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The children of "old money" families are exactly the ones who are "Instagram famous" or "TikTok stars" on social media, or funding their own startups, or workin

The children of "old money" families are exactly the ones who are "Instagram famous" or "TikTok stars" on social media, or funding their own startups, or working in 'elite' art galleries and auction houses for low wages, or doing a long series of unpaid internships are top companies. Those things are often status seeking activities. Being born in to a high-status family drives you to maintain that status, and often gives you the resources necessary to circumvent the usual grind of getting to the top. That doesn't mean there aren't low-status people working their way up as well.

Juliate 5y ago
I see many more "old money/high status" families that keep it quiet, finding stable/calm positions to keep on doing what they do, rather than seeking the riskiest famous lifestyles. High status != high maintenance neither high visibility. Edit to add: this is exactly the mistake that tabloids & people magazine do, and that social networks reproduce in the mind of people. Actual status, in the mid/long term relates to what you do/contribute for yourself or to society, not what you look like/say/think. In that regard fame != status. For anything that goes to the headlines, there is considerably much more that happens under the radar, not necessarily because it does not know how to advertise itself, but because it does not want to advertise itself as that would be a distraction. This is the same disconnect which, in France at least, makes no distinction between nobility, bourgeoisie and wealth, when those 3 concepts have evolved and are only overlapping in specific cases.
bidirectional 5y ago
> The children of "old money" families are exactly the ones who are "Instagram famous" or "TikTok stars" on social media, Are they? Can you give some examples? I thought the people you were talking about came from well-off upper-middle class families who never really had to struggle and have probably been similarly well-off for a few generations, but not 'old money' (which to me at least has aristocratic implications).

Juliate 5y ago

I see many more "old money/high status" families that keep it quiet, finding stable/calm positions to keep on doing what they do, rather than seeking the riskiest famous lifestyles. High status != high maintenance neither high visibility. Edit to add: this is exactly the mistake that tabloids & people magazine do, and that social networks reproduce in the mind of people. Actual status, in the mid/long term relates to what you do/contribute for yourself or to society, not what you look like/say/think. In that regard fame != status. For anything that goes to the headlines, there is considerably much more that happens under the radar, not necessarily because it does not know how to advertise itself, but because it does not want to advertise itself as that would be a distraction. This is the same disconnect which, in France at least, makes no distinction between nobility, bourgeoisie and wealth, when those 3 concepts have evolved and are only overlapping in specific cases.

bidirectional 5y ago

> The children of "old money" families are exactly the ones who are "Instagram famous" or "TikTok stars" on social media, Are they? Can you give some examples? I thought the people you were talking about came from well-off upper-middle class families who never really had to struggle and have probably been similarly well-off for a few generations, but not 'old money' (which to me at least has aristocratic implications).