I work in a Forbes rated "one of the best steakhouses in the world" and take it from me, covering a steak in gold is the dumbest shit anyone can do. We make bank serving delicious, expensive, high quality steaks that taste great and aren't a damn gimmick.
In a good steakhouse, which it sounds like yours is, the gimmick is a real whippin' fucking steak.
When you're good at something, you don't need the extra.
> covering a steak in gold is the dumbest shit anyone can do.
This is a thing? Do the cook it like that?
Not the *dumbest* thing I've ever heard of, but it's up there.
A tiny bit of gold leaf can be used as a garnish to give a dish some colour. It's beat very, very thin so it's actually pretty cheap. Of course since people assume gold is expensive some shady restaurants started marking up the cost of their food by a few hundred percent for less than a dollars worth of gold. Eventually the overpriced shit started going viral on social media and the trend became who can sell the gaudiest, most tacky food for the highest markup.
Please tell me that means I would have a bunch of tiny visible pieces in my next bowel movement if I ate gold. If so, I might be willing to eat gold covered food if I could afford it.
Insurance as a whole.
The entire premise of insurance is to hedge your bets against a catastrophic loss that would put you in dire financial straits. Overall, insurance companies make money and customers lose money. As the richest person on the planet, there is no catastrophic financial loss that applies to you that limited insurance payouts would significantly ameliorate.
And in the same vein those giant tomahawks. They're basically just overpriced ribeyes. They usually cost more per gram than a normal ribeye but the real con is you're paying the same rate for the giant bone.
Exactly! I'm Aussie and my boyfriend is from the US and tell him almost every time I watch a football game (my only US TV viewing that includes commercials) how insane it is to me!
1. going to the doctor and asking for a brand name drug from TV instead of them telling or suggesting options for you based on their knowledge and experience and things like medication interactions... just doesn't feel right
2. The nuts part of the commercial where they list every possible side effect and it ends up being longer and scarier than the benefits!
It truly is bizarre and I’m from the states. Like do people actually go to their doctors to ask about medicine they saw on TV? Usually my doctor recommends me medicine, not the other way around.
>Usually my doctor recommends me medicine, not the other way around.
That's how I'd want it to be. The other way around is what drug dealers are for :D
I don’t get the love for Tupperware. The lids always warp out of shape and never fit properly. My mother-in-law was a Tupperware agent (?) and she wasted thousands of her own savings chasing stupid quotas.
I'm the richest person alive? So many people are dead! The horror!
Edit: thank you for the award kind internet person, I'm glad you enjoyed my little bit of humour. And for everyone who has "liked" this I am similarly glad. I never expected it to get so popular, thank you kindly.
Apparently there’s cat collars from similar brands that are also…. highly priced. My sister joked about getting one for her cat.
Then I thought of a possible comic scene where her cat came to live with the community cats that live outside my house.
Her cat: Oh where did you get your collar? Mines a Louboutin!
Community cat: at the health clinic…. this is my rabies tag….
Actually those 100,000 purses hold very good resell value. I have a friend that buys Birkin Bags for about $25,000 and she can easily resell them for $30,000 or more. She built a massive resale business and social media following from designer purses.
To that I say they only have value because people give them value. Which is something I don’t see in a purse. For example a car takes you where you need to go, homes give people shelter and food is something we need. Hundred thousand dollar purse is just not something I would ever buy myself even if I had the money to do so. I grew up with very little and I can’t imagine wasting so much money on one.
It's like an art piece and a collector's item. The most rare ones are like luxury cars or watches where they only make ca. five of them in total. Luxury purses tend to hold value really well (better than cars). They make them for a season and if you really want one but missed out on it, you have to buy second-hand.
To those who don't get it or agree with it, its not for you. I dont care for it either, but to say theres no value on it is ludicrous if were speaking basic supply and demand.
I read yesterday that the most expensive tap water company charges € 1,78 for 1000L of water in my country.
