History Main / IdleRich

* In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Literature/{{Catseye}}'', Tikil is full of {{Blue Blood}}s far from the planets where they get their money, living a life of luxury.

* Deconstructed with Tom and Daisy in ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'': sure, they don’t work, but they are constantly chased by all kinds of ConMan (Biloxi), TheThingThatWouldNotLeave (Klipspringer) and NouveauRiche (Gatsby). Without a job, they have plenty of time for RichBoredom. Both of them are LonelyAtTheTop, they cheat each other without any passion, Tom is clinging to his GloryDays as a football hero because he knows he will never top that, and Daisy is a StepfordSmiler.

* Torbjörn from ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'' is implied to have been this before his family's RichesToRags episode, as his flash-back has him consider that having to get a job at all was a sign of how poor they had become.

* In Creator/DorothyLSayers' LordPeterWimsey novel ''Have His Carcass'', one professional dancer speaks with contempt of women who resort to the high life rather than making a life for themselves.

* Paul from ''Film/TheExMrsBradford''. She writes mystery novels and lives the idle lifestyle except when there's a murder to solve.

* Ivan Vorpatril in ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' is a subversion. He wants few things more then to be idle and to convince everyone else he is idle. But unfortunately the antics of "the cuz"(Miles)always prevent that.

* Deconstructed with Tom and Daisy in ''TheGreatGatsby'': sure, they don’t work, but they are constantly chased by all kinds of ConMan (Biloxi), TheThingThatWouldNotLeave (Klipspringer) and NouveauRiche (Gatsby). Without a job, they have plenty of time for RichBoredom. Both of them are LonelyAtTheTop, they cheat each other without any passion, Tom is clinging to his GloryDays as a football hero because he knows he will never top that, and Daisy is a StepfordSmiler.

* Ivan Vorpatril in VorkosiganSaga is a subversion. He wants few things more then to be idle and to convince everyone else he is idle. But unfortunately the antics of "the cuz"(Miles)always prevent that.

* In Creator/GeneStrattonPorter's ''Michael O'Halloran'', Douglas recounts how a friend of his is training an orphan waif to follow him in his business, because while he has sons, his rich wife is training them to be "men of wealth and leisure".

Whether old money, NewMoney, [[RoyalBlood royalty]], or [[BlueBlood nobility]], these people just spend their time living off their vast sums of money they earned, or their family's sums of money.

* ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': For a whole decade, Past Charles Xavier hasn't done anything the least bit productive; he is a reclusive alcoholic who wallows in self-pity within his BigFancyHouse.

->''"In the evening Popov and von Kartzov drank champagne and dined sumptuously. Though Popov would never know it, von Karstoff's real name was Kremer von Auenrode, and educated and wealthy aristocrat from Trieste whose main objective was to get through the war with maximum pleasure and minimum danger."''

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->''In the evening Popov and von Kartzov drank champagne and dined sumptuously. Though Popov would never know it, von Karstoff's real name was Kremer von Auenrode, and educated and wealthy aristocrat from Trieste whose main objective was to get through the war with maximum pleasure and minimum danger.''
-->--Ben Mackintyre, ''Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies''

* In DorothyLSayers's LordPeterWimsey novel ''Have His Carcass'', one professional dancer speaks with contempt of women who resort to the high life rather than making a life for themselves.