History Main / RichInDollarsPoorInSense

-->--''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', "Peterotica"

** Viserys Targaryen and his interactions with the Dothraki. Illyrio warned him that kings often lack the caution of commoners, advice Viserys failed to heed. He believes his imagined status as the “rightful king of the Seven Kingdoms” is enough to demand respect from his Dothraki hosts. His ongoing open hostility and refusal to understand their customs lead to [[AssholeVictim his particularly gruesome and humiliating end]].

--->'''Token:''' I'm just so happy you guys moved into town. You see, I used to be the only rich kid. All the other families here are kinda low to middle-income.\\

'''Token:''' Well, they never really had any money.\\

* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' has idiotic CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Kornada, who plainly doesn't understand why he was arrested - after all, the plan he commissioned (no, it's not his plan, he's far too dumb to come up with it) ''would'' have lobotomized almost half a billion robots, crippled Jean's terraforming (if not outright dooming everyone), and cheated countless investors to make him the richest man on the planet, sure, but it didn't work, so it's all right, isn't it. He's also completely deluded as to how the legal system works, thinking he can use lemon laws to complain about his trial for the aforementioned snafu and get a refund for the massive fines he got slapped with.

* [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake's]] father Jack may have been an entrepreneur that made a fortune but he founded his company alongside his first wife and after her death, he started making a series of blunders, like falling for obvious scams, that his son managed to save him from before he bankrupted the company.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''
** While Alphinaud Leveilleur does have Sharlayan's famed centers of knowledge for his education, when it comes to costs, what funds are available to him, and their source, he has an occasional habit of shrugging it off without a second thought. This ends up getting him in trouble twice, once for drama and later on for laughs. The drama comes from his lack of attention to [[spoiler: the source of the Crystal Braves' funding, allowing for the Monetarists of Ul'Dah to gain vast amounts of influence with the Crystal Braves' second-in-command Ilberd and his loyalists]]. Later in 4.2, this gets played for laughs in the latest running gag of "Alphinaud gets served a slice of humble pie", when he absolutely pisses off Tataru by [[spoiler:choosing to repurchase Gosetsu's katana, which the old samurai had pawned off for his own funds, thinking it should be no problem for the Scions' coffers to cover the costs as a favor for one of their friends, without even bartering a single gil down. It turns out much to Alphinaud's horror that a katana of a high-ranking samurai can be worth as much as a brand new and fully furnished home.]]

Basically, when wealthy people have trouble grasping concepts that are a way of life for people without money. These people have been [[SpoiledBrat spoiled all their lives]], and have had all these things taken care of for them, so when they try to do these things (by choice or not), they just don't get them.

* {{Socialite}}: Most instances are, if the character is a lady with nothing much to do except partying
* UpperClassTwit: If this character doesn't really do much even by upper-class standards
* ValleyGirl: If this character is fashion-conscious and inarticulate
* RichBitch: If this character is also malicious and looks down on the less affluent
* KingIncognito: If the royal is doing a poor job of blending in

* RoyalBrat: Spoiled youngster from a royal family

* TheDitz: If this character's ignorance would be at least somewhat present even if they weren't rich

* LotsOfLuggage: Considers junk as "necessities", especially when camping
* MsRedInk: If the character is a woman who has no understanding of personal finance

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9ywYptCKlg What rich people are like probably]]" by Creator/ProZD depicts a man who is so rich, he doesn't even know what ''coins'' are.

* Pops from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow.'' He was raised in a wealthy household but was very sheltered, resulting in him having a child-like fascination with EVERYTHING. He's an old man who acts like a very young child due to his naïvete. But this is also partially due to him being from another land entirely. It's implied that he was much more mature and lucid when he was younger, but then Mordecai and Rigby accidentally ran his past self over with a golf cart, possibly resulting in his childish personality.

* ''LightNovel/MayIAskForOneFinalThing'': Noble lady Scarlet's BloodKnight tendencies aside, it's clear the first time we see her out in public she has no idea what she's doing. She's sold a lump of rock convinced it's mithtril, thinks a home looks like an old ruin and wonders if she can punch out a chunk of it as a souvenir, and buys a meat and vegetable skewer unaware that it's s rat meat and only interested in the unusual fragrance. Julius notes that, for all her attempts to blend in, Scarlet is very clearly a noble and just as obviously susceptible to snake oil salesmen.

