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I'm not even gonna lie, chief, if somebody shows me any kind of luxury fashion like that and boasts that it costs more money than I'll ever see in my lifetime, I'm just gonna ask if it was worth the human suffering incurred in the making of these luxury goods.
There are apparently a surprisingly different levels of strata of "rich people". The groups in the middle range are apparently the most desperate to appear to be in the higher ranges of rich people.
So if someone comes up to you and brags about their $250k watch, you already know that they're not in the "rich rich" group, and they desperately want you to think they are. So hit them where it hurts with a reply like: "Ahh, I understand now. You're not really rich. People that actually are rich don't tell others how much they paid for a watch. Maybe someday you'll get to that level like really rich people. Until then, could you please leave me alone?"
$10 millionaires don't brag
$100 millionaires brag about their "wealth"
$1 billionaires brag about their "intelligence"
Money talks, but wealth whispers.
I had a boss years ago and I knew everything about his financial situation because he had hired me to trade S&P500 futures with/for him. He had about $20 million in stock, a beach house in South Carolina worth a couple million, and he owned a temp agency that paid him about $40,000 a month, so he was certainly rich by any normal human standards. But he had moved from San Francisco and was friends with a bunch of venture capital types who were all worth more than a couple of hundred million dollars, and it was obvious that his (relative) poverty absolutely burned him to his core. This was why he imagined that day-trading futures was going to be his key to the really big time - he could never see that the brokerages we dealt with were just scamming him.
Yup that sums it up.
Or you could just start planning to rob the fucker.