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The world already has plenty of genuine rich people that stink up the air with their gross displays of delusional entitlement. The last thing that we need tossed into the mix is a bunch of other people that are possessed by such haunting levels of insecurity that they end up insisting on pretending to be rich. Many of us have just enough awareness to be able to sniff out someone who is clearly putting on a front. Maybe these people's stories about their own experiences with encountering fake rich people will ring some bells. 

It's extremely rare and extremely stupid, but sometimes money finds its way into people's hands for what seems like no reason. One chance encounter or ill-advised risk can land a very lucky few of us with randomly gotten gains. That said, once people have money, they tend to spend that money on the stupidest things.

Most people don't have a whole lot of money for designer tin cans and entire matching cup sets. Being the resourceful humans that we are, there are certain features of many homes that rich people just wouldn't get. Matching towels? Ha! You want a new TV just because it's sort of broken? Who are you the King of Rhodesia? These extremely common moments stand in stark contrast to some of the most expensive things people have witnessed. Here are some wild cases of rich people being out of touch.

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about people's wildest encounters with rich kid syndrome. Some folks walk around with the kind of delusional entitlement that just stops you in your tracks. 

We live in a world with super rich people and super poor people, and it can get weird as hell. One of the strange consequences of this world is people who try to act super rich, but that often amounts to being total jerks and completely alienating the people around them. Here's a bunch of stories of rich kids getting their world burst by real life, as well as stuff rich people buy that everyone else hardly thinks about.

A self-proclaimed concierge for the rich and "super rich" took to Reddit to share some of his juiciest stories from his time spent working the job. Whether it's witnessing the super rich get away with all kinds of ridiculous depravity, or enjoying the benefits of insanely large tips....you definitely end up seeing some things. 

Money doesn't necessarily make a person intolerable to be around, but it can definitely give their kids a psychopathically ignorant sense of entitlement. Here are some more times the real world hit a spoiled rich kid. Nothing makes regular people angry quite like the antics of spoiled rich kid syndrome.

Some of the most frustrating moments in life are when you work at a job that you feel lucky to have, and then realizing your coworker comes in late and does a bad job because they don't even need the money. Life has it's disappointing moments of rich kid syndrome.

Some of the stuff rich people can afford feels like it should be hugely illegal, but some of the other stuff they can afford seems like only something a complete idiot would buy. Who needs a hand carved, perfectly cube shaped ice cube? This stuff must feel like a wicked insult to anyone who realized they grew up poor, and probably results in some really terrible rich kid syndrome.

Nothing feels quite like pouring your blood, sweat and tears into buying a piece of junk 2005 civic just to watch some kid get a brand new BMW from Mommy and Daddy. Rich kid syndrome is real, and it's one of the most maddening things to watch from the outside. For more, here are dumbfounded people sharing their craziest encounters with rich kid syndrome.

Twitter users are sharing their best "Spoiled Kids Complaints." The resulting tweets are brimming with insufferable levels of obnoxious entitlement. One of these spoiled kids complaints might remind you of a time when you were waiting in a grocery line, and overheard some whiny brat going on about how they were severely disappointed that they didn't get the "rose gold iPhone" instead of the matte black iPhone, for their birthday last week. 

When you're just a kid, you just kind of assume everyone lives the same way as you, so you don't think too much of it. Then maybe you go to a friends house and realize that it's just a little bigger, or cleaner, or they seem to have a lot more food. Then it hits you. "Oh, man, what is it my mom does for a living?" For some other interesting and somewhat frustrating stories of relative wealth, here are people's craziest encounters with rich kid syndrome.

Dad got fired up for this email after his daughter told him she might spend her after-tax income on a bike that's another way of saying you have too much money to blow. His brutal response has since gone viral, and people are all about praising him for his work. 

If you need a refresh course in what makes this flashy bike so ridiculous, check out that comedian's viral Twitter thread that breaks down all of its absurdity here!

Just in case you're trying to life hack your way into looking like that rich asshole, as cheap as possible.