“Traveling to impoverished countries and calling it a ‘mission’.”

Redditors didn’t maintain again when requested by u/zer0w0rries to call the dumbest hobbies primarily loved by the wealthy.

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The responses on r/AskReddit, predictably, veered into brutally sincere territory. The thread shortly full of customers calling out actions that appear to serve no sensible objective past flaunting wealth or burning time, and typically each. 

Many pointed to hobbies that require large monetary funding with none clear return or ability concerned. These are sometimes dismissed because the playgrounds of the ultra-rich just because nobody else may afford to care.

Others zeroed in on pursuits that seem designed extra for Instagram likes or cocktail occasion anecdotes than for real enjoyment. Some feedback mocked how sure area of interest pursuits grow to be “cool” or “exclusive” solely after gaining traction amongst elites. 

The dialogue sparked debate about what counts as a pastime versus a standing image. However, most Redditors appeared to agree: when cash is not any object, the road between eccentricity and absurdity will get very blurry.

Check out 19 of the dumbest “rich people” hobbies, based on Reddit

1. Buying automobiles and never driving them

“Buying an expensive car and then keeping it in your garage without ever actually driving it.” —u/zerbey

2. Collecting (and never ingesting) wine

“Even though I enjoy the taste, collecting ultra-expensive wine and never drinking it. Technically, it can be an investment, but if they never sell it, then it’s not really an investment IMHO.” —u/Additional-Bag-1961

3. Hunting

“Shooting a giraffe, like bruh it’s just standing there next to the road…🦒” —u/Ok_Security_8657

“Same with elephants, they just stand there facing off to you and you just shoot them. Sounds like a waste of time.” —u/Not_my_fault2626

4. Owning luxurious manufacturers

“People that collect luxury clothing brands and shoes and then never wear them.” —u/Senpailightning

5. Breeding canine

“Breeding and showing dogs, especially the tiny ones with the fucked up noses and tiny heads where their brains don’t even fit anymore.” —u/Ellenvanity

6. Fighting different rich folks

“Challenging other wealthy individuals to cage match MMA fights.” —u/Flizatt

7. Performative charity

“Recording yourself giving sh*t to the poor.” —u/Ok_Research_8379

8. Flashy holidays

“‘Climbing’ Everest.”—u/ThePizzaNoid

9. Yacht Racing

“12 metre yacht racing. Like standing fully clothed in a cold shower and tearing up hundred-dollar bills. By the million.” —u/AchillesNtortus

10. Cloning

“I just watched on Netflix rich Arabs cloning camels by the dozen because that first camel was really pretty.” —u/SnooComics8268

11. Solid gold stuff

“Buying solid gold toilets and other items.” —u/Mysterious-Glass6620

12. Ill-fated self-importance journeys

“Paying to go see the Titanic.” —u/sugarw0000kie

13. Luxury watches

“Collecting the same Rolex in different variations. And never wearing any because it’s in a safe.” —u/[deleted]

14. Enoying their god complicated

“Making one-dollar bets with other rich people that disrupt and ruin normal people’s lives. Social experiments and such. Basically using regular people as playthings.” —u/dirtymoney

15. Cosplaying frugal dwelling

“Being cheap. One of my friends has the money to buy the restaurants we eat at, but if we split an item, she’ll fraction out how much she puts towards it. ‘I only ate one slice of pizza and there are 6 in total, so I’ll put down 1/6.’ She also factors this into tipping. Drives me mental.” —u/Big-Buy8579

16. Condescending recommendation

“Talking down on poor people with things like ‘stop buying coffee and you’ll be rich one day’.”—u/Strawhat-Shawty

17. Sculptures

“I used to work at a very pricey private school and one the big donors took it upon himself to make these big-a** sculptures of extinct birds from around the world and then he would make a big deal of installing these things in the last place the bird was seen, even if it was in the middle of the jungle. And he paid people to follow him around and make a documentary about it. The sculptures weren’t even good, but can you imagine disrupting an ecosystem to put your piece of crap homage to an extinct animal in it?! How does that even make sense?” —u/chocolate_nutty_cone

18. Mission journeys

“Rich Christian people traveling to impoverished countries and calling it a ‘mission’.” —u/[deleted]

19. Golf

“Golfing in locations where you simply should not build a golf course.” —u/DukeManbert

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