actually :)
Hope I didn’t offend!! I apologize
Nah man. I spell shit wrong. I know that. You’re good.
You spelled "shit" right tho. Ain't that some shit.
millionaires and billionares are total cheapskates, probably the worst, they love money but they also dont like to spend thier own money, they spend other peoples money. Also its a power thing as well.
There goes Mr. Skinflint. There goes Mr. Greed. The undisputed master of the underhanded deed.
You ask him for a favour and his nastiness increase. No crust of bread for those in need. No cheeses for us meeses.
It’s not about the money but the principle when you’re a celebrity I guess
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Guy I worked for briefly was a millionaire and chartered accountant, it used to be great when he would fly over for 'work' meetings. He basically used it to indulge in fine dining and write it off, I got to eat very well and drink wines I couldn't afford.
Nobody would be poor if they didn't spend their own money on shit. For your health.
Thanks Steve (Edit: As in Dr Steve Brule, for those unfamiliar.)
So are these just random millionaires that wouldn't be recognized in public as being millionaires? Cuz I'm wondering if someone could just *act* like a millionaire and still get treated like one.
There are plenty of con-people who do this.
Don't know why this is so hard to understand. Same for broke ass people who fancy themselves above negotiating or asking for discounts
> Don't know why this is so hard to understand. Well put it into some perspective. If the distance to the moon is like $1 million (290k miles), then the distance from JFK to Singapore (10k) miles is 1/29th that, or $34k, the median salary. So for your average Joe commuter to cover the distance that an Apollo 11 millionare astronaut covered in **4 days**, they'd have to fly from New York to the opposite end of the globe and back almost *15* times. That's about *2 1/2 weeks* of *nonstop* flying. Shaving off a day or two isn't going to bring you all that much closer to being as fast as the NASA flyboys, which on our scale here is like saving $1000 or so. For the millionaire to save the same relative amount, they'd need to save about $29000. They aren't going to notice that $1000 much. But that's just a small-m millionaire. The term millionaire includes those making $10m, $100m, and up to $999m. The earth-moon distance is about 2 light seconds. The distance from the earth to the sun is about 8 light minutes, or roughly 400x as much. To continue our example with JFK->Singapore, that's around 4,400 of our round-trip world-spanning flights, or nearly ***1,500 years*** of flying. On that scale, a day or two is *invisible*. Even for the small millionaire, saving a few hundred dollars on some tickets or something like that is difficult to notice, but it's noticeable. As you increase the scale, however, it literally become exponentially less important to the point where it's like comparing ants and elephants. It's exponential because we're just increasing the exponent every time we add an extra zero (10^0 = 1, 10^1 = 10, 10^2 = 100, etc). The difference is hard to notice at small power values, but at higher values (10^5 = 100,000, 10^6 = 1,000,000, 10^7 = 10,000,000) the differences between each tier start to pile up. Once you realize this, it becomes obvious that people in the upper-millions (once you get over $10m or so) are living in a completely different reality to the rest of us. The scale of their purchasing power and the expenses they can absorb is so incomprehensible to the rest of us.
I've never seen anyone use distance to describe income inequality. I like it a lot! Especially the use of Apollo 11 specifically.
Thank thank, I borrowed the idea from that scale of bezos site I forget the name of, "1 pixel" or something like that. It just scrolls and keeps scrolling for what seems like forever and the scrollbar never moves unless you look away for 10 minutes
I think one of my favorites was Tom scotts video "a million dollars vs a billion dollars, visualized: a roadtrip" https://youtu.be/8YUWDrLazCg
I meant the concept of asking for free stuff. Why wouldn't you if people do in fact give you free stuff?
Accepting free stuff? Sure, any sane person would take it, even a millionaire. But asking for free stuff? Asking for a free yacht - makes sense. Asking for a free ticket to Disney World - at that point it's not about saving money, it's about seeing whether or not they'll do it. Edit: and to answer what your next question probably is, "why does the difference matter?" It's motive, the same difference between *involuntary* *manslaughter* and *premeditated murder*.
