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>>I only wish I was rich enough to hire my kids a private teacher. There is the answer to your question It is of course common for the wealthy to send their k
by toss1 6y ago
>>I only wish I was rich enough to hire my kids a private teacher.
There is the answer to your question
It is of course common for the wealthy to send their kids to private school and/or hire private tutors for the educational advantages and privacy (and at some wealth levels, security). This is normally done without much fanfare.
Nearly everyone wishes they could do it, as do you.
This guy doing it by advertising on Twitter just rubs everyone else's nose in the fact that they can't do it, the fact that their public schools are inferior, and he's getting ahead.
In established wealthy society this would be considered massively gauche and a stunt of some nouveaux riches interloper - which, pretty much, it is. This is just some jerk either flaunting his new wealth, or being so crude about it that he doesn't see the social implications. So, yeah, no surprise he got roasted on Twitter.
- uberman 6y agoI see your point about people perhaps at the core being mad not at the education part but at the flaunting part. Good point.
- toss1 6y agoYes, and this is related to the reasons the concept of the nouveaux riches and their crass flaunting is very old. People with multi-generational wealth figured out a long time ago that flaunting wealth may feel good for minutes, but it brings the wrong kind of attention for decades, and that wrong kind of attention can be the guillotine. Plus, even if you don't flaunt it yourself, someone in your group flaunting it can create problems for you. So, among the 'real', multi-generational money, any displays are considered very crass. Everything related to wealth signalling in that set is understated, and there are myriad cues, but they're all subtle.
- toss1 6y ago(oh yes, and among those subtle cues is the name of the private schools you/kids/grandkids went to, etc. ...)