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What is the life of rich people like?

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Netizen A: I went to a friend's place to discuss something. After getting off the high-speed train, my friend asked a very beautiful girl to pick me up. She drove a Maybach. When we got to the place where we were having dinner, there was a row of supercars parked at the door. They were probably worth tens of millions of yuan. I had never seen many of them. The people eating with me were all young people in their twenties or thirties. After dinner, each of us drove away in a supercar. I got into the girl's Maybach and it was messy inside. At that moment, I realized that driving a Porsche Cayenne was really poor.

Netizen B: A true story here. Someone went shopping in Hong Kong. He bought too many things to carry, so he bought a car in Shenzhen to bring the things back. I saw another story online a few days ago. I don’t know if it’s true or not. One day a woman came to a company in Shanghai and asked the boss: Is your company’s house rented from XXX? The boss said yes, why are you asking this? The woman said I am XXX. I happened to pass by here today. I vaguely remember that I have a house here, so I just came up to confirm it.

Netizen C: The head teacher of the class next to me in high school drove a car to school. I don’t know what cars are like, but the boys in my class know. They said it cost at least 200-300,000 yuan. She never wore the same clothes twice every day. Anyway, she was very unsophisticated at that time and didn’t know brands. But other teachers said that her clothes cost at least 10,000-20,000 yuan each, and her car was the cheapest one in her family! I just want to say that at that time, clothes bought on Taobao cost only a few dozen yuan. It’s really hard to imagine wearing a set of clothes worth 10,000-20,000 yuan only once!

So, what is the life of rich people like?

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Before answering this question, let me first tell you three short stories, or scenes, that I see in my daily life.

Scene 1: A couple, the husband is pulling a flatbed truck covered with a layer of black coal dust, and the wife is sitting on the flatbed truck, looking very happy, and occasionally leaning her head on her husband's back. It can be seen that their coal briquettes for today have been sold.

Scene 2: An elderly couple, the old lady obviously had a stroke or something, and her movements were slow. The husband supported the old lady with one hand and held a parasol with the other. Every few dozen steps, he would put the stool on his back, gently help the old lady sit on the stool, then take out a water cup from his backpack and ask the old lady to drink water.

Scene 3: In front of a bungalow, a couple had a plate of peanuts, a plate of salted goose (a specialty of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu), and a bottle of very low-end liquor in front of them. They were chatting about everything under the sun, laughing wildly, and drinking with big gulps. When they were so happy, the husband even reached out and touched his wife's face.

Without a doubt, these are the lives of three poor people, or in other words, the most ordinary people. What can we see from these three scenes? Happiness or unhappiness, joy or unhappiness.

We might as well expand the three scenarios into three wealthy couples: sitting in the most luxurious car, eating in the most luxurious hotel, and lying next to the most advanced nanny.

If they are an original couple, sitting in a luxury car, will the wife happily lean her head against her husband from time to time? Will the husband feel happy to be leaned on by his wife? Obviously, even if there is a sense of happiness, it may not be as pure as selling coal briquettes.

Let's look at sitting in a luxury hotel, whether it's a family gathering or a gathering with friends, couples don't talk much at the dinner table. Why? There are too many other things to say. Apart from socializing, how many couples can talk to each other like poor couples? At most, they can show their affection in public.

It is even less likely that the rich will have the same happiness as that old couple. Whether they are husband or wife, their responsibilities and obligations have long been taken up by nannies, leaving no room for couples to be considerate of each other.

So, we can also learn something from the life of the rich. We can know whether we are envious and to what extent we envy them, and what kind of happy life we ​​want to live. It should also give us some inspiration.

One of my girlfriends is from a wealthy family, with branches in various places. She is in her forties and has two sons and two daughters. The family planning policy at that time had nothing to do with her. I guess money is more important than face! Her two daughters are studying in the United States, her eldest son works in her own company, and her youngest son is still in elementary school. There is a nanny at home who buys groceries, cooks, and buys flowers every day. The flowers at home must be changed every day.

She doesn't like to eat at home, always invites people to eat out. Whether eating hot pot or stir-fry, she only takes a little green vegetables and drinks some porridge. At first I thought she was losing weight, but she said: "It's not losing weight, I just don't want to eat, no appetite." I think it may be that she often eats these things, a little tired of eating, so she has lost her appetite. Those who have no money want to eat, but have nothing to eat; those who have money don't want to eat, but have a lot of food. What's the reason for this? It's a bit weird.

