The amount of people living subsidized by their parents is astounding

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Anonymous wrote:I'm over 50 and have never met anyone like this. What kind of loser would accept money from parents/family? It's not that hard to just get a job and pay your bills in the US, assuming you didn't have kids before finishing college.

If you work in a white collar setting or live in an UMC area, of course you’ve met people like this, you’re probably just blind to it. I work at a f500 and at least half of my colleagues (and myself) are like this. My kids private school has a lot of grandparents contributing towards tuition. And nearly everyone I know had a down payment subsidized by their parents.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm over 50 and have never met anyone like this. What kind of loser would accept money from parents/family? It's not that hard to just get a job and pay your bills in the US, assuming you didn't have kids before finishing college.

If you work in a white collar setting or live in an UMC area, of course you’ve met people like this, you’re probably just blind to it. I work at a f500 and at least half of my colleagues (and myself) are like this. My kids private school has a lot of grandparents contributing towards tuition. And nearly everyone I know had a down payment subsidized by their parents.

Nearly everyone you know? Wtf kind of bubble do toy live in?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, there is always one generation that works very, very hard and then they create the generational wealth for their children.

You should strive to be that generation and provide for your children and future generation. We are immigrants who came with $200 in this country. We lived a life of penury for several years and we worked very hard. Our children will get a leg-up in life from us. Their life will be easier than ours. Hopefully, they have imbibed good values from us and they will add to the generational wealth and they will also raise their kids well. Education and hard work are the keys.

This! I am an immigrant, who came to this country with no assets. I work hard, so that my children will have it easier in life.

But then your children will NOT have to work hard to provide for their children, so the statement “education and hard work are the keys” is false. Lots of people work hard. Lots of people are well educated. Trust fund kids are LUCKY. The end.

They may be lucky but it doesn't mean they don't work hard. Vast majority of them do. And yes there will always be someone "luckier than you" unless your last name is gates/bezos/musk

They don’t. The evidence is littered all over this thread. Most of you have never done a hard day’s work in your lives, and your precious snowflakes wouldn’t know hard work if it bit them in the ass.

People bristle against this modern day landed gentry because it’s fundamentally unAmerican. Although I guess we’re trending that way, so keep patting yourself on the back and pretending that you (and your spawn) are simply more deserving of the good life because you’re the only ones who work hard

You seriously have issues. So a 26 yo is who has had a job since college graduation with a good company and is in the top 25% of employees is "not working hard"? Fact is most kids who grow up UMC+ do work hard.

Nobody who sits at a desk all day works hard. I’m sure they sit at that desk for many hours every day, but long hours =/= hard work. The mere fact that you think these cushy UMC desk jockey jobs are so arduous is evidence of your extreme (unearned) privilege. Thanks for proving my point.

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If it bothers you so much, change your surroundings.

I grew up quite well off, but my parents are modest people. I never realized we were wealthy until I was older, and a lot of my friends families seemed wealthier than mine even though they weren’t. I also grew up living year round in a summer beach community (like the hamptons) and was surrounded by far wealthier, obscenely wealthy people all summer who seemed so far obnoxious.

Point is, it’s all relative. If you’d rather be the wealthier one, change your circle or surroundings.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, there is always one generation that works very, very hard and then they create the generational wealth for their children.

You should strive to be that generation and provide for your children and future generation. We are immigrants who came with $200 in this country. We lived a life of penury for several years and we worked very hard. Our children will get a leg-up in life from us. Their life will be easier than ours. Hopefully, they have imbibed good values from us and they will add to the generational wealth and they will also raise their kids well. Education and hard work are the keys.

This! I am an immigrant, who came to this country with no assets. I work hard, so that my children will have it easier in life.

But then your children will NOT have to work hard to provide for their children, so the statement “education and hard work are the keys” is false. Lots of people work hard. Lots of people are well educated. Trust fund kids are LUCKY. The end.

They may be lucky but it doesn't mean they don't work hard. Vast majority of them do. And yes there will always be someone "luckier than you" unless your last name is gates/bezos/musk

They don’t. The evidence is littered all over this thread. Most of you have never done a hard day’s work in your lives, and your precious snowflakes wouldn’t know hard work if it bit them in the ass.

