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Growing up as a rich kid.
#23883618 - 12/01/16 04:14 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Who here grew up as a rich kid?
A minor annoyance when your entitled
(I'm not complaining just expressing)
My family is a political dynasty in one of the provinces of the Philippines, I spent my formative years in CA then the rest of my life in the Philippines.
I was pretty spoiled growing up having everything I asked for be it the latest console, cool toys and imported American clothing (FUBU), I even had my own personal care taker for a long ass time (since my mother was working 19 hours a day)
But I lived in a smaller city in the Philippines and had a hard time making friends since I only knew how to speak Filipino at 14. And most of my friends at the time were not rich like me. They were the sons of the maids, cooks, drivers and 12 yr old cigarette hawkers (think of a walking kiosk with gum papers and the shit).
I was constantly called out for being a rich kid, and people automatically assumed I was very snobby just because of my social class and how I speak.
This has led me to being ostracized and left out of quite a lot of stuff, but that did not bother me since I had Battle realms and age of mythology.
Growing up in this environment has made me a very generous person though , I have a feeling I do not deserve the money I have and that it belongs to the starving children. One day when my mother dies I'm going to sell all her companies and donate most of the proceeds to grass roots football for the less fortunate.
And now if you put me in a room with other people I would be the shabbiest person you would see. I just hate it when people compliment me they either say it because of my social status or because I'm /American. So I do everything in my best effort to be shabby and look poor.
Though all in all I'm very lucky not to go days starving, and I'm very thankful for everything that I have received.
But the thing is people see you differently if you are rich, and 9/10 would think your a snob well in the Philippines that is, I do not know if this is the case anywhere else.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Nolan92]
#23883734 - 12/01/16 06:23 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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My family has always been very well off. And I grew up around a bunch of kids who's parents were wealthy as well, so it wasn't like I was ostracized for it or anything. The money made my upbringing pretty comfortable. I never felt bad asking for something extra or something special because my parents just never had money problems. I'm going to do the same thing for my children one day.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Webster10]
#23883740 - 12/01/16 06:26 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Average family in terms of money. As a kid, my life was comfortable and I was treated for Christmas/birthday. Never spoiled though.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Nolan92] 6
#23883747 - 12/01/16 06:36 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I grew up in a trailer at first, then apartments, my mom was a single parent because my dad was into hookers, cocaine, and motorcycles, my mom worked her ass off at numerous jobs, so I have much respect for her.
I poverty level until my mom got remarried when I was going into 6th grade.
I didn't grow up rich at all, but have never had want for anything, that's the importance of teaching your kids to go outside to have fun, you don't need all the bullshit you see on TV if you're outside in nature.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Lucis]
#23883771 - 12/01/16 06:56 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I can totally relate. I come from a family of successful business people. My childhood was extremely lofty. Gigantic house. Trips on weekends. Winnebagos, Harleys, Snowmobiles, new consoles. Legos. Everything.
I was sent to private high school. Hated it. But it had a football field, an arena, an Olympic size pool, soccer field, baseball diamonds, tennis court, basketball court, a gigantic gymnasium, a massive library. The works.
When I was in elementary school I was too young too realize what I had and my best friend came from a poor family of stoners. He spent days at my house (which IMO saved him from being a complete loser in life).
Upside: I experienced at a young age all the toys (snowmobile etc). Therefore I no longer seek to have them. So I'm no longer chasing the dream, I lived it already. I now live like a poor person. The only expensive hobby I have is reading books that sell for 30$ a piece which I get at a discount or thrift store for 2$. I bank my cash every month because I don't know what to do with it. I do not crave material things like someone who never had them before.
Downside: I have no work ethic at all. I despise the rat race and I'm genetically predisposed to high business ambitions. You cant run a business without drive. So I settled for land-lording. Minimal effort, maximum profit (which totally belongs in the upside). I've inherited every mental illness that run in my family but that has nothing to do with money. Bottom line; the downsides are nearly none existent given the lifestyle I choose to live. If I wanted fancy things, I'd probably be horribly depressed by now.
I've never been looked up too by poor people except maybe in elementary school which I was too young to realize it. In high school I was the poor kid. That private school was all kids from multi-millionaires. Since I now live like a minimum salary person, nobody realizes the money that'll be unloaded on me when my parents pass away. Until then I will live like a minimum salary person chasing a poker career.
Overall, I have 0 reasons to complain about anything ever.
To all you people living in poverty or almost poverty, I wish you the best of luck making it in this world. The deck is stacked against you but you can still win.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Patlal] 1
#23883822 - 12/01/16 07:38 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I come from a family that owned over 10 houses and i inherited 2 of them. Never had to worry about money
I am the laziest person on earth.
That is all
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I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin] 3
#23883873 - 12/01/16 08:30 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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that sig gif creepys me out....
I had a semi privilaged upbringing. My dad owns a sucessful business he started. I was an only child.
I wasnt rich but i got some cool stuff growing up, video games, a SUV to drive, some other cool toys. I would say Upper middle class.
Took plane trips every year sometimes twice a year.
No super expensive trips but they did cost some money.
Im glad im working for my own money now, i depended on my dads money thru 6 years of college and i hated the feeling of depending on him for money. Sucked.
I finally broke the addiction to my dads money and life is pretty good. Freedom
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin] 1
#23883900 - 12/01/16 08:45 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
That almost made me laugh. MAYBE in 1 case out of 10 and thats a solid maybe. The rest it just teaches them that money can buy happiness which it clearly can't.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
#23883909 - 12/01/16 08:49 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
No, don't say that. Money does buy happiness, there's is no doubt about that. Unless you're Trump rich, money probably loses it's value, but anywhere under 10 million dollars, money is definitely valuable.
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#23883916 - 12/01/16 08:51 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Webster10]
#23883929 - 12/01/16 08:58 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.

Agreed, even at my age and growing up with a father who made millions I know this is garbage. Dick
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well, I grew up poor, single mom raising 3 kids in the 70's and 80's. My mom took food stamps once and was embarrassed by not having enough coupons one time, and she ended that. She then worked as many as 3 jobs to provide for us. This wasn't the best although it is what happened. I remember eating oatmeal for Thanksgiving once. My older half sister taught me how to steal. She stole steaks so we could eat well.
We also had those aluminum and poly/plastic strip lawn chairs for living room furniture at one time. Never had new anything or rarely. I appreciate everything I get as if it were gold. So yeah, the opposite of OP and almost every poster above me. I have been legally working since 17, but had a few jobs before that. I actually started working at 12yo. Money is the root of all evil and yet it is part of what can make some people happy (I would say most people even though some disagree). It is interesting to read about the OP and how he views money and being in an upper-class/wealthy environment. I always wondered why wealthy kids wanted to look like bums because it is really no fun when one HAS to dress in old clothes and shoes.
Life is beautiful, strange, and confusing, but I am glad to be alive now. There was a time when I wanted to just be dead. I thought it would solve everything. A friend speculated about what my life would have been like if I had the opportunities that other people had/have. I get people telling me that they thought I was from money and they can not believe my story of how I grew up. I am pretty well adjusted considering all the things that happened to me and all the things I put my self through. If I could be independently wealthy and never work another day in my life I would be VERY happy about that! Money has always been an issue with me because I never had it.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin] 2
#23883955 - 12/01/16 09:11 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
I disagree to an extent. It's easier to have money and not want it than the opposite. One can bitch and complain about it all the while having a trust fund and never truly knowing what it is like to want/need something. Some people take for granted simple things like buying a new set of tires or a fridge etc. as something that they can just go buy without it hurting their pocketbook (or their parents/guardians). "Do I need this tire so I can get to work so I can pay my rent on time, or do I catch buses and try to find rides until I can pay for the ONE USED TIRE on my crappy car and possibly be late causing me stress about possibly losing my job". I was in a place where I had to just buy one tire and a used one! People that never had to be in that position will never truly know what it is like to be poor, and money is desired, wanted, and needed.
