Date: January 6th, 2013 2:39 PM Author: coral fortuitous meteor
I'm amazed at how rich kids have no perspective on what it's like to live a "normal" suburban life. If I ever have a child, and even if I am rich, I'm going to make my child shop at the Salvation Army and work a fast food job starting at the age of 15.
Date: January 6th, 2013 2:53 PM Author: bat shit crazy genital piercing locus
When he's a teenager his peers will have more influence over him than you will. By dressing him in shitty clothes and treating him like a poor, he will start hanging out with other poors, who are mostly stupid fucking apes. Thus he will start acting like a stupid fucking ape.
Date: January 6th, 2013 2:54 PM Author: coral fortuitous meteor
Don't know about that bro. I went to public school where half of my friends worked min wage jobs part-time, did a ton of other stuff, had good grades, did well on the SATs, and all went to Ivies.
Date: January 6th, 2013 3:17 PM Author: bat shit crazy genital piercing locus
I don't believe that. Either your suburb was a lot nicer than you let on or you're making shit up. Or maybe you were in a heavily Asian town in California.
I went to a shitty high school and no one was even sniffing Ivy League schools. Especially not the kids who worked minimum wage jobs (and therefore weren't in AP classes, playing sports, etc.).
Date: January 6th, 2013 3:21 PM Author: bat shit crazy genital piercing locus
Whether they took up a lot of time or not, none of the AP class + varsity athlete types at my high school had minimum wage jobs. Most had (relatively) rich parents who wanted their kids to focus on school and ECs to get into a decent college. The kids who worked minimum wage at Burger King were the poors who had to help support their family, and had no chance at college.
That you had a cluster of friends who all worked minimum wage shitjobs in high school and then got into Ivies, and aren't all Asian, is unbelievable. That shit happens for like one person every 10 years in a prole white American high school, not for five people every year.
Date: January 6th, 2013 5:05 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal telephone
It's really not that uncommon for kids in middle-class suburbs to work part-time minimum-wage jobs for extra spending money. I had three friends who worked jobs like that and got into Ivies, though admittedly nothing better than Brown/Cornell.
Date: January 6th, 2013 2:40 PM Author: multi-colored disrespectful idea he suggested
who do you consider rich kids and what do you consider a normal surburban life? why does your kid have to work fast food? that just sounds f-ing horrible.
Date: January 6th, 2013 2:50 PM Author: multi-colored disrespectful idea he suggested
if you're going to live vicariously though a child, you should at least try to make him an NFL quarterback or a piano masterman. not some neurotic, grade-obsessed loser.
Date: January 6th, 2013 2:51 PM Author: coral fortuitous meteor
I don't need to live vicariously bro. I already maintained all that. But that's the bare minimum standard i'm setting for him. He needs to be at least as good as me, if not better.
Date: January 6th, 2013 3:03 PM Author: coral fortuitous meteor
Yeah bro. I'd make it take out loans for college. Then surprise pay them off a year after graduation if they have been workig and paying them off for a year. i just want them to know that they don't have me to rely on because i'm fickle.
Date: January 6th, 2013 3:06 PM Author: dark insanely creepy gaming laptop
I went to a public school in a middle class suburb, and no one worked fast food jobs (I'm not really up on their shopping habits). That sounds more like the poverty tourism behavior of a rich person.
here's a good recipe for you, though:
She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge,
she studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College,
that's where I,
caught her eye.
She told me that her Dad was loaded,
I said "In that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola."
Date: January 6th, 2013 3:07 PM Author: coral fortuitous meteor
to specify, not just fast food bro, places like the mall and target. fast food is the general term referring to shitty minimum wage jobs. plenty of middle class high schoolers work at the mall.
Date: January 6th, 2013 3:28 PM Author: fear-inspiring newt community account
They dont need perspective on the lives of poors to not be useless. My kid not knowing or caring what the price of milk is won't stop him from achieving whatever he wants to achieve. The problem with rich kids is when you arent striving for money you become crazy cynical even faster. They have their quarter life crisis at 12 basically because they never had to build up any kinds of illusions about bettering their station which is basically what we convince poors they can and should be doing, but the ones with character overcome this shit just like most twenty somethings overcome their quarter life episodes and do manage to become half-way productive members of society. Most are not totally useless.
Date: January 6th, 2013 4:59 PM Author: mustard personal credit line meetinghouse
not saying I'm agreeing with the OP, but what about the part where your kid grows up to be a complete douche partly because he's not familiar with any aspect of being a poor at all?