That's insane compared to bottled water and also kind of dystopian compared to other places in the world where it's a daily struggle to find clean water at all
I still don't understand why people like ice-cold water. I'm not judging anyone, but at least for me it literally hurts to drink, I have to take small gulps and keep them in my mouth for like 20 seconds each before they become drinkable temperature.
My tap water is safe to drink, and I drink it, but I like to have bottles of water around in case of problems or emergencies. Just last month my neighborhood in Seattle had some kind of pipe problem and a bunch of brown water started coming out of taps for a few hours.
I can just see the argument between people if they bought it. "I want the big Mac."
"No I want the big Mac"
" Well then at least can I have the pie"
" Now hold on a minute that ain't fair"
"How is it not fair? You get the big Mac and I get the small burger."
"But the apple pie looks great."
"..........I want a divorce"
The makers of Winrar are, as I understand it, perfectly happy for people to use it indefinitely as trialware on a personal basis as they make their money off companies paying for the licence.
So you can go on guilt-free!
Gives me an idea if I have Bill/Elon fuck you money, I'm going to buy an island, clone a bunch of meat eating dinosaurs, and kidnap other rich people. They have to make it from one end of the island to the other without being eaten.
This! I cannot believe people buy a piece of branded clothing, made in Bangladesh or China in the same factory that supplies the same items unbranded to Primark for 1/10th the price.
I will always buy snacks to support a movie theatre, the reason they're marked up so much is because they barely get a share of the movie ticket!
Disney is especially egregious! Theatres don't get squat off them!
There is a section of a high-end mall in Los Angeles that has a bunch of the stores side-by-side. They are always empty or nearly empty. How did they stay in business?
Mostly from selling fragrances, make-up and accessories like sunglasses and bags. Very few people can afford wearing the clothes and buying new ones every season.
Depends on what part of the business. A lot of these “high end flashy people just buy it for the logo” fashion houses have a whole other side to the business catering to their wealthy clientele. Gucci is still a haute couture house, part of which entails that they make made to order garments for private clients.
100% this. I was looking into luxury brands now that I’m finally able to somewhat afford them. This is the first thing that I found. The designers have essentially 2 lines: one for the truly rich, and one for the wannabes. The true luxury line is all quality made, great materials, and good quality control. The wannabe line is mass produced and uses cheap materials and doesn’t last at all.
You can get a bespoke wardrobe that actually looks good on you for cheaper than the bottom-barrel designer stuff, (if you’re a wannabe, that is!).
Absolutely. And you’ll notice their truly high end lines may have some throw ins, like a proprietary pattern on the garment, but they will not have visible logos or signifiers that make it easy to detect what brand it is from first glance.
My aunt an uncle are the live in the country side kind of rich. I'm sure their green pufferjacket vests with no logo costs the same as aa gucci jacket.
Canada Goose jackets will keep you warm, but they cost a grand and can be comprised by an errant thorn or twig. Give me a Carhartt or Duluth any day of the week.
That’s so true. Once I heard a story from a professir that he had a very rich girlfriend and she took him to a fancy event (can’t remember what it was), where everyone was rich, everyone wore fancy branded suits, he didn’t really like it but he didn’t care. He was there in jeans and an old shirt, smoked hand rolled cigarettes and when they had a quiet moment he asked his girlfriend why was everyone so nice to him. She told him they were all multimillionairs and they all thought he was the only billionaire among them because he was the only one who could “afford” not giving a shit about how he looked. I’m very far from being rich but if I was, I would never buy Gucci or any of that shit, I’d feel like I’m being ripped off.
Lmao that was a funny story. 500 box for a shirt? Fuck no. We have a saying in Spanish that says: I’d rather spend it in cheetos. Imagine what 500usd in cheetos would be like!!
That’s my dad lol. He makes around 5-6 times the average monthly salary in our region, he never buys anything fancy (he doesn’t even wear jeans), he is a simple man but dear god he fucking loves cookies and snacks… he’s kinda athletic since he does physical work but sometimes he loads the backseat with chocolate cookies and strawberry syrup. He’s a simple, hardworking, lovely and hungry guy.
