Ash ExantusChief Financial Educator, Ash Cash Enterprises · Financial Empowerment Leader | Public Affairs Strategist | Media Executive | Advocate for Economic Equity & Financial Literacy | Champion for Formerly Incarcerated Communities

Beyond Appearances: Debunking Wealth Stereotypes About Money

1 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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A speaker raised in poverty assumed rich people dressed fancy, but a wealthy client in torn jeans and a broke car owner in a flashy vehicle taught them otherwise. Appearances don't reveal who has money. Both the polished and the shabby could be secure or struggling.

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And I realized that there were a lot of wealthy people that, you know, I thought coming from the hood, I thought wealth looked a certain kind of way. Yeah. But to be a banker and have a client worth $2 million and his jeans look horrible and his shirt is ripped up and, you know, and seeing that and then going and see the person that got the mink and the Benz, you know, crying to me about overdraft fees, I was like, wait, hold on. Like, there's a misconception about what money really, really is and what money really looks like. It's not to say the people The person with the Benz is broke and the person with the jeans got money. It's just to say that money don't really have a look. You could, you could, you could have a Benz and be broke, and you could have a Benz and be in and have money, you know what I'm saying? You could have ripped up jeans and be broke, and you can have ripped up jeans and have money. So it really isn't a look.