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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The absolute disdain some of you have for people who actually worked for their money (excuse me, "strivers") is really remarkable. [/quote]

Same for the nouveau riche who have disdain for people who inherit stuff from their parents. So baffling. [/quote]

You completely missed the point of what the OP was saying and you’ve personalized it (probably because you are living in a house given to you by your parents) to such an extent that you are (checks notes) going off on anyone who wasn’t born into your level of privilege. You are attacking people who were not handed the privileges you were at birth and are making disgusting, classist comments. It’s really crazy if you think about it. You are arguing that:
A. You are better than everyone who wasn’t born into privilege despite getting a middling education in spite of legacy and wealth and having “relaxing” job where you earn little money. (I can’t imagine you contribute to society in any meaningful way. You probably paint pictures of your dog as your “passion job”).
B. Anyone who wasn’t born into privilege who attains wealth and/or goes to prestigious schools is to be dismissed as a striver. 
C. Anyone who wasn’t born into wealth and privilege who wants to become a member at Chevy Chase Country Club or Congressional shouldn’t even bother because these clubs will sniff out strivers (the horror!).
D. Anyone who wasn’t born into wealth who wants to send their child to private school must be a striver (it can’t just be that they want their child to get a good education)
E. Anyone who dresses tastefully who was not born into wealth is copying wealthy people’s style (you know this because you’ve watched all these TikTok videos on the topic - unclear why since apparently dressing like a wealthy person is your birthright).[/quote]

I mean, no one thinks this. Even the worst people I know don’t think this! The problem with your logic is that everyone, perhaps especially the not as good people, loves money. We looove it. Everyone is excited to have rich and powerful people as their neighbors and friends and at their country club and nobody cares how long they have had it, as long as there’s enough.

This question has been settled over and over for ages. Are the Vanderbilts “old money” now? Where do you draw the line?

Have you ever gone to a wedding at the Anderson House? It’s the headquarters of the Society of the Cincinnati, a club founded by revolutionary war officers who instituted a rule of primogeniture for membership, to which George Washington was forced to respond, basically, “didn’t we just fight a war about that?”

So nobody can join that club and nobody cares or aspires to, because it’s silly and nobody knows who any of the members are now anyway.

People want to join a club where the people are fun, rich and powerful. Probably any two out of three is good.

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NP There seems to be at least one (very vocal) person on this board that thinks this.[/quote]

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