She drives a car herself, and her husband also has a car, but with a personal driver. Another short-haired friend who was eating next to me said: "I met your husband in a shopping mall. He had a bodyguard on each side, armed with guns and bullets. He only took the elevator with the bodyguards, not with other people. Are all rich people so careful?" My girlfriend said: "Xiao Min, it's better to be honest. There will always be some people in the business world, and there are also jealous people. People's hearts are unpredictable!" I said: "Many people envy rich people. It seems that rich people don't have an easy life either!" My girlfriend said: "Rich people also envy the freedom of poor people!" It seems that the poor and the rich have their own troubles!

I am a businessman and have met and interacted with many wealthy bosses, but I have never interacted with "tycoons" with assets of hundreds of millions. The most I have interacted with are "tycoons" with assets of more than 80 million. To be honest, they are not like what some people say, spending money like water, spending it recklessly, spending it carelessly, and spending it poorly. The bosses spend money loosely on the outside but tight on the inside. They spend money frugally even though it is hard-earned. They are generous in external entertainment, business management, and employee rewards, mainly to maintain the image of the company and the boss and show their strength. The "tycoons" are more particular about the living environment and conditions. They are unwilling to live in ordinary residential areas. They live in places with few people or high-end communities. They are also more particular about the living facilities at home. A few "tycoons" hire nannies, but most "tycoons" do not hire nannies. The boss's wife is a full-time wife and nanny at home, worried that the "tycoon" will be unfaithful and cause trouble. At home, the "tycoon" also has to do some housework within his ability, and even cook in the kitchen. Generally speaking, the "tycoons" are more frank and easy to approach, which is related to extensive personnel exchanges.

I will briefly introduce a "tycoon" who I met in person, so that everyone can understand the real situation of the "tycoon".

Mr. Gao is 54 years old, the CEO of a private company, with a net worth of 85 million. He mainly does business in imported aquatic products. He lives in a two-story villa in a luxurious community, with a usable area of ​​more than 560 square meters. His home is fully equipped with facilities and two luxury cars worth more than 8 million. Mrs. Gao is a "full-time" wife, and the family has a nanny. They eat about the same as us, and wear mainly brand-name clothes. When they are free, the family mainly travels and vacations, and sometimes takes my family with them. Mr. Gao invites whoever he wants to invite for external banquets, and never brings extra people. The banquet standards are relatively high-end, showing his status and power. He is also good to the company's employees, with high salaries and not harsh treatment. Mr. Gao often said to me: "I am good to my employees, and my employees work hard for me." Mrs. Gao is also more reasonable and polite to others, and there is no arrogance of a rich woman.

Mr. Gao is the only son. He is 25 years old. He was discharged from the army two years ago and works as a salesperson in his father's company. His salary, work, benefits and pension insurance are the same as those of other employees. He does not receive any special treatment. His parents told him that the family will provide food and accommodation, but other expenses will be paid by his own salary and the family will not take care of it.

Last year, Mr. Gao said to his son, "You go to the suburbs of a town and open a wholesale store. I will lend you 500,000 yuan in working capital without interest. You can decide how many people to hire based on your work situation, and you can cover all the expenses from your profits. You must repay me no less than 50,000 yuan each year. When you come to the company to pick up goods, the commodity prices and payment settlement will be the same as those for external units." There was no discount at all.

After I learned about this, I said to Mr. Gao, "You are a little too harsh on your son."

Mr. Gao said: "He has received rigorous training in the army, and he also needs to receive rigorous training in my company. Setting up a wholesale store is to create an opportunity for him to master independent business, management, and command capabilities, understand business concepts, and gain social experience. If he is not well trained and does not understand the entire business process, how can he take over my job in the future?"

The epidemic has dealt a heavy blow to Mr. Gao’s son’s wholesale store, which is on the verge of losing money.

His father encouraged him: "In this situation, you must stay calm and think of more ways to promote sales. Employees can be adjusted appropriately without affecting work, but their wages cannot be reduced by a penny. You can extend the repayment of my loan for one year."

In fact, Mr. Gao's business is big also earned through hard work and diligence. In the eyes of outsiders, they always think that Mr. Gao makes money easily and spends money generously. In fact, it is not the case. Mr. Gao and his team clear customs and pull goods during the day, and load and ship goods for distant customers at night. Day after day, year after year, and all year round are basically like this. No matter day or night, wind and sun, hot summer or cold winter, they are on the scene with employees, crawling and rolling, eating bread, instant noodles, and drinking mineral water. Especially in winter, when the snow is flying, the north wind is whistling, and the biting sea breeze blows on people's faces and hands like a knife cutting, the pain is unbearable. Some employees suffer from frostbite on their faces and hands, which relapses in winter. Mr. Gao feels very sorry for his employees and decided that outdoor workers who have worked in the company for more than two years should be equipped with a set of "leather clothes" from head to toe. It is better in summer, and they don't have to suffer so much at night, but mosquito bites and bags all over the body are unbearable. This is the basic operation trajectory of Mr. Gao's company.

