Article created by: Rūta Zumbrickaitė
Everyone experiences the world differently, mainly because of how they have been raised. Some people are more fortunate than others and might see things around them through a rose-colored lens. It’s completely fine to do so, as long as the person is mindful of other people’s lived experiences and aware of how blessed they are.
Unfortunately, not everyone is like that. Some are utterly oblivious to their privilege, and this list contains all the instances where such folks have said or done really bizarre things.
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“It’s so easy to travel. Just save $100-300 every paycheck. I don’t know why people can’t do that”
This was right after college when I started paying back my loans while only making $18/hr. I told her “lady, I’m lucky if I have $20 left over.” She looked shocked.
Someone told me they thought poor people just “don’t try hard enough” and that “everyone has the same 24 hours.” It was wild how confidently they said it, like generational wealth, health, and safety weren’t even factors.
“Lets do a barbecue with your parents in my place tomorrow!”
“Tomorrow is Monday”
“Oh, right! Your parents work”.
I had someone question me why I bother working when I’m indian, they thought that the government pays me to be indian.
My friend’s sister attending medical school: did you know some people’s parents don’t pay for their school?
In a creative writing class many years ago, I’d written a scene which was almost a complete recreation of my stepfather berating my mother, using what he said word for word and his actions in belittling and putting hands on her.
Someone criticised it as being a caricature, and disbelieving that people behaved like that in real life.
“Why don’t you just buy a house? This apartment is awfully small for the four of you.” I loved the person who said this very much, he was like family, but my ex and I couldn’t believe our ears when he said that. We both wanted to answer in a tone absolutely dripping with sarcasm, “Gee, we never thought of that! We’ll have to go shopping tomorrow. Would you like to write the check for the down payment since it’s such a great idea and we don’t have any money?”.
Once heard someone say, ‘Why don’t they just buy a house instead of renting?’ — completely unaware that not everyone has family money, perfect credit, or a six-figure salary at 25. Privilege really does shape perspective.
My wife does work for high profile clients. Often youll see a $20,000+ food order barely touched and due to liability concerns, thrown away. I wish this was /s.
If people earn a lot more money than you, it’s just because they work harder.
My roommate my freshman year of college asked me, “so when is the cleaning lady coming to collect our clothes to be washed?” Ummm…what now? She honestly thought that someone came around & picked up dirty laundry, washed & folded it then returned it back to us and thought that was part of our dorm fees.
I was at the store with my kids and a guy started chatting me up. He told me he had 4 kids under 5. And I said wow that’s a lot of diapers.
He just casually dropped this line on me like it was nothing.
“Oh I don’t do diapers”
That was it. My jaw must of been on the floor.
I probably change 90% of the diapers in our household. I’m a stay at home Mom and my husband travels a lot. But he’s not like that.
I’m planning a wedding and I’ve had MULTIPLE people tell me my wedding should be black tie because “what grown adult doesn’t own a tuxedo?”.
My friend messaged her dad asking for £10 and he sent her £690 as a joke. Wish my parents had that sense of humor
Edit incase you didn’t get the joke: 69 is a funny number hahaha.
My ex once said before a date “I won’t wear my Rolex so you don’t feel poor.” ☠️.
My aunt is in Greece rn specifically just to get a tan. She is doing nothing else in one of the most beautiful places on earth. She went to Greece because she heard they have the best conditions for tanning.
“How much do you think the city will make me pay to move this bus stop so I can replace my bottom unit with a garage?”
I dunno if that perfectly fits the prompt, but it was definitely a moment that underscored just how different my and my friend’s problems are.
“If you don’t like this town, then move.”
As if coming up with thousands of dollars to relocate and start over are just readily available. Yes, Priscilla, I would love to just move. How about you slip me about 10 grand so I can, you clueless boomer?
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