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Fair enough, "rich kids" can also mean fresh-out-of-mom-and-dads' with too much money and not enough impulse control. I guess the reason I assume the backlash
by gingerrr 11y ago
Fair enough, "rich kids" can also mean fresh-out-of-mom-and-dads' with too much money and not enough impulse control.
I guess the reason I assume the backlash is against 'kids' and not 'rich' is, to use my own anecdote, most everyone I know in this industry who might be incorrectly classified as "rich kids" came from much humbler circumstance, and they also try to keep perspective on their extreme good fortune as you do.
Perhaps it's the circles we run in, but most of the people I know personally who would be caught in the crossfire of "rich kids" are aware and grateful daily of their massive advantage because of the stark contrast to their childhood economic experience - and it makes them work twice as hard to make sure they maintain it, as well as pay greater attention to those evils.
I feel like the truer crime called out by "rich kids" is reveling in privilege, oblivious at its cost to others - that total lack of societal awareness I tend to associate with children, which I guess is why 'kids' seemed more backlash appropriate.
- eropple 11y agoI think you and I are probably pretty much on the same page! I dig how you put it in your last paragraph, but I tend to see that as more immaturity than the actual state of being a child. And many (I'd say "most" but it could just be that the many are loud) of the folks I deal with on a daily basis are deeply socially and societally immature; my hunch is much more that that's an artifact of being so insulated than anything. I do tend to work with leading-edge, startup-bait technologies and for the organizations that use them, which may further color my perspective. I don't think the tech industry or the people of it want to coexist with other people, and I very strongly feel like the mean streak of turbocapitalist libertarianism shooting through tech encourages a culture of not feeling a need to coexist. And now I'm bummed again. Grumble.