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Okay so, might be long, I'll do my best to make it short and I'll be as respectful as I can. I really genuinely am curious. For context, I used to be extremely poor, but with a lot of hard work over the years, managed to move to Singapore for new opportunity and, I have now became pretty rich, but, I'm having a huge culture shock that I just couldn't wrap my head around. Okay so, as I moved here about months ago, my colleagues invited me to go around shopping over the weekends. I wasn't very close to them, but I joined them cause why not. Then they brought me to these...luxurious places? Like this place (forgot the name) sold shirts. The shirts looked so plain, and blank colours, with simple materials, but...it cost 300 SGD...? Then there's this cap, I forgot the name, selling for 200 SGD? Then they brought me to those luxurious bags like LV and whatnot etc. and all these time I thought they cost about 250 SGD kind of luxury but...one of the bags my colleagues bought cost 5000 SGD.....and....its a very small bag, that you can probably fit a phone and wallet and it'll be full.... My collegues started asking me why am I not buying these luxurious wearings, and all I said was "I don't plan to right now", but in reality, I don't plan to ever. Just for comparison, my shirt cost 3 SGD and it looks nice to me and I've been wearing it for years. My bag cost about 20 SGD and it has good quality, long lasting, and can fit many many things. So yeah, u get it. My questions is....why do rich people buy expensive....useless things? I mean, don't get me wrong, I am rich now, I can afford to buy many of those bags and all, but.....why? That bag is so small....and it cost a car? And there's people buying it...? But...what's the use? Why buy an overpriced cap when you can just wear a 2 SGD cap? Why buy an overpriced shirt when a 5 SGD shirt, that looks exactly the same serve the same purpose? I just....why? What's the use? Is it just purely to show off? Just to let people know that you're rich? Just for people to look up to you? In case you're wondering, all the money I earned is only spend on basic needs, and the rest I decided to give away to my younger sibling's education, and charity for others. Also, please don't give me the "Their money their life" or similar answer, I get it. I'm asking all these coming from someone who was extremely poor, so these whole thing is really news to me. I'm trying to understand better.