Someone Asked "What Do Insanely Rich People Buy That Poor People Have No Idea About?" And 30 Folks Online Delivered

Opportunity.

You can throw a hundred business ideas at the wall and only one sticks, if you are rich enough, when you finally do something right, everyone calls you a genius, like you didn’t buy your way through 99 failures first.

Most people only get one shot.

Also, corporations will literally bend over backwards to employ rich peoples useless kids. The bank I used to work at once had a guy like that and after six months has to let him go, but “couldn’t wait to work with him in the future” because his family was loaded,
They couldn’t be honest and tell him what a useless f**k he was, they wanted him to come back when he finished university instead.

Obscure paintings, like ones you've never heard of. There have been cases of art changing hands without ever being seen but the buyer or leaving the vault where it was stored. There are a lot of investment vehicles that are largely unused for their intended purposes and are purchased just because their perceived value is expected to increase (e.g. a lot of luxury apartments in major cities). People rightfully trash talk NFT's but those are basically just a parody of what a lot of rich people are already buying.

I work in the film industry and one time I booked a trip for someone to fly from London to California for a weekend and it cost more than my yearly salary.

Edit: This was 2010, and it was $35,000 for first class airfare, private car, & hotel, because they realized Friday morning that based on his contract that he needed to be present while the film was being finished that weekend, and his contract specified he accommodations needed to be first class/5-star hotel, etc.

Edit2: I accidently had an extra "0" it was $35k, which is $10k more than what the studio was paying executive assistants at the time...

I don’t thing many people know that their are luxury hospital floors for rich people:

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Books by the foot to fill decorative libraries

That people don’t actually know about? There are a few towns and islands that are only for rich people. It’s just a place you’d never know to go or have access too unless you too are rich. But also things like specific buildings for high frequency trading. Some trading firms move to where they have faster access to the internet and as such can complete trades faster peeling off those tenths of a cent in a transaction that in term can make millions. I think the exchanges actually figured out a way to stop it but for a period of time it was something only rich people could buy

In California, a rich person can spend a few million dollars and get a measure placed on the state ballot. If it passes, it becomes law.

There a streaming service that's pretty much netflix for rich people, allowing you to stream current cinematic movies for about 3000 bucks a pop.

They don’t invest on their own, they hire company to do research and advise on best steps to make their money grow.