Ever wondered about the exclusive perks that come with being super wealthy? From private getaways to customized experiences, the affluent have access to a range of luxuries that most people aren’t even aware of. Whether it’s tailored vacations, exclusive fashion collections, cutting-edge tech, or VIP access to events, the world of the wealthy offers a level of privilege that transcends the everyday. While the rest of us navigate our daily lives, the wealthy enjoy a realm of exclusivity that remains largely unseen to the average person.
“Cloud Seeding” for your perfect rain-free wedding day for $100K.
Companies inject silver iodine which causes the rain cloud to disperse without actually raining down, allowing your ceremony to stay dry. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had it done for their wedding in 2012. It was also done prior to the opening of the Beijing Olympics. here’s a company who offers it.
No lines. I dated the niece of a famous celebrity and she took us to Disneyland where we were given a private security detail of 5 people dressed in civilian clothes and special passes that got us on the rides immediately no matter what. Some of the staff were even surprised by the passes and had to radio behind the scenes to verify that we were indeed part of an exclusive party attending the park that day.
I once worked at an Olympic horse ranch in Colorado, and the owner was from Seattle and was friends with someone who played guitar with Kurt Cobain. Then talking to one of the riders, they had been to a party over the weekend that Mark Zuckerberg was at. That’s when it hit me – when you’re rich, you just know everyone or know someone who knows them.
Six degrees of separation is only for the masses. The elites are closer to two or one.
Specialized household staff. When someone is truly mega-rich, running their household takes the same complexity as running a small to mid-size company, and management is skilled and compensated accordingly. Don’t think “butler” – think “head of operations at a luxury hotel.”
The staff that household managers oversee can be really specialized as well. For example, Larry Ellison has his own personal curator to oversee his collection of Asian art. They do things like:
advise on the purchase and sale of art in his collection
oversee storage and display of art housed on his property
oversee the process of lending art for storage and display at museums
The curator will often have their own staff to conduct actual conservation work, art transport, art installation, etc. So if you’ve already got an in-house crew of 7 people focused on your art collection alone, imagine how big your entire household staff is! That’s why you’ve got a household manager.
Most people do not know this, but you can purchase a 5, 10, and 20-year visa to Thailand called an Elite Visa ranging in price from 15k USD to 30k USD, with various perks and upgrades, limo service, golf courses, and hotels available. This visa allows you to enter and leave Thailand any time you want and stay during the duration of the visa. It comes in personal and family sizes. You can’t work on this visa, but some lawyers and elite agents can wrangle a work permit with it although most people who have this visa don’t worry about working.
Something they do that most people don’t know about is buying entire libraries at once.
My sister used to work at a bookstore and told me someone came in and wanted to furnish their library with a library-size purchase of books. They just wanted cherry-picked best sellers left to the discretion of the people working there. It sounded wild.
Private boarding gates at certain airports. Complete with showers, a spa, a full bar, a lounge, food, a bed, a gym, a sauna etc. Total privacy. Your luggage is scanned and taken through security by a concierge, and you’re driven to the plane in a BMW 8 series.
You can rent celebrities for your private events. Not just musicians, but bona fide actors & actresses.
A super rich guy in Bel Air used to host his kid’s birthday party in late October, so they went all out for a Halloween-themed party.
Everyone at the kid’s school was invited, plus their own friends.
Each year they’d hire some fantastic athlete to appear at the event; 1 year it was Tony Hawk, another year it was some Olympic gold medal gymnastic winners.
The one that threw me was when they hired Demi Moore, Anthony Kiedis & Benicio de Toro to be “guests” at the party, to hang out and pretend they were friends with the kid.
Mind you this was a KID’S Halloween party, set outside in a huge, massive garden, spread out over tennis courts & lawns, with games, buffets, dessert tables, taco stands, omelette stands, BBQ, pizza, burgers, etc… no booze, no one allowed inside. All the event staff were dressed in Halloween costumes, it was VERY cool.
But it was sad to see Kedis & de Toro sitting together commiserating… you could see the ‘f*ck, the things we do for a paycheck’ look on their faces. They were at a KID’S party for f*ck sake.
Demi was very nice, she brought her little doggies.