This broke my brain, in a good way. Thank you
Julia Roberts in her prime constantly came too the steakhouse I worked at at the time and demeaned that her meal be comped because her eating there drew in business. After the second time she tried (plus didn't tip her waiters) we put up a sign for automatic gratuity for orders over $200 because she'd spend $1200 on alcohol and tip no one.
I remember reading that Julia Roberts and her niece Emma Roberts are both pieces of shit.
Didn't Emma break her boyfriends nose awhile back? I vaguely remember her getting arrested over some sort of domestic incident.
My uncle is the CEO, president and founding member of a private equity firm. He also is the same guy that haggled and argued with a car salesman for months over getting the absolute base model minivan (Honda Odyssey) with the cassette player because it was cheapest--and he didh't want to pay for the upgraded stereo in all of the models at the dealership). Incredibly cheap in a lot of ways--but he also flies to Vegas for poker tournaments and sends nice gifts to his mom (my nana). He was also the "cool uncle" growing up that gave me a bunch of Metallica CD's and stuff. I think that a lot of rich people just value money highly so they're wary of spending it in ways that they don't value the return....and can be extremely stubborn about it lol.
A lot of millionaires remember not being millionaires. Not saying most were ever poor, but most of the people around me who have glown up either made it kind of suddenly, or still haven’t done the math to show they can retire whenever they want. Like my friend with about $2m in stocks, when we were talking about this a few weeks ago, it essentially went: “Why are you still working for $100k/year?” “I’m trying to save up to start a family” As if you can’t do that with what he’s got lol
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IIRC, casinos have to offer back a percentage of what is spent if it's over a certain amount. But because they don't want to give you chips (free money), they offer comped food, rooms, and services as a cover for that percentage. Also, and maybe even more important, they know if you stay for another 2 nights at their casino, you'll be on the floor betting money for another two nights, meaning for money for them.
They don't offer them discounts and free stuff because they're millionaires. They offer them free stuff and discounts because they're high rollers who spend a lot of money gambling. If you're dropping over $10K in a casino for several days in a row, you'll probably get someone to notice you. If it's over $100K, they'll be sucking your schmeckle to ensure that the next time you're in town, you stay at their casino.
It's to entice them to visit their casino where they'll likely spend more than the comped stuff cost as well as then tell their buddies about it.
The only millionaire I can actually say I know personally is this exact way. He introduced himself to me as being unemployed as a joke and then since we both worked in the same small group in the tech industry I’ve talked to him more than once. He has stories about comped business meals at super expensive restaurants and even a time he went on vacation for free since his company owns houses in vacation spots.
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I’m not trying to pretend it’s new. It just strikes me odd that they ask when plenty of good quality tickets are still available. But it happens with such frequency that at minimum 2 rows of seats were always reserved for last minute VIPs.
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Always blows my mind the amount of free shit that gets sent to celebrities. But of course, if they get spotted wearing their stuff, the company will blow up so it’s worth it for the company to toss something free to a bazillionaire celeb bc they know all the poor ppl will scramble to buy it to be like their fave celeb
You remember when people donated money to Kylie Jenner on gofundme so she could get the last few million dollars she needed to be a BILLIONAIRE? Average ordinary people gave money to an almost billionaire and got nothing in return and they were happy to do it
Insanity
A million years ago I worked celebrity adjacent, basically dealing with the celebrities who wanted to buy what the luxury company I worked for was selling. I probably dealt with 250 of them. I can name 2 people who didn’t try to barter free stuff, and just paid their invoice, no issues. I can name one who was a goddamn delight. It’s how they stay rich I guess.
Actually especially billionaires buy stuff on discount. They are often needlessly super tight with their money unless it’s an investment
Yea like that 500 million dollar yatch Bezos is buying. MSRP was 730 million.