People bristle against this modern day landed gentry because it’s fundamentally unAmerican. Although I guess we’re trending that way, so keep patting yourself on the back and pretending that you (and your spawn) are simply more deserving of the good life because you’re the only ones who work hard

You seriously have issues. So a 26 yo is who has had a job since college graduation with a good company and is in the top 25% of employees is "not working hard"? Fact is most kids who grow up UMC+ do work hard.

Nobody who sits at a desk all day works hard. I’m sure they sit at that desk for many hours every day, but long hours =/= hard work. The mere fact that you think these cushy UMC desk jockey jobs are so arduous is evidence of your extreme (unearned) privilege. Thanks for proving my point.

But Chad works so hard in IB! Do you know how much Adderall he has to take to keep those hours?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm over 50 and have never met anyone like this. What kind of loser would accept money from parents/family? It's not that hard to just get a job and pay your bills in the US, assuming you didn't have kids before finishing college.

If you work in a white collar setting or live in an UMC area, of course you’ve met people like this, you’re probably just blind to it. I work at a f500 and at least half of my colleagues (and myself) are like this. My kids private school has a lot of grandparents contributing towards tuition. And nearly everyone I know had a down payment subsidized by their parents.

Nearly everyone you know? Wtf kind of bubble do toy live in?

Suburban New York. It’s extremely common in this area.

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Anonymous wrote:Well I hope these family freeloaders are generous to the people in the service industry that have to cut their nails, serve their food, and clean up behind them.

They’re almost certainly not. They view these people as fundamentally beneath them - because they have convinced themselves that, as the beneficiaries of generational wealth, they’re God’s chosen people and everyone else is a lesser being who exists to serve them.

I have seen this attitude in this area (and on this site) more times than I can count.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, there is always one generation that works very, very hard and then they create the generational wealth for their children.

You should strive to be that generation and provide for your children and future generation. We are immigrants who came with $200 in this country. We lived a life of penury for several years and we worked very hard. Our children will get a leg-up in life from us. Their life will be easier than ours. Hopefully, they have imbibed good values from us and they will add to the generational wealth and they will also raise their kids well. Education and hard work are the keys.

This! I am an immigrant, who came to this country with no assets. I work hard, so that my children will have it easier in life.

But then your children will NOT have to work hard to provide for their children, so the statement “education and hard work are the keys” is false. Lots of people work hard. Lots of people are well educated. Trust fund kids are LUCKY. The end.

They may be lucky but it doesn't mean they don't work hard. Vast majority of them do. And yes there will always be someone "luckier than you" unless your last name is gates/bezos/musk

They don’t. The evidence is littered all over this thread. Most of you have never done a hard day’s work in your lives, and your precious snowflakes wouldn’t know hard work if it bit them in the ass.

People bristle against this modern day landed gentry because it’s fundamentally unAmerican. Although I guess we’re trending that way, so keep patting yourself on the back and pretending that you (and your spawn) are simply more deserving of the good life because you’re the only ones who work hard

You seriously have issues. So a 26 yo is who has had a job since college graduation with a good company and is in the top 25% of employees is "not working hard"? Fact is most kids who grow up UMC+ do work hard.

Nobody who sits at a desk all day works hard. I’m sure they sit at that desk for many hours every day, but long hours =/= hard work. The mere fact that you think these cushy UMC desk jockey jobs are so arduous is evidence of your extreme (unearned) privilege. Thanks for proving my point.

But Chad works so hard in IB! Do you know how much Adderall he has to take to keep those hours?

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Anonymous wrote:Well I hope these family freeloaders are generous to the people in the service industry that have to cut their nails, serve their food, and clean up behind them.

They’re almost certainly not. They view these people as fundamentally beneath them - because they have convinced themselves that, as the beneficiaries of generational wealth, they’re God’s chosen people and everyone else is a lesser being who exists to serve them.

I have seen this attitude in this area (and on this site) more times than I can count.

They all claim to be progressive, too. It’s all lip service.

