Ask Lemmy

I realized rich people just sort of assume they’re going to get help when they ask for it, so I started behaving this way and people are so much more helpful.

Like, here’s a poor person:

What the fuck is going on with the air conditioning in my room? I paid $150 to stay here and I think there should be air conditioning in my room and this whole fucking vacation is a nightmare and I’m gonna leave the nastiest review if you don’t …

The poor person immediately assumes it’s a fight.

Here’s a rich person:

Looks like the AC’s gone out in my room. Could you please send someone up to take a look at it?

They just assume, from the get-go, that they’ll have full cooperation. It doesn’t cross their mind that someone might fight them on it.

I’ve found that this approach works wonders.

And even things that aren’t already “part of the deal” so to speak. Like:

You don’t happen to have a stand-up lamp I could put in this corner do you?

Like, a poor person would never even conceive that they could get extra furniture in that hotel room. A rich person just assumes all the resources available are at hand to help.

The staff will then go to their own office, or grab the stand-up lamp out of the lobby, something like that.

I dunno. I believe in social and economic mobility, and I think rich is a feedback loop between attitude and outcomes.