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Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not... by coldtea on Monday May 19, 2025 @05:20AM (#44027890)
>Well that falls under the "unless someone tells you" part

Well, everything falls under "unless someone tells you" in the grand scheme of things.

But as far as furniture knowledge goes, it's of the most basic type, not something "just the rich would know".

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Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not... by alexey-salmin on Monday May 19, 2025 @05:34AM (#44027959)
Not really, many things you can observe and learn yourself fairly quickly.

Some others are very hard to observe yourself (e.g. the poisonous effect of lead) but by now they are embedded into the collective consciousness.

My worry is with things that are neither. In this particular context these are things that you know if you grow up in a rich/middle-class family, but hard to come by if you become rich/middle-class later in life.

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