Rich people stay rich by pretending to be broke, and poor people stay poor by pretending to be rich.

brands like Gucci aren't really what actually wealthy people use... they're aimed at people who want to pretend to be rich

Buying things we don't need, with money we don't have in order to impress people we don't like.

As a chauffeur who's worked as a driver for a rich person for a while, it's true, liability reasons. Also they don't dress to impress or care to impress anyone at all. They care about 1 thing their money can buy them. Comfort. If you see a rich person being driven around in a luxurious mercedes. It's not because that car is half a mil. It's because that thing is comfortable as hell, you can go full speed over speed bumps and hardly notice it. Stretched vehicles are comfortable to drive aswell, just a bit annoying to do tight corners with, but it's really comfortable even as the driver. Also, never talk to them about money onless you are rich yourself, because they'll assume you want something from them. Just never bring it up, buy your own lunch/drinks when waiting, just never ask for anything (except your promised salary) and you just might get random bonus' and tips. Same for famous people, don't talk about their fame, job or social status, just don't. If it still is a topic of frequent conversation, the person is usually not very likable/nice. If they never bring it up, it's probably a relief to them that you don't either. That's how my poor ass keeps getting reinvited to rockstar parties anyway

Be like Asmon, rich in your bank account but poor in hair.

The guy renting a fake airplane so that influencers can pretend they have a private jet is the modern version of "When there is a goldrush, sell shovels"

imagine buying handbags when you could be buying a fully customized and fitted fullplate armour

Fun fact: A leased Lamborghini Aventador is about $6000/month. Meaning if you prioritize for financial stuff to a single car, you can look rich. Thats how lots of “car-fluencers” get high end vehicles rather quickly. Source is straight from my local NYC Ferrari dealer.

Bullying some kid cause they didn't have a $40 cup is so stupid, wtf.

"I just spent 10-15000 on this hobby and I started playing ten months ago." All the 40k players, "Amateur!"

You’re telling me influencers are soulless liars and pretenders? I knew that 15 years ago.

A very wealthy person once told me there are two types of people. Ones who tell you how much something cost, and those who tell you how good of a deal they got.

I was materialistic in high school and I cringe thinking about those days. These people actually have fully developed brains and are still this way though.

Buying cabin in the woods to block out the rest of the world sounds like the best kind of materialism

You need to find the right balance between dying with a bunch of money and spending every paycheck as soon as you get it.

Whenever I hear someone describe themselves as a "social media influencer" all I hear in my head is "I''m a giant douche bag."

"you're bound to come across an influencer that seemingly has a better life than you" If they had a better life they wouldn't be posting about it on instagram instead of coping

Asmon gets rich while making himself look poor Completely opposite lol

15:49 "It's like basically putting shit on yourself to impress pigs." Damn, actually well said.

My dad bought a modest house while all his friends were buying huge places with all the bells and whistles. He has a good job so I always wondered why he never reached higher. I asked him one day why he didn’t buy a bigger home like his friends and he told me he didn’t want to be house poor like all his buddies. That talk made me realize that going into debt to show off is not worth it.

As you get older vanity purchases will matter less and less to you and you'll get excited about shit like a new air fryer

Influencers going broke acting like they aren't who they actually are? fuck em.

One thing you forgot. Rich people dont try to flex with clothes. Because you cant flex on someone with 10k purse who owns 15 milion homes. The same way you cant flex with 50 dolar cup on people who make 100k a year. I will be not impressed by your iphone if i can right now buy severeal of them if i wanted.

17:59 Can confirm: being fit, with shoulder definition, waist and chest/back muscles = nearly all shirts just sit so much better. Esp if they are small enough to be tight but not too tight, definatly makes me go from like an avarge 6 face to an 8 (general feedback I have gotten over the years). I would have to say though, the quaility of the shirt is no longer in the price tag, but choice of material and stitching. So you can easily find a good low cost shirt that will last a while, and the muscles make it look good. I still suggest getting slim fit, as its not a good look for a guy with a blouse...

There is a line between cheap stuff that is inconvenient because of bad quality and decent/good quality which will make it more comfortable , but you will have to pay more for it. When going into luxury, it goes back to inconvenient, Luxus items are a burden, it breaks down , is hard to repair and you will always try to never damage it

The thing about all the private stuff like jets is that actual rich people have them to keep a low profile. People think that stealth wealth is a new trend, but rich people have been doing that forever.

