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Money [[Lonely At the Top|makes you lonely]], [[Rich in Dollars Poor In Sense|foolish]], or even evil, but worst than any of these: since you can buy anything, including having people do everything that needs to be done, you are bored, ''bored'', '''bored'''. There are no more challenges in life. You don't have to work. You don't have to keep house. [[Idle Rich|You don't, in fact, have to]] ''[[Idle Rich|do]]'' [[Idle Rich|anything.]]

Money [[Lonely At the Top|makes you lonely]], [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense|foolish]], or even evil, but worst than any of these: since you can buy anything, including having people do everything that needs to be done, you are bored, ''bored'', '''bored'''. There are no more challenges in life. You don't have to work. You don't have to keep house. [[Idle Rich|You don't, in fact, have to]] ''[[Idle Rich|do]]'' [[Idle Rich|anything.]]

And everyone expects you to like it.

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Even the [[Royal Brat]], suffocated with toys, may suffer from this and straighten out when given something worth doing. Many rich characters find themselves abruptly precipitated into adventure and (once they get over the shock) loving it because [[Desperately Looking for A Purpose In Life|it lends meaning to their life]].

More proactively, the [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]], [[Gentleman Adventurer]], and [[Gentleman Thief]] all often turn to [[In ~~Harms~~ Way]] to escape. Other characters may turn to charity works, travel, writing books, scholarly work, or other ways of becoming [[Non Idle Rich]] to avoid this problem. The [[Upper Class Wit]] may be warding it off with his observations. Expect it to be a feature of any [[Gilded Cage]], though.

More proactively, the [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]], [[Gentleman Adventurer]], and [[Gentleman Thief]] all often turn to [[In Harm's Way]] to escape. Other characters may turn to charity works, travel, writing books, scholarly work, or other ways of becoming [[Non-Idle Rich]] to avoid this problem. The [[Upper Class Wit]] may be warding it off with his observations. Expect it to be a feature of any [[Gilded Cage]], though.

Not all the [[Idle Rich]] are bored; the intelligent, the well-intentioned, and those with a lot of energy may be alone, and the family may regard their boredom as silly, or at least recommend shopping as an infallible antidote. Those who like idleness will often clash with [[Non Idle Rich]] in their own family.

Not all the [[Idle Rich]] are bored; the intelligent, the well-intentioned, and those with a lot of energy may be alone, and the family may regard their boredom as silly, or at least recommend shopping as an infallible antidote. Those who like idleness will often clash with [[Non-Idle Rich]] in their own family.

The courtiers of the [[Deadly Decadent Court]] are uncommonly likely to suffer, despite their intrigues and their culture.

Compare [[Victory Is Boring]]; overlap is possible. Can justify [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]].

== Anime/Manga ==

* In ''[[Ouran High School Host Club (Anime)|Ouran High School Host Club]]'', the rich boys and girls set up the Ouran Host Club for that very reason: they're bored.