* Louise of ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' displayed this when she went undercover as a commoner. She wanted to maintain her high standard of living while pretending to be someone poorer, had difficulty not treating commoners like a noble would, and managed to gamble away their entire mission's funds before the end of the first day.

%%* Originally Sachiko from ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs''. (Zero-Context: Example is just "trope is here" and doesn't explain why it's only "originally")
* ''LightNovel/MayIAskForOneFinalThing'': Noble lady Scarlet's BloodKnight tendencies aside, it's clear the first time we see her out in public she has no idea what she's doing. She's sold a lump of rock convinced it's mithtril, thinks a home looks like an old ruin and wonders if she can punch out a chunk of it as a souvenir, and buys a meat and vegetable skewer unaware that it's s rat meat and only interested in the unusual fragrance. Julius notes that, for all her attempts to blend in, Scarlet is very clearly a noble and just as obviously susceptible to snake oil salesmen.

* Arche's parents from the Baharuth Empire in ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' ''reek'' of this. They racked up lot of debts while continuing to live their lavish lifestyles, even when the Emperor himself deposed them from their former aristocracy for being typically useless. They also had the ''gall'' of berating Arche, their sole earner, for not behaving like a 'true aristocrat'. [[spoiler:Then [[ShootTheShaggyDog Arche dies at the hands of Nazarick]] while pulling OneLastJob to take her sisters away from them]]. They are so out-of-touch and ungrateful that [[EveryoneHasStandards even the loan shark]] is pretty much disgusted at them (while acknowledging they make excellent targets).

* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Marie discovers the hard way that the five capture targets of the Otome game are this after they lose their duel against Leon. All five are stripped of their nobility titles along with all the privileges they took for granted during their whole lives, and they constantly waste the little money they, or rather Marie makes, in presents that are next to useless and meaningless, much to her irritation.

* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'''s background, after [[LightNovel/FateZero Tokiomi Tohsaka's death]], his apprentice Kirei Kotomine was given control of his assets as guardian to Tokiomi's daughter Rin. Despite the Tohsakas being comfortably wealthy, by the time of the Fifth Holy Grail War, Kirei has managed to squander the vast majority of Rin's inheritance, apparently by sheer naive honesty and terrible management skills, though it's implied that it was actually another expression of his barely-concealed {{Troll}} tendencies and delight in tormenting Rin.

* ''Film/LoveAndFriendship'': Sir James Martin is the ideal candidate for a husband, as he is rich, cheerful, and ''incredibly'' stupid. When he arrives at the Churchill family's manor, he admits to being confused by the fact that there's no church on a hill. At dinner, he's entertained by the concept of green peas. Later, he states that there are 12 commandments, and when corrected that there are actually only 10, he wonders which two should be left off.

Conversely, a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob would pretend to be like this, to make his masquerade more convincing.

* ValleyGirl: If this character is fashion conscious and inarticulate

* ShelteredAristocrat: A young and rich noble who can be either malicious, naive or stupid

** Adrien's also used to being shielded from the full consequences of his actions, and sees no reason for that to change... meaning he's caught completely off-guard when his KarmaHoudiniWarranty runs out.

* Mr. Toad in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'' sure counts as he wastes his fortune on his wild "manias." In fact, he gets arrested because no one believes his claims he would actually trade his hundred-thousand-pound worth manor for a ''motorcar''. It's even debatable on the "rich" part, given how much damage he has to pay for with his antics.

* In ''Film/TroopBeverlyHills'', the main character is leading a troop of [[CaptainErsatz ersatz]] [[ScoutOut Girl Scouts]], and at first treats it like lounging by the pool, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/troop_leader_lounging_around.jpg including spending their first trip]] [[LotsOfLuggage "roughing it" wearing a]] [[PrettyInMink mink coat]], [[SmokingIsGlamorous smoking a cigarette]], and drinking chilled wine. And later, the troop spends a night in Beverly Hills Hotel, because the campsite is unsuitable for them, as the main character puts it, "there were no outlets, and, there was dirt and bugs, and it rains there."