Date: January 6th, 2013 3:20 PM Author: Laughsome Disturbing Water Buffalo Boiling Water
In reality, what you want to do is make them start their own business. Teach them all the shit they need to know to start a small little business and a few languages, and if and only if they meet those obligations, would they get some spending money. That's what I would do with my kids if I were rich.
Not sure working at a fast food place would be helpful at all, though there's a book where the kids learn like that "Rich dad, poor dad."
Date: January 6th, 2013 3:40 PM Author: Garnet Charismatic Den Shitlib
The funnier thing is the super rich kids or even adults who still pretend that money is an object. I have a friend with a $10mm trust fund who told me after college that he was just saving up so that he could go to grad school....he actually wanted to be normal and connect with average people. Same with a friend whose family literally has billions who just last month I talked with about getting discounts on plane tickets.
Date: January 6th, 2013 4:53 PM Author: coral fortuitous meteor
sort of. when they have family stuff they make him get dressed up. they blew maybe 5k on him on clothes for christmas and i don't think he's worn a single thing.
Date: January 6th, 2013 4:57 PM Author: coral fortuitous meteor
not really. his parents only buy him suits, suit shirts, fancy jackets and silk ties and shit. most of that is tailored and nothing that you can wear on a casual basis. only middle aged men wear the few casual things they buy him
if someone asked, hed probably give it away since he doesnt wear 95% of it. he still has stuff in his closet with tags on it from years ago that cost 400 bucks
Date: January 6th, 2013 5:01 PM Author: at-the-ready principal's office
Parents sound dumb. Someone needs to take him to Banana Republic full price store and buy him casual but nice clothes. Suits and slacks and shit are useless.
Date: January 6th, 2013 5:04 PM Author: Laughsome Disturbing Water Buffalo Boiling Water
Holy shit, dude. That's real wastage. You should tell him to get on Freecycle and give some stuff away. Some real people in need could use that shit that's sitting in a closet for years.
Date: January 7th, 2013 1:57 AM Author: coral fortuitous meteor
Yeah, his wardrobe is probably worth at least 20k-30k (all gifts from parents) but he only wears 5% of it. Freecycle? Is that like salvation army but online?
i'm wondering if he can sell that stuff new to some store for $$$$
Date: January 6th, 2013 3:56 PM Author: Garnet Charismatic Den Shitlib
yeah. he has a pretty good mid-level manager job, which I think makes him feel better about spending his money (ie: he isn't a deadbeat or anything, just lives way above his personally generated means)
Date: January 6th, 2013 3:51 PM Author: Exhilarant Azure Area Windowlicker
Your kids can still have nice things and designer brands by shopping at Ross, Marshall's, online... show them Slickdeals, limit their consumption... then the kid will realize how stupid other kids are for wanting retail priced shit at shopping malls.
It's more important that you teach your kids how to be efficient with money, maximize utility in a smart way, and expose them to the wastefulness of people in society. It's prevalent at all classes of society - and arguably more waste occurs at the bottom tiers of society when you consider the waste relative to their respective means.
Date: January 6th, 2013 4:07 PM Author: sooty roast beef
Some level of reasonableness and perspective should be instilled in the kids if they're rich. I have no interest in paying for their shit when they're in their 20s (rent, lifestyle $, etc), so they should get used to having to forego certain luxuries.
I grew up suburban middle class. No kid shopped at salvation army, and if anything, my middle/lower-middle class peers were much more brand obsessed than the upper-middle class ones. Proles love a big ole' logo.
Date: January 6th, 2013 8:05 PM Author: Zippy amethyst ratface
Keeping kids around other rich kids runs the risk of making them snots, but the risks are greater if they hang around poors. This thread is littered with proles who have no idea about wealthy families.
174 is a rich snot, but more successful than most posters.
i dislike most people who never took crappy jobs when they were younger. they just seem out of touch. they're hard to talk to. who knows what's good for the kids though, maybe you want them to have a sense of entitlement. personally i'd prefer my kids to be able to relate to all sorts and not be faggots
Date: January 6th, 2013 10:06 PM Author: French Giraffe Messiness
I have a friend who recently moved into her parents' MFH condo after spending a couple years traveling. She once said to me, completely serious, "I had such a great day today. I got up around 10am, went to yoga, met a friend for lunch, then walked around the park for a bit. I wouldn't have been able to do that if I had a job. I don't understand why so many people choose to work." I literally did not know how to respond to that.