19:25 Reminds me of kids with real and fake Beyblades back at my pre school times 😂

Making your own customers do the FOMO aggressive marketing for you by bullying everyone who doesn't own that specific product is the most Corpa thing I can imagine

“Canadian money is not real money”😂😂😂

Old money whispers, new money yells

I worked for a company where the prez told me they pretty much “timeshare” their private jet with 10 other companies. It’s a fraction of the cost.

If you really like branded clothes, buy them off-season like buy summer cloth in the winter vice versa for the summer. You save a lot of money from off-season sales and end of line stuff.

I remember as a kid all the 'cool' kids had trapper keepers, and the poor kids would just get a couple of those cheap $0.50 colored folders. When I finally got a trapper keeper that thing turned out to be a mess and was bulky as hell. I stuck with it for one school year, tossed it and never looked back. To this day, even with everything being digital, I still keep a bunch of those cheap folders on hand and they're damned useful.

My home town in the Scottish highlands is surrounded by private shooting/fishing estates and the like so I've seen a whole lot of the really wealthy. One of the richest permanent residents lived in a reasonable house (just 10 bedrooms) on the edge of town, he had a cook, a cleaner and an aide. If you saw him in the street however he looked like a older guy wearing patched/scuffed clothing and being extremely amiable like a nice grandpa (unless he also went past in his rolls royce blowing his cover). The truly rich buy what they need and get the most cost effective - they seldom care about image when it comes to their day to day lives. Oh and when the town wanted to make a local museum he immediately just bought them a nice building and gave them the deeds without any expectation of being lauded, indeed he even refused to have his name on the project. The majority of the wealthy I've interacted with are quite down to earth, its the wannabees that cause all the fuss.

That’s all my old high school classmates on instagram stories acting like they’re celebrities

My little sister of eight came to me and asked if she could get a Stanley cup because the other kids in the class have one and she didn't want to be the odd one out of her friends, consumer pressure at eight years old...Sat her down explained as best I could and tried to get her to think it through logically as to what was making her want it. Once she realized it wasn't about the cup but about "fitting in" she quickly lost interest to wanting an over priced cup in her words "Ohhh that's dumb".

That's what I've been thinking. All these instagram girls looking like they have millions of dollars posting videos in a big ass house or lavish vacation. I'm here wondering...Man, are they really that rich..?

Too many people still associate more expensive with better quality which is essentially wrong in almost every market.

Real wealthy people know that the true purchases that matter are real estate and securities. Flashy clothes and extravagant public lifestyles don't earn money.

I am humored by people focusing on materialistic things as a perception of value. You can look well off without spending a lot, or even anything at all. Like I got a PC setup that is on paper valued at $7K. However, I spent like less than $900 actually building it. All 5 of my Dell 144hz 1440p monitors were from a office surplus sale each going for $20. My Lian Li tower is from a college kid moving out, and 55” desk is from a GoodWill that doesn’t realize height adjustable desks are very expensive. The only thing I bought brand new were the SSD and hard drives.

Remember when Carhartt and Stanley were made for outdoorsman, blue collar workers, and not kids in highschool or even worse, a kid in elementary school. The next time I see a blaze orange beanie on a hipster in a coffee shop man...

"This is Canadian money, it's not real money" Made my day 😂

I can't imagine needing to "look" wealthy.

The most expensive 40k army is admech at $1800 Canadian for a 2k army. Space marines are like $700-900 Canadian for a 2k army

Generally in Denmark and Europe, showing off wealth is considered RUDE as we value modesty and equality. Most of us believe in being humble and don't like making others feel bad or envious, and sees it as someone being crass and classless if they do. Truely wealthy and elitist (and even locals) know that understated is the way to.