Health and happiness. Seriously. My ex-wife’s family was uber-wealthy and for a few years, I got to experience a slice of how the other half live. It really is like a ‘club’. But staying on topic, Health: Everyone had a TON of meds, minor things you wouldn’t pay any attention to they had meds for. Red skin from the sun? Meds. Going through a tough month at work, they got pills for Anxiety at the drop of a hat from their family doctor who was on speed dial. Is school stressing you out? You now have ADHD, here’s meds to focus on. The more money you have, the less of a Doctor you have and more of a ‘legal drug dealer’ you get.
As for the ‘happiness’ part. That just comes with the comfort of wealth. Their house was MASSIVE and in the quiet, gorgeous countryside outside of the city. There’s so much you don’t consider when you live middle to lower class. Noise is nonexistent. You get so used to it living in a city or even in the suburbs. Their house: Couldn’t see the neighbors, can’t hear anything except birds chirping. The street was so far from the house you couldn’t hear the cars driving by. It was peace and silence.
The thing is, it’s exponential. If you’re healthy and happy, you can work better, and think clearer, and that leads to better life decisions that result in you making more money. The cycle repeats.
They treated their health as an investment. If they were healthy, they made more money. If they made more money, they could afford to be healthier.
Entire floors of hotels or multiple floors. Entire restaurants. Chefs from literally any restaurant in the world to cook for them, wherever they are.
I saw all of those things done by a Prince Of Saudi Arabia: We estimated it cost him $50,000 just for the one private meal in our restaurant, given that he:
Had the top four floors of our hotel booked (for the hundreds of staff to take care of him, his wife and his two kids; plus likely some concubines, if I’m being honest). As someone in this part of the world, being rich = the number of people who work for you.
He paid $30k just to close our restaurant for one meal.
Flew his favorite chef from New York to Orlando to cook for him, on his private jet; and then back again. Of course, it was likely the OTHER private jet he had just for his staff, not for himself or his family.
Make food for our entire staff, all the kitchen staff, all the federal, state and local security and him, his wife and his two kids.
This shows you, in some sense, that having people around you doing stuff you need to be done but doing it invisibly is another perk of being rich.
I grew up around Lexington, KY. The region is huge on horses, particularly Thoroughbred horses. The entire city is surrounded by horse farms, and these farms breed some of the best racing horses in the world. The rich and famous will often come here to buy Thoroughbreds to add to their breeding stock.
One such person is a shiek from Dubai (I think?) who owns his own private 747. Now the local airport isn’t rated for 747s, and it’s not legal to land one there unless it’s an emergency. The shiek doesn’t care though and lands his 747 there anyways. The airport fines him every time he does this, which he is totally fine with paying. I’ve been told that many of the upgrades to the airport over the years were almost entirely funded with money from those fines.
Houses “ready to move in only with a suitcase”. These houses are more than fully equipped. Everything is already there like the whole furniture, glasses, knifes, forks, spoons, tissues and toilette paper, towels, toys and games for the children etc.
Private performances with big-name artists. I was on a yacht in the Virgin Islands and some mega yacht owner pretty close to us had Christina Aguilera flown in to perform for his guest on the mega yacht.
We were close enough to see the performance – not close enough to pretend to be part of the party.
If you are rich you can have a leg up when it comes to organ transplants. I believe there are flight services where you pay a subscription fee every month or year and if/when an organ is available it will fly you out right away. Also, Steve Jobs gamed the system because he was able to get to different transplant hospitals all over the country quickly because of his money so he was able to be on multiple waiting lists. He was on liver transplant lists in California and Tennessee, and I believe the latter had a shorter waiting list and because of his severity, he was able to rise up the list and get a liver faster than if he was only on the list in California. This practice is not technically against the rules but many view it as unethical.
Basically, if you need an organ you better be rich.
The vast majority of financial products are out of reach for all but the rich. One reason the rich get richer is that they have access to investments that we’ve never heard of. Ever seen “The Big Short” why do you think Goldman Sachs took a week to correctly price Dr Michael Burry’s housing-short position? Because they were securing that position for themselves and their clients. Those financial instruments are so complicated and the regulation on them so byzantine that it wouldn’t surprise me if Goldman actually didn’t do anything illegal, like they’re allowed, at their discretion, to misprice an asset for a certain period of time. Probably under the guise of the assets being complicated to price, but really it’s just a buffer for them to get an edge that regular people couldn’t believe.
Imagine going to a horse race and being able to bet on the horses near the end of the race. Rich people get that.
How do things work when these people want to go on a trip and give any notice at all to their employees.
