What Screams Rich but Poor

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How to spot if someone is pretending to be rich?

 

Pretending wealth comes from inner insecurities. Such people always feels good about their public display and will genuinely stress out if they’re prevented from doing so. 

Some people delight in deliberately displaying their wealth to others with the sole intention of casting impressions. They like to tell/show what they have thereby cleverly hiding what they actually don’t have.

The chief message pretenders want to send is always: I am superior. I have money/ prestige/ status/ power. I am better than you. I am the best.

What they usually do not know is that their ‘showing off’ may actually be crying ‘rich-but-poor.’


Here are some signals to spot false status show-offs:

  1. They only choose those clothing, shoes, accessories and other articles that have brand name displayed on them in bold. Twisted brand-consciousness. They never buy anything that doesn’t have a prestigious brand name. They can literally throw huge sums of money just to own an expensive branded product not because they are happy with it, but because they can use it as status proof or trophy to indirectly show off their financial superiority.
  2. During casual conversations with people, strangers, friends and colleagues they deliberately (and feigning innocence) blurt vital hints as to where they went for vacation, which VIP they met or planning to, and which car they drive. Pictures of villas, resorts, vacations, cars, or airports are very common with very innocent captions.
  3. They talk about which high-end product they purchased or always purchase. They may even pout petulantly and tell you how a famous crazily expensive branded product is pure trash according to their personal experience just so you know they purchased/used it. Stereotypical symbols of wealth…
  4. They talk about low and medium brands in degrading light telling everyone how their products are untrustworthy and cheap, just to let you know indirectly that ‘I don’t buy cheap/medium brands.’ Don’t be surprised if you happen to see such products secretly being used by them.
  5. They ensure people know which car they drive, and which upscale restaurant they visited on the weekend. Expect lots and lots of pics of all these all over the social media including WhatsApp status and selfies. (Even though these things are just normal standards and don’t spell wealth at all.) They photoshop their pictures to painful details highlighting or completely altering the reality/ background.
  6. Their house from living room to the toilets, will be displayed with items as if they are on a stage or a show. Real in-use unbranded or cheaper items will be safely tucked out of sight in closed shelves.
  7. May let travel tags hanging and stuck on bags for months after returning just to let others accidentally know where they’ve been to.
  8. During vacations, they make sure they shoot their pictures with famous landmarks. We all do this for precious moments and memories, but they do it for proof to shout to the world: ‘Hey, do you see? I have been there. I can afford to do so’.
  9. This one is hard to believe but very true: they mention how much salary they are being offered at a new company but they refused because the place was not to their liking. Or how many fat salaried offers they’ve refused. The bigger your eyes pop, the happier they get.
  10. They give importance to richer acquaintances and people just to hang around with them to let their wealth, contacts and importance rub on them by sheer virtue of company. They don’t stop at this. They will somehow make sure others see them with their richer relatives/ acquaintances.
  11. They never fail to mention how a family member/friend of theirs lives in a posh house, drives a Bugatti, once rode a Lamborghini, or works at the White House. The poor ones will never be mentioned. If they must mention, they will cleverly omit details that give their low status away.
  12. Selfie with celebrities. Not for memories and moments but as proof of ‘Look, I even met this celebrity!’
  13. They manipulate words to appear high sounding and full of importance:International, club, society, investment, summit, seminar, tax…
  14. They sometimes fake meetings and appointments to appear terribly busy doing ‘important work’ in order to appear high-mighty-not so easily available-rich.
  15. They blatantly mention how much money they are dealing with, investing in new venture, or got offered from.

Thank you for reading.


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