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Yes people, you are right.  All people with money are stupid.  And they just throw their money at other people.  And they are broke right away.  And no one works for their money.  And they all have really easy jobs that a monkey could do.  You happy now?

What a pitiful bunch.

My best friend is loaded (loaded) [b]from a combination of inheritances [/b]and starting her own company (that a monkey and 99% of the population does not do - she's that smart, not just text book smart, but brilliant in other ways that make her successful).

If you ask her about her financials, she'll either laugh in your face, or tell you bad information you are sure to perpetuate to your suburban neighborhood pool cronies. And we'll have a good laugh, because she would never even tell me that kind of information with any kind of accuracy (understandably).

OP, worry about yourself a little more. [/quote]

She was able to succeed b/c she was able to take risks that most people who must support themselves and have no safety net cannot.  That's the secret sauce to start-up success; there are plenty of brillant people with good ideas but unable to take the flyer if it doesn't pan out b/c it would literally put them on the street.[/quote]

Not necessarily.  It is usually harder for rich people to succeed at something new, because they don't have to do well.  They have, as you said, a "safety net".  So kudos to the friend for doing well.  It doesn't mean she used her own money (or any/anyone's money) for the start up, it just means she is good at what she does.  A fact lost on most people here, sadly.

Hard work is taken as an aggression, and many people don't want to hear about it. (There is an entire thread on this recently). Most people here want to believe that everyone has some mysterious special break, or try to dismiss it as "family money".  It's not so.  Again, such a fact is lost on this audience.  i thought people here were supposed to be smart?  Wowza.[/quote]

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