“I worked for a woman who I didn’t realize how wealthy they were until we went out for her birthday. The restaurant only had Wagyu and no lobster, so she said. ‘I’ll wait.’ I thought they would rustle up something, but no, we waited three hours for them to fly in fresh lobster on her private jet to cook for her.”

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"There's no way they could have listed everything they bought that day. They consumed in unspeakable quantities just because they could. A lifetime's worth of purchases in one day. I know the stuff was flown back home with them, but I wonder how much of it they actually used or even cared about."

"One of the hospitals I go to, one guy pays extra for a suite. I didn't even know that the hospital had a suite. Meanwhile, my American patients crawl on the floor because they can't afford a prosthetic for their amputated leg. I hate the US healthcare system."

"A billionaire doesn't just go to the ER with the rest of the riff-raff. Look into any major hospital or health system near you, even public ones, and there are likely entire wings and hospital rooms, doctors, and treatments that will simply never be available to Joe Schmoe."

"I know it's not a private jet or anything, but it's amazing the things you don't think about when you A) don't wear watches and haven't since grade school, and B) don't wear watches that cost as much as a modest home or more. They're all definitely an investment; gotta keep them wound!"

"Now a sea bug has flown private, and I still haven't."

"They were nice, though. He was consistently polite to those he didn't know, friendly to those he did, and happy-go-lucky with his close friends (three military brats, two local boys, and one rich kid)."

"Mind you, this was a KID'S Halloween party, set outside in a huge, massive garden — spread out over tennis courts and lawns with games, buffets, dessert tables, taco stands, omelette stands, BBQ, pizza, burgers, etc. No booze, no one allowed inside. All the event staff were dressed in Halloween costumes; it was VERY cool. But it was sad to see Kiedis and del Toro sitting together commiserating. You could see the 'f**k, the things we do for a paycheck' look on their faces. They were at a KID'S party. Demi was very nice — she brought her little doggies."

"The staff that household managers oversee can be really specialized as well. For example, Larry Ellison has his own personal curator to oversee his collection of art. They do things like: advise on the purchase and sale of art in his collection, oversee storage and display of art housed on his property, oversee process of lending art for storage and display at museums, etc. The curator will often have their own staff to conduct actual conservation work, art transport, art installation, etc. So, if you've already got an in-house crew of seven people focused on your art collection alone, imagine how big your entire household staff is! That's why you've got a household manager."

"The family's schedule is arranged such that the moment the family leaves the house on the day of travel, a whole team of people rushes through and packs up all the remaining items (only after the family leaves, you wouldn't want to deny them access to their items for even a few seconds), which are then sent ahead of time to the airport while the family has a lunch or something somewhere. Upon landing, their luggage takes one route (direct), and the family takes a similarly indirect route (unless otherwise directed) so that by the time they get to the location, all of their items are not just unpacked but in their proper, organized locations and ready for use without any of the advanced team ever being visible to the family."

"1) Had the top four floors of our hotel booked (for the hundreds of staff to take care of him, his wife, and his two kids (plus, likely some mistresses if I'm being honest). As someone in this part of the world, being rich = the number of people who work for you.

2) He paid $30K just to close our restaurant for one meal.

3) Flew his favorite chef from New York to Orlando to cook for him on his private jet, and then back again. Of course, it was likely the OTHER private jet he had just for his staff, not for himself or his family.

4) Made food for our entire staff, all the kitchen staff, all the federal, state, and local security and him, and his wife and his kids.

I had a buddy who taught ski lessons to another Saudi prince's little kid and had some nearly unbelievable yet similar details during his interactions with them. That kid had an entire team around him or probably 10 staff, plus vehicles, snowmobiles, a helicopter, and so on. I later met a guy who worked on an ultra-luxury 300-foot yacht and served Bill Gates and his wife, among other super-rich people. Their primary job was to operate without interacting with them, or at least as little as possible. This shows you, in some sense, that having people around you doing stuff you need to be done but doing it invisibly is just another perk of being rich."

"It's a butler and concierge and local expert and best friend that knows a guy you'll never meet. All just a call away."

"Six degrees of separation is only for the masses. The elites are closer to two or one."

"The airport fines him every time he does this, which he is totally fine with paying. I've been told that many of the upgrades to the airport over the years were almost entirely funded with money from those fines."

"After making money on that, he start another small business — this time only loosely run by him with a separate CEO to run the company. Using previously accumulated money, he buys a golf course, and now, he is technically unemployed, but the dude makes between $3-4 million a year off of his passive income."

"Though, to be fair, tons of specimens already collected, sitting in museum storage, aren't being studied because there's too much stuff to study. I agree that specimens shouldn't be private, though. There's a Nat Geo article on private natural history collectors, and it talked about how it's a controversial hobby amongst the rich, though often they work with scientists by loaning the specimens for research. Some scientists appreciate it because their funds aren't enough to buy the specimens."

"More often, it’s because they want the option to get different jets. Flying with my wife, small jets will do. Flying 20 of my friends to my island..."

"Those financial instruments are so complicated and the regulation on them so byzantine that it wouldn't surprise me if Goldman actually didn't do anything illegal, like they're allowed, at their discretion, to mis-price an asset for a certain period of time — probably under the guise of the assets being complicated to price, but really, it's just a buffer for them to get an edge that regular people couldn't believe. Imagine going to a horse race and being able to bet on the horses near the end of the race. Rich people get that."

"The challenge is, it takes more than just money to get one of these. With only a few hundred models to allocate, and with them immediately earning their owners a profit, the manufacturer will look at a number of criteria to decide who gets one — including how many models of their 'regular' cars you have purchased. If you are offered a Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta for $2.2M, you probably own at least five other Ferraris, and you just bought a pair of matching Portofinos for your twins who are going off to college."

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