What happens is that an advanced team gets sent ahead by a few days to scope out the rented/bought location and report back the exact dimensions for closet space, drawer space, etc. People back at home go through the clothing, jewelry, etc, and draw up a priority list which is sent to the advanced team. The advanced team then spends the next two days purchasing the list of items. Entire wardrobes, jewelry sets, makeup kits, bathing supplies, etc. Anything they cannot get (not enough time, or is one-of-a-kind like the family heirloom watch the rich dude wears every now and then) is relayed to the house team. The family’s schedule is arranged such that the moment the family leaves the house on the day of travel, a whole team of people rushes through and packs up all the remaining items (only after the family leaves, you wouldn’t want to deny them access to their items for even a few seconds) which are then sent ahead to the airport while the family has a lunch or something somewhere. Upon landing, their luggage takes one route (direct) and the family takes a similarly indirect route (unless otherwise directed) such that by the time they get to the location all of their items are not just unpacked but in their proper organized locations and ready for use without any of the advanced team ever being visible to the family.
What happens when the family leaves the location? The same situation is in reverse, but quite frequently all of the repurchased items are just disposed of in some method. It’s just easier, if not cheaper, to rebuy them each time the family goes somewhere if they aren’t travelling to too many different locations in quick succession.
Private banks. Rich people use banks like Chase, but they don’t bank through regular branches, instead, they use Chase Private Banking. They never wait on hold for a banker to pick up the phone, they get same-day access to their deposits, lines of credit, etc. Deposit $3 million into your checking account and you’ll get a call from your Bank’s private banking group.
When companies like Lamborghini and Koenesgegg make limited edition supercars worth, like, 6 million each. Those cars are usually paid for before they are done being built.
Somewhere out there, are a few garages where there are dozens of these insane supercars are just sitting. Unused. I can’t imagine being so rich that 6 million for a decoration seems trivial.
So a few months ago, for the weekend, I went and saw the Hearst Castle. For the uninformed, this is a private castle that William Randolf Hearst, the newspaper millionaire, built out in Big Sur on the California Coast. He would send private invites to all the intellectual and political elite of Hollywood and San Francisco for the parties that he hosted every weekend. The parties have stopped, but the structure is still there.
Sh*t was unreal.
You walk up to the building, and the doorway has this 30-foot archway over it, carved from stone. Very ornate, with angles and Latin inscriptions and all that. And the tour guide is like, this is a Roman archway about 1600 years old, that was the entryway to a cathedral in southern Italy. And you’re like, wait a second… I’m in California, and this is literally the side of a building.
The whole place is like that. Every room, every wall, every hallway.
The dude collected ceilings. He has a ceiling collection. He has like forty godd*mn ceilings from a variety of churches and cathedrals in Spain from the 1300s-1600s. Each of his thirty-odd guest bedrooms has a different antique ceiling that he bought and shipped from a different medieval Spanish church and had his builders incorporate into his mansion. Half of those bedrooms also have balconies or windows that were part of Roman villas, and most of the bathroom doors are Renaissance woodwork.
In the entertaining room where people hung out and smoked before dinner, one of the walls consists of this big wooden structure that is where the Choir used to sit during mass in some big-a** European church. There are more of those upstairs, in the hallway between his bedroom and the library. The library has like two thousand Greek urns and amphora.
I asked how sh*t like this was accomplished, apparently, he had multiple full-time staff working in Europe whose sole job was to find him five-hundred-year-old buildings for sale, so that he could ship their walls and arches off to California for his castle.
A friend of a friend flies helicopters in the NYC area and once flew Drake and his entourage from the city out to the Hamptons for a party that night. He had to go back and forth a few times to get everyone there. Drake ended up tipping him $5,000.
Once you have enough money, “violators will be fined” just means “it costs this much to do this.” $300 to drive as fast as you want on the highway? Worth it. $100 to park wherever you want and always have space? Sure. Everything from noise complaints to prostitution just has a price tag.
An economy, rich people can find a small town to dump their big businesses and factories thus creating jobs, driving up the price of homes, taxes and a need for roads and services but in the snap of their fingers the big business could be gone bringing everything it is supporting in the little town.