* ''Film/LoveAndFriendship'': Sir James Martin is the ideal candidate for a husband, as he is rich, cheerful, and ''incredibly'' stupid. When he arrives at the Churchill family's manor, he admits being confused by the fact that there's no church on a hill. At dinner, he's entertained by the concept of green peas. Later, he states that there are 12 commandments, and when corrected that there are actually only 10, he wonders which two should be left off.

* Michael Sevenson is the son of a wealthy baron on the ''Literature/KnightAndRogueSeries'', and even though he's been traveling and earning his own money for a year by the start of the books seems to have no ability to estimate the value on anything. Fisk often has to stop him from paying with the largest gold currency what's only worth the smallest brass coin.

* [[EnsignNewbie Lieutenant Blouse]] from ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'' has strong elements of this, but turns out to be a subversion; he's inexperienced, a bit naive and comes from a rather sheltered upbringing but he's not by any means stupid, even if he's not really cut out for field operations.

** He gets his hands on poor commoner clothes and relatively tattered boots to use as a disguise, but thinks nothing of bringing his clearly expensive bow and keeping his ponytail bound in a hair accessory that is clearly made out of silver.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': This is Tyrion's own self-effacing protest when Tywin names him Master of Coin. While he's one of the brightest political minds in Westeros, he hasn't got a clue when it comes to economics. See Bronn and Pod: he has no idea how much he's even paying the former and is legitimately surprised to learn he's not even paying the latter. He does pick up on Littlefinger's shady dealings with the Iron Bank of Braavos, though, with him expressing concern that the Kingdom has a bigger problem to deal with after the War.
** Viserys Targaryen and his interactions with the Dothraki. Illyrio warned him that kings often lack the caution of commoners, advice Viserys failed to heed. He believes his imagined status as the “rightful king of the Seven Kingdoms” is enough to demand respect from his Dothraki hosts. His ongoing open hostility and refusal to understand their customs leads to his particularly gruesome and humiliating end.

* Rajesh Koothrappali in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. Hailing from a very rich family in India, he was known for spending lavishly for minor details (For example, he paid premium pedicure for his dog and was a regular donor to a Koala zoo and he didn't even know which one), and ''had no idea'' that his father was paying his rent. He wises up after learning this and takes another job at the planetarium ([[ThrowTheDogABone which became very popular]]) and straight away asks his father to cut his allowances (which Howard estimated in '''hundreds of thousands of dollars''' per month).

* Pretty much the entire premise of the series ''Odd Mom Out'' as Jill, wealthy but not overtly so, has to handle the lifestyles of the ultra-rich around her (including her mother-in-law and sister-in-law) who consider Jill as dead poor because she can't afford to waste money on massively expensive trips and clothing. A running gag is Jill openly asked how "the poor handle things like this" as her neighborhood is treated like a third world country.

* Rachel Green from ''Series/{{Friends}}'' is a mild example of the trope. She was raised in a wealthy family and was set to be married to someone, but she wound up running out on her wedding and crashing at her not-so-rich-friend Monica's apartment. For a long time, Rachel had to learn how to do things that were autonomous to everyone else, such as taking out the garbage and serving drinks to people in a cafe. She does get better in the later seasons.

* ''Series/{{Succession}}'': A major theme in the show is how the Roys have grown up wealthy and sheltered, so they have no idea how the world works and are essentially living a fantasy world. They desperately seek to earn the approval of their SelfMadeMan father but have none of the tools to succeed without his help.

* ''Series/Hawkeye2021'' has Kate Bishop becoming a NonIdleRich, embracing the opportunity to become the heroine she dreamt of being. Unfortunadely, she is SkilledButNaive, as no matter if fit for an ActionGirl, she has a knack for getting into trouble for doing very stupid things without thinking them through first, not to mention clumsy and displaying how she has no experience in combat outside of a gym.

** This can also apply to The Prodigal Son. The son of a rich man wants his father's inheritance before he died, and the father gives it to him. Then he runs to a distant land and lives it up on the money, but it soon runs out. He is forced to live as a farmhand (and is so hungry, the pigs slop looks good), until he comes to his senses and goes back home.