In short, the appearance of the "tycoons" is chic and generous, they live in villas, drive nice cars, wear famous brands, and spend money lavishly, but in fact, they are all trying to cover up their inner boredom and troubles, and to get a balance point by spending money, so as to show off their status and the power of their company. There is a reward for every effort, and they have become "tycoons" today with tears and sweat. I say with admiration, whether you are a "tycoon" or a "small tycoon", you have earned the rewards with your hard work with your own hands, "tycoons", you have worked hard.

What kind of life do rich people live? They live a life that we cannot enjoy, a life of extravagance and decadence, a life that everyone envies, because our boss lives such a life.

Our boss is not very old, born in 1994, a typical second-generation rich man, a dandy, who doesn't know how hard money is to come by, and is not online every day. People often say that you can never wake up a person who pretends to be asleep, and this is true for him.

Around the beginning of 2016, our company was established. There were not many people, only 7 people, but they were also general taxpayers. Among them, these 6 people were all good buddies and brothers of the boss. There was only one person working. Do you think this is because he is rich and willful? At the beginning of the business, there was a lot of work to be done. Without any foundation and connections, the company was established in a muddle-headed way by finding an office company. It doesn't matter if there are 6 people, you can just work hard for your good buddies. No one obeys orders. It is common to be late and leave early. Every time the boss meets them, he will joke with them, saying who and who, you want to be beaten again. Of course, they also don't take it seriously at all. Can such a company have a future? Sure enough, they worked for 3 months and didn't know anything. They all graduated from elementary school. It's okay if they don't go back. You can learn step by step. Others withdrew directly, saying that they couldn't do it. They took several months' salary for nothing. They are really good buddies, and the boss is not short of money.

After a year of hard work, the company gradually got better, with business and more stable orders. He spent all the little money he made. At the end of the year, he did not have any money left. The company was already running. At the beginning of the second year, he asked his father and brother for money. He was in a daze. I saw him no more than 5 times in the second year, and he handed over everything to a good brother of his.

This year he was either in the lottery shop or in the hotel playing mahjong. He also went to Macau three times. The same thing, just a different place, to gamble in Macau. Basically he lost every time he went. But this rich man is different from us. He waits for the company to pay back and then continues to play. He is addicted to gambling. What can we do?

Rich people may have a philanthropic heart. They date three girlfriends at the same time in one year. Is this exciting? I don't understand, and I don't dare to ask. What I am more puzzled about is how to deal with three women at the same time. This is a science.

He is not very old, but he loves cars very much, and they are all business cars. At the beginning of his business, his father gave him a Toyota Prado, which was a 2008 model. He started his business with his father, so he cherished it very much and hoped that he would work hard to expand the company. But not long after, he said that the car was not powerful, the acceleration was not good, and it was not good for racing. He pestered him, so his father bought him a Mercedes-Benz S350. He liked it very much when he just came back. He took his friends and his girlfriend to Tibet, Chengdu, Yunnan, and many other places. This is the life of rich people, but he is still not satisfied. He saw someone else's S600, which was second-hand, and he had to buy it no matter what. In the end, he decided to buy it. But he didn't know that the other person was very cunning. He overhauled it when he just came back, spending about 100,000 yuan. All the unimportant parts were from brand manufacturers. Since I bought it, this car has been repaired or on the way to repair. I don't know where it comes from.

Anyway, we don't understand the world of rich people. Do we have to squander money? Do we have to be so willful when we have money? This is the life of the rich people around me. I don't know how the rich people around you live.

