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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People like to say that super coddled kids will fail as adults because they don’t know how to be independent, and logically that makes sense, but all of the wealthy super coddled kids I know are incredibly successful adults, actually. It probably helps that their parents are still offering lots of support in adulthood. I don’t actually know how the less wealthy super coddled kids are doing. I mean probably not as well because wealth matters.[/quote]

Successful is relative. If your parents have a $15M net worth and pay for your schooling and expenses well into adulthood and then pay for your house and your cars and your childcare and you and your spouse went to OK schools and have OK jobs then you can look successful because you have a large house and go on expensive vacations and your kids go to expensive schools etc etc but your entire existence is propped up by your parents' wealth and is pretty frictionless. I don't consider that successful in the same way that I would consider someone who built a company or became a partner at a law firm or a professor at a university successful, but I wouldn't consider that person to be a failure - they're just not "self made" because they've obviously benefitted extensively from nepotism. [/quote]

*I wrote nepotism, but I meant inherited wealth (and potentially nepotism since many wealthy people are able to leverage connections to benefit their children even if they are not outright employing their children).[/quote]

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