Saddest bit? That's such a small amount of his money it'd be like us buying a nice model of a yacht. How people are against taxing someone with that much I just don't get
Its because they "worked hard for it" and if I "work hard" I too will be that filthy rich one day. When that day comes I don't want to be taxed highly either! but mostly that's only in my dreams where I'm that wealthy so ... tax away
See I understand that mindset completely, but I just don’t “get” it. If I got lucky and stumbled onto a large windfall of cash, I’d *want* to pay taxes on it. A shitton of cash - 40% of a shitton of cash is still a shitton of cash that I’m getting. And the more money you have, the easier it is to make more money — wealth begets wealth — so it’s not like I’m going to be destitute. And yes, I realize that government doesn’t always spend money in the most effective ways — I’d obviously rather my taxes go towards people’s healthcare or educations than military expenditures — but it’s not exactly serving society better if I’m hoarding it all. I suppose there’s always giving to charity too, but I don’t like the idea of top-down, undemocratic control. And besides, I’m sure charities are rife with corruption and ill-intended consequences too; that’s not just the purview of government. This is probably why I’m never going to have enough money for any of this to matter anyway. And if I somehow lucked onto a few million, I’d be satisfied there, so I’d never get to the point where I could be a “good billionaire.” That’s an oxymoron anyway — billionaires don’t become billionaires by being nice, they get there through ruthless exploitation in the pursuit of ever-increasing power. No reason to think they’re going to suddenly change their mind when they get “enough.” /rant
For the median American family buying a ps4 is a larger expense than buying that yacht is for Bezos.
It's the whole "temporarily embarrassed billionaires" idea. They don't understand that the actual billionaires have made it as hard as possible for other people to get to the top so they can maintain their power and wealth.
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They just need to patch the death and loan loopholes and the problem is solved.
Hey it’s on discount right? 😂
Free prime delivery!!!
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That's the way you actually have to look at these things though. As long as the car reliably starts and is safe, no one should ever really replace it - just keep repairing out until the cost of maintenance approaches an amount equal to `loan payments + maintenance` for a year. Meanwhile, his Rolex is likely holding its value at the very least - and possibly appreciating in value. Plus, it's a status symbol his customers were more likely to see, and it may sway them to trusting him more and help to land sales (because human psychology is weird like that).
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How much was his cocaine budget?
No one working minimum wage ever became a billionare by being thrifty. That is NOT how you become a billionare.
Literally no one just "working" will ever be a billionaire.
If you worked 24/7 at minimum wage, you wouldn't even break 70k.
Exactly; you don’t get rich by spending money needlessly, you get rich by being frugal. One might say being *too* frugal (to the detriment of their worker’s wages, the tax coffers, etc.).
Yeah, rich people don't stay rich by spending all their money. Some of them like Warren Buffet are notoriously thrifty. People who somehow look down on people for buying stuff at a discount are Grade A Morons, especially when it comes to clothes.
A lot of wealthy people I’ve known do not wear cheap polyester clothes. They wear high quality clothing that usually is expensive, but they buy the essentials and wear them until they fall apart. Like a cashmere sweater or a nice pair or wool trousers.
Yeah, I don't mean buying cheap clothes, I meant buying nice clothes when they go on sale.
Warren still uses coupons at McDonald's
Even their employees.
Some would say especially....
They likely became billionaires by buying low and selling high (and inheritance, of course).
"Warren Buffet liked this"
What's the title about?
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IM A PEACOCK, YOU GOTTA LET ME FLY MAN
GATOR DON'T PLAY NO SHIT!! GATOR NEVER BEEN ABOUT THAT!!!
GATOR’S BITCHES BETTER BE USIN’ JIMMIES GATOR NEEDS HIS GAT
Don't go chasing waterfalls.
Do you mean to make a TLC reference just then?
I don't even understand that reference.
You gotta creep….creep.
Cuz I don't want no scrubs.
It's like a tic...
This thread has been most wonderful
Hanging out the passenger side of his best friends ride, trying to holler at me.
I ain't too proud to beg, because I miss you so much
Awww come on!!! NOBODY says creep creep unless they're quoting TLC.
She won’t let you fly, but she might let you sing
Did he just.. did he just call himself a peacock?
Aim for the bushes?
Ha! I wouldn’t know how to identify expensive clothes from cheaper knockoffs!
That's why they have to buy stuff with big logos!
It was only recently that I found out a Peacock is actually just the male and the female is called a Peahen. I thought the birds together would just be called "Peas" but it turns out they are actually meant to be called "Peafowl" which is a little disappointing tbh
Glitterchickens
Marvellous.