I won't talk about what I heard, I'll only talk about my own personal experience. I'm 29 years old and I served in the army. I entered the Shenzhen nightclub at the end of last year. Most of the time I worked as an internal driver, because many customers drank too much, so I would take care of them inside the bar. Basically, I would not use Didi designated driver, they were all sent by our internal people. There are too many cars like Porsche and Land Rover. Sometimes they are delivered to the gate of the community, and sometimes they are delivered directly to the guest's home, because they are too drunk to walk. I have seen it twice. His family is very rich. Once it was a young scholar with glasses, about my age. Because we drank beer in the bar, I didn't pay much attention at the time. Later, I delivered him to the parking lot. He drove a Panamera. In fact, I have seen this kind of car many times, so I didn't get too excited. Later, we started chatting on the way. He didn't drink too much. I drank a bowl of porridge with him halfway, and then I drove him to his home. His family lives in a large single-family villa. The road in front of the door is a bit narrow, but the car can turn and go into the garage. There are 8 cars, the worst is a very old 7 series BMW, and there is a Cayenne, Tesla, Mercedes-Benz and the like. Maybe the Panamera is the most expensive one. To be honest, it is only 2 kilometers away from the bar. He transferred 1,200 to me on WeChat and added me as a friend. His family should be engaged in seafood. I guess they are either in a monopoly position or the top of the industry. Later, we chatted a few times, and then he didn't reply much. I deleted him. The second time, there was a guy who was studying in Shenzhen. He was still a student. The drinks he drank in the bar were just ordinary celebrities, but he bought a cocktail for a girl that cost nearly 20,000 yuan. I knew that this was basically a real big bus. I followed him all the way to the parking lot. Sure enough, I saw a G63, but it was the one with a mechanical handbrake. I drove him to a community opposite a school in Shenzhen and asked me to help him up the stairs. The house was very small, but according to him, his parents would usually buy him several houses in a city. His hometown is Hubei, and his family is in the high-speed rail business. I didn't dare to ask how it was done. Anyway, when I entered the house, the furniture was ordinary, but the floor was full of luxury goods dust bags, a shoe rack, and all of them were Nike shoes, very beautiful ones, the styles that you can hardly find on Taobao, a There were about a dozen thin cigarettes and Tianxia stacked on the small table. This was quite interesting. Although he only gave me a hundred yuan, he didn't go to bed with me. He took me downstairs and drove me back to the bar. He meant that we were all brothers and he was afraid that it would be difficult for me to get a taxi back. Haha, I drank too much. Of course, in Shenzhen bars, there are bars that spend hundreds of thousands of yuan per table in one night, but I haven't been to them, so I can't tell how rich they are. This month I returned to my hometown Zhengzhou, and I'm still doing this business. This bar is the best in Zhengzhou. I hope I can meet more local tyrants so that I can make more money [laugh][laugh][laugh][laugh]

When I was in college, I studied landscape design. In today's Chinese society, the service objects of our industry are generally divided into three categories. The first category is local governments. To put it bluntly, we design and construct parks around you. The second category is real estate developers. We design the green landscapes in your community. As for the third category, we help the rich who are really rich and have aesthetic and quality of life pursuits to design their villas, from gardens to interiors. Having said that, I think everyone should have a preliminary understanding of the people that practitioners in our industry come into contact with on a daily basis.

With the previous introduction, I won’t say much now and will just share with you some glimpses of the lives of the three rich people I have come into contact with.

The first one, let's call him Brother Piaobo. This big brother is about the same age as me. He is a big client of the company I used to work for. How old is he? Let's put it this way. After a team of ten of us designed a villa garden for him, he was very satisfied and asked us to go to Thailand to help him design a few gardens. At first, we all thought that this project was a big manor. It was not until we arrived in Bangkok and went to the project address that we found out that this brother and his father bought more than ten villas in Bangkok, saying that they would renovate them and make them into B&Bs. After we were stunned, Brother Piaobo said that now Chinese people like to stay in B&Bs when they go abroad, which made his family's hotel business in Singapore fail, so he came to Thailand to buy a few villas and try it out first. As far as work is concerned, we have seen a lot of these rich people's preparations for a rainy day. Brother Piaobo's fatal attack on me happened when I reported my work to him one day. He asked me how much money I could make a year. I said it was about 70,000 or 80,000. Then Brother Piaobo asked me in surprise, 70,000 or 80,000 a year, then you can't afford a house even if you die of exhaustion! Where will you live in the future! I had to put on a brave face and say, it’s okay, I’ll make a down payment and then pay it back slowly with a mortgage! Then Brother Piaobo stabbed me in the heart and asked me weakly, Mr. Wang, what is a mortgage…

The second one, let’s call him Uncle Xiangshou. He was one of his clients that my teacher introduced to me when I was in school. In 2012, my teacher took us to visit Uncle Xiangshou’s villa on Ersha Island in Guangzhou, saying that he wanted to broaden my horizons. So, when I was just 20 years old that year, I saw that there was a kind of wash basin and faucet from Germany in the world, and the whole set cost almost 300,000 RMB. . . . .