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I'd rather become moderately wealthy by my own initiative than have the wealth just given to me
It just feels better for me to work my ass off for something I want rather than just to receive it with no effort
But I also don't consider having a lot of money to be my top goal in life, I'd much rather have a job that I genuinely enjoy and feel passionate about, something that I could do every day of my life and never get tired of it
To me that goal is worth more than all the money in the world
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
#23884127 - 12/01/16 10:24 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
I agree with this 100%
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: OhMrJohnson]
#23884204 - 12/01/16 11:03 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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OhMrJohnson said: I'd rather become moderately wealthy by my own initiative than have the wealth just given to me
It just feels better for me to work my ass off for something I want rather than just to receive it with no effort
But I also don't consider having a lot of money to be my top goal in life, I'd much rather have a job that I genuinely enjoy and feel passionate about, something that I could do every day of my life and never get tired of it
To me that goal is worth more than all the money in the world
I agree here mostly. Money/great wealth/material things are not at the top of my list either. I found through my journey in life so far that extreme wealth hurts some people. But having peace of mind when buying things one needs (or just wants at times) is very soothing to my existence. A friend of mine that has passed told me it was much easier to go from poor to rich than rich to poor. He was well off and NEVER had to want for anything. He also thanked me for "helping him in more ways than I will ever know" before he died. Maybe because I was a real person and not one of the shitty materialistic people surrounding him all the time. After having to struggle and such all these years I wouldn't mind one bit if someone gave me say a million to live the rest of my life on. Even half a mill would do it. I can live modestly and enjoy the rest of my years here without ever working again. But then again I am going into nursing and that will be fulfilling to me. If I had my way I would create art and music and just travel and socialize for a living, but that takes a lot of money.
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grew up mostly poor, there was a period when my mom remarried and did a bunch of real estate stuff but then the market crashed.
ime people who have never wanted usually don't develop coping skills well and tend to try and appease their ego through material items. our society is fucked with wealth fetishism.
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
I agree with this 100%
Spoken like true Trusties. I was raised poor.... My father cut firewood to supplement his milkman and later UPS jobs. One day he shorted a man some firewood in Waukesha WI and called the man and made it right. The man just happened to be sales director at Klements sausage and gave my father a route. He worked very hard and very long hours, learned the industry and wound up in the commodities business as I grew older. I can identify with the poster about oatmeal on thanksgiving, as one year for Christmas my sis and I got to each choose a box of sugary cereal as gifts. Because of seeing this and knowing it can be done, I got my first job at 13 "picking rocks" in Minnesota you follow the farmer on a flatbed behind a tractor through freshly plowed crop crimes and pick out large rocks, I always wondered how new rocks were made each year lol. I then worked on a turkey breeder farm and at 15-17 made 10+ dollars an hour in the 80s, a lot of cash back then. I bought a almost new Toyota celica and took myself and friends on mini vacations. I then turned to good service, starting at Burger King, becoming shift supervisor then semi fine dining and never looked back. I feel bad for people who have been handed everything, seriously. I know I quit school, expelled for being on LSD on student day, they were unaware of what I was on, but then traveling and following my dream of being "the boss". Everything I have is mine. I earned it. My baby sis is very entitled, was bought a brand new camaro t top at 16 and so on. We were both given the opportunity to study at university, THE Ohio state, and did well, I never used my clinical psych degree, and would not be allowed to practice as I am a drug felon now. I am proud that my pops instilled hard work and ethics into me even with the money. I was offered a house on a Robert Trent Jones golf course and told pops to sell it and save the money for retirement. Good thing I did. After the crash in 2008 they lost it all :-( The young people of today who are children of the boom we saw in the late 80s and early 90s are, for the most part worthless, lazy people. That's my story. Love you all Dick
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Hey guys, Siddhartha grew up rich and was like nawh fuck that, imma just fast under a tree. Same thing with Frederick Engles, his father was a rich industrialist and that helped him realize how unfair and unbalanced capatilism is. Batman was rich but was like nawh dude, money don't matter, only justice matter, yo.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
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SARAtonin said: Hey guys, Siddhartha grew up rich and was like nawh fuck that, imma just fast under a tree. Same thing with Frederick Engles, his father was a rich industrialist and that helped him realize how unfair and unbalanced capatilism is. Batman was rich but was like nawh dude, money don't matter, only justice matter, yo.
Exactly. MAYBE 1 out of 10
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I am working my ass off with three jobs and I'm broke and struggling even though I try and try. I have no bad habits like coke and hookers. (Just weed on special occasions) If you need to send money to someone, I'll send you my info.
It was worth a shot...
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SARAtonin said: Hey guys, Siddhartha grew up rich and was like nawh fuck that, imma just fast under a tree. Same thing with Frederick Engles, his father was a rich industrialist and that helped him realize how unfair and unbalanced capatilism is. Batman was rich but was like nawh dude, money don't matter, only justice matter, yo.
Batman?
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SARAtonin said: Hey guys, Siddhartha grew up rich and was like nawh fuck that, imma just fast under a tree. Same thing with Frederick Engles, his father was a rich industrialist and that helped him realize how unfair and unbalanced capatilism is. Batman was rich but was like nawh dude, money don't matter, only justice matter, yo.
Batman?
Really?
I lold as well. Sounds typical of a privileged millennial living in a fantasy in my opinion, but I don't know Sara so i shouldn't judge.
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Man... this is about to be a rant but yolo it feels good to type out.
I witnessed both sides of the coin. I much preferred when we had money though lol.
Growing up my dad was a big shot and made 6 figures. We never lived luxuriously, I didn't know we had good money actually. They drove average cars, we took 1 vacation per year, we weren't spoiled. But, when I was 13 my parents separated, my mom was a stay at home mother for over 20 years and my dad moved out and didn't help her with a penny other than child support for me and my 2 siblings. He would actually short child support payments to be a dick to my mom, crappy father.
My dad lived it up while I watched my mom work for $9 an hour as a receptionist. My mom went through depression and held onto our home much longer than she should have, all her money went to the mortgage while my dad still making 6 figures bought a 1 bedroom apartment and a new corvette. I asked my dad for new sneakers and he told me to ask my mother, he sends her child support so she can do that.
For the first time ever, money wasn't just there when I needed something. My feet actually bothered me because my shoes were so run down, my mom was doing the best she could but she couldn't afford shoes at that time.
This is where riding my bmx bike changed my life. I was bmxing with a group of guys around my neighborhood and one of the guys was a pro bmx rider and I looked up to him and for whatever reason, he took me under his wing. He taught me how to do bmx tricks, gave me skate shoes, clothed me from his sponsors for free. My mom actually cried a few times when I came home with a schoolbag full of clothes from the guy for me and my brother. He even helped me get my first job at a local deli which helped tons.
That guy changed my life and I don't think he knows what impact he had. He didn't have money either, I remember going into a convenience store with him and taking packages of free croutons to eat so we could stay out riding. I helped him shoot shots for film edits and we just rode bikes all day. That guy played a key role in who I am today.
When I was 15 he told me a few of our group were starting to get hard into pills and to stay the fuck away because it never ends well. He specifically told me "I know you smoke weed and drink but our friends A, B, and C are using pills like xanax and percs, please don't do that shit, ruins people and they quit riding. If you want to try different substances there's cool shit out there like psychedelics that won't ruin your life, fuck pills."
This guy I really respected said psychedelics were ok. Maybe they were. I needed to study them. I found the shroomery when I was 15 and signed up and researched. Eventually tripped on magic mushrooms at 16 and by 18 I was cultivating while I was away at college and making money with them.
Long story short is everything worked out. My dad died alone and his pension went to my mom for life(she is now rich because of this.) I graduated with a bachelors degree I use for my own small business and am working on my second bachelors to get into health care. If everything works out, there's no reason I shouldn't live very comfortably. If it wasn't for the pro bmx'er who knows, he is the reason I grow mushrooms still and always will have some sort of way to make money to fall back on if the need arises.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Nolan92] 1
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Well i grew up in a weird mix of poverty and privilege, mostly poverty. Would often go weeks without food, yadda yadda, on the other hand there were random conveniences and ive received a fair amount of assistance as an adult.
I dont need or want much, would rather sleep in a hammock out in the woods for the most part.
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
That almost made me laugh. MAYBE in 1 case out of 10 and thats a solid maybe. The rest it just teaches them that money can buy happiness which it clearly can't.
