Sitting in first class doesn't make you classy

There are millions of affluent people in the world, but thankfully most of them do not feel the need to flaunt their wealth on social media or openly turn their noses up at ordinary people’s choices.

- Melvin Durai

Few of them would do what an Australian man named Jake Bass did recently. Bass, who claims to be a CEO, posted photos of himself enjoying a luxurious first-class pod of an Emirates Airlines flight to Dubai. He wrote that he was taking his dad on the flight and had spent $50,000 (Rs 42 lakh) on tickets, adding that the flight had 470 passengers, including “only 2 in First Class—us.”

“[ sat there thinking—what made our journey so different from the 468 behind us?” he wrote on Instagram. “Then I saw the pilot adjust our course by just 1° to avoid turbulence. Barely noticeable... But hours later, we were far off the original path. That’s when it clicked: Just a slight change in direction ... changes everything.”