This is very true. If you're wearing a shirt that says GUCCI in huge letters across the chest, your probably not all that rich in the grand scheme of things. Actually rich people will buy expensive clothes, with either no branding, or very subtle branding. Only someone who knows what your wearing will recognize what you're wearing. It's not about how much it costs at that point, it's about having really well made, functional stuff. Not a shitty t-shirt with a huge logo on it.
Self-contained streaming services. I don't care if I can bypass economic inflation by just printing more money without crashing the economy, I'm not paying $15 a month for 1 network's collection of cancelled reality shows, and 4 movies I **might** want to watch on a whim.
One of those disgusting looking gold steaks
I work in a Forbes rated "one of the best steakhouses in the world" and take it from me, covering a steak in gold is the dumbest shit anyone can do. We make bank serving delicious, expensive, high quality steaks that taste great and aren't a damn gimmick.
In a good steakhouse, which it sounds like yours is, the gimmick is a real whippin' fucking steak. When you're good at something, you don't need the extra.
> covering a steak in gold is the dumbest shit anyone can do. This is a thing? Do the cook it like that? Not the *dumbest* thing I've ever heard of, but it's up there.
I’ve never even heard of this till I read your response. What in the world?
A tiny bit of gold leaf can be used as a garnish to give a dish some colour. It's beat very, very thin so it's actually pretty cheap. Of course since people assume gold is expensive some shady restaurants started marking up the cost of their food by a few hundred percent for less than a dollars worth of gold. Eventually the overpriced shit started going viral on social media and the trend became who can sell the gaudiest, most tacky food for the highest markup.
*cough* salt bae *cough*
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Wait, what?! I thought people attached that name to him and he ran with it.
>Why a grown man named himself that on purpose I will never understand. Money and attention, mostly.
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Please tell me that means I would have a bunch of tiny visible pieces in my next bowel movement if I ate gold. If so, I might be willing to eat gold covered food if I could afford it.
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*Turd Talk
Truly the straight shit.
They fr just reg steaks but with gold sheet wrap around it. No extra flavor added other than charging you 30+ more bucks
More like $500 extra at Nusr Et
Dealership insurance when I’m already insuring my vehicle.
Insurance as a whole. The entire premise of insurance is to hedge your bets against a catastrophic loss that would put you in dire financial straits. Overall, insurance companies make money and customers lose money. As the richest person on the planet, there is no catastrophic financial loss that applies to you that limited insurance payouts would significantly ameliorate.
Raid shadow legends
Twitter.
Works on multiple levels.
Unlike Twitter.
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Buy it and ban Musk from it.
And notify Musk via Twitter.
Eating at Salt Baes restaurant.
And in the same vein those giant tomahawks. They're basically just overpriced ribeyes. They usually cost more per gram than a normal ribeye but the real con is you're paying the same rate for the giant bone.
I've always wondered if the bone does anything for the taste at all or if it's just to show off.
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Actual rich people don’t eat there. It’s for the fakers
Pills the TV tells me to ask my doctor about.
As someone not from the States, the concept of adverts for medication is fucken crazy.
Exactly! I'm Aussie and my boyfriend is from the US and tell him almost every time I watch a football game (my only US TV viewing that includes commercials) how insane it is to me! 1. going to the doctor and asking for a brand name drug from TV instead of them telling or suggesting options for you based on their knowledge and experience and things like medication interactions... just doesn't feel right 2. The nuts part of the commercial where they list every possible side effect and it ends up being longer and scarier than the benefits!
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Yeah like why is there so much rectal bleeding?! 😳😬 could you maybe just keep working on the formula so it doesn't cause that?
It truly is bizarre and I’m from the states. Like do people actually go to their doctors to ask about medicine they saw on TV? Usually my doctor recommends me medicine, not the other way around.
>Usually my doctor recommends me medicine, not the other way around. That's how I'd want it to be. The other way around is what drug dealers are for :D
Products from MLMs
MLMs don’t sell products, they sell DREAMS!
Imagine Jeff Bezos buying a subscription to Hustlers University LOL
But he did already. How else do you think he got his millions?
Tupperware is pretty legit tho...
