• @FauxLiving
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    1 day ago

    You have met them, you just didn’t know it.

    They’ll be the people with a slightly nicer house who seem like they’re retired but are only 40. They’ll secretly have $25m in their investment portfolio but only draw 80k/yr for living expenses. They’re not trying to live ostentatious lives because they prefer the ‘American dream’ likestyle over the wealthy ‘travel all over the Western world and flaunt your wealth to be the main character’ lifestyle.

    The husband dresses like a skater out of the 90s and his wife teaches music or art at the local high school and is also the largest booster (well in excess of her salary). These are honestly the most common type of ‘rich’ people. By rich, I mean financially independent rich, not ‘private space program’ rich or ‘overnight celebrity/lottery winner’ rich.

    I worked for a years at a financial advisor, the owner had tens of millions of dollars. He drove an ancient civic, brought leftovers for lunch and wore the same set of Vans for as long as I knew him. Most of the clients were like this, though sometimes they’d have a spouse/partner that wanted a luxury car, or they’d take a vacation once a year that was more expensive… but if you ran into them at the grocery store you’d think they were just some guy.