I was up until 6 months ago when I tried to corner the potatoe market and buy potatoe futures. I was not prepared for the amount of potatoes I physically bought. IM RUINED!

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Originally posted by Vivid Boy I was up until 6 months ago when I tried to corner the potatoe market and buy potatoe futures. I was not prepared for the amount of potatoes I physically bought. IM RUINED!

Have you considered a direct rollover into French Fries?

it's all relative. a recent credit suisse study suggested if your net worth is over $70K USD, you're part of the 10%. i reckon that'd be most people here (that didn't live in a shithole) over the age of 25-30. thank god for the world's poor making us look good.

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Originally posted by Vivid Boy I was up until 6 months ago when I tried to corner the potatoe market and buy potatoe futures. I was not prepared for the amount of potatoes I physically bought. IM RUINED!

Even I could have told you carbs are no good for you.

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Originally posted by Jon_Snow Even I could have told you CRABS are no good for you.

I grew up what you would call poor, in a shitty area of London, mostly council estates around our area, went to a retyy rough school and three people in my class are doing hard time for various serious crimes (manslaughter, armed robbery, murder etc).

By those standards, I'm wealthy now ($1m+ home, cars etc) , but by the standards of some people I know, I don't even register.

Two close friends of mine sold their business to the largest Chinese Leather goods company and netted over $400m. Now they develop houses in the most exclusive part of LA and their one sold for over $60m. They're probably right on the edge of being billionaires.

I also know one of the Walmart heirs. She has a $2m boat that she drives in to her yacht, and that's not even the really big boat. The really big boat has this force field technology that blurs any digital camera pictures - they all look like images of a road in the desert where it's melting on the horizon.

Some of these people can't go anywhere, even holiday without security. Their kids have to have security.

In fact one person I know, is extremely wealthy and is related to European royalty. Her just turned adult daughter wanted to do the backpacking thing at age 19 - you know, Thailand etc. Mum said yes to which daughter was massively surprised seeing as her life had been so protected and sheltered.

So off she went with two friends and did the usual cliche backpack trail.

What she didn't know was that Mum paid for a team of ex-special forces guys at a private security firm to shadow her the entire time. Daughter had an amazing trip and was clueless that these guys were never more than 15 feet from her day or night.

one of my closest friends lives in malibu, has a huge estate and they took us to dinner the other night. My intention was for me to pay for dinner, they wouldn't let me as they were ordering the wine. We had two bottles of wine, which came to $14,000 (in hindsight i'm fucking glad they won that argument over the bill).

I suppose i live in LA where there is extreme wealth everywhere. I see 15 to 20 aston martins a day, another 20 Ferari's about 10 lambos and a few mcLarens just nipping about town. teslas grow on trees here.

To be honest, and per my own experience, more money beyond a certain point does not make you any happier. Once you're at the point you can buy most things without stressing, huge sums on top of that don't make any difference.

If anything, Mo Money, Mo Problems.

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Originally posted by wotyzoid I always get this cultural shock when I go to Brazil, there are some places that I would go to with childhood friends my neighborhood that my cousins from the wealthier sides of the family would never go to. And I always get looked as a gringo with cash now, when i'm actually broke.

Totally!

I've never been the wealthy gringo though, for all the obvious reasons

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN it's all relative. a recent credit suisse study suggested if your net worth is over $70K USD, you're part of the 10%. i reckon that'd be most people here (that didn't live in a shithole) over the age of 25-30. thank god for the world's poor making us look good.

And, yeah, this checks out.

As soon as I start receiving my salary at university, I'll go from broke student to Brazil's top 5%... And not that bad by world standards.

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Originally posted by Lira Totally! I've never been the wealthy gringo though, for all the obvious reasons

I think it's because of the clothes, i'll be wearing a hoodie i got a marshalls for five bucks but because it has a nike swoosh on it...

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Originally posted by wotyzoid I think it's because of the clothes, i'll be wearing a hoodie i got a marshalls for five bucks but because it has a nike swoosh on it...

A nike swoosh with a fruit of the loom tag? I remember those.

word, from the gutter, son. come see me with the bootleg oversized jordans, bitch.

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Remember when they used to sell nickel bags? That was the shit. "Hawaiian" regs.

Freshman year of college I dated this girl that was pretty loaded. Her dad was a president of a hospital or a chief neurosurgeon or something like that. the house has huge and in a really nice neighborhood. i got the impression it kinda sucked for him though. he was always working and seemed like the family got to enjoy it more than him.

also my current roommate is definitely well off, but hides it pretty well. his dad is like a president of a steel company or something. for the most part they are pretty low key about it, intentionally of course. i think rich people are very aware of those that come around asking for money once they find out what you got so they tend to keep it under wraps.