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My grandma was a millionaire (nobility, rich dad, rich husband). She didn't have to worry about money whenever she wanted to do/buy something and she could have clothes made. She's also had a lot of political influence purely because she knew the right people.

She always drove an Opel Kadett, had a 2 bedroom house with an artist's mezzanine and then a 2 bedroom flat when she could no longer walk the stairs. Could afford a carer every day when she got ill. Didn't spend a penny on anything ostentatious (that was "common"), spent plenty on travelling around the world.

Her occasional "do you know who I am" attitude made me cringe, but for the rest she was pretty normal, really 🤷.

PS am not rich, she had the audacity to have a ton of kids (and the title went to the eldest son).

My mom was a cleaning lady, and some of her clients were among the richest people in Canada. The last few years she worked, she started struggling physically so I went in to work with her to help, and I met all of her employers. Every one of them were very nice people. Not every rich person is an evil asshole. We're still friends with some of them.

Every once in a while the bank ceo would show up, so a lot of his buddies would show up and do banking business. Lots of times that meant they'd be cashing checks bigger than 10k and then having absolute bitch fits about us needing their social and profession for the CTR. Without skipping a beat, they'd go get our do nothing ceo and then he'd come out and accuse the teller running the transaction of sucking at their job and to just do it and put his initials on it. We'd then call our lower level boss and she'd say, "Just run it through with these details from the last time this asshat showed up" and We'd never mention that we still did all of the reports to our CEO despite being told not to.

Idiot would have got the bank shut down by the government if anyone actually listened to his nepo-grandpa ass.

I had dinner a few weeks ago with a CEO who makes millions per year. The restaurant itself was exorbitantly expensive by my standards, he kept the $100+ cocktails coming to everyone at the table, and he casually dropped the price of something he bought on a lark ($60K). He seemed extremely relaxed, like everything in life was for him and was going his way. It was fairly intimidating. But he was a good listener, too.

Depending on what your job is, you may never even meet the rich person you work for.

those who worked for really rich people

The rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

or those who worked for really rich people

Technically that includes students working at McDonald's or any supermarket.

I've met several billionaires at this point, and there wasn't really a commonality between all of them except their wealth.

I mean .. what are you curious about?

in some sense everyone reading this is rich on the global scale of wealth

You need to set a bar for rich. How much in fixed assets and how much income per month or year?

By world standards you’re probably rich.