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"Trust fund kids" are a real phenomenon that many of us have experienced personally. People who never have to work a day in their lives usually end up as insuff

• rybosworld 3y ago
  That's almost entirely down to how they are raised. And as with anything, a few examples do not make for a trend. There are lots of people in this world who have grown up wealthy and aren't anything close to the spoiled brat you are describing.
  • cheeseomlit 3y ago
    I agree, thats why I didn't say 'wealthy' but 'never work a day in their lives', there's a big difference
• OkayPhysicist 3y ago
  It's worth pointing out that those kids are merely a very visible minority of wealthy kids, typically born to nouveau riche families. The majority of wealthy families, especially those who have had their money for a couple generations, are basically invisible to the proletariat. The kids go to prestigious private schools, where they get a better education than you, then get propelled into jobs that simply aren't available to most, like politics, or non-profit boards, and the like. Some will end up taking jobs basically recreationally, like my billionaire highschool teacher. They might be somewhat entitled, in the sense that they don't feel that their life of largely leisure is undeserved, but in our current economic system they're regularly told they're not wrong. These are the terrifying rich, and the ones that are actively running the world. They're effectively checked out from the money economy, and spend their time primarily in the power economy. The illusion that "oh, rich kids grow up to be spoiled, ineffectual brats" only works to their benefit.
• cykros 3y ago
  You can pay for school, but you can't buy class.