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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is the hypocrite?  You or the people who believe the ends justify the means?

What you are describing are average middle class methods.  The parents you are describing  above are gunners.  Gunners know no bounds.  Why do you think these families have intergenerational wealth... because they come from a line of gunners.  Most people that obtain and hold onto a ton of cash are gunners. Robber barons, Opioid manufacturers, internet apps.. does not matter what time in history.[/quote]

Gunners or criminals?

I'll take my ethics and send my kids to a "lesser" school, thank you very much.[/quote]

Wasn't it George Bernard Shaw who ridiculed "middle-class morality?" The rich didn't need it, e.g. Prof. Henry Higgins, and the poor couldn't afford it, e.g., Alfred Doolittle.[/quote]

That's me.  :) Although our HHI is about $1 million per year.  Alas, we are "new money" by DCUM standards, which I am also fine with.[/quote]

My HHI is several times that, and my DH and I still take our ethics over any of this bull - no private tutors, no extra time, no payments to anyone, no fancy internships. We know people who run in these circles, and we are still shocked. But we were both raised solidly middle class, so we are new money, too. [/quote]

Do you want an award?  It must suck to be your kid with you looking down on everyone and probably your own nonmiddle class kids too [/quote]

Posters are allowed to commiserate with someone. No need for you to be a jerk about it.[/quote]

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