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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are from old money can you really say there’s “lots of money” in big law?

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Not even sure what old money means in this context.

Met very few biglaw families like this.  They tend more to live large but as a family.  [/quote]

Old money means previous generations were good earners and accumulators, but current beneficiaries of that largesse are underachievers with an unfounded superiority complex and no evident sense of irony. [/quote]

I know lots of old money people, some family members, who are very hard working and accomplished. There is no doubt they had enormous privilege in getting to where they are, but it is pure fantasy to believe that old money people are a bunch of layabouts.[/quote]

This is us. I'm personally terrified that we are going to burn thru it all, so we both work and we also married well. My brother actually has a borderline problem with spending any $, despite running a very successful business, in addition to his inheritance. Every time I want to spend my dividends, my mom is like "R, but have you thought of YOUR CHILDREN?" [/quote]

All the old money people we know seem so unhappy.

There are some people with just money who also come from old money but they spend like new money whatever that means.

I am a child of immigrants. My parents were elite in their home country. I grew up poor in the US. I worked hard, went to Harvard, met my very hard working husband who is top of his industry now and making a high seven figure income. I guess we are new money. We save and invest most of our money. We also are generous to our family. Our kids are thriving. We are happy. [/quote]

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