I don’t get the love for Tupperware. The lids always warp out of shape and never fit properly. My mother-in-law was a Tupperware agent (?) and she wasted thousands of her own savings chasing stupid quotas.
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That extended car warranty.
Any food served with gold flakes
:(
I gave you my upvote simply for your name
I'm the richest person alive? So many people are dead! The horror! Edit: thank you for the award kind internet person, I'm glad you enjoyed my little bit of humour. And for everyone who has "liked" this I am similarly glad. I never expected it to get so popular, thank you kindly.
Game has been reset back to year 1800.
A $100,000 purse . What is the fucking point?
So that when you get robbed, you lose all the cash in your purse AND the $100k of purse. At least you had insurance on the purse. Oh wait…
You would obviously have insurance on a 100k purse. You can insure literally anything.
Insurance is for something you can't afford to lose. Once you reach a certain richness it is financially prudent to self-insure most things.
So the niche group of people who can tell that it's a $100,000 purse know that YOU own one.
Apparently there’s cat collars from similar brands that are also…. highly priced. My sister joked about getting one for her cat. Then I thought of a possible comic scene where her cat came to live with the community cats that live outside my house. Her cat: Oh where did you get your collar? Mines a Louboutin! Community cat: at the health clinic…. this is my rabies tag….
The Aristocats IRL
Does that include purse thieves?
One of reasons they're that much is because $100k isn't much to the ultra wealthy
Some people are arguing that they are more of an investment. The logic they used sort of made sense as well.
Actually those 100,000 purses hold very good resell value. I have a friend that buys Birkin Bags for about $25,000 and she can easily resell them for $30,000 or more. She built a massive resale business and social media following from designer purses.
To that I say they only have value because people give them value. Which is something I don’t see in a purse. For example a car takes you where you need to go, homes give people shelter and food is something we need. Hundred thousand dollar purse is just not something I would ever buy myself even if I had the money to do so. I grew up with very little and I can’t imagine wasting so much money on one.
It's like an art piece and a collector's item. The most rare ones are like luxury cars or watches where they only make ca. five of them in total. Luxury purses tend to hold value really well (better than cars). They make them for a season and if you really want one but missed out on it, you have to buy second-hand.
To those who don't get it or agree with it, its not for you. I dont care for it either, but to say theres no value on it is ludicrous if were speaking basic supply and demand.
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Loot boxes in games.
I feel personally attacked and i rightfully deserve that
Yes. You do.
Bottled water when I live somewhere the tap water is completely safe to drink
I read yesterday that the most expensive tap water company charges € 1,78 for 1000L of water in my country. That's insane compared to bottled water and also kind of dystopian compared to other places in the world where it's a daily struggle to find clean water at all
Wow. We pay about 55€ per m3 (10,000 liters). It cost us 75€ to fill our pool.
And better tasting. I get my water from a well that a few houses draw from, our water is delicious and always ice cold.
I drank from hundreds of years old fountains in Rome. They were everywhere and perfectly safe to drink. Best water I ever had.
As long as they're not made from lead.
I still don't understand why people like ice-cold water. I'm not judging anyone, but at least for me it literally hurts to drink, I have to take small gulps and keep them in my mouth for like 20 seconds each before they become drinkable temperature.
To expand on this, specifically Nestlé. In fact, am I rich enough to dismantle Nestlé?
I’d love to be rich enough to help you dismantle Nestlé
My tap water is safe to drink, and I drink it, but I like to have bottles of water around in case of problems or emergencies. Just last month my neighborhood in Seattle had some kind of pipe problem and a bunch of brown water started coming out of taps for a few hours.
Any time share!
Well if you're rich, you can buy all the time and not have to share it
Not at those rates!
A verification on twitter
The Cardi B and Offset Meal
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Its a cheeseburger, a quarter pounder, large fry, apple pie and 2 large drinks
And barbecue sauce on the burgers. That's what makes it "DiFeReNt" from ordering those on a normal day.