24:41 I’ll fill in what Asmond was gonna say “They are getting railed in that plane ✈️ “ 🤣🤣

lots of rappers rent their jewelry and cars too. thats sad

I make a very good living. I am very comfortable. I can point to 90% of my clothing & I'll just keep saying WINNERS, WINNERS, Winners, Winners, Winners. Most shirts are 30-50$, pants 40-70$, t-shirts 5-30$. Shoes up to 150$. Sun glasses 100$ Max but usually 50$. Don't waste your money, there are gym memberships , video games & food to buy😊🎉

19:30 Yeah, that's what kids do. But if you were lucky like me and you get amazing friends when you were a kid, it changes a whole lot. I can vividly remember it until now. Back when I was 8, my family was poor and I rarely get toys for present, even for my birthdays. But whenever I went to a birthday that my childhood friends had, I remember that they would have these amazing action figures that you can see on the cable channels they had at home. One day, kids from a far away block were teasing me about having "poor people toys" but my friends jumped in and acted like they were returning their expensive toys to me and thanked me for "letting them borrow my toys". That immediately shut up those other kids and went on along not looking at me. After that, they always lent me their toys even after we played and I will always return them before going home. One of them even gave me one of his collectibles and said, "What do you mean? That one's yours." I deeply miss those childhood friends, man. I wish I stayed in touch with them but this was the time before smartphones were a thing, so I never got a chance to know how they were doing after all these years.

Fake it until your family stops asking if you're okay.

People in England used to rent pineapples to impress people at dinner parties when they were a new thing.

“My new hobby cost me ten months of mortgage” the disconnect some people have, then again good on them for being able to do it.

Man I have fallen victim before to comparing myself to seeing others best all the time. This made me feel a little bit better about how I am working now.

Forget lions and eagles, if you smear shit on yourself, you ain't even impressing the sheep.

I'm sorry but as a woman... Louis Vuitton is the gaudiest eyesore and I cannot believe people would ever buy it. There's way classier luxury brands out there.

At 15 50,bro,im dirt poor and those brands dont impress me,so you missed me with another shot What impresses me in having alot of money is the fact that you either a) live a slow life you always wanted without giving a damn b) invest in a business of your own(whatever genre you might want to invest in)and succeed(cause success really means that you have brain behind the cash)

"she wants to ride the pvp airline" 😂 that killed me

Sometimes paying for namebrand isnt bad. I bought an under-armour duffle bag in 2015, and that thing has not a thread loose after almost 10 years of practice and flying on airplanes.

That mom taught her kid the wrong lesson. Congrats, your kid will grow up to be completely shallow and not think for herself. You should have taught her that she shouldn't care what other people think, she liked the cup, she should go with that SHE likes.

I'm the poorest person I know whilst everyone around me is broke as fuck...

“buying an expensive thing won’t make you happy” depends on whether it gives you a novel experience. I bought an expensive-ass sportbike last year, and the happiness ROI has been amazing. something like this is well worth those fat stacks if it brings you long-term happiness in the form of a novel experience. having a birkin bag or whatever definitely won’t do the same thing, because it’s still only a bag you put your things in, it’s not a new experience other than being able to flex with it.

Kids that didn't have Pogs in 3rd grade couldn't say shit to me

I like showing off my shoes to friends. I am extremely proud that I managed to find some shoes on discount for $2 that were basically my size.

Caleb hammer colab would be INSANE

the tennis dinosaur clip has me dying what anime was that

Nobody could ever get my references when I would reference video game shit to real life when I was younger and now it's the norm sometimes I feel like my day has come

Quiet luxury is not a thing, it’s always been referred to as “stealth wealth”.

I remember being 6 years old whining to my parents that I wanted some pokémon cards. Then they bought a pokemon card-maker software and in an instant I realized how ridiculous my whining for those overpriced pieces of cardboard was. But I wasn't done being an idiot just yet. Pogs, I need em'. Goggos, I want em'. Even marbles was something I had to have. My father almost went nuts dismantling my wants, but he succeded in the end and drilled some common value sense into my head, lol

I'm half Chinese, growing up in China, Beijing in particular, we can understand that money and appearances of wealth are an integral part of Chinese culture, which extends to many other Asian nations as well. But in Beijing there is a very old saying, "Look rich no matter how poor to get". This is really an ancient saying. Because appearances are SO important there and in all of Asia, if you look rich, then the leaders will think you are more competent and will give you better results and will be more likely give you a promotion, etc. This is similar to the saying we have here in America, success begets success. But now we see people in China buying LV and Gucci (which in reality are only entry level luxury brands), but they live on the street. We also see a trend where Chinese people will borrow expensive clothes to look like they come from good families to attract a good husband or wife, but actually they are poor or from rural communities. It's quite interesting.

Money did buy me a lot of happiness once, £50 to the RSPCA to adopt a cat. That cat brings me so much happiness.

22:41 "Not even a legendary" LMAO!