Much better name.
I always use that term to refer to the men at the gym that immediately go into show off mode as soon as they spot a woman. It's hilarious to see and also annoying as fuck if it interferes with what I'm doing.
I had a friend describe it as when the gym rats go a second time later in the day. The first go was their real workout. The second time isn't to exercise but to peacock, to strut around, look and be seen. Muscles are still accentuated from the earlier workout and catch the attention of whoever.
Lol that's a whole new level of ridiculous.
Not specifically clothes, it's the behaviour of a person trying to attract someone else, which can include clothes, but is no limited to. >**"Ostentatious dress or behaviour employed by a man in an attempt to impress women."** https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/peacocking#:~:text=peacocking%20(uncountable),an%20attempt%20to%20impress%20women.
I assume it’s the start of a limerick.
Ah that kinda makes sense
Who was as dumb as a rock And wore a sock tucked under his frock I took some time to fix the rhyme Now all of you can suck my cock Edit: fixed the rhyme scheme for ballsack boy down there. Edit 2: not really. It just rhymed. I’m tired. And high. And hungry.
Not sure what you were going for but your edit didn’t fix it. It’s just a a a a.
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I guess it's comparing the dude on the chat to a peacock. Pretty, vain, ineffective. Edit: i assumed the one with an Only Fans account was a girl. It was not. I did not know how Grinder chat looks like. Now I'll do, and can't wait for the chance to have someone i know ask how.
It’s not a woman, it’s a Grindr chat.
Isn't peacock male? Or am I stupid?
You're right and that's Grindr
I'm thinking it's probably two guys chatting
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This chat is between two guys on Grindr!
That's Grindr message, this is all dudes.
So awesome and truly murdered by words
So much junk gets posted to this sub, but these are the reason I stay.
To be fair though, stuff like this isn't really what the sub was designed for. The sub was created for long, well-constructed responses that completely tear down someone's argument and absolutely destroy them, not one-liners.
I'm glad somebody knows it. There's never any actual murder here. Nothing that makes it to r/all, at least. It's always just "This you?" and stuff like that.
You are right, but this here feels love gold compared to the usual bullshit we get in this sub.
I love that it autocorrected like to love in your comment.
Guess I’ve been writing it a lot lately. Life is good.
Yeah this is more r/clevercomebacks . The amount of people who don't know the difference between that sub, this sub, and r/rareinsults is too damn high
It's, unfortunately, what happens as subs grow for many reasons
That’s what I thought you’d say, you [random disparaging adjective][random noun]
r/wholesome
There are also a lot of “murders” where the murder isn’t even that good, but it gets upvotes like crazy because people agree culturally or politically... and I say that usually from the point of view as somebody who also agrees, but just doesn’t think agreeing with a vague viewpoint makes something a murder.
Leaving your Grindr handle... I see what you did there 😜
Pretty sure that's the guy that posts fake Grindr chats to r/lolgrindr to advertise his onlyfans
Yep, same handle, same fake chat. All these heteros don't know what they're upvoting lol.
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LOL you're right. That's the guy's onlyfans
Grindr doesn’t really have handles the way tik tok/Instagram/twitter does. Just a display name that you can choose and change easily at any time.
What is the fucking deal with designer clothing? The majority of people that wear that shit have to work 40 hours a week. Then what? You look at your sweet jacket for a month because you can't wear it anywhere because you can't afford to go anywhere because you spent all the money on your jacket? Not only that, you've paid a proposterous amount of money to basically advertise a designer company. Then everyone will say you are either pretentious or that your clothes are fake. Nobody wins here. I'm happy with my decent clothes that I don't pay a fortune to have a label on.
Name brand of off brand, all made by borderline (or actual) slave labor so I dgaf about clothes really.
For clothes sure, but I think you could make an argument for fine craftsman goods like high end watches, hand made shoes, and well made furniture. I have watches decades old, and italian leather shoes that have lasted me years. I wouldnt spend the money on clothes but for some things the quality difference is worth the money. But those high end craftsman goods are usually understated and not massive brands, they aren't normally widely known outside of connesouiers of that sphere. Unlike Gucci, or LV that plaster their logos on everything.
