Body language reveals wealth

I don't take this shit from anyone.

"gawd" that's not even a word... do we get to spell things how we want now? OK. Ail just dew et laik this or sumthing gawd haw anoyng iz thaat?

Not every wealthy person feels the need to show it off and many dont look down upon people who are of a lower economic bracket. Personally i could care less whether you are rich or poor its all about character. Im always kind and polite to people i meet but if you do something that i find rude, insulting or unfriendly then well fuck you.

I've noticed this shit for YEARS in nyc.

Say you're walking down the sidewalk in the East Village, and you're dressed like a normal, working-class person, and you spot a gaggle of rich, obnoxious twenty-somethings wearing three-hundred-dollar "vintage" jeans walking towards you. You're bound to collide, as they ignore the normal nyc sidewalk etiquitte (ie - SHARE THE DAMN SIDEWALK WITH OTHER PEOPLE) and walk in tandem - in a line stretching the entire width of the sidewalk.

Guess what happens. The rich hipsters don't move! They don't make room! They walk in a solid line, as if they were riot police advancing on a crowd! They expect you to go out of your way and go around them. Having formed a wall, they literally walk directly into you if you don't move! (it has happened to me many times.) But if a wealthily-dressed person (ie - a fellow "hipster" asshole) walks by, you'll see the gaggle part like the red sea.

This is NOT an exaggeration. You will witness this crap anywhere you'll find hipsters congregating (especially in Alphabet City and Soho). Its unreal. I hate rich kids - Their sense of entitlement is nauseating.

However, this theory breaks down when you meet adults who are well-off who:
a) would NEVER imply to others that they're rich, and
b) dress, interact, and behave with the same level of humility that us working-class folks do. I've met plenty of them.

Its about attitude, not money. Truly wealthy people have nothing to prove to anyone.

I work retail...find this one to be very true...usually they talk on their cell phones the whole time...they just can't be bothered with us poor people!

I am poor and rude...does that count?

not surprising

It doesn`t matter because in about a year they`ll all be filing for bankruptcy anyway.

The logic of the argument breaks down the first time you ride a Pace bus in Chicago. You'll meet plenty of people who don't have the luxury of being rude that think they're "all that and a bag of chips," if you will.

Even people whose livelihood depends on them charming you into leaving a big tip still treat you like whatever service they're providing you is coming out of their check, like the waitress that acts like you're at a soup kitchen 3rd shift late news years eve.

A-holeness spans the entire social and economic spectrum. Dale Carnegie would be rolling in his grave.

On the other side of the broken down logic, there are plenty of nice people that are loaded as well. Okay, maybe "plenty" isn't the right word since you can't have enough nice people in the world, but you get the picture.

Or, people who are more fully human, more humane, more interested in the ideas and situations of others, are less likely to claw their way to the top. Greedy rich assholes think of nothing else. By nature sociopathic.

...lol... and they call me a "pretentious and dismissive"... this is funny. I don't fidget or groom though, unless I'm uncomfortable or there's a woman I'm interrested in... I do consider myself successful but I'm no millionare or anything... I just work hard and take pride in what I've earned/learned without a hand from anyone else.

this is maybe too general a statement. also It may be situational. what happens between two high ses, or two lower ses people? maybe there's something more subtle going on that isn't being noticed by the researchers. regardless of wealth we do need people even if we do not need their potential resources... that's something nobody can deny.

I wonder if rich snoots realise they've giving off a rude air ... or if you're born rich but then go down in economic status does your body language change?