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For the New Superrich, Life Is Much More Than a Beach

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Meh, if you did all that stuff and didn't buy anything and took coach flights and rented a little boat for the yacht stuff it would probably cost maybe about $50k a year (probably a heck of a lot less actually). The hard part, of course, is getting invited to the billionaire parties. That would make a really hilarious travel blog: The relatively poor guy going to all the rich people events.

An Add for a private jet company masquerading as a nytimes article.

Was this paid for by Jean Pigozzi? Very little new information on the lives of globe trotting wealthy elite.

Why do the superrich spend most of their time around their own types. Would it not be much more fun to hang out with people who didn't have their level of wealth so they could really show off and everyone would come out better.

Unless you're an evil dick, bragging about your new $700k sports car or your $10m yacht to someone who's struggling to find a way for their kid to go to college or to get medicine for their sick grandparents is not that much fun.

Bragging about your new $700k sports car or $10m yacht to your super-rich buddy who last month bragged to you about their new $600k sports car or $9m yacht is much more likely to be enjoyable.

Plus in the real world it's not just about bragging. Believe it or not super-rich people have problems too, and they are problems that only other super-rich people are likely to be able to commiserate with them about.

And in general, members of any group -- computer nerds, artists, dock workers -- tend to hang out with other people from their same groups because they speak the same language and have overlapping experiences, etc. They "get" each other.

If a superrich person was hanging around with an average joe (or even a 1%er), it would be an unequal relationship. It's like asking why supermodels don't hang out in ordinary bars.

> it would be an unequal relationship

that's not a bad thing.

People don't seem to deal very well with this. They ask for money pretty much continually. You eventually end up in hardcore avoidance mode, unfortunately.

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