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[quote=Anonymous]There's a great danger to middle class kids who hang out with the "rich".

The danger has to do with having a different set of consequences for mistakes and errors in judgement and flat-out bad behavior.

The rich have a soft landing. If they get expelled from a private school, they find another because they can pay whatever it takes.  If a lawyers is needed, they can hire a good one. If a donation will smooth the waters, they can make it.

A middle class kid involved in the same shennigans will have a far rougher time of it regardless of whose idea it was.

Consider what Fitzgerald wrote in "The Great Gadsby" about his experiences with the rich.

"I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made ... "

It's like two boys walking across the same plank. The poorer kid will fall a long way and get hurt badly. The richer kid will fall a shorter distance onto a mattress. So the rich kid can take more chances and be more careless because of differential consequences..[/quote]

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