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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tell you there are good and bad, down to earth and spoiled, ethical and unethical rich and poor people.

This lady is super good person I feel - she has family money but she went out and lived her life.  She has a lot of money and she gives some to charity.  It's not a ton but she didn't have to give any either.

I grew up with a lot of money (not this much of course) and on both sides of the family, we have a trust fund.  DH and mine - our kids will not be rich nor will they be able to not work when older but they will be able to at least have some money to inherit.  There's $7M for them to split.

I never had to worry about student debt and they won't either.  While we paid for our house, our parents helped us out with the down payment.  But DH and I work and we just get by. Money is funny - it really pays for time.  It's not a substitute for a ton of other things however. You can get conveniences and help from it but you still have to find meaning in your life on a daily basis.

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What you describe doesn't sound bad OR good to me. It's just neutral.

The wealth itself is a neutrality -- not inherently bad but also not inherently good. For a wealthy person to be  a "good person" I would expect to see them doing something affirmatively good. "She doesn't have to give any money to charity"  -- I mean like legally? Of course not. But yeah if someone wants to be considered a "good" person, they have to do something. It wouldn't have to be charity. Could be time or energy or spending your skill and talent to help others or make the world a better place.

But just a rich person living their life, spending their money, leaving it to their kids? I don't consider that a bad person but I'm not like "oh she's one of the good ones." In the exact same way that a middle class person who just lives their life, takes care of their kids, but never really goes out of their way to help anyone else or do anything good for others is not an especially good person. They're just a person. Nothing I'm going to get mad about but I'm not going to fawn all over them and celebrate it either.[/quote]

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