Growing up with money just made me take it forgranted until I experienced what it was like to be super broke and living in a shitty house in a shitty area. I don't want to repeat that again but I'm glad I went through it. It's not that I never knew hard work, I am an extremely hard worker because my parents instilled that in me, but I never knew hardship or ever had to think about money as a finite resource until I was an adult. Boy was that a rude awakening to be 19, living in a big city while flat ass broke and trying to decide to buy food or toothpaste with the change in my pocket.
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Growing up as a rich kid is fucking great as long as your parents make you work for the stuff you want.
My parents never gave me and my brother stuff for free. If I asked for something like a video game, they'd laugh in my face and ask me why I want a piece of useless shit, and that I'll have to work for it if I really want it.
It was 20 bucks to mow our 1.5 acre lawn each week, 10 bucks to wash 1 car, 10 bucks an hour to pressure wash the pool deck. If we did a bad job thy'd make us redo it or not pay us
They paid for all necessary survival things in our life, including college so I feel so blessed and obligated to return the favour to them by being a most successful offspring.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
We'll put that one in the "Easy to say when..." pile.
I would say I'm upper middle for where I live. I went to a decent public school and my parents bought me a shitty car when I got my liscence, payed for me to attend community college, covered my ass when I got into trouble. I always had to work though. Had my first job when I was 13 building split rail fences.
My dreams were ground the fuck down by reality, but I am still happy, and know that as far as the world goes I am lucky as fuck.
I'm wondering OP, what do you think of Duerte?
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SOLID feel good/coming of age story
Thanks for posting, genuinely felt good after reading that
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: trees] 2
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trees said: Growing up as a rich kid is fucking great as long as your parents make you work for the stuff you want.
My parents never gave me and my brother stuff for free. If I asked for something like a video game, they'd laugh in my face and ask me why I want a piece of useless shit, and that I'll have to work for it if I really want it.
It was 20 bucks to mow our 1.5 acre lawn each week, 10 bucks to wash 1 car, 10 bucks an hour to pressure wash the pool deck. If we did a bad job thy'd make us redo it or not pay us
They paid for all necessary survival things in our life, including college so I feel so blessed and obligated to return the favour to them by being a most successful offspring.
I asked for a horse when I was about 13. I had been riding for over a decade at that point, and leased(yes, this is a thing) several horses.
My parents laughed in my face.
I procured all their financial information, made a giant spreadsheet of every single associated cost of ownership(from boarding, healthcare, contingency for emergency healthcare, to every single piece of equipment that would be necessary to buy) and compared it to what we were currently paying for riding lessons and the partial lease on the horse I rode most days out of the week, then I wrote a giant persuasive essay arguing my case and citing things like enrichment of character, sense of responsibility, and providing incentives such as working out a deal with the stable owner wherein I'd get a discount on board if I mucked stalls. Then I gave my parents a presentation on why it was not a giant financial leap nor totally unreasonable for me to suggest simply buying a horse.
So yeah, that's how I got a horse.
Now I work in data analysis/strategy, which was something I never thought I'd end up doing....but looking back, I'm not all that surprised now.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: stzacrack]
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money completes the illusion, so it's nice when you're a child to have a parent spoil you -- my parents weren't rich, nor my step-dad. but i still got all the video game systems, and movies, and albums i wanted, generally speaking.
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pirate-blues said: I asked for a horse when I was about 13. I had been riding for over a decade at that point, and leased(yes, this is a thing) several horses.
My parents laughed in my face.
I procured all their financial information, made a giant spreadsheet of every single associated cost of ownership(from boarding, healthcare, contingency for emergency healthcare, to every single piece of equipment that would be necessary to buy) and compared it to what we were currently paying for riding lessons and the partial lease on the horse I rode most days out of the week, then I wrote a giant persuasive essay arguing my case and citing things like enrichment of character, sense of responsibility, and providing incentives such as working out a deal with the stable owner wherein I'd get a discount on board if I mucked stalls. Then I gave my parents a presentation on why it was not a giant financial leap nor totally unreasonable for me to suggest simply buying a horse.
How did you procure their financial information? Most parents don't just freely give that kind of information out. My parents never even told me how much they made.
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My parents have just made up random numbers about what they make and what their assets are worth my entire life I don't even ask them but they'll just slip in absurd numbers always trying to throw me off one way or the other, and it never lines up or I will find out later it was a lie from the other one. Who knows maybe I am rich and they are just stingy as fuck.
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that's funny, when that happens. my step-dad does that...says shit is way more expensive then it actually is. it's kinda sad, but in a way, it makes sense. he's way too giving a person, so he has to throw people off the scent of money, otherwise his life is just giving people money and things.
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Not me but most of my friends are pretty damn well off, I'm probably the poorest among them but I'm still pretty privileged compared to most Canadians (university paid for, never really lacked for anything I wanted let alone vital stuff like food and housing and whatnot) kind of weird knowing that the people you know are better off than 90% of your fellow countrymen, I do feel very disconnected from lower class people and outside of work never really interact with any
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The young people of today who are children of the boom we saw in the late 80s and early 90s are, for the most part worthless, lazy people.
that's bullshit. young people today are just as 'lazy' as those who grew up from the 50's and onward. it's just you had less shit to do, so more things to distract yourself with that were less involved in fantasy. merely it.
don't waste yourself trying to tell me your life was "better cause you worked harder".
cause then we'll have to get into, why? and how that is.
other than that, nice post.
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trees said: Growing up as a rich kid is fucking great as long as your parents make you work for the stuff you want.
My parents never gave me and my brother stuff for free. If I asked for something like a video game, they'd laugh in my face and ask me why I want a piece of useless shit, and that I'll have to work for it if I really want it.
It was 20 bucks to mow our 1.5 acre lawn each week, 10 bucks to wash 1 car, 10 bucks an hour to pressure wash the pool deck. If we did a bad job thy'd make us redo it or not pay us
They paid for all necessary survival things in our life, including college so I feel so blessed and obligated to return the favour to them by being a most successful offspring.
I asked for a horse when I was about 13. I had been riding for over a decade at that point, and leased(yes, this is a thing) several horses.
My parents laughed in my face.
I procured all their financial information, made a giant spreadsheet of every single associated cost of ownership(from boarding, healthcare, contingency for emergency healthcare, to every single piece of equipment that would be necessary to buy) and compared it to what we were currently paying for riding lessons and the partial lease on the horse I rode most days out of the week, then I wrote a giant persuasive essay arguing my case and citing things like enrichment of character, sense of responsibility, and providing incentives such as working out a deal with the stable owner wherein I'd get a discount on board if I mucked stalls. Then I gave my parents a presentation on why it was not a giant financial leap nor totally unreasonable for me to suggest simply buying a horse.
So yeah, that's how I got a horse.
Now I work in data analysis/strategy, which was something I never thought I'd end up doing....but looking back, I'm not all that surprised now.
Another great story!
I might be biased though, I fell in love with horses after reading "the black stallion " when I was a young boy
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Nolan92]
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Nolan92 said: Growing up in this environment has made me a very generous person though , I have a feeling I do not deserve the money I have and that it belongs to the starving children. One day when my mother dies I'm going to sell all her companies and donate most of the proceeds to grass roots football for the less fortunate. .
By the way, my family had a fortune before grandmother squandered it like an idiot. A dozen people grew up in poverty because our inheritance was mismanaged by one dope.
Good job putting the amusement of strangers before the needs of your family.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
You have to be rich to even think that way.
Funny, after looking through some of the replies...I could have pretty much singled out those people that were born into wealth before they even said anything.
Me, I grew up in a big family that struggled to put food on the table. If I wanted anything for myself other than food, clothing and shelter...I had to work for it. Started mowing lawns or shoveling snow when I was 10 yrs. old. Growing weed when I was 14 and even ran a trap line that I checked before school in the winter. Life was tough but very rewarding. I learned to earn an honest buck (except for the weed part)...lol, and that didn't work out very well anyway. The things that I acquired like my first shotgun or my first car meant a lot.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Ezuma] 2
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Yeah I spent a couple months living on the street pretty much by choice, or because I didn't want to conform or whatever, but in the end that lifestyle is even more bullshit than sticking by your family and remembering where you come from. It's weird being in the middle sometimes, lots of different influences pulling you in different directions, but in the end it seems like middle class people are the only ones who are capable in a realistic sense. Like it's only really rich or really poor people you encounter that you'll find don't know how to do things like use a computer or drive a car.
