"I briefly worked with one of the top Saudi Arabian crown princes in the '80s. He would buy out the top three floors of the best hotels (e.g., Four Seasons); two floors were reserved for maids/help/security, and the top floor was reserved for the royal family. Once, it was only the prince and his three wives. Wild shit."
"I worked with the child of an incredibly wealthy family. They had armed security with them 24/7, even just to drop the kids off at school. I overheard them saying once how they hired a very famous female artist to perform a private concert for a few of them. It was wild."
"They get paid to be a bank and 'exist.' They extend payment terms of 30/45 days to the end client, pay the technician $25/hour (which he's ecstatic about), and charge the end client $85/hour. That's $60/hour while they're eating lunch or taking their child to the aquarium. The rich get richer, and the poor say, 'Thank you, sir.'"
Crowdsourced anecdotes reveal that some ultra-wealthy individuals buy entire top floors of luxury hotels, reserve staff floors, and travel with multiple spouses. Some wealthy families employ armed security around the clock, even for school drop-offs, and commission private concerts from celebrity performers. Business intermediaries linked to wealthy clients sometimes act as de facto banks, extending payment terms to end clients while paying technicians far less and charging clients much more, capturing large margins. These behaviors highlight concentrated wealth, privacy, and power disparities that separate elite lifestyles from workers' economic realities.
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