Technically but that’s just for tax purposes
The myth of billionaires wearing cheap clothes and living frugally busted
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Man, I'm glad someone is saying it because this kind of nonsense gets spread among black folks like crazy and it's bad for our politics as well as the poor and middle class. I think it needs to be re-emphasized that the point that those myths try to make is that the reason the Gates and Zuckerbergs of the world are where they are is because they are frugal.
The other part that people really don't talk about is that most of those guys were already well off or come from well connected/rich families in the first place. Jeff Bezos got like a 200k lone from his rich cattle ranching family to start Amazon. Bill Gates's father was an established patent lawyer, and I think Zuckerberg's parents are rich as well. The rags to riches story in the U.S. is largely non-existent aside from a few outliers.
The other part that people really don't talk about is that most of those guys were already well off or come from well connected/rich families in the first place. Jeff Bezos got like a 200k lone from his rich cattle ranching family to start Amazon. Bill Gates's father was an established patent lawyer, and I think Zuckerberg's parents are rich as well. The rags to riches story in the U.S. is largely non-existent aside from a few outliers.
HandyWithTheSteel
Superstar
300$ is cheap to a billionaire
Bumblebreh
Collecting honey and money
More like 3 cents
Tribal Outkast
Veteran
I’ve bern saying this lol. You can go to these higher end stores and see sone of the weakest clothes that cost way more than you’d think. Go in a Neiman Marcus and you’ll see overpriced plain tees and old people cardigans.
Moving goalposts...
bullshyt people say they are not wearing expensive clothing. Even though they are rich and can afford it
Exactly, look at this meme. $34 is not the same as $300. And how tf would you even find mens shoes for $12
This dumbass meme used to make so angry.
. They were never dressing frugally, they are just able to afford the expensive clothes they wear.
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I'm still mystified as to how anyone could cosign this thread.
It could be a dumbass meme, in itself, but the principle and intention behind it isn't.
This dumbass meme used to make so angry.
Think of it like this: say you take away the exact amounts of the clothes, and you look at what they cost in relation to the net-worth of the person buying them, and it becomes clearer on what the meme is trying to state. The broke person spent well beyond their means, buying clothes that they can't really afford, instead of investing that money that's going to generate more money. Whereas the billionaire became a billionaire because he didn't invest all his money into overspending on clothes he couldn't really afford.
Exactly, look at this meme. $34 is not the same as $300. And how tf would you even find mens shoes for $12
On top of that, most cats shyt be fake if we want to keep it a bean. The demographic that these memes attempt to appeal to coppin from farmers markets.
I don't know anybody who isn't a millionaire that has spent $800 on a single pair of shoes. but maybe thats what the young brehs are doing now. In my day we were treating $100 shoes like they were expensive.
Y’all should download the app “Mr Porter” and look at the clothing and prices on there… who y’all think is buying this?
Edit: people who think that shyt never walked into a barneys (rip) bergdorf or saks in their life.
Mr. Porter end of season sales
RIP Barney's Warehouse