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Is this the shroomery...? Am I in the right place?
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Who the fuck are you? State your class affiliation.
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Damn my comment ruffled a lot of feathers... I'm sorry for having an opinion, Christ.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Crystal G]
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pirate-blues said: I asked for a horse when I was about 13. I had been riding for over a decade at that point, and leased(yes, this is a thing) several horses.
My parents laughed in my face.
I procured all their financial information, made a giant spreadsheet of every single associated cost of ownership(from boarding, healthcare, contingency for emergency healthcare, to every single piece of equipment that would be necessary to buy) and compared it to what we were currently paying for riding lessons and the partial lease on the horse I rode most days out of the week, then I wrote a giant persuasive essay arguing my case and citing things like enrichment of character, sense of responsibility, and providing incentives such as working out a deal with the stable owner wherein I'd get a discount on board if I mucked stalls. Then I gave my parents a presentation on why it was not a giant financial leap nor totally unreasonable for me to suggest simply buying a horse.
How did you procure their financial information? Most parents don't just freely give that kind of information out. My parents never even told me how much they made.
I convinced them to give it to me. Well I went to my mom for it, I think she was amused and entertaining me, she knew I wasn't gonna go spouting it off to my friends - it was strictly for my "presentation". I knew my dad would say no.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
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SARAtonin said: Damn my comment ruffled a lot of feathers... I'm sorry for having an opinion, Christ.
We don't hate you for your opinion, we hate you because of your unearned wealth of course it is meaningless if you don't have to work for it.
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Well then I'm sorry for being born, my bad.
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moonrockmushy said: Yeah I spent a couple months living on the street pretty much by choice, or because I didn't want to conform or whatever, but in the end that lifestyle is even more bullshit than sticking by your family and remembering where you come from. It's weird being in the middle sometimes, lots of different influences pulling you in different directions, but in the end it seems like middle class people are the only ones who are capable in a realistic sense. Like it's only really rich or really poor people you encounter that you'll find don't know how to do things like use a computer or drive a car.
I think this is pretty true, a lot of richer folks I know are just clueless or kind of incapable of practical problem solving, but the poor are often even worse, just utter shambles. Middle/working class folks tend to be less entertaining but more 'useful' in my experience.
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SARAtonin said: Damn my comment ruffled a lot of feathers... I'm sorry for having an opinion, Christ.
We don't hate you for your opinion, we hate you because of your unearned wealth of course it is meaningless if you don't have to work for it.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
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SARAtonin said: Well then I'm sorry for being born, my bad. 
It's not your fault for being grossly naive. It's your parents fault, for spoiling a potentially worthy life in the saddest way possible
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: trees]
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You guys should watch this, some of the most extravagant children's parties. People spending $50,000 for a 5 year old's birthday party.
I swear I've been to some of these parties. I went to a bar mitzvah when I was in 8th grade and I swear that dad dropped $100K on that party.
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I'm unworthy...
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Hey she apologized no need to rub it in. Not like you're one to talk. You know what I got for doing my chores, not hit
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Crystal G]
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Ey yo G, link don't work. Blocked by ABC
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It just doesn't allow embedding, if you click on the "Watch on YouTube" link in the middle, it'll take you to the YouTube link where you can watch it.
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It's not your fault for being grossly naive. It's your parents fault, for spoiling a potentially worthy life in the saddest way possible
um...dude. who the fuck are you?
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: akira_akuma]
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You and I are probably around equal in terms of earning our living at this point in time though. My parents cut me off after college and I had to sacrifice nearly 100% of the creature comforts to begin making the life i live now. I'm still homeless and I sleep on a concrete floor on a yoga mat every single night so I can use the money that would go to residential bills and rent to continue expanding a business which I luckily managed to start which benefits our entire human species
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moonrockmushy said: Hey she apologized no need to rub it in. Not like you're one to talk. You know what I got for doing my chores, not hit 
You and I are probably around equal in terms of earning our living at this point in time though. My parents cut me off after college and I had to sacrifice nearly 100% of the creature comforts to begin making the life i live now. I'm still homeless and I sleep on a concrete floor on a yoga mat every single night so I can use the money that would go to residential bills and rent to continue expanding a business which I luckily managed to start which benefits our entire human species
so, you're jelly and fucking ranting at her, for having amenities you don't. whoa. that's so H4RDK0R3.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: akira_akuma]
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You're getting a little bit excited brah
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: akira_akuma]
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The thing about me is I don't need amenities or drugs which I see as uneccesary and a waste of money. I could buy all that stuff today if i wanted, my business makes enough money for me to pay myself, but i use that money to do good for humanity instead.
I think SARATONIN is naive and spoiled because that's exactly what she says she is.
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trees said: You and I are probably around equal in terms of earning our living at this point in time though. My parents cut me off after college and I had to sacrifice nearly 100% of the creature comforts to begin making the life i live now. I'm still homeless and I sleep on a concrete floor on a yoga mat every single night so I can use the money that would go to residential bills and rent to continue expanding a business which I luckily managed to start which benefits our entire human species
Brother please just buy yourself a mattress. You know you can get a twin bed for $200 if you shop at an overstock warehouse type of place.
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Yeah but she is more the demure, innocent type of naive, which I find endearing. You are cocky and arrogant, so even if what you're saying is true I am turning my middle-class angst your way.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: trees]
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trees said: The thing about me is I don't need amenities or drugs which I see as uneccesary and a waste of money. I could buy all that stuff today if i wanted, my business makes enough money for me to pay myself, but i use that money to do good for humanity instead.
I think SARATONIN is naive and spoiled because that's exactly what she says she is.
you do good for humanity? by existing you're a fine human being, but by having amenities, you're what? being selfish?
you're business provides you with the means to feel that you're making such a difference. i'd wager a building to do business in is an amenity of the highest calibre. enjoy supporting those people whom may only get by on the amenities of what they have getting to work for you. good secret santa, it's fun.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Crystal G]
#23884958 - 12/01/16 03:52 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Matresses are overrated, same shit as sleeping on the floor.
Not that im all about living in squalor for the sake of strangers, just dont think a matress is all that important.
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I prefer a hammock, but after sleeping in squats and tents for long enough a mattress with clean sheets is like heaven. Sleeping on the floor sucks, but you can even improvise a bed that is pretty nice. If someone has money and they sleep on concrete, they are a better sleeper than I. I require the finer things in life like peace and quiet and a cushion to rest my head on.
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It's funny reading the few republican trolls says they are rich. Republicans are famous for greed. They say there is three generations of wealth.
The first earns it The second builds it The third blows it
Now that is not always true, sometimes the second strait out blows the wealth.
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Repertoire89 said: Matresses are overrated, same shit as sleeping on the floor.
Not that im all about living in squalor for the sake of strangers, just dont think a matress is all that important.
It's really, really not. Japanese people sleep on the floor, and it's one thing that I disliked about living there. Mattresses are much more comfortable.
Put it on the floor by all means and go without a duvet and bed cover and all that, but at least have something comfortable to lay on.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
#23884992 - 12/01/16 04:01 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: Well then I'm sorry for being born, my bad. 
Save the apologies for your father who probably wanted grandchildren
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moonrockmushy said: I prefer a hammock, but after sleeping in squats and tents for long enough a mattress with clean sheets is like heaven. Sleeping on the floor sucks, but you can even improvise a bed that is pretty nice. If someone has money and they sleep on concrete, they are a better sleeper than I. I require the finer things in life like peace and quiet and a cushion to rest my head on.
Quiet is a sweet sweet luxury in modern America
I view the whole martyr for the woes of the many thing as an ego trip The world will survive if you have a clean shirt and a full stomach
It might sound like i purposefully live in squalor, but i take the amneties which matter with me, those i can afford at least
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i sleep in trees hanging upside down, so i sleep more uncomfortably than any of you.
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perhaps his method should have worked for such an occasion.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Crystal G]
#23885000 - 12/01/16 04:03 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Seriously. I mean you can easily find free ones on craigslist I'm sure. I guess he can't have one because he sleeps in his place of work because he prefers an austere life.
