On "Trust Fund Kids"

I work full-time but am constantly being shamed about the fact that someone very close to me dying made it possible to live a modest life here.

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There is no shame.

Sep 25, 2018 at 3:05pm

It's sour grapes and petty jealousies on their part. Carry on.

Maintaining an...

Sep 25, 2018 at 4:02pm

... estate is not doing nothing, it's work in itself. People who don't have estates simply don't understand this. A renter calls the estate-holder when he has a problem, he doesn't fix it himself.

Not Shaming

Sep 25, 2018 at 4:05pm

Just a different reality. Some people in this town have a false sense of reality and are very judgemental of others. The trust fund kids I know have NEVER had to work. Meaning pay their dues. Big difference if you have never done that. Having a job is not the same thing.

Sh*tcouver

Sep 25, 2018 at 5:02pm

Is filled snotty trust fund brats, and with their inheritance these aholes would be nothing

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OP

Sep 25, 2018 at 5:08pm

Easy there, condo guy.
I rent still, but paid for my re-education
at 36 - after paying a lot of friggin real-life dues.

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Anonymous

Sep 25, 2018 at 11:33pm

life's real tough, i got it rough
don't throw no shade cause my school was paid
my condos in new west, someone stole my bike,
I took the bus, you know what that's like?
pure hell, just barely getting by,
no Starbucks Pumpkin lattes for this trust fund guy,
Starbucks Americanos, sure, but I got a rewards card,
and I still order it 'short', cause life is hard!

I'll be here the whole week, try the veal!

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Just a man

Sep 26, 2018 at 9:10am

OP, if you're living a modest life, how exactly would anyone know you're a trust fund kid unless you bragged about it?

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Anonymous

Sep 26, 2018 at 9:43am

stop telling everyone.

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it's fine

Sep 26, 2018 at 10:48am

if you're not bragging about how you're "self-made" and others need to work harder or get out. it's those that act superior for their spot in life when being handed advantages that should be shit on.

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The Fact Is...

Sep 26, 2018 at 11:59am

... that if your family engages in planning and don't act like alienated little individuals, you don't need to work as hard. I don't have any trust fund, but my family owns a little bit of property. We still work, but because we've planned and actuated successfully for the past three or so generations, we are comfortable---none of us pay rent to anyone, though we do sometimes get another mortgage, so we pay rent to the bank, as it were.

You're right it's a different attitude---a lot of my friends growing up moved out because they were basically teenagers who never grew out of the "I HATE MY PARENTS" phase. Personally, I think that is because that is something that happens in early to mid 20s, so our whole developmental model of moving out at 18 arrests development, puts people into a situation where they never mature to the point that they can live with their parents, they just flee from them as soon as the law allows.

So you're right, I've never paid my dues by working a job I dislike to afford to pay rent outside of my family. But this is because I don't dislike my family, and I am not a teenager who wants to flee from them. If those are the sorts of dues you think everyone should pay, you can keep them.

As we've seen from the posts previously about living on $25-$75 bucks a week or month in food or whatever, the major expense is rent: so, if you have family, you don't need to slave anywhere near as much, unless you want to acquire more property, for your own family to live in.

It's this bootstrap process that's difficult. Making your first million is very, very hard. Turning one million into two million is not at all as hard.

This whole "pay your dues" attitude is really a pretty industrial socialist white people thing---in traditional societies, this notion doesn't exist, if a family has three boys and two of them go out into the world and are successful and one just lives at home, they don't think he's a loser like we do here, and that's because traditional society doesn't have media designed to produce unstable families that rely on Government/Corporations to take care of them.

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