A lot of people have multiple cars but rich people have cars specifically for the weekend. During the week you drive your average S-Class/Lexus/7-Series that you don’t mind subjecting to cruel traffic, but from Thursday to Sunday you drive your weekend car. These fall into three spectrums- antiques, sports cars, or luxury cars. I don’t know much about the antiques, but I love going for drives in the area on Fridays just to LOOK at the Rolls Royce Phantoms and Lambos. Lambos/Ferraris are usually driven by younger rich people (Arabs and athletes) and are seen at night usually racing. The luxury cars are the old people. Maseratis are not weekend cars, they’re work cars. And every Saturday morning there’s a car show in our town.
Rich folks can (and some do) get the blood of younger people circulated into their bodies for potential anti-aging properties. Seems kinda crazy at something like $285,000 per person, but if you’re an old guy/gal with tons of $ (and most wealthy people tend to be) what wouldn’t you trade for the potential to slow down, if not momentarily reverse some aging? That’s the idea at least.
Time. You can really buy time. I used to work assisting a chef who did a lot of specialty (vegan or gluten-free or macro or w/e) private dinners for rich people. Not big parties, just small dinner parties. I got to go to some ridiculously fancy penthouse apartments and I wound up being friends with the son of a very famous musician for a while.
Think about all the little things that you do in a day: getting ready in the morning, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, making phone calls, paying bills, going to the bank, etc- now imagine you don’t have to do any of them. They’re all done for you, and you don’t have to even think about them if you don’t want to. Your time spent traveling is also at a minimum because you take helicopters or private planes everywhere. You have so much more free time and leisure time, and you don’t have to ever deal with one of life’s little inconveniences again. Even the guy I was friends with (who was in college and trying to live a pretty normal life) had meals and groceries delivered, used a car service all the time, had his laundry picked up and done, etc- so he had all this time that normal college kids don’t have, to do his work or play music or whatever he felt like.
Everyone can sort of imagine the luxury items (art, cars, jewelry etc) but the part that is hard for regular people to understand is that, unless you want to, you don’t have to be involved in picking out what painting you want or looking at your budget or making the deal or anything. You just say, “I think we should have a painting on this wall” and then you get one. It’s pretty sweet, honestly. All the homes I was in had really great collections of one kind or another because the rich person could basically have a staff member whose entire job was to find, restore, and display Soviet toy cars or something.
Citizenship. Lots of poor/isolated countries allow you to buy your way in. Mostly used for tax evasion.
If the country you want has jus soli citizenship, you can also pick it to give birth and get your kid’s citizenship. This is cheaper than the prior option if adequate medical care for the birth exists in the target country. ($5k is a typical midwife fee, plus a few thousand for a hotel in the weeks surrounding the birth.)
American Express black card. You don’t “buy” it, technically. It’s a credit card, but you pay a $5000-$7500 initiation fee, then an annual $2500 fee. You have to spend at least $300,000-$500,000 a year and have an income of at least $1 million a year.
You have 24/7 concierge services, flight upgrades, they can close stores so you can shop alone, etc. Some of the benefits are only known to cardholders.
Privacy. It’s harder to come by and more expensive than most people realize.
Use Google Earth to check out some of the estates nestled into the wilderness of the Santa Cruz Mountains on the Peninsula in the Bay Area. Most of those people drive Priuses and are billionaires.
A shadow vessel. Basically, a second yacht that serves your main yacht such as going ahead to set up your water toys (jet skis, submarines, etc.), if it has a shallower draft you can take it to different areas, and it can take cars ahead for you so when you get to port you have your car to drive, sleep extra people, extra storage, etc. Basically, it lets you bring more toys and you don’t waste time by having to set up when you get somewhere.
I think people underestimate how much time and convenience you can purchase. I worked in a cell phone company call center as an escalations/ help desk years back, when you asked to talk to a manager or the Frontline couldn’t help or understand what to do to fix your problem, you got me.
I dealt with the assistant of a famous country singer, not like super A list but you’ve probably heard them on the radio.
She had full power of attorney and the frontline associate had no idea what to do with that because normally that’s for people that run an account for their elderly dementia patient parent or mentally handicapped child or something. Well, she had it so she could do all his business, even government paperwork.
She decided he would enjoy having a smartphone, they were fairly new then and had looked at every carrier with local coverage (which mattered more back then) that offered unlimited talk and text (not everyone did at the time). Decided we were the best option so she wanted a business plan with all the bells and whistles and the highest-end phone on the market at the time
This dude didn’t even know he wanted a new phone, his assistant was just like “he’d enjoy this, I will make it happen” waited on hold for him, signed up for everything, researched all the plans and options, and from his perspective one day a programmed and set up phone was handed to him with a “here, I thought you’d want this”.