Apartment in a small town. Cheap living, quiet, air conditioned, no lawn work, next to no crime. As long as you don’t have loud neighbors, it’s a slice of heaven.

Asmons life goal is literally how im tryna be…my mom always calls me crazy when i say i wanna move back to my small hometown cuz no one lives there besides the gas station attendant 😂

I spent $19.95 on a pair of pick ball rackets and balls at Walmart, and... that is all i will ever spend on my pickleball hobby ever again. Nope on the $15,000 pickle ball hobby.

My thing is I like buying quality items so I don’t have to buy it again in 6 months, and I get the benefits of a quality item. Like I’ll buy darn tough because they are solid socks and come with a lifetime warranty, now I never have to buy another pair

"It's so dumb to spend money on something that you have no need of." I was thinking while at the same time looking for guitar nr 134 and 135.

I have grown up in a working class area here in England and moved out to a middle class area. Both sides have something in common and that is wanting to appear richer than what they really are while getting themselves in debt and not being able to afford the basic bills in their home and blaming the government (partly true) and the country for their life going down hill. The middle class might have a little bit more money but they also fall to the image of appearing rich and thinking they are closer in image to the upper class when the upper class see them just the same as the working class. For me personally if my rent is paid and the food cupboards and fridge is full as well as the gas and electric then I’m very happy and I feel rich. If I can afford to treat myself (books or a game) at the end of those bills then it’s nice but doing that every month and wasting my money always left a sour taste in my mouth. I hate wasting money. I’d rather save it towards a nice trip with me and my husband somewhere or a nice dinner together. I’ve never been into the theme of looking rich despite many in my family acting like this.

Meanwhile I go out of my way to look average to poor to avoid attracting attention

"Somebody has a problem that's not your fault but it's your responsibility to fix it." My job in a nutshell.

100% I now want a hermit house building set of videos, just like with games Asmon will just watch as builders do the work and talk about how cool it is!

The day Asmon flexes his Wendy's Chili and Dr. Pepper on Instagram is a perfect day.

thumbs up for letting the ad play.

Bow Wow was on my Frontier flight in 2016 with his boys taking selfies with their shoe boxes. We were flying Denver to LA for $48.

A fool and their money is easily parted -Confusedcious

lol imagine how many chatters were like 'imma go learn pickle ball now.'

20:00 calling it a blue item killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Outside of computer parts, the only brand I've really been attached to for like 8+ years is Blenders sunglasses. I bought 1 pair, lasted me like 5 years before I lost a screw, and I bought a few more pairs of different colors.

Caleb Hammer is awesome. If you ever feel bad about your finances, watch that channel and you'll quickly realize that you're not as big a fuck up as you think.

see i had kids used to tell me im cheap for using a bic pen at school and they all had parker pens, funny thing is i used to sell there parker pens back to them after stealing them from them the day before lol.

Same Asmond!!! Love people use things, don’t use people and love things.

That's me and my wife. We do not flaunt anything to anyone. We don't want anyone knowing how much money we have or don't have. I would rather spend the rest of my life having people think I am poor, rather than flaunting my success and wasting it on bullshit I don't need. I have always said "Being well off is amazing as long as nobody knows about it."

And I thought Warhammer was too much... My hobbies are apparently cheap in comparison, my Tyranid army doesn't even get to 500 usd...

I love telling my friend about how broke I am. I always come up with new material. We all have a good laugh.

Why did Asmons description of a perfect life - a 43 y.o. dude living in his own house on a hill in the middle of nowhere - calm me so damn much. The thought of it made my stress levels dip

The wilderness guy he was talking about is probably Aaron Paul, watch the video where he shows his house

For Gray knights you can get exactly 2000pts with enhancements and 3 combat patrol boxes the 3 boxes together cost $408. That doesn't include tools, glue, primer, and paint tho.

Wow was happy to see Caleb making it big enough to get a Asmon reference. My life has improved significantly since starting to watch him last year

"haaaa you have a mad katz controller!!!" "so? I'll still beat your ass with it"

When I was younger I wanted designer stuff so bad. Once I got to the point where I could afford small pieces I saw how terribly a lot of them were made. Now I prefer to look for quality geared towards the items intended use. No point in having something nice if it falls apart 🤷🏽‍♂️. Just my two cents

Imagine if people flexed their ROTH IRA's or 401ks over flexing lambos. We'd live in much better world.