I mean I know people who can sleep anywhere. If I was like that I guess I wouldn't care, but I lose sleep if I'm not comfortable. Unless you grow up living like an animal it's not easy to act like one.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Morel Guy]
#23885003 - 12/01/16 04:04 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Morel Guy said: It's funny reading the few republican trolls says they are rich. Republicans are famous for greed. They say there is three generations of wealth.
The first earns it The second builds it The third blows it
Now that is not always true, sometimes the second strait out blows the wealth.
That 3 generation thing only applies to goy though
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For all those people who said money can't buy happiness, send me your money and you can buy MY happiness.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: TNK]
#23885010 - 12/01/16 04:05 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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people say you can't buy happiness, and that's true. you don't buy happiness. you spend happiness.
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#23885015 - 12/01/16 04:05 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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akira_akuma said: i sleep in trees hanging upside down, so i sleep more uncomfortably than any of you.

I sleep quite comfortably, miserable and unchaste sinner that i am
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i sleep on rocks out on the sea coast, under waves, while crustaceans topple into my pants.
i sleep more unorthodox than any of you, so there, RKT, i win.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Nolan92]
#23885032 - 12/01/16 04:11 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I grew up solidly middle class, maybe slightly on the upper side of middle class. My dad made between 70-100k growing up. We lived in a beautiful house, always had the latest and greatest game system, owned a computer back in the 80s, etc. It was a good life.
I'm disappointed that I won't be able to offer my children the same quality of life, but it is what it is.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: akira_akuma]
#23885036 - 12/01/16 04:12 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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One time I came into a city I didn't know and I was drinking with these guys and I told them I had no place to stay, and they said they had a good spot. They slept under a highway overpass over freight train tracks, so every so many minutes a train would roll through blasting it's horn, and the overpass would make it resonate loud as fuck. It really blew my mind that anyone could sleep there, and I had been up for a couple days I think. There were like at least 20 people there too.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: stzacrack]
#23885047 - 12/01/16 04:16 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: Well then I'm sorry for being born, my bad. 
Save the apologies for your father who probably wanted grandchildren
Umm, what the fuck?
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that train is nice *BWAAAAAAAAARPRRRRRRRGGGGRRRRRRGRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRR BWWWWAAARP*
*metal shoots out of tracks like bullets*
ahhh, home sweet home.
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#23885134 - 12/01/16 04:42 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Main selling point is, "it's the one place in town where cops don't fuck with us"
I opted to sneak by the prison into the woods after that hellish night to set up my hammock. Since then I have never thought a bed was uncomfortable, no matter how squalid.
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I slept in an abandoned newspaper factory for a week once last summer.
it was pretty chill, we made good money scrapping the copper wire.
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Funny, after looking through some of the replies...I could have pretty much singled out those people that were born into wealth before they even said anything.
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Islamic jihadi
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funny that's exactly what I was thinking
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: yogabunny]
#23885201 - 12/01/16 05:08 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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We're onto you Aladdin
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stzacrack said: Save the apologies for your father who probably wanted grandchildren
perhaps his method should have worked for such an occasion.
People who say "wrecked" need to be booted in the crotch. Just my opinion. Dick
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Still waiting for some happiness money.
please send monies, i need happiness.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
#23885286 - 12/01/16 05:36 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: Well then I'm sorry for being born, my bad. 
I felt it necessary to tell you that your previous comment did not upset me and I do not have any negative feelings towards you because of it either.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
#23885306 - 12/01/16 05:43 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
This is what I was going to say. Actually growing up not poor has made me not think about money at all growing up. It really had no value to me because it wasn't ever part of my life.
I'd say I grew up in upper middle class. I had everything I needed and lots of toys and video games. My parents didn't buy me brand new cars though, they were cheap used ones and the agreement was I had to get a job to pay for my car insurance and spending money. They payed for my community college, but when I transferred to a university I had to take out a student loan.
My cousins grew up really poor because their parents were meth addicts and didn't always have jobs. I remember them telling me i was rich when I was really young and it was the first time I even thought about it.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: searching]
#23885385 - 12/01/16 06:19 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
Do you not realize that this is an EASY realization to come to when you do not have to worry about it in any way, shape or form?
Furthermore I don't think there's anything wrong with desiring money. Your parents clearly did desire it, otherwise you would have been able to grow up without ever having to THINK about it. Do you realize what a blessing this is???!
I grew up low middle class and I still consider that privileged but the money story I learned from my parents was that you have to STRUGGLE to get money and then once you have it, it is NEVER, EVER enough.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: yogabunny]
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
Do you not realize that this is an EASY realization to come to when you do not have to worry about it in any way, shape or form?
Furthermore I don't think there's anything wrong with desiring money. Your parents clearly did desire it, otherwise you would have been able to grow up without ever having to THINK about it. Do you realize what a blessing this is???!
I grew up low middle class and I still consider that privileged but the money story I learned from my parents was that you have to STRUGGLE to get money and then once you have it, it is NEVER, EVER enough.
It's a typical "trustie" mindset yoga. Growing up around music and festivals and traveling I saw it frequently and the spoiled little rich chics with a black card and dreadlocks are generally despised by most of the people I know. Fake or not, it is how people view them, especially in Eastern Europe. I saw hostels turn people away when there were obviously plenty beds, and actually heard a man at a rental in Ukraine tell a group to go find a hotel that he would rather save the room for people who needed and appreciated it. Wrong as it may be, it is reality.
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I hope to marry a spoiled rich chick and live out the rest of my days as a pampered house husband, I don't care how obnoxious she is. I want to truly know the worthlessness money brings.
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who you callin' dick, Dick?
i mean, dick.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: akira_akuma]
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You guys can say whatever you want..call me and sara a trusty..and so on
But its just the truth. When you grow up having money you realize the inner workings of how greed and money chasing is pointless.
Im not saying it in a spoiled way..its just i cant help but to believe money isnt to be desired to the point in runs your life.
I believe in a lot of cases that God chooses the right people to grow up with money. The universe/god knows who is worthy of the money and who isnt.
A wise man once said.."you get what you deserve..thats the way it works"
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When you grow up having money you realize chasing money is pointless Do you even realize how that sounds?
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When i say chasing i mean obsessing over it
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Bill_Oreilly said: You guys can say whatever you want..call me and sara a trusty..and so on
But its just the truth. When you grow up having money you realize the inner workings of how greed and money chasing is pointless.
Im not saying it in a spoiled way..its just i cant help but to believe money isnt to be desired to the point in runs your life.
I believe in a lot of cases that God chooses the right people to grow up with money. The universe/god knows who is worthy of the money and who isnt.
A wise man once said.."you get what you deserve..thats the way it works"
You are the .5~1 out of 10.....
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Bill_Oreilly said: When i say chasing i mean obsessing over it
Very few people enjoy obsessing over money. The idea that you need to have money to realize that money isn't everything is just absurd and paradoxical.
People who obsess about money for the most part need to obsess about money because their happiness or even survival does depend on it. I'm not going to say you need to have been broke before to understand this, but some people who have never been broke clearly don't.
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Bill_Oreilly said: You guys can say whatever you want..call me and sara a trusty..and so on
But its just the truth. When you grow up having money you realize the inner workings of how greed and money chasing is pointless.
Im not saying it in a spoiled way..its just i cant help but to believe money isnt to be desired to the point in runs your life.
I believe in a lot of cases that God chooses the right people to grow up with money. The universe/god knows who is worthy of the money and who isnt.
A wise man once said.."you get what you deserve..thats the way it works"
You are the .5~1 out of 10.....
I don't get what you mean
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Bill_Oreilly said: When i say chasing i mean obsessing over it
Very few people enjoy obsessing over money. The idea that you need to have money to realize that money isn't everything is just absurd and paradoxical.
People who obsess about money for the most part need to obsess about money because their happiness or even survival does depend on it. I'm not going to say you need to have been broke before to understand this, but some people who have never been broke clearly don't.
Ya i agree with that . kinda
People who were broke then earned a ton of money still obsess over it though and act as if they still need to bust ass for it. Its like a drug to them.
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Bill_Oreilly said: You guys can say whatever you want..call me and sara a trusty..and so on
But its just the truth. When you grow up having money you realize the inner workings of how greed and money chasing is pointless.
