Status & Wealth - Nobility

[trooper6]

Originally Posted by Agramer

Shes "Old money" ...through daddy.

Bill Gates is nouveau riche.

Bill Gates is certainly nouveau riche...but just because you got your money through Daddy doesn't get one into the halls of Old Money. Conrad Hilton (the Hotelier) wasn't old money and only started making his money in the 1920s...are the Hilton's now Old Money? It is questionable, I doubt they are members of either the Mayflower Society, the Daughters of the Revolution or the Daughters of the Confederacy. The quick way to tell would be to check to see if they are listed in the Social Registry.

But the Social Registry only has 25k listings...and very few of them are Californians...well, very few of them are from anywhere other than the East Coast. Inheriting wealth isn't enough to get you into American aristocracy.