Posted on 08/19/2005 5:46:36 AM PDT by SLB
The title of her article is Against Eternal Youth. A copy of that article can be found here.
A list of other articles by her can be found here.
The way her family raised her is the exact opposite of Sam Walton. They gave her a boatload of money, then basically let her run feral with no supervision, goals or influences. She didn't even finish high school, but had to go back and get her GED.
Either extreme is, IMO, a bad way to raise kids.
but how do you keep from spoiling them into useless dregs when you personally control such enormous capital? It's a very unique problem for the uber wealthy only.
LOL. I wish I had such problems.
But I get what you're saying. It's very easy for the children of the super-rich to become useless partiers.
I'm not sure that was a problem a century or so ago. The children of the super-rich back then might not have always continued their families' business and whatnot, but I get the impression that most of them did something productive, whether charity work, soldiering, science, politics etc.
“You’d have to be “willingly blind not to see” both the good and the bad changes in the new and the old.
I see both the good and bad, and it is my judgement that under the political rule of the boomer generation the bad has made far greater strides than the good.
America's future would be in far better shape if more husbands and fathers did the same..
Mark and a Mama Fred ping to my sweetie
Sorry, usually when people claim that no one can make it without an education, they’re speaking of something like a high school diploma or more. I take you at your word that you were referring to no skills or OJT and ability to even do what they are told.
"If you were working in a car plant making $18.00 an hour and your company moved to Mexico I doubt you would feel very comforted to know that the median salary is rising in the US while you were working your brand new, permanent, $7.50 an hour job."
It would inspire me to no end to know that median real wages in the US was continuously rising if my careered dropped out from under me. There is nothing “permanent” about ones job.
Knowing that the US economy was just changing rather than failing, as all dynamic capitalist economies should, I’d be heartened to know that I could relocate and start a new career if I were young enough or that my kids could prosper if only they made better career decisions that I. It would comfort me to know claims like, "people are employed alright...and making less than half of what they were." are misleading at best.
Thanks very much for the information!
Hey, if it means we can avoid any more Paris Hilton's, I'm all for it.
In Objectivist morality, productive achievement is synonymous with happiness.
"It is a uniquely (wrong-headed) American notion to make one's children start from scratch with every generation."
The proof is in the results.
Somehow the word "butt" has become hilarious to young and old. There doesn't seem to be a way to stop this, but if it's any comfort to you, it was probably the same in the time of Chaucer.
I should have realized he was just being Chaucerian :-).
I specifically post to the threads about Big Tobacco just so I have an excuse to use the word "butt". Now I can post elsewhere and just use the Chaucer defense.
LOL! With two boys in diapers, I've got all the Chaucer I can stand.
Because the parents never grew up. Therefore, they never led by example and now their kids are permanently handicapped.
"He's a grup!" LOL ...
Interesting enough, the idea of 21 being the age of accountability is based on the medieval concept that, assuming you were an apprentice at 7, journeyman at 14, by 21 you had been an adult for 7 years and were a master craftsman, capable of signing contracts and training your own apprentices.
Well put. Many do not realize this. We have a seventeen year old daughter who is caring for an elderly lady across the street. She does everything from cooking to shopping to bathing for her. This lady has her own children and grand children who would rather pay our daughter than do it on their own.
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