Will your kids *need* to work? Or would they be fine no matter what

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear parents around me worried about today's labor environment but know for a fact that many of them have enough money and/or property to make it so their kids would never *need* to have a job. Do they just want their kids to have even more money? Why are so many people worried when our kids would be just fine without ever having a career?

Go step on a lego

[Anonymous]

Unless the family has so much money that the interest earned is enough to take care of the family, the kids need to work because that money is not going to last to the next generation.

Also, I knew a trust fund person from a well known family name, and she was an alcoholic who was aimless even though she did go to college.

As Buffet said, give your kid enough money to do something but not enough to do nothing.

[Anonymous]

If they moved to a poor country where dollar has a high buying power and lived simply, they wouldn't need to work. US is just too expensive.

[Anonymous]

Similar to a few other posters, I’m in my 50s and the few I’ve known for decades that didn’t “have” to work are all a disaster. They have no purpose and have mental health issues. They are single and seem like they might not live until 70. When you are basically bored all day, substance abuse is pretty rampant.

They all have no schedule and no reason to get up each day. Each of them sort of pretends they are doing something (like writing a screen play), but they aren’t. Happy hour starts way too early. They become unreliable to their friends because they cannot maintain a schedule. It is like when your parents retire and suddenly cannot show up on time even though they have little to do — except it starts by the time they are 40.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's nice not to HAVE to work but it makes one weirder and weirder as they age. There is an inability to compromise. Priorities do not align with those of most people. When things don't go their way there are extreme reactions, crying suicide or resort to childish behavior. All those weird tics of youth become exaggerated with each passing year.

At some point the never needing to work becomes inability to work and inability to adapt to changes. The ones who never married become impossible to marry. The ones who did marry end up in a co-dependent drama where they have no normal-ish people around them because they are weirder and more extreme versions of themselves with each passing year. The world has to accomodate to them, not the other way around.
I have known a few people like this and watched this develop over several decades.

This is true, seen it too.

+1 this is actually a good description of people i know too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear parents around me worried about today's labor environment but know for a fact that many of them have enough money and/or property to make it so their kids would never *need* to have a job. Do they just want their kids to have even more money? Why are so many people worried when our kids would be just fine without ever having a career?

Go step on a lego

omg

[Anonymous]

You need a lot of money for kids to never work. I’ve seen this play out and it’s a good idea for everyone to have a job, even if they don’t “need” one. Otherwise they grow up to be lazy, spoiled babies.