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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I feel kind of bad for people who won't ever had a feeling of personal fulfillment from standing on their own two feet[/quote]

This is silly cope. As a person who was raised LMC and earned my own wealth, I know many people who have inherited generational wealth, from standard “top 1%” to billionaires and I don’t feel bad for them at all. I know *one* wastrel “can’t stand on their own two feet” person. Thinking of all rich kids this way is confirmation bias. I know very many, many more with “generational wealth” who are successful doctors and lawyers, government employees, work on Wall Street and run the family business, etc. They absolutely had the advantage of family money and connections, but you wouldn’t know most of them came from wealth. Especially the ones who don’t have “household names - there are several I knew for decades before someone clued me in about their background. Carly Simon’s father ran Simon & Schuster. Do you think she never had “a feeling of personal fulfillment” because she had money and connections? How about Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the daughter of a billionaire? They don’t need your pity. [/quote]

Your examples seem to support PP, though hard to know.  Did Carly Simon get listened to as a favor to her family, or did she in fact turn her back on a “sure” career in publishing to pursue music.  Same comment for Julia Louis.

Most successful families in traditional careers are horrified if their kid wants to be a musician or actor.  Not uncommon to “cut them off”.  I have no idea if that was the case for either.

The reason so many famous rock stars and actors come from LMC/poor backgrounds is that they have no trust fund or fallback position to success.

I bet 90% of the famous artists would have given up if they had millions to fall back on in family money, so it is a testament to the artists above they didn’t fall into the trap.[/quote]

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