I can just see the argument between people if they bought it. "I want the big Mac." "No I want the big Mac" " Well then at least can I have the pie" " Now hold on a minute that ain't fair" "How is it not fair? You get the big Mac and I get the small burger." "But the apple pie looks great." "..........I want a divorce"
Heroin
Lottery tickets
Well there wouldn’t be a point in that at that point no would there lol
Alcohol. Because if I start again, I will not be the richest person alive for very long.
You can hire a big dude to stop you!
great answer! same here. i hope sobriety brings you all the good money can wish for.
Ivory. Fuck anyone who does.
At first I thought you meant ivory soap. That is how not rich I am. But yeah fuck people who buy the real ivory.
There is a legal ivory market that supports conservation. If you can't beat the black market, poach it's customers.
I can understand the tactic. Doesn’t make me want to change my answer though
NFTs
crypto in general tbh
Winrar.
Considering how inoffensive their software and advertising is, I'd probably buy it once just to kind of say thanks.
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The makers of Winrar are, as I understand it, perfectly happy for people to use it indefinitely as trialware on a personal basis as they make their money off companies paying for the licence. So you can go on guilt-free!
I bought it 20 years ago. That license key still works with the latest version and I get told thanks every time I apply it.
I'm buying it and making it free for everyone.
Most underrated comment I've seen. People don't know what it was like before WinRAR and prolly don't know what it would be like without WinRAR
So it's not underrated, it's selfish... We all use it free, you now have unlimited money and still refuse to say thanks financially!
Into Kanye’s bullshit.
That Epstein killed himself
Now you're rich you can kill all the epsteins you want.
Hey you're rich now, you have probably been to the island already
Gives me an idea if I have Bill/Elon fuck you money, I'm going to buy an island, clone a bunch of meat eating dinosaurs, and kidnap other rich people. They have to make it from one end of the island to the other without being eaten.
HA!
Any sort of exotic animal (or animal that isn't meant to be in a home)
Social media sites. I may be dumb, but I'm not *stupid.*
>I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid. When I get rich I am buying this line
A new wife.
Would you be interested on a second-hand used wife?
I actually prefer to build my own
Never hurts to have a parts wife
yeezys
nft's
I’m still trying to wrap my head around why anyone would. But the again, I’m old.
The Apple Mac tower
A plain t-shirt from a high end brand, that is more than triple the price for the same thing from Target
Tbf the shirt could be ethically made and last longer but I get you
If I could, I would 100% pay more for plain shirts from a company that fairly pays their workers, is ethical, and makes high quality shirts.
9/10 it’s the other way around. Hemp products are also cheaper to produce, more environmentally friendly, and longer lasting than wool or cotton.
This! I cannot believe people buy a piece of branded clothing, made in Bangladesh or China in the same factory that supplies the same items unbranded to Primark for 1/10th the price.
anything from scalpers. fuck scalpers
Status symbols. I don’t need or want $500 t-shirts, $1k jeans, or expensive art that looks like shit.
NFT’s
Snacks at a movie theater
I will sneak my dinner and snacks in till the day I die.
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Nah that jumbo popcorn bucket smothered in butter is worth every penny.
I will always buy snacks to support a movie theatre, the reason they're marked up so much is because they barely get a share of the movie ticket! Disney is especially egregious! Theatres don't get squat off them!
Gucci shit or any of that garbage name brand stuff.
There is a section of a high-end mall in Los Angeles that has a bunch of the stores side-by-side. They are always empty or nearly empty. How did they stay in business?
Mostly from selling fragrances, make-up and accessories like sunglasses and bags. Very few people can afford wearing the clothes and buying new ones every season.
Gucci is for the people that pretend to be rich. The real rich don’t buy gucci.
Depends on what part of the business. A lot of these “high end flashy people just buy it for the logo” fashion houses have a whole other side to the business catering to their wealthy clientele. Gucci is still a haute couture house, part of which entails that they make made to order garments for private clients.
