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This. Rich kids are also much better positioned in terms of parental funding and familial social connections to do things that bring them international acclaim
by pjlegato 11y ago
This.
Rich kids are also much better positioned in terms of parental funding and familial social connections to do things that bring them international acclaim afterwards. They then get a platform to tell a worldwide audience about their life story and their parent-subsidized gap year, creating a very distorted view of American culture abroad.
In other words, only a tiny percentage of American kids get 10k from their parents to go on vacation in Europe. It's just that the international circulation of media that say "I had kids and worked two jobs to be able to pay the bills and never got to go anywhere" is far lower.
- ktRolster 11y agoThough let's be honest, $10k is hardly out of reach for.....anyone. If that's something you really want, you can get it.
- pjlegato 11y agoI'm not sure if this is a troll, or just someone who is massively out of touch with how most people live. Median household (not individual) income in the US was 51k in 2013.[1] A 10k vacation to Europe is indeed out of reach for most of the population of the US. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
- ktRolster 11y agoIf you can't save $10k while on a $51k income, you have serious money issues.
- damon_c 11y agoFor example, one such issue might be that you just finished putting a kid through 4 years of college.
- pjlegato 11y agoYes, that's the point. Most households in the US have what you call serious money issues, and cannot easily save 10k on a 51k income. They need almost all of that money for living expenses. When they do save up some money, it's an emergency fund, not a European vacation fund.
- sanoli 11y agoDon't forget, it was 10k in 1990.