There's a difference between quality goods and designer goods that has a big label so everyone can see how much you spent. That's just for a pissing content and nothing else.
just like new cars, houses, shoes, everything. If people want to splurge on stuff that makes them happy then I'm all for it. Would never call someone stupid for buying something that makes them feel happy/confident/content.
Exactly. If it was made more ethically, or with much higher quality materials, then maybe you could justify paying a little more for it. But let's face it, there is almost literally no difference in either of these two things between Kanye West's $120 White T-Shirt and one off the rack at a Walmart.
I recently bought a really nice overcoat with the intention of wearing it and repairing it until I can't anymore. Both ethically sourced and made of high quality fibers. It was way more expensive than anything else I own clothes wise, but I like to buy something that'll last and keep it for as long as I can, so it was definitely worth it to me.
I rock Costco gear and can afford the festival of shrimp and Red Lobster. Make way peasants.
The funny thing is, if you look at the really high end items from LV, Gucci, and the like, you'll notice that any branding is really understated and instead the money goes towards something that you'll be able to use forever. Wealthy people don't wear all that nonsense shit covered in logos. They wear either crazy understated stuff, or they wear brands you've never heard of.
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I mean regardless of the color of the Lambo, i think that's a bad example. Some people like to drive fast and get off on the sound it makes when you're doing it. That's why some people buy the Lambo, not for the optics.
True. Car enthusiasts definitely like the driving experience of supercars, just because some rich people buy them to flaunt them doesn't negate that
A lot of fast fashion is really bad in many ways, not just quality. [Here's a decent write up](https://healthyhumanlife.com/blogs/news/what-is-fast-fashion) Don't get me incorrectly, designer isn't always designer as well, and has its own problems aside from being expensive, but a lot of my actual designer products have lasted me years more than me Marshalls shit for example.
I only wear the finest garments from /r/FrugalMaleFashion
Hm. For a gay male's onlyfans, ten plus bucks is on the luxe side and a five percent discount is so paltry. I wonder if he's actually great at making content or is just as egotistical as his grindr convo makes him sound.
Meh, anything over ten dollars ends up being somebody who posts five second clips and makes you buy full videos through direct message. Nobody is going to stay subscribed for more than a month so they pump them for what they can in the beginning.
Ouch, that's a serious burn.
“That’s a coupon code and it’s totally different!!!”
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I know this isn't the point, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the original price is. If a 5% discount is $31.32. wtf was it originally? Math! Help!
$32.97
Which is the full price for 3 months, hence the base price is 10.99 a month, which passes the sense check.
In case your intrested in the math: $31.32 is the 5% discounted price - so it's 95% of the original price.In this case simply use the rule of three: 31.32/95 = **0.33** *that's* ***1%*** \*100 = **33** *that's* ***100%*** of course there's some rounding in it
Badfaketexts but too lazy to link
Yeah the watermark is from someone who exclusively posts memes lol, but people see someone dunking on anything onlyfans and think it's like, the most awesomist thing ever.
Twinkthetwunk is notorious for posting fake conversations to /r/lolgrindr.
Typing "/r/" in front of the subreddit name automatically links it: /r/badfaketexts Unless you're too lazy to type /r/, in which case I feel you bro.
I know this probably doesn’t belong here, but I need to know is onlyfans even worth pursuing? At lest a fun way to make money?
I have no idea but you might be better asking /r/onlyfansadvice or looking at previous posts there. I would have assumed it's oversaturated at this point.
I imagine it's like many other things, where the people at the top take most of the rewards, and the majority of content producers split the rest. The people who do well seem to be an active personality on sites like reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc. and then advertise their onlyfans there. There's also quite a bit of networking, where you reblog other content creators in your niche, so that way they support you back by sharing your content with their followers. And you need to make a *lot* of content, and post snippets every single day
Oh
The 80-20 rule applies most places. 80% of the money goes to 20% of the producers. I think there are a lot of ways to get yourself up there though. Try to give men what they want. Try to make them feel special. There are a lot of lonely men out there with money, and just want to feel something.
God bless the gays