Im not saying it in a spoiled way..its just i cant help but to believe money isnt to be desired to the point in runs your life.
I believe in a lot of cases that God chooses the right people to grow up with money. The universe/god knows who is worthy of the money and who isnt.
A wise man once said.."you get what you deserve..thats the way it works"
You are the .5~1 out of 10.....
I don't get what you mean
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I grew up dirt poor. Well, my early childhood when my parents were still married we were middle class I guess (in the 80s) I knew my parents struggled with monies but we still had everything we needed pretty much, aside from a stable emotional childhood LOL
They got divorced when I was 6 and it was all downhill from there. My mom got custody and ended up raising 3 kids on her own, while working full time, and going to college to become a nurse. I give my mom mad props even though I was a nightmare. She was hardcore. Juggling school, full time job and 3 kids.. I don't know how the fuck she did it honestly. But we were living on food stamps... lived in the ghetto in section 8 housing. Lived on and off with my dad and he was just a wreck.. worked his fucking ass off as a contractor but never had any money because he's absolutely terrible with it and devalues all his work so that he gets the job and has terrible spending habits to top it all off.
Anyway I didn't want to end up like my dad. I escaped the family when I was 16, spent the next 6 years or so fucking around and traveling. I actually lived much better on my own and with friends, got myself a nice job and car before I was 18, I was already making pretty good bank by the time my friends graduated high school. Well getting thrown in jail for almost a year for a gram of pot didn't help matters and ended up getting fucked by the long arm of the law because I had a public pretender. Money helps in those situations. But yeah I was homeless for about 3 years or so, off and on after that. Partially by choice and partially circumstance.. (losing everything you own and no family to help doesn't help matters) I traveled all over the US, I've been homeless in like 8 states lol. I got some help from friends on the road. Many shroomerites actually. I've stayed with at least like 10 different shroomerites at one point or another, they helped me out when I was in a bad spot. I dropped out of high school. Probably more well educated than most of my college friends though, lol.
Went into computers because that's been my passion since I was like... 5 years old dicking around with Commodore 64s and shit Now in my mid 30s and have a solid career in IT with endless room for growth, making a pretty nice salary, have a little family of my own, and finally have money. But I think back to all those times when I was struggling as fuck, starving, and you call your parents for help and they are like sorry. I like having money. Money equals security. I can live just fine without money.. and have done it.. but it's fucking hard, man.
Having a ton of problems and no money - fucking sucks Having a ton of problems and a bunch of money - not so suck
Example. When my insurance lapsed while I was in jail, VA suspended my license. When they suspend your license it costed like $500 to reinstate it, plus you have to get SR-22 (high risk - super high cost) insurance for the next 3 years. Only I was in Florida at the time... so when I got bailed out and then pulled over the next day and they saw my license was suspended, Florida put like a double suspension on it or some shit.. so I had to pay Florida like $1200 before I could even pay VA back and get my license. So like $2K to get my license back, only now I was homeless and lost everything I owned, had to sell my car just to get the fuck out of that state. Took me like 2 1/2 years to fully recover from that shit and get back on my feet. But I did it on my own. I went from absolutely nothing and built up a life for myself... couple times actually.
But overall, I didn't really get help from anybody. I had to work for pretty much everything I ever had. I mean I did for sure get a helping hand from friends here and there, but I never had anything handed to me on a platter like some people. I don't regret one bit of it. It made me who I am, I believe I am much stronger willed and persistent because of it.
Money and debt... it's a stupid fucking system and needs to be abolished for something better. But while we have it, money is just energy.. it's a useful tool.. and if you want to live in society, or live at all.. having money is a fuck of a lot better than not having any. I can tell you from experience. The thing is when you are struggling for survival that's ALL you can focus on, hard to pursue your goals and dreams in that state. When you have money, you don't really think about stupid shit like food, water, having a nice bed to sleep in, AC/heat... the bills getting paid.. all these nice things we take for granted. Rich people problems are not poor people problems.
Don't get me wrong though, I appreciate nice things.. like cars Obsession over money is bad. But I take pride in working hard to help achieve my goals and make enough to support my family and still have toys. There's a balance to be had.. Anyway if you become super rich it is your moral duty to like, either help people or overthrow a government or something.
Anyway, when I was poor and homeless... I was traveling all over the country on nothing... always wishing I had money to splurge on a feast or nice hotel or whatever. Now I have the money to do all that stuff... only no time to travel, LOL
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Shroomism]
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started at the bottom now im kinduff in the middle..
I definitely count my blessings.. Never really been completely broke, nor have been very rich, but ive gotten a taste of what its like to be broke and homeless, and no family around or anything and it can def be a very lonely place to be. Its not that hard to figure out, if uve ever been broke or shit out of luck, dont matter if it was just for a little while or u were only short a few bucks, times it by 10 or even 100 and ull get the end results if ure smart enough.. U dont have suffer alot to know what suffering is, is what im saying..
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Bill and Sara do have a point. What they're saying is logical.
A man who is hungry is only able to contemplate about that hunger, and how to satiate it. But a man who is well-fed can focus and concentrate his mind on other things, such as his physical and psychological well-being, philosophy, the arts, studying, exercise, or whatever else.
With that said, even the poorest of the poor living anywhere in the West live a privileged life when compared to other nations. Some nations still don't even use toilet paper, while even our homeless have cell phones, and you never hear about homeless people starving to death in this country either. We have a different standard of "poor" here in the USA.
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I believe in a lot of cases that God chooses the right people to grow up with money. The universe/god knows who is worthy of the money and who isnt.
A wise man once said.."you get what you deserve..thats the way it works"
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A wise man once said.."you get what you deserve..thats the way it works"
And I believe that is a bunch of BS.
This could only possibly make sense if you believe in the concept of past lives. Otherwise why would else would god punish a newborn baby, some of these kids who are just born into poverty or dire circumstances.
But if you believe in karma and past lives and everything, then okay I guess that could make sense, if you were really bad in a past life or something.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Crystal G]
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so being poor is a negative, a punishment?
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I believe in a lot of cases that God chooses the right people to grow up with money. The universe/god knows who is worthy of the money and who isnt.
A wise man once said.."you get what you deserve..thats the way it works"
And I believe that is a bunch of BS.
For real bill...
Money and its value were created by man kind. God, if you believe in such a thing, didn't create money or even the idea of money.
Man came up with the idea of money as a means of compensation to support a growing population when the idea of labor and service work became a thing.
Money started as other actual goods and services in trade, then morphed into precious metals when we decided that they have value, again only value that we give it, and then we replaced precious metals with pieces of paper that the metals were supposed to back and support, which they don't anymore.
Money is a creation of our construct and not a divine creation, and in the grand scheme, it really has no true value besides the value that we give it. It's not like when you die, the universe/god judges you based on how much money you had before you died. The thought alone is laughable
If god exists, he/she/it definitely doesn't give a shit about money 
Just goes to show how the privileged think 
I grew up in a struggling household with a single mother who I greatly respect. I never asked for anything and felt quite guilty actually when I received gifts. My mom never made our financial problems apparent to me or my siblings, but I knew she struggled because of how much she worked and the conversations I would over hear her having with other older family members.
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That's not something I personally believe in, I'm just saying from the religious perspective of things, it could only possibly make sense if you believed in karma and reincarnation.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Crystal G]
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Crystal G said: Bill and Sara do have a point. What they're saying is logical.
A man who is hungry is only able to contemplate about that hunger, and how to satiate it. But a man who is well-fed can focus and concentrate his mind on other things, such as his physical and psychological well-being, philosophy, the arts, studying, exercise, or whatever else.
With that said, even the poorest of the poor living anywhere in the West live a privileged life when compared to other nations. Some nations still don't even use toilet paper, while even our homeless have cell phones, and you never hear about homeless people starving to death in this country either. We have a different standard of "poor" here in the USA.
Yeah how many poor heroin addict reformed false psychedelic messiahs do you know? None I bet. Thank god someone has the means to achieve that.
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I believe in a lot of cases that God chooses the right people to grow up with money. The universe/god knows who is worthy of the money and who isnt.
A wise man once said.."you get what you deserve..thats the way it works"
And I believe that is a bunch of BS.
