"What's trashy if you're poor and classy if you're rich?" Here's what people on TikTok had to say ...
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00:00What's considered trashy if you're poor, but classy if you're rich?
00:03I'll go first.
00:04The most expensive thing you own is a really old car.
00:07When your immigrant parents save all the bottles, you're poor.
00:10But when you're rich, you're eco-friendly.
00:12Not raising your kids.
00:24Van life culture.
00:25Because if you are a rich person who has given up your life,
00:28renovated a van, and now you're living this sort of nomadic,
00:31idyllic lifestyle, that's privilege.
00:34But if I'm poor, and I'm living in my vehicle out of necessity,
00:38society looks down on me.
00:40When you shop at a second-hand shop, you're poor.
00:43When you're rich, it's vintage.
00:47This isn't, obviously, against Princess Charlotte.
00:49She's a baby.
00:51I would never do that.
00:52I just find it interesting how when it was revealed that she speaks
00:55English and Spanish, thanks to her Spanish-speaking nanny,
00:58everybody was talking about just how impressive this was,
01:01how smart she was.
01:03But when little first-gen kids do it, it's not as impressive.
01:07Things that are trashy if you're poor, classy if you're royal.
01:11Number one, hand-me-downs.
01:12The royals love a good hand-me-down.
01:14Like, between-generations hand-me-downs.
01:17But if I wore hand-me-downs to elementary school, I got bullied.
01:20Having too many dogs.
01:22This is not Queen Lizzie slander.
01:24She loved her dogs.
01:25I would have a million dogs if I could.
01:27But if she didn't live in a palace and instead lived in a trailer,
01:30this would be trashy.
01:32Minimalism is really popular right now, and it's not attainable for everybody.
01:36Because if you're rich, you can get rid of stuff and live an uncluttered life
01:40because you can replace it if you ever need it in the future.
01:42But if I'm poor and my living space is barren because I can't afford things well,
01:46that's just considered sad.
01:48Supporting your adult children.
01:49Wealthy people regularly support their children well into adulthood.
01:52Not only will they support them entirely while they're in college via, you know,
01:55allowance money and buying them cars and apartments and whatever,
01:58but if a middle-class or poor person has an adult child who's still living at home,
02:02that child is lazy and entitled and they need to cut the cord.
02:05Being a stay-at-home mom.
02:06Because society has deemed, if you're a stay-at-home mom out of necessity
02:09because you can't afford child care or, like, a second car to go to work,
02:12then you're trashy.
02:13But if you're a Lululemon-wearing, Range Rover-driving, Starbies-everyday
02:16kind of stay-at-home mom, you're class.
02:18Debt.
02:19Let me explain.
02:20So, for lower-income people or just a normal person,
02:25getting a mortgage, taking out student loans,
02:28overspending on your credit cards, that is called debt.
02:31And debt sucks because debt compounds most of the time,
02:34which means that you're not just paying money on the original amount
02:38that you took out on that loan but also everything else.
02:41But when you're rich, debt is called leverage.
02:44This is why you'll often see celebrities, people who have tons of money,
02:48buying homes but taking out mortgages even though they could pay in cash.
02:52Because interest rates are so low that their money that they could be paying
02:58towards the house is better used elsewhere, like on the stock market.