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Anonymous wrote:Well I hope these family freeloaders are generous to the people in the service industry that have to cut their nails, serve their food, and clean up behind them.

They’re almost certainly not. They view these people as fundamentally beneath them - because they have convinced themselves that, as the beneficiaries of generational wealth, they’re God’s chosen people and everyone else is a lesser being who exists to serve them.

I have seen this attitude in this area (and on this site) more times than I can count.

You sound so bitter. First of all, besides restaurants -where I tip generously - I don’t even use any services often. I haven’t had a manicure since 2019. I am extremely grateful for the advantages my family has given me in life. My father worked a grueling career in big law. And while that’s not exactly the same as being an illegal immigrant working on a farm, he made a lot of sacrifices including time with his family, to provide financial security. His own father was an immigrant who came here as a teenager with nothing and took tremendous risks to achieve professionally. Some of us who are beneficiaries of generational wealth are not only grateful, but are generous, modest, hardworking and are nice people. But maybe that doesn’t fit your perception.

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Anonymous wrote:It's very common in DC. We have a lot of friends who have similar incomes to us (we went to grad school together, work at the same or similar places, similar career trajectories) but they live in much bigger or nicer homes, send their kids to private, and vacation in much nicer, more exotic locations. It's all family money -- parents gifting hundreds of thousands for down payments, paying directly for school tuition, and "hosting" family vacations to the South Pacific, Europe, etc. Because their parents aren't literally paying their bills or mortgage or just giving them money for travel, they don't really think if it as being "supported" by parents. They don't realize how much more they'd need to budget if their parents weren't paying for all this. It's invisible to them.

This. I had a whole crew of friends like this who genomes didn't understand how privileged they were.

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This is why even with their evil scheming Musk and Trump and Vought aren’t going to destroy DC/Arlington/Bethesda. People here aren’t living off Fed or Fed adjacent incomes. Those jobs are the veneer. Underneath the wealth will still exist. The ones most hurt will be the handful of truly self-made people, who don’t have the cushion to fall back on, the ones from rural/blue collar communities who made it out, like old couch f***er himself.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are first generation rich, (we are), and hang with other families/people in your bracket, you quickly realize that family subsidization is the NORM for upper class families, not an outlier.

Criticizing (or even questioning it) is pretty gauche. Annual gifting/school tuition/down payments/ etc. is basically table stakes for most families.

It only gets weird if things are unevenly allocated...or someone's rehab money cuts into another kid's budget for a night nanny or vacation budget.

It’s the norm in most families. Just because millionaires have more to give doesn’t mean other families aren’t also helping their children into adulthood.

It's certainly NOT the norm to gift $19k to all your kids every year. Lawd. Follow the thread please, we aren't talking about lending your kids the minivan to move out of their apartment kind of support.

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You must not know many immigrants

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Anonymous wrote:Well I hope these family freeloaders are generous to the people in the service industry that have to cut their nails, serve their food, and clean up behind them.

They’re almost certainly not. They view these people as fundamentally beneath them - because they have convinced themselves that, as the beneficiaries of generational wealth, they’re God’s chosen people and everyone else is a lesser being who exists to serve them.

I have seen this attitude in this area (and on this site) more times than I can count.

You sound so bitter. First of all, besides restaurants -where I tip generously - I don’t even use any services often. I haven’t had a manicure since 2019. I am extremely grateful for the advantages my family has given me in life. My father worked a grueling career in big law. And while that’s not exactly the same as being an illegal immigrant working on a farm, he made a lot of sacrifices including time with his family, to provide financial security. His own father was an immigrant who came here as a teenager with nothing and took tremendous risks to achieve professionally. Some of us who are beneficiaries of generational wealth are not only grateful, but are generous, modest, hardworking and are nice people. But maybe that doesn’t fit your perception.

My God, the never ending “stolen valor” with you people… but my gRaNdFaThEr was an iMmIgRaNt!!!

What have YOU ever done? Nothing. So keep spending grandpa’s money (gratefully, of course, you angel on earth) and keep your judgement of the bitter, little people to yourself.