She even had me call a local store and find a rep willing to drive over to his house and show him how to use it (I presume he got a hefty tip).
Family Offices. Typically you get access to Family office services around 25-50Mil in assets. Over about 250-500Mil you can get a private family office. These are full financial concierge services. They do everything from paying your taxes to managing every bill and purchase. Billionaires simply “order” things and they appear. Call the family office and say I need Christmas gifts, a new car, a nice 14-day vacation, jewelry etc. They manage nearly every aspect of billionaires’ lives.
Airport handlers. They pick you up, escort you into the terminal, carry your luggage, check you in, skip all TSA lines, get you entrance into whatever airline lounge you want for you and basically walk you onto whatever flight you taking.
A family member got it for me once when traveling alone with kids.
They hire a nursing nanny who travels with the family for the first year of their child’s life to nurse on demand. They’re too good for formula and too good to nurse their own children. It’s quite a shock for someone outside the billionaire level to get accustomed to.
Designer water. You can buy water for thousands of dollars per bottle that has had its mineral content tweaked to give it undertones of different fruits. We have family friends who are pretty well off. They opened a $100 bottle of sparkling water for dinner like it was fine wine, and it was delicious. I would still drink a soft drink over designer water though
You can hire a school agent for your kid. These guys meet with prestigious international private schools and have a portfolio of wealthy kids. They will match your kid with the school that fits the parents’ criteria.
My uncle manages a private school in Canada and even he finds this unbelievable.
Arctic Crossing. My Dad was on staff for a Billionaire who asked his kid where he wanted to go for vacation…anywhere in the world so the kids’ imagination said “The North Pole” so they luxurized a crabfishing boat and hired a staff of Arctic adventurers for an Arctic Crossing.
A driver…to drive your car…for two years…because you have too many DUIs and your license is suspended. I don’t mean, driving you to work and back, I mean, being available and sitting in your car at all hours, all over town, all the time.
Then when you get your license back the court forces you to install a breathalyzer in your car that you have to pass for the car to turn on…do you fire your driver? Nope. Because you aren’t sober enough to ever pass that breathalyzer so he’s got a job for that entire year as well.
Then you get your license back and the breathalyzer removed…but you’re still an alcoholic who drives drunk. I’m honestly not sure how this ended but I know he’s still driving around drunk all the time. I guess until he kills someone at least. Maybe.
(Small town so his family having tons of money makes them all basically immune to any real punishment.)
Movies currently in theaters: It’s a subscription service directly from studios for digital delivery of full resolution/quality movies which are currently playing in theaters. It is a very expensive service and often requires special hardware, decryption dongles, etc.
I know a couple of wealthy folks who have this for their HUUUGE and lushly appointed home theaters. It’s a pretty nice service to chill in comfort and avoid the crowds.
Not “you’re flying from A to B and you buy the empty seat next to you”. I’m talking about buying airplane tickets as if they are bus tickets. Buying the fancy tickets where you can change the date/time/passenger so that at any point in the future you can use them or anyone around you. So you can say something like “wanna come to our winter house? We have a spare airplane ticket”
I didn’t know you could buy airplane tickets as if they were bus tickets, redeemable by anyone at any time. I thought you always had to specify who and when.
I grew up with two artists as parents and my uncle is a high-end art dealer and it always shocks me when people don’t realise just how expensive art can be and how rich the people that buy it are.
I mean sure the super-rich buy mansions and super-cars and sports teams, but just about anyone who’s ever watched a music video knows that. What I generally notice people being the most shocked about is almost always art.
To put things into perspective: the most expensive painting my uncle sold last year was worth 18 million GBP. It was in a private sale. To put that in perspective, how much of your net worth would you spend on a single painting to hang up in your house? 10%? 5%? I don’t know many people with only a million bucks that would shell out 50k on a single painting. Let’s say 2% is generous, at 2% then that person would have ~900 million GBP. But I may have forgotten to mention that this painting was to be part of a collection.
The most expensive painting I’ve ever HELD with my own hands was eventually auctioned off for ~44 million USD. That’s more money than I will make in 10 lifetimes.
