"his name is Clarence..."Not new, it's always been like this. The dilittante druggies and partiers don't want their street cred posing to be belied by their trust fund.
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Very interesting article.
Money can be a useful tool in good hands. In the hands of a spoiled kid, it is like handing him a loaded revolver to play Russian Roulette. He hasn't earned it. He can't appreciate it. Any wise use of the money will be the result of sheer dumb luck.
I see this where I live. Parents who raise trust fund babies not ready for the real world. Other parents who don't have the money try to keep up appearances of wealth...teaching their kids to go deep into debt to live like neighbors who have wealth. Both do a disservice to their families.
Let me help you. Make that check payable to Serb5150.
That will not only get your head straight, it will also make you a Republican!
Somebody owes me $37,643 adjusted for inflation.
(interesting article, a generic profile of the young punks at your average lefty protest)
Well, welcome to adulthood, junior. There are plenty of us who are working and very miserable, too. I'm sure we would gladly switch places.
Well, boo freaking hoo.
"But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires. Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality--the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind.
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money. Is this the reason why you call it evil?
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth--the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. But you look on and you cry that money corrupted him. Did it? Or did he corrupt his money? Do not envy a worthless heir; his wealth is not yours and you would have done no better with it. Do not think that it should have been distributed among you; loading the world with fifty parasites instead of one, would not bring back the dead virtue which was the fortune. Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it." - Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
I like to call them Trustafarians. Daddy pays for the $1,400 a month tenement room in Williamsburg so that they can play the role of the "starving bohemian." I swear that neighborhood should be bombed.
There is NO problem with having your parents help you out to get settled. After all, that's what families do. Its these POSERS who dabble from job to job and put on the boho attitude that piss me off.
So has grammar, evidently.
Same old, same old...
Its weird seeing some of these really rich kids dressed like slobs and acting like they are poor while having absolutly no idea what poor is and having a disconnect while being ashamed of themselves.
These guys are also the typical jerks you'll meet in a bar, who are very quick to turn into snobs and show a sense of entitlement very fast (0-60, 2 seconds) when they don't get their way.
Yet, they want to try and play pretend and act according to what they believe the working class is only with "enlightenment", the arrogance they have is disgusting.
I know I shouldn't complain since so many folks like this are my tenants, but the attitude is revolting.
No, I'm not.
If you need to spend 150 K to teach you how to take care of 1 Mil, you don't have any business having 1 Mil.
Yo Tyler, you could always just say no. Oh right, your angst doesn't bother you that much, otherwise you would feel compelled to pay your own way.
I forget who it was (Investor magazine?) but they did a study on the attitudes between trust-fund millionaires and bootstrap millionaires. The former were much more likely to be liberal, believe in 'progressive' tax systems and were even in favor of inheritance taxes. Makes sense, though, they didn't work for what they have, are almost immune to income taxes and don't care all that much about the next generation. Those of us who work know better (and tend to be conservatives... not that I include myself among the millionaires!)
"his name is Clarence..."ping