The third one was my first boss. The boss started from scratch and did landscaping projects. The company was of a decent size and was considered strong in the local area. In 2014, I was in charge of a landscaping project in a factory area. There was a large pond next to the factory. One day, the boss came to check the progress and accidentally discovered this pond. After several explorations, he found that the water quality was good. So the boss asked someone to buy a few hundred yuan worth of fish fry from somewhere and put them in the pond to raise them. He said that when the end of the year came, he would find someone to catch them and give them to friends. After a year, in January 2015, one day the boss was full of interest and found two fishermen to go to the pond to catch fish. In the end, the total cost of labor and fish fry was about two to three thousand yuan. My boss caught less than 40 kilograms of fish in total, which was not a valuable fish. At most 500 yuan was enough in the market. But our boss was like a happy child that day, and he almost jumped into the pond in winter...

The above three cases are all true stories that I have encountered. Although these three rich people look a little silly and cute, none of them are really stupid. They are all very innocent.

Because of my work environment, I know a lot of rich and powerful people. Some are as low-key as the uncle next door, while others love supercars and famous watches.

But the one I envy the most is a rich second-generation who is not particularly rich.

In the past, he was the second young master of the family.

Unlike his brother, he was not forced to receive elite education from a young age and trained as a family successor. Instead, he freely studied the art he liked.

After joining the company, my brother naturally took on heavy responsibilities and worked hard from the grassroots level. He, on the other hand, worked as a small manager in the company's functional department and continued his artistic creation in his spare time.

Whenever you see him, he always has a childish and innocent smile on his face.

He chats with you without any guard or distance, and is extremely happy, with sunshine all over his body and his eyes sparkling.

I never envy rich people

Every time I see him, I feel so lost.

Complete innocence that has never been hurt

It turns out that only money can protect

I think there is always a pure and beautiful child living in everyone's heart.

The shining innocent heart is always there, but it is sometimes covered by the haze of life.

When I think of this

When I think of those who speak coldly and harshly, or even hurt me, they may actually be the same people as me, standing in the dark and looking up at the light.

I suddenly became more tolerant of this world.

Thank you all

I can't really say what kind of life rich people lead, because I'm not rich myself. But there are indeed many rich people around me, at least they don't have to work now, and their family life won't be affected too much.

For example, a manager of a company I worked for before, he and his wife are both working at Huawei. His wife has been working at Huawei for more than 12 years, and he has been working at Huawei for more than 8 years. They now have two houses in Shenzhen, both of which were bought a long time ago. Their wealth is at least 30 million, so it can be said that they are also a wealthy family.

But they still drive a car worth more than 200,000 yuan, and they are still busy and conscientious at work every day, and they are still afraid of being fired by Huawei. I don’t see how easy their lives are. Sometimes I wonder, if I have such wealth one day, how will I live? I can’t answer it for a while.

There is also my former colleague who has been a futures quantitative researcher for more than ten years. When he was working in the company, his strategy earned the company tens of millions. His own wealth has long exceeded 20 million, and he currently has two houses in Shenzhen. Since he started working alone in 2017, he has managed about 20 million in funds, and the annualized return rate in the past three years has been around 50%. So the money he earns in a year may be equivalent to what we earn in ten years.

Even so, my colleague has only recently changed to a car worth about 300,000 yuan, and the previous car worth more than 100,000 yuan was driven for five or six years. They live a very frugal and ordinary life. However, he is very willing to spend money on his children's education. His eldest daughter is now in kindergarten, and she attends some extracurricular brain development training courses, and the tuition fee for one semester is tens of thousands of yuan.

So as for the rich people around me, I see that they live very frugal and ordinary lives, and you can't tell at all that they are rich.

This is Wen Qing doing homework, I am Wen Ge

As for the rich, I don't really know much about them. I only know one person in Xi'an. He lives in the southern suburbs. It is said that many rich people have bought villas there, all with their own gardens and garages. One time, he came back from abroad with some red wine and invited me to his house.

I drove to their place and followed his instructions to drive the car into the garage. I didn't expect to drive into the wrong area and my car was damaged. I called a friend and asked him if there was a rescue center nearby. My car was broken, give me a phone number, I called for rescue. He asked me where I was, and I said I was in area A of the garage. He was very surprised and asked why my garage was in area B, and that row of parking spaces were all my parking spaces. I would come to find you. I said you can come directly from the garage. She said the two areas were not connected, and I told her that they were connected now...