Did some work at the vacation house for an oil country prince. Besides a huge shark tank in one of the living room floors the lazy river in the back yard among other things. There were goldsmiths taking gold leaf squares and applying them to the whole grand entry (front door for the common folk) area and walls. The master bedroom was tiled in gold tile.
Being on a construction remodel site with goldwork, you come across interesting scraps. Literally gold was blowing in the wind from the pieces that came off the gold leaf during application.
Entire dinosaur fossils and very fine mineral specimens. DiCaprio and Stephen Seagal are collectors and have displays in their homes. Fossils and minerals can be tens of thousands to millions. The vendor at Tucson I spoke to refused to sell stegosaurus spines and plates to Stephen Seagal because they were for institutional display only since they were one of the most complete sets ever found.
In-house sommelier.
You might fancy yourself a wine collector, but the uber-rich have their own sommelier to manage and curate the collection, not only for drinking and investment purposes but more and more for authentication as well.
Banks. A good friend’s mother had come to me asking where she should bank after she got in a tiff with her bank. I would estimate her net worth north of a half billion and a monthly income of 2 million a month after taxes. I told her in all seriousness she should just buy her own bank. Within a week we had a small town bank in contract.
Whole hospital floors. At the hospital I work, a couple of times they would get someone super wealthy and to prevent bothersome noise from other patients they would rent the entire hospital floor for peace and quiet.
There is also another floor dedicated to the wealthy with hotel-like accommodations while you are sick and your family can stay in their own apartment-like room next to your room. Mahagomy furniture, personal bathrooms and the nursing staff are trained more to show you how much the hospital loves your money.
Trees. I know a guy who just travels the country looking for interesting, massive, beautiful, or unique trees. He offers the owner a ludicrous price for the trees, then transplants the whole a** tree to his property for resale. Because if you just built your custom mansion, and want a dozen ancient olive trees, who are you gonna call? This guy. Also, the kind of thing where “if you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it”.
Endangered animals. It’s a very real problem, with many being poached and taken from the wild to end up as pets for super-wealthy individuals. Animals like birds, reptiles, amphibians, small primates, and other smaller species are captured live, but many die while in transport. It’s a messed up practice. It also creates a demand to breed these animals in captivity when their numbers get too low in the wild as a result of this, which is why there are now more tigers being bred for private purchase in the United States than exist in the wild. But some species do not breed well in captivity, and it’s often much cheaper to get them from the wild, so the black market of poaching them from the wild continues to thrive due to its cheapness and effectiveness. Unfortunately, it’s a multi-billion dollar industry. National Geographic has written a lot about this industry to try and bring it to light, but sadly because of how big the exotic/endangered pet trade industry is, it continues to exist.
I once had a few dinners with a lady who purchased wine for some ultra-rich family in Japan.
Her job was to travel around the south of France (where we met), Spain, Italy and Greece, find wines that suited the palettes of each person in the family and place orders for multiple crates of each. She took me with her to a vineyard and bought their entire stock for the year for a cool couple of million.
Of course, her travel and accommodations were all handled through an expense account. She just had to make sure that she was never sick during the summer and fall, that she never burned her tongue or ate anything apart from the local cuisines to keep her palette “untainted” during tasting season.
And after seven or eight months of travel in Western Europe, she would go back home to Japan for the winter and have a few meals with the family to learn about any changes in their tastes.
I can only dream of having a job like that, let alone being able to employ someone to do that for me.
Private firefighters. Kim and Kanye hired a bunch of them to guard their mansion during the CA wildfires last year.
I also see this move as a sort of “f*ck poor people: global warming edition” from the super wealthy to the rest of us peasants who will be left to drown/burn/starve if climate change continues to spiral out of control.
Astronauts who do moonwalks bring up their country’s flag with them for the express purpose of creating a neat souvenir that they can then sell to weird rich nerds who have nothing better to spend their money on.
Poors believe in meritocracy, that they can work their way up, and that staying an hour late or working a weekend can ingratiate themselves to the upper classes, and that they’ll be running a company someday. Ha!
Here’s the truth: all the important jobs are spoken for; somebody’s daddy has given his failed son dibs– at your expense. If you weren’t born into it, you’re not going any higher than middle management. The corporate world isn’t a meritocracy, but the opposite. It’s a hereditary aristocracy designed to look like a meritocracy. The venture capitalists know five years before the decisions are made who they’re going to fund– not me, and not you.
