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Hidden Brain

Filthy Rich

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Social Sciences, Performing Arts, Science, Arts

4.642.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Several years ago, sociologist Brooke Harrington decided to explore the secret lives of billionaires. As she told us in this favorite episode from 2016, what she found shocked her.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.

0:02.8

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be rich?

0:05.8

Taking all of her for detox in the Hamptons,

0:08.4

standardized testing has really stressed him out.

0:11.4

Really rich?

0:12.6

Why are you wearing a tux?

0:14.6

It's after sex, what am I, a farmer?

0:17.0

Private jet to your island estate in the Caribbean, rich?

0:20.4

I mean, it's one banana, Michael.

0:22.4

What could it cost?

0:23.6

$10?

0:24.6

Most of us will never know what that's like.

0:27.4

But if you have ever been at least a little curious about the lives of the Uber wealthy,

0:32.4

this show from October 2016 is for you.

0:35.8

It's an interview with Brook Harrington, a sociologist at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.

0:41.2

Several years ago, Brook decided to explore the secret lives of billionaires.

0:48.4

Her strategy?

0:50.2

Become a wealth manager.

0:52.6

Brook discovered that in order to manage money for the super rich,

0:56.2

wealth managers learn a lot about the private lives of their clients

1:00.8

and the very different set of rules that govern their world.

1:04.4

The lives of the richest people in the world are so different from those of the rest of us

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