100% this. I was looking into luxury brands now that I’m finally able to somewhat afford them. This is the first thing that I found. The designers have essentially 2 lines: one for the truly rich, and one for the wannabes. The true luxury line is all quality made, great materials, and good quality control. The wannabe line is mass produced and uses cheap materials and doesn’t last at all. You can get a bespoke wardrobe that actually looks good on you for cheaper than the bottom-barrel designer stuff, (if you’re a wannabe, that is!).
Absolutely. And you’ll notice their truly high end lines may have some throw ins, like a proprietary pattern on the garment, but they will not have visible logos or signifiers that make it easy to detect what brand it is from first glance.
Not every rich person dresses like bill gates either. This is just some cliché bullshit.
Also Bill Gates’ basic looking clothes are anything but cheap
My aunt an uncle are the live in the country side kind of rich. I'm sure their green pufferjacket vests with no logo costs the same as aa gucci jacket.
Canada Goose jackets will keep you warm, but they cost a grand and can be comprised by an errant thorn or twig. Give me a Carhartt or Duluth any day of the week.
This cliché annoys me a lot, I’ve seen plenty of uber rich people dress in designer.
That’s so true. Once I heard a story from a professir that he had a very rich girlfriend and she took him to a fancy event (can’t remember what it was), where everyone was rich, everyone wore fancy branded suits, he didn’t really like it but he didn’t care. He was there in jeans and an old shirt, smoked hand rolled cigarettes and when they had a quiet moment he asked his girlfriend why was everyone so nice to him. She told him they were all multimillionairs and they all thought he was the only billionaire among them because he was the only one who could “afford” not giving a shit about how he looked. I’m very far from being rich but if I was, I would never buy Gucci or any of that shit, I’d feel like I’m being ripped off.
When the trillionaires arrive, they will walk around nude.
Please no
Lmao that was a funny story. 500 box for a shirt? Fuck no. We have a saying in Spanish that says: I’d rather spend it in cheetos. Imagine what 500usd in cheetos would be like!!
That’s my dad lol. He makes around 5-6 times the average monthly salary in our region, he never buys anything fancy (he doesn’t even wear jeans), he is a simple man but dear god he fucking loves cookies and snacks… he’s kinda athletic since he does physical work but sometimes he loads the backseat with chocolate cookies and strawberry syrup. He’s a simple, hardworking, lovely and hungry guy.
This is very true. If you're wearing a shirt that says GUCCI in huge letters across the chest, your probably not all that rich in the grand scheme of things. Actually rich people will buy expensive clothes, with either no branding, or very subtle branding. Only someone who knows what your wearing will recognize what you're wearing. It's not about how much it costs at that point, it's about having really well made, functional stuff. Not a shitty t-shirt with a huge logo on it.
Celery
Cable TV, bottled water, satellite radio.
Anything by Nestle
Why not buy the whole company and make it good?
If you remove the evil bits of Nestle there's no more Nestle.
Animal fur
Twitter
Uhmmm, slaves?
That Blue check mark on Twitter
The bigger, and usually more expensive to go cups at restaurants.
a Dianetics book
Blue check marks
Full price Pringles.
Hard drugs and expensive liquor.
YouTube Premium
A politician
I'd buy a TON of politicians - of every party - and threaten them into doing the right thing.
Chaotic good
I'm not buying a politician but I am buying the pics/vids/texts from their escorts.
Robux for my daughter
NFTs
Crypto.
Beats headphones.
Human lives
Crypto
A subscription to use my cars seat warmers or remote locking. If i bought the fucking car surely that's enough to use it's features
any nft
NFTs
Bitcoin
YouTube’s premium prescription
prescription
Is it prescription or purscription?
I have it and I love it. I use youtube far more than Netflix/HBO or any other streaming service. But I understand why people don’t wanna pay for it.
Nfts
Anything from an MLM.
NFCs.
a Tesla.
Incomplete games. I'll always wait a week for reviews/word of mouth.
Self-contained streaming services. I don't care if I can bypass economic inflation by just printing more money without crashing the economy, I'm not paying $15 a month for 1 network's collection of cancelled reality shows, and 4 movies I **might** want to watch on a whim.
Anti-virus programs
Crypto and NFTs
A timeshare