[theqoo] WHAT REAL RICH PEOPLE CARRY AROUND INSTEAD OF DESIGNER BAGS THESE DAYS

Eco-bag from hotels costing over 10 million won for a 3-night stay (7.2K USD)

You can buy a luxury handbag simply by having the money, whether through a loan or credit card installments, and even resell it later; staying at a hotel like that, however, means the money is simply gone, making it a different kind of display of status.

It is referred to as "if you know, you know" because only those who are familiar with this kind of consumption recognize it.

As traditional logo-centric luxury goods (like the quintessential Chanel) became accessible to the middle class, the upper class, driven by a constant desire to distinguish themselves from that group, appears to be shifting toward a different realm.

This kind of phenomenon has occurred throughout history and across cultures; for instance, when black pepper, once a symbol of true wealth in the Middle Ages, became commonplace following the Age of Discovery, the culinary preferences of the upper class shifted toward dishes featuring mild cream sauces.

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1. I see

2. Ok

3. ㅋ

4. I brought one back when I stayed at a Swiss hotel too, but I haven't really used it, it's just sitting there gathering dust. Are there actually people who show it off?

5. Looking at the comments, people are blatantly dividing social classes based on moneyㅋㅋㅋ Rich people are just people with a lot of money; they aren't aristocrats..

6. Being able to engage in that kind of spending certainly marks one as upper-class, but if someone insists on carrying it around just to show off, does that suggest the mindset of the "real deal", the truly established elite, only develops naturally when wealth has been passed down through generations?

7. Wait... are we supposed to keep that? I saw it in the dressing area and just left it there, thinking it was provided for carrying clothes to the laundry drop-off or the poolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ The stitching looked so shoddy, I didn't think it would last long anyway. It's pretty funny to make a big deal out of that, thoughㅋㅋㅋ

8. Who even does thatㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ It's probably only people who've scraped together every last penny to go who would do that

9. Just wear whatever you like

10. Ha..... seriously this is so tiring

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