Posted on 10/15/2020 4:19:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
There’s something annoying about rich kids who despise their parents who happily denounce everything their parents did to provide them an amazing life while living off their money. Liberal kids of conservative parents strike me as the most miserable people on the planet – the trust fund babies marching to end capitalism, for example. The news and political world are not immune to this phenomenon.
How many Members of Congress are there because of their last name? They either married someone who retired or died, or they are the kid of someone who did the same. The entire existence of the Kennedy family is based on this idiocy. And so, it seems, is the life of James Murdoch.
Don’t know who James Murdoch is? You’re not alone. He’s one of Rupert Murdoch’s kids, the one who resigned from the board of Fox News because he’s a left-winger who hates the company that helped bring his personal net worth to $2 billion. That’s right, $2 billion.
How did James earn this money? By being born. Honestly, that’s his major accomplishment in life; he’s the lucky sperm.
I don’t begrudge him the money, he was born to a wildly successful businessman. But he seems to begrudge his father and how he made his fortune, which I do have a problem with.
It’s the idea of being “much more effective outside” of Fox where James finds himself now.
After floundering for much of his professional life – founding a record label, for example – James wanted a say over his father’s business. He didn’t get it.
After the family sold 20th Century Fox to Disney for $71 billion, Down reported “Rupert Murdoch did not try to make a top job for James at Disney a condition of the deal. He looked at James objectively vis a vis the deal, Disney insiders said, not with a father’s protective instinct.” I guess pocketing the GDP of many small countries wasn’t enough for James, he wanted daddy to get him an impressive-sounding job too.
When that “job” fell through, James comforted himself with the fortune his father basically gave him. Then he set about attacking his father’s business and, by extension, everyone on the political right who enjoys it.
He now spends his time (and money) on pet projects like a comic book company, film festivals, and left-wing political causes. It’s like a stereotype of a trust fund baby rejecting everything their parents stand for…except the giant bank account it gave them.
This seems common for kids of successful business leaders – they bank all the benefits of the free market system while rejecting it. Being rich, especially with wealth you didn’t create, makes that easy to do.
So, at least for now, Fox News is safe. James is gone, but lurking. He’d still like to get his hands on the company, after his father retires or dies. Dowd reports James has teamed up with his two sisters and, if they should gain control of the family trust, they would be able to “de-Foxify Fox News.”
As someone who grew up in a happy blue-collar family, I find people who bite the hand that feeds them particularly annoying. We all rebel, it’s a part of childhood. But James Murdoch is 47 years old, normal people grow out of that by 20. Of course, normal people don’t have billions of dollars to indulge their delusions of grandeur and daddy issues with. Therapy would be cheaper and less destructive.
Still, if James really wants to rebel maybe he should unburden himself of the money his father’s business gave him. It would likely be eye-opening, maybe even cathartic. On that, I’m willing to help. Get in touch, James.
Perhaps the most ungrateful youth of privilege: Lenin
I am also perturbed by the likes of AOC who tells stories of her mother cleaning peoples toilets like it is some kind of affront to human dignity. Hey lady, when I was putting myself through school I worked for a cleaning company and I (white privilege and all) had the joyous task of cleaning public toilets. Including disposal of used feminine hygiene products from the bins in the stalls. Reality.
Back in the 70s I had occasion to meet a nun in a poverty order. She said her sirname was Grace. I thought that was cute given she was a nun and asked if she had changed her family name. She laughed and said no. Upon further conversation I determined she was the sister of the WR Grace family. She said she gave up her family fortune to serve the poor. IMO this is the best example of someone following their beliefs by putting their ego down. Probably not going to happen today given our me me me society.
Unfortunately,if Paul Ryano is still on the Fox Board,none of us patriots are safe.
Paul Ryan is the least of it.
The board and upper management are filled with Deep Staters.
Hard times make strong men.
Strong men make good times.
Good times make weak men.
Weak men make hard times. <<< You are here.
Excellent post.
There is nothing worse than an ingrate and this country is swarming with them.
When you turn a knob and get fresh clean water out of a tap, you are living better than 10,000 years of human history.
I remark on that all the time. Especially when I read our history or the Bible. I tell others, these people "camped out" for hundreds of years, not glamping, camping off the grid. What did Abraham and his family eat in the desert, how did they stay alive day to day with desert food, I know God, but did they have gardens and orchards, they had vineyards. We would all be dead if we had to endure even a year of that.
Rich kids who despise their parents who happily denounce everything their parents did to provide them an amazing life.
Slackers greatest fear work for a living
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