What the fuck did i just read? Some kind of over metastasized karma?
Santa brings toys for the good kids and a lump of coal for the naughty ones?
***Who fucking believes this shit???
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Crystal G]
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I didn't grow up rich, however I did go to school with some extremely, extremely wealthy families. One of my close friends came from a family of oil barons, they owned a private jet, and a private runway for that jet, along with a ranch spanning three counties in Texas. One time I went over to his ranch, and we set a toyota truck on fire for entertainment because he hated toyotas. We were ten.
I met Shaq at lunch one day, just randomly -- Hunter Thompson's lawyer; Valero's vice president, because his daughter went to the same school. I could go on, but you get the idea.
It stressed me out in one of the most beneficial ways possible, I realized what money could do for one's quality of life, more specifically, I realized I needed to start working hard towards developing myself as an entrepreneur because nothing was going to be handed to me.
Looking back, it was definitely a surreal experience growing up among the elites of the world. In a different vein, I spent an equal amount of time with lower/middle class families in church groups, boyscouts and the like. My neighbors had to move back to Mexico because they couldn't reach citizenship requirements.
Having grown up with such diverse groups of people was definitely unique.
P.S. Money matters, winning matters, corporeal achievement and accomplishment matter. A common trope is that money doesn't buy happiness, I disagree.
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pineninja said: Now that, is a false reality.
I'm just going off of my personal experience, money might not buy a true sense of inner peace or whatever, but it does take the edge off of life by a significant margin. What you define as happiness is subjective, but objectively money does correlate with higher levels of happiness in psychology studies.
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Check out happiness economics, pretty much all of the data supports my point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_economics
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I'm just going off of my personal experience, money might not buy a true sense of inner peace or whatever, but it does take the edge off of life by a significant margin. What you define as happiness is subjective, but objectively money does correlate with higher levels of happiness in psychology studies.
I've found this to be the case. No.. money doesn't "buy happiness"... but it does buy steak.. and that makes me happy. It buys weed.. that makes me happy too. It also buys chocolate. And car parts.
Money doesn't buy happiness no.. but it can provide things you need.. When you are struggling for survival you certainly are not happy. In those cases the lack of money buys despair, and money does buy happiness, even if temporary. Money buys lots of things we require for survival and well-being, therefore money can make you happier.
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Every human has a fundamental right to not be in poverty, and using it in regards to money's legitimacy is rather strawish. The study qouted about is one of many and seemingly designed in that case with inevitable outcomes.
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I agree we need to set up a system where all humans basic needs are taken care of without question. It's not like we don't have the resources or technology. We do have a cabal that needs to be removed.
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That is done by society on purpose. When people are too satisfied in life and have all their needs met and feel no drive to satiate their hunger, they start questioning society and the meaning of life, asking too many questions.
They also deliberately keep the lower classes just barely well-fed and with a barely tolerable quality of life, just enough to make them complacent enough to not think to riot against the system.
By keeping everybody occupied with sensationalist news and mindless commodities, it always keeps the lower classes constantly striving and competing against each other for more, not ever asking questions about their place in the system.
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You do realize that is the entire concept of socialism, right?
Cause I assumed you were conservative or libertarian, AKA "Republican Lite."
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Yes. At some point in the history of us, the appropriation of what happiness means was skewed, by whom and why will continue to be debated. I think that the word or notion is misunderstood by either myself or others, because if you think a boat is happiness we haven't had the same experiences. True happiness cannot be bought and probably cannot be felt with that mentality imo.
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I believe in a lot of cases that God chooses the right people to grow up with money. The universe/god knows who is worthy of the money and who isnt.
A wise man once said.."you get what you deserve..thats the way it works"
You are delusional.
God choose you to grow up rich? Interesting perspective.. By that logic God chooses who grows up poor. What a dick God is.
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I'm just going off of my personal experience, money might not buy a true sense of inner peace or whatever, but it does take the edge off of life by a significant margin. What you define as happiness is subjective, but objectively money does correlate with higher levels of happiness in psychology studies.
Money can buy food, so you don't have to dig through trash to eat that day; which I have done before.
Money can buy you a tent and a sleeping bag, so instead of sleeping on cardboard ontop of dirt you can sleep in warmth and comfort; which I have done.
Money can buy you lots and lots of things, maybe not true happiness but it can buy a whole lot of shit. I can promise you if I woke up tomorrow with 10,000,000$ in my bank account, I would be far happier tomorrow than I am tonight. I would be able to provide for myself and my loved ones in ways I have never been able to before- and that would make me happy. Knowing my Mom will always have heat in the winter, knowing my Grandma will always have her medical bills paid; that would bring me happiness.
Maybe I didn't grow up as wealthy as some, but I grew up with rich relatives; but I didn't grow up with them. I was not a part of their lives and I did not get to enjoy all of their wealth but instead watched it from a distance, and on the subject of people who were poor then become rich obsessing over money; you won't understand because you've never NOT had money.
You've never understood what it was like to not eat for a lack of money, to have your heating turned off in the winter for a lack of money, your pipes freezing and not being able to fix them so you have to turn off the water until you could. Maybe I wasn't wealthy enough to full understand the evil and greed of money, but I am 100% aware of the evil that not having money can bring. I understand beyond any doubt the life that people can live without having the money to pay for the clothes on their back.
You are right, money can't buy happiness, but it can really make it easier to achieve happiness.
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I never had to do any of that shit but one year our water heater broke and it was ice cold showers for 3 months. I learned to take the fastest shower possible.
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yes.
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I believe in a lot of cases that God chooses the right people to grow up with money. The universe/god knows who is worthy of the money and who isnt.
A wise man once said.."you get what you deserve..thats the way it works"
You are delusional.
God choose you to grow up rich? Interesting perspective.. By that logic God chooses who grows up poor. What a dick God is.
What if you were a dick in a past life and god sees that you dont deserve shit?
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That's not something I personally believe in, I'm just saying from the religious perspective of things, it could only possibly make sense if you believed in karma and reincarnation.
If you believe in karma and reincarnation then a case can certainly be made for the opposite - where being born poor is the blessing and being born rich is the punishment.
Take Buddha, for example. He gave up a comfortable, safe life TWICE to finally become enlightened under the Bodhi Tree.
So, we can also look at material wealth as a hindrance to spiritual growth.
I mentioned in my previous post that I grew up pretty poor. Now, my partner of 4 years comes from some wealth and now I get to see life from a different vantage point, but guess what? Wealthy people are just as miserable as poor people, if not more so.
Imagine the despair that comes when you have and can acquire all the material things you want/need, and yet you are still unhappy?
Growing up poor gave me a reason to learn what true wealth is, and it's not money.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: yogabunny]
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Interesting perception. I don't believe it.
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tyrannicalrex said: so being poor is a negative, a punishment?
That's not something I personally believe in, I'm just saying from the religious perspective of things, it could only possibly make sense if you believed in karma and reincarnation.
If you believe in karma and reincarnation then a case can certainly be made for the opposite - where being born poor is the blessing and being born rich is the punishment.
Take Buddha, for example. He gave up a comfortable, safe life TWICE to finally become enlightened under the Bodhi Tree.
So, we can also look at material wealth as a hindrance to spiritual growth.
I mentioned in my previous post that I grew up pretty poor. Now, my partner of 4 years comes from some wealth and now I get to see life from a different vantage point, but guess what? Wealthy people are just as miserable as poor people, if not more so.
Imagine the despair that comes when you have and can acquire all the material things you want/need, and yet you are still unhappy?
Growing up poor gave me a reason to learn what true wealth is, and it's not money.

Yeah! My partner is an AVP and makes 140 a year! I don't think I will ever make that much as an RN but I will make a substantial very comfortable amount, and combined we will be really comfy! It does intimidate me a bit but not so much that it is a hindrance to our relationship. He knows my background completely and loves me for who I am not what I have or where I came from. I am "richer" (monetarily and in other ways) now in life than I have ever been.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: yogabunny]
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Growing up with money made me realize life isnt about money and to be happy and thankful for the little things.
Why do you guys think its ok to be grateful and poor but not grateful and rich?
Just because i grew up with money means i cant appreciate the little things?
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Why do you guys think its ok to be grateful and poor but not grateful and rich?
