what happens to spoiled kids when they 'grow up'?
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In my experience, if the parents buy that crap for them now, it doesn't stop after they have a 9 to 5 job. My grandparents are very well off, and they still help out my dad with some of his finances.
Azraele
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A stereotypical answer would be that they become obnoxious adults, and that may be the case with some of them. However, one must take into account varying life experiences, which will ultimately cause some distortion of the stereotype.
In other words, they might grow up to be fine people.
In other words, they might grow up to be fine people.
the parents come to their sense after a while when they realize the kid isn't going anywhere. They give ultimatums and threaten to cut them off. This sometimes scares them into growing up. In other cases they just find 'other' ways to come up with the money. I knew a rich kid who became a drug dealer after his parents cut him off.
glenn1
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Depends on the kid. Some of the more fortunate ones (in the long run anyway) have some sense beat into them (in either a figurative or literal sense) by someone who didn't grow up with a silver spoon in their mouth. For my money, nothing beats watching a spoiled little rich kid reduced to tears in ROTC summer camp when he finally realizes it doesn't matter how much money daddy has, that the drill instructor is still going to feed him his balls for breakfast.
Originally posted by: Aceman
Soooooooooo then, what happens to Jerboy when he grows up?
he moves to hawaii and then marries rich
This pretty much sums up my opinion. But the trend can be broken if the child stops the parents from spoiling them after college. if the child doesn't feal guilty the trend can easily continue because parents alewways want the best for their child.
My experience is that they grow up to be managers/executives/CEO's etc.
In other words, they grow up to be your boss, they are well off and they drive SUVs and such.
The ones who don't make it leech off of someone or other.
Money breeds money.
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Money makes more money.
They don't have student loans to pay off after leaving college and the money that their parents invested on their behalf starts to grow.
Easy street. Then they don't understand poverty and preach to everyone that all you have to do in life is work hard and "everyone can make" it. The call of the conservative.
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In other words, they grow up to be your boss, they are well off and they drive SUVs and such.
The ones who don't make it leech off of someone or other.
Money breeds money.
edit:
Money makes more money.
They don't have student loans to pay off after leaving college and the money that their parents invested on their behalf starts to grow.
Easy street. Then they don't understand poverty and preach to everyone that all you have to do in life is work hard and "everyone can make" it. The call of the conservative.
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Saying "Everyone can make it" is impossible. If everyone makes it, everyone will have equal amounts of wealth. Is that likely? I doubt it. Wealth is a relative term, so there are always going to be economic classes. I wouldn't call it blindness, it's called ignorance. So if everyone makes $250,000/year, how much is a mansion going to cost compared to a shanty. if everyone can afford the mansion, who's goingto live in the shanty? If no one can afford the mansion, who is going to live in it? Funny how supply./demand works
then again, everybody here doesn't seem to have a grasp of reality. There is no magic silver spoon for the children of the upper class.
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A poor child can understand economics better than a rich child, and when they are 40, regardless of what the parents did to help, the wealth status could have reversed. Money managment is also important.
There is no magic silver spoon for the children of the upper class.
You're kidding right?
My rich friends can talk about stocks, interest rates and all the corpo jargon till the cows come home. My dad, who is an immigrant and an architect doesn't know sh!t about that stuff, because it's not a part of his culture, and yeah, he never researched it on his own time.
I've been over for dinner at the rich kid's homes and their dinner conversations frequently include their stocks, interest rates and all that stuff.
My family, never had money to invest, so it doesn't come up.
People who have money, make more money much easier than people who don't.
Some people have assets in the form of stocks, savings or whatever ... assets that you can make interest off of, others only have their labour, and you don't make any interest off of that.
You're kidding right?
My rich friends can talk about stocks, interest rates and all the corpo jargon till the cows come home. My dad, who is an immigrant and an architect doesn't know sh!t about that stuff, because it's not a part of his culture, and yeah, he never researched it on his own time.
I've been over for dinner at the rich kid's homes and their dinner conversations frequently include their stocks, interest rates and all that stuff.
My family, never had money to invest, so it doesn't come up.
People who have money, make more money much easier than people who don't.
Some people have assets in the form of stocks, savings or whatever ... assets that you can make interest off of, others only have their labour, and you don't make any interest off of that.
They end up doing this: marry and then divorce the vacuous blonde high-school-sweetheart trophy who fell for his money, live in a townhouse next to The Cat Lady, drive a Camaro, work a menial job as a plumber's assistant, put on about 50 lbs, start smoking in an attempt to fit in with the rebel crowd, lose a good portion of his hair, frequent bars and get at least 2 DUI's (promptly paid for by parents), gamble much of that "hard-earned" money, go crying back for more when he loses.
They learn the hard lessons later in life when there is more at risk, and crash a lot harder.
They learn the hard lessons later in life when there is more at risk, and crash a lot harder.
shiner
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I think you will find that just the opposite is true and that most of them become liberal Democrats. Why not? They have no worries since they have always been supported without working. They just continue to live their lives by sucking off their parent's tit. They end up joining "causes" like the morons protesting the World Bank, or joining Greenpeace, etc.....
It's not the fact that "mommy and daddy" give them money, it's the fact that the money enables them to go to better schools. I went to private school from 1st to 12th grade, and most of my classmates are college graduates and making anywhere from $35,000 - $200,000 a year as we speak, and many had put themselves through college to boot.
It depends on the spoiled child.
If him and his parents are an idiot and doesnt go to class and do good, then he's gonna be fvcked.
If he has supportive parents who put him through a great school, and gets the hookup for a job on the way out, he'll be fine.
If him and his parents are an idiot and doesnt go to class and do good, then he's gonna be fvcked.
If he has supportive parents who put him through a great school, and gets the hookup for a job on the way out, he'll be fine.
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