2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you know a really rich person? [View all]loyalsister
(13,390 posts)One person I know is very much like you described. She married into money and settled into an elitist existence that she had wanted for a long time.
Not only does she live in a bubble, she tries to insulate herself from any bad thing that might happen to people she knows. Honestly, if a family member she doesn't interact with very often died she wouldn't even want to know about it. She is critical of people who grieve or have bad feelings about their circumstances. She makes no effort to understand why. Other people's feelings are irrelevant. She also has an absurd sense of entitlement. One weird way she shows it is she doesn't worry about being on time anywhere, for anything. Of course, she also worries about the possibility of raising taxes, even though it would greatly benefit people she knows and allegedly cares about.
Little people and their problems are completely irrelevant and serve no purpose in her life unless they can help her somehow. For example, she held a fundraiser for a politician several yrs. ago. I was invited and asked if I could bring a friend. No. Peons were not invited unless they served a purpose. The crowd basically looked like the one in Ashley Williams' video until the party brought some volunteers to ensure there were some people of color in the room - just in case. That is probably a lesson Hillary's campaign will have taken from Ashley Williams' video and future privileged fundraisers will look more diverse.