Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?

Lukas (Computer):

>Because they have thoughts in their head and these get disrupted by 120dB music played via Bluetooth speakers Preference for low ambient noise levels is directly correlated to IQ.<

Jash Dolani:

>The rich love quiet because it's the precondition for extended thought, which is the precondition for wealth itself.<

Randy Treibel:

>As a mostly extrovert who is often expected to lead conversations, constantly loud people are a sign of being low mental health. I am most at peace when I am away from them because their constant chatter is like a bomb ticking until they throw their mental health issues at you. Quiet is peace and safety. Who doesn’t like to feel safe?<

Steve Sailer:

"Because rich people tend to have longer, more complicated trains of thought (which is one of the reasons they are richer) that are more easily interrupted by random noise blaring?"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/let-brooklyn-be-loud/670600/

"I soon realized that silence was more than the absence of noise; it was an aesthetic to be revered."

"The passive-aggressive signals to wind our gatherings down were replaced by point-blank requests to make less noise, have less fun, do our living somewhere else ..."

"A boisterous conversation would lead to a classmate knocking on the door with a “Please quiet down.” A laugh that went a bit too loud or long in a computer cluster would be met with an admonishment."

"It took me years to understand that, in demanding my friends and I quiet down, these students were implying that their comfort superseded our joy."

"I had taken the sounds of home for granted. My grandmother’s bellows from across the apartment, my friends screaming my name from the street below my window. The garbage trucks, the car alarms, the fireworks set off nowhere near the Fourth of July. The music. I had thought these were the sounds of poverty, of being trapped."

"... with Víctor Manuelle or Selena playing in the background."

"What they didn’t understand was that we just wanted to be around people in places where nobody told us to shush."

"The radio was playing, and we were debating, as we often did, who was the best rapper alive. There was a knock at the door and when we opened it, my friend’s neighbor, a 20-something woman new to Brooklyn, was standing there, exasperated. “Did your mothers not teach you the difference between inside voice and outside voice?” "

"The people complaining clearly thought they were trying to enforce a sonic landscape that they deemed superior ..."

"When I went to college, it was clear to me that I was a visitor in a foreign land, and I did my best to respect its customs."

"And they were demanding that the rest of us change [in trying to be less noisy] to make them more comfortable."

"The Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise was founded by a physician named Julia Barnett Rice in 1906."

"The city started going after boom boxes, car stereos, and nightclubs. These were certainly noisy, but were they nuisances? Not to the people who enjoyed them."

"As my grandmother used to say, “I’m not yelling, this is just how I tawk!” "

"New York was effectively codifying an elite sonic aesthetic: the systemic elevation of quiet over noise."

"Was it the noisiest borough? Or was it just home to the densest mix of loud people and people who wanted to control those loud people?"

"Nearly 60 percent of recent grievances center on what I’d consider lifestyle choices: music and parties and people talking loudly. But one person’s loud is another person’s expression of joy. As my grandmother used to say, “I’m not yelling, this is just how I tawk!” "

"For an hour I pretended to be a meek, muted version of myself. No one had told me to do this. I instinctively understood that, in this unfamiliar environment, the proper way to express my gratitude was to hush myself."

"It is a loud affair, and I take pride in saying that we are a loud people. (Is it a coincidence that one of J.Lo’s biggest hits was “Let’s Get Loud”? I think not.) We love our music. We love to dance. We love being Puerto Rican. And perhaps this is why the parade inspires such discomfort. "

"For 35 blocks, we were as loud as we wanted to be, and nobody could tell us nothing. And then we got to the end of the route. The crowd thinned out and the blockades ended, and we were met with a giant traffic sign illuminated with the words Quiet Please."