[adamauckland]

What do people do to afford $30,000 throwaway wristwatches? There can't be that many of them in the world, that's the definition of the top 1%?!

[ffssffss]

The top 1% by household income in the US is about $500k a year. There are more than 100 million households in the US, so that's conservatively at least 1 million families who could afford to support a 5 figure microtransaction whale. That's a lot of money!

[daemoens]

Lot of kids/young adults with old money is my guess. These people will never have a reason to work so will pad out their days with things like this.

[HPsquared]

If you're on a million a year, 30k is about 11 days' income.

[mousetree]

Why are they throwaway?

[daemoens]

Some of the people who can buy 30k watches have so much money that it can become just another throwaway item.

[Tiktaalik]

be born wealthy.