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“Wealthy people can rent 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…
“1) 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 mistresses if I’m being honest). As someone in this part of the world, being rich = the number of people who work for you.
2) He paid $30K just to close our restaurant for one meal.
3) 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.
4) Made food for our entire staff, all the kitchen staff, all the federal, state, and local security and him, and his wife and his kids.
I had a buddy who taught ski lessons to another Saudi prince’s little kid and had some nearly unbelievable yet similar details during his interactions with them. That kid had an entire team around him or probably 10 staff, plus vehicles, snowmobiles, a helicopter, and so on. I later met a guy who worked on an ultra-luxury 300-foot yacht and served Bill Gates and his wife, among other super-rich people. Their primary job was to operate without interacting with them, or at least as little as possible. 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.”
—u/durgadas
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/lizmrichardson/things-rich-people-buy