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[quote=Anonymous]I first encountered the super-rich when I was around 20. Some went to my (fancy) university. But I think I really understood something about that segment of society when I met one of the kids' fathers and ignorantly asked: "What do you do?" And he sort of had a weird look on his face, as if he didn't quite know how to answer the question (or maybe was puzzled that I asked it), and he said: "I manage the family estate." It took me a few minutes to let that sink in. What, no profession? No job? Well, no... He moved (or let someone else move) his money around into various tax shelters and investments and lived very, very, VERY well off of that. I think he found it amusing that his daughter wanted to go to university. She studied Art History and Italian, got an internship at Sotheby's, and went on to be a governing board member (or something like that) of some big international museum and worked in the charity circuit. Not my world. At all. [/quote]
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