** While Alphinaud Leveilleur does have Sharlayan's famed centers of knowledge for his education, when it comes to costs, what funds are available to him, and their source, he has an occasional habit of shrugging it off without a second thought. This ends up getting him in trouble twice, once for drama and later on for laughs. The drama comes from his lack of attention to [[spoiler: the source of the Crystal Braves' funding, allowing for the Monetarists of Ul'Dah to gain vast amounts of influence with the Crystal Braves' second-in-command Ilberd and his loyalists]]. Later in 4.2, this gets played for laughs in the latest running gag of "Alphinaud gets served a slice of humble pie", when he absolutely pisses off Tataru by [[spoiler:choosing to repurchase Gosetsu's katana, which the old samurai had pawned off for his own funds, thinking it should be no problem for the Scions' coffers to cover the costs as a favor for one of their friends, without even bartering a single gil down. It turns out much to Alphinaud's horror that a katana of a high ranking samurai can be worth as much as a brand new and fully furnished home.]]
* Both Redmond and Blutarch Mann from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' are heavy-hitters of this. All their lives and throughout their little proxy war with one-another, these [[UpperClassTwit Upper-Class Twits]] have little idea of how the world really works: thinking that the Gravel Pits of New Mexico that they have been fighting over for decades was what made the world go round and powered the trains. And that when their [[LongLostRelative twin brother Gray Mann]] sent them letters to trick them into a meeting proposing a truce; they decided to ''RENT OUT'' the Alamo and fly it to New Mexico for a meeting place... where the dimwit brothers thought [[MisterSeahorse they should build a machine in order to make one of them pregnant.]] With their only concern being if the plan was somehow ''too'' perfect.

'''Mrs. Wong:''' No we can't! Who do you think been paying your rent!?\\

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Pacifica Northwest is the richest girl in town and it shocked at the fact Mabel can eat in the car. She also is unable to pronounce sharing correctly, saying it with a hard R.

* Thanks to a classic ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' cartoon, we know not even [[PetHeir pet heirs]] are immune to this trope. In "Aristo-Cat", when a rich cat's butler quit, the cat had no idea of how to feed himself. He thought about eating mice but this plan was halted by the fact he had no clue as to what a mouse looked like. One even tricked him into thinking a dog was a mouse.

*** In "Naughty or Ice", Daphne says her family's partial ownership of the fancy ice hotel happened because her great-grandfather was so afraid the Government would freeze his assets he decided to "freeze" them first by investing on the hotel.

--->'''Man:''' Look man, I work fourteen hours a day at the saw mill. I just got off work and I need to relax.\\

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Sylvester when he goes to tag along with a group of orphans to go hunt in the commoner forest:

** The one person on the trip who knows who he really is scrambles to get a proper lunch prepared for Sylvester after noticing that he didn't think of this himself and that the lunch everyone else is having isn't going to work for him. That same person is also very grateful when one of the orphans takes the initiative of improvising a table for Sylvester.

* In ''Literature/TheSubtleKnife'', the second book of ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'', Lyra is shown unable to wash her own hair, as there were always servants around to do it. Somewhat incongruous, as in the first book she spent a long time with the Gyptians, a lower-class travelling people. [[/folder]]

* Mr. Toad in ''WesternAnimation:TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'' sure counts as he wastes his fortune on his wild "manias." In fact, he gets arrested because no one believes his claims he would actually trade his hundred-thousand-pound worth manor for a ''motorcar''. It's even debatable on the "rich" part, given how much damage he has to pay for with his antics.

* ''Series/UndercoverBoss'' features the owner/CEO/president of a large corporation working anonymously (with a cover story given as to why a camera crew is following this person around) at an entry-level job within the corporation. It's fairly common for them to be really bad at it. The premiere episode actually featured the president of the company being fired (in his fake identity) by his supervisor for being so inept at his job...of cleaning out Porta-Potties.

* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': ** Nagi and Maria show this pretty well, though Maria is just Nagi's maid. When Hayate suggests using the subway, they're amazed. Nagi has gotten better about it due to Hayate's teaching.