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My families tradition is to kick the kids out at the legal age with nothing but promise of a roof and food if they need it. Grandfather grew up in poverty and i
by EC1 11y ago
My families tradition is to kick the kids out at the legal age with nothing but promise of a roof and food if they need it. Grandfather grew up in poverty and is now quite rich, none of trickled to my Dad. The logic being if you have a safe place to sleep and eat, you can do whatever you set your mind to. Dad started his own business, and instead of giving him money, my Grandfather guided him and introduced him to people. Same with my father now. I left home at 16.
I haven't gotten a cent from my parents and it has taught me a lot at a very young age. Meanwhile most of my friends are completely dependant and have adopted a 'the man/system is out to get you' mentality because they didn't get their dream jobs fresh out of school.
How do you teach people to hustle? Cut the life line?
- mc32 11y agoThat sounds like a guy I knew. He planned to kick all his kids out as they approached adulthood and if they wanted to leave sooner, he'd let them go with the understanding there was no coming back after leaving the nest. He's also very strict, hence the possibility the kids might want to leave before they reach adulthood. It's not something I could do but it probably works for some people.
- a8da6b0c91d 11y agoWhatever the merits of this system might be it is absolutely not how rich people behave as a group. The rich shower opportunity and subsidies on their children, often paying their rent in high cost areas, and helping them secure remunerative positions.
- readme 11y agoIf you have the promise of a roof and food, how can you possibly consider that being kicked out? By your logic my parents kicked me out when I was 16
- EC1 11y agoYou know what I meant. Don't be pedantic. They don't literally plant a foot in me around my door until I'm physically out of the house. It's implied and understood that when we're old enough, we leave the house.
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- sliverstorm 11y agoHow do you teach people to hustle? Step one to hustle is the hunger. To me it seems like the rest just follows. I've seen the laziest, most unreliable people hustle like crazy when something they are deeply hungry for is at hand.
- madaxe_again 11y agoCut the life line. As per my above post, I left home with nothing but a heap of obligations and nowhere to go. Most of the successful people I know have absent parents - either dead, abusive, insane, or just totally uninterested - and younger siblings they've looked out for. Most of the bleeding idiots I know who aged 30+ sit around spending their parents' money have lovely, kind, nice, enabler, parents.