Just because i grew up with money means i cant appreciate the little things?
I agree one can be grateful and rich (monetarily). I am not knocking you at all, you are just luckier than most people.
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I'm just going off of my personal experience, money might not buy a true sense of inner peace or whatever, but it does take the edge off of life by a significant margin. What you define as happiness is subjective, but objectively money does correlate with higher levels of happiness in psychology studies.
Money can buy food, so you don't have to dig through trash to eat that day; which I have done before.
Money can buy you a tent and a sleeping bag, so instead of sleeping on cardboard ontop of dirt you can sleep in warmth and comfort; which I have done.
Money can buy you lots and lots of things, maybe not true happiness but it can buy a whole lot of shit. I can promise you if I woke up tomorrow with 10,000,000$ in my bank account, I would be far happier tomorrow than I am tonight. I would be able to provide for myself and my loved ones in ways I have never been able to before- and that would make me happy. Knowing my Mom will always have heat in the winter, knowing my Grandma will always have her medical bills paid; that would bring me happiness.
Maybe I didn't grow up as wealthy as some, but I grew up with rich relatives; but I didn't grow up with them. I was not a part of their lives and I did not get to enjoy all of their wealth but instead watched it from a distance, and on the subject of people who were poor then become rich obsessing over money; you won't understand because you've never NOT had money.
You've never understood what it was like to not eat for a lack of money, to have your heating turned off in the winter for a lack of money, your pipes freezing and not being able to fix them so you have to turn off the water until you could. Maybe I wasn't wealthy enough to full understand the evil and greed of money, but I am 100% aware of the evil that not having money can bring. I understand beyond any doubt the life that people can live without having the money to pay for the clothes on their back.
You are right, money can't buy happiness, but it can really make it easier to achieve happiness.
This whole post is contradictory.
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Bill_Oreilly said: I believe in a lot of cases that God chooses the right people to grow up with money. The universe/god knows who is worthy of the money and who isnt.
A wise man once said.."you get what you deserve..thats the way it works"
And I believe that is a bunch of BS.
This could only possibly make sense if you believe in the concept of past lives. Otherwise why would else would god punish a newborn baby, some of these kids who are just born into poverty or dire circumstances.
But if you believe in karma and past lives and everything, then okay I guess that could make sense, if you were really bad in a past life or something.
I certainly do believe in past lives and karma
I believe everything happens for a reason
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: pineninja]
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I'm just going off of my personal experience, money might not buy a true sense of inner peace or whatever, but it does take the edge off of life by a significant margin. What you define as happiness is subjective, but objectively money does correlate with higher levels of happiness in psychology studies.
Money can buy food, so you don't have to dig through trash to eat that day; which I have done before.
Money can buy you a tent and a sleeping bag, so instead of sleeping on cardboard ontop of dirt you can sleep in warmth and comfort; which I have done.
Money can buy you lots and lots of things, maybe not true happiness but it can buy a whole lot of shit. I can promise you if I woke up tomorrow with 10,000,000$ in my bank account, I would be far happier tomorrow than I am tonight. I would be able to provide for myself and my loved ones in ways I have never been able to before- and that would make me happy. Knowing my Mom will always have heat in the winter, knowing my Grandma will always have her medical bills paid; that would bring me happiness.
Maybe I didn't grow up as wealthy as some, but I grew up with rich relatives; but I didn't grow up with them. I was not a part of their lives and I did not get to enjoy all of their wealth but instead watched it from a distance, and on the subject of people who were poor then become rich obsessing over money; you won't understand because you've never NOT had money.
You've never understood what it was like to not eat for a lack of money, to have your heating turned off in the winter for a lack of money, your pipes freezing and not being able to fix them so you have to turn off the water until you could. Maybe I wasn't wealthy enough to full understand the evil and greed of money, but I am 100% aware of the evil that not having money can bring. I understand beyond any doubt the life that people can live without having the money to pay for the clothes on their back.
You are right, money can't buy happiness, but it can really make it easier to achieve happiness.
This whole post is contradictory.
How so? These are real situations for many people. How could having the money enough to not even worry about ones electricity being cut off or new car tires etc...not make one "happier?" People that have NEVER had to even consider thinking of things like this will never truly know what it is like to WANT/NEED for something and not be able to get it.
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Bill_Oreilly said: Growing up with money made me realize life isnt about money and to be happy and thankful for the little things.
Why do you guys think its ok to be grateful and poor but not grateful and rich?
Just because i grew up with money means i cant appreciate the little things?
I agree one can be grateful and rich (monetarily). I am not knocking you at all, you are just luckier than most people.
The thing is though..im really not lucky. Well I am but not without consequences
I was born with hepatitis C which causes me to have such low energy i cant work. I also suffered mental abuse from my parents who were heroin and crack users who would leave for days on end. I would be up all night praying they would come home safe. I had my own brother die when i was just 16...etc
It all balances out with me. I may have been lucky to have a little bit of money but its because i was born NEEDING that money. If i was forced to work for everything and i didnt have a thing at birth then i would be living on the streets probably dead.
So yeah..like i said it all balances out.
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Bill_Oreilly said: Growing up with money made me realize life isnt about money and to be happy and thankful for the little things.
Why do you guys think its ok to be grateful and poor but not grateful and rich?
Just because i grew up with money means i cant appreciate the little things?
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Why do you guys think its ok to be grateful and poor but not grateful and rich?
Just because i grew up with money means i cant appreciate the little things?
I agree one can be grateful and rich (monetarily). I am not knocking you at all, you are just luckier than most people.
The thing is though..im really not lucky. Well I am but not without consequences
I was born with hepatitis C which causes me to have such low energy i cant work. I also suffered mental abuse from my parents who were heroin and crack users who would leave for days on end. I would be up all night praying they would come home safe. I had my own brother die when i was just 16...etc
It all balances out with me. I may have been lucky to have a little bit of money but its because i was born NEEDING that money. If i was forced to work for everything and i didnt have a thing at birth then i would be living on the streets probably dead.
So yeah..like i said it all balances out.
Well damn! You had it as bad as some poorer people have it seems. I don't disagree that having money has its own unique set of "problems".
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It's also quite different if you are in a 3rd world country. where the income gap is very wide.
Alot of my friends or people I know are born poor and do not have the means to get out of poverty, because even if public education is affordable to them there parents usually pull them out so that they can work full-time hauling rice or selling vegetables.
For them going to Mcdonalds is like going to a fine dinning establisment.
Most of my friends do not even want me to go to there house or even the area that they live in, but eventually I warmed up to them.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: pineninja]
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I fail to see my contradiction.
Care to point it out for me?
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"Money can buy you lots and lots of things, maybe not true happiness but it can buy a whole lot of shit. I can promise you if I woke up tomorrow with 10,000,000$ in my bank account, I would be far happier tomorrow than I am tonight. " You're arguing with yourself. And this. "You are right, money can't buy happiness, but it can really make it easier to achieve happiness." What does that mean?
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: pineninja]
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Bills and money or lack thereof is easily the thing that I think stresses most people out the most around the world. Being able to provide for yourself, your family, and live comfortably(at it's most BASIC level for so much of the world, as in..a roof over your head type of comfort) is number 1 on a lot of people's plates. The fact that we are a culture of debt adds to this stress. The fact that so many people around our country will NEVER pay off their debt before they die is scary and stressful.
Having the luxury of being able to eliminate that stress from your life is invaluable and those that are able to should be so extremely grateful and imo, have a moral responsibility to channel that time and energy(and yes, if not time or energy than money) not spent worrying about putting food on the table, how you're going to pay your rent, the mountains of debt you are trying to not leave your children, if you'll even have a job this time next year, or what will happen if you get sick and are underinsured or not insured at all - and try and give that back to the world in some capacity. And it's true, many rich people are incredible philanthropists, as they absolutely should be - and even if you're solidly middle class or have a safety net of parents who will swoop in and help you out if shit ever gets REALLY bad, you are so so sooo much luckier than so many other people in the country, let the alone places where people struggle just to survive, and I think most of us posting on this site in general have a moral and perhaps karmic responsibility to ease the mass suffering of those less fortunate even if in some, small way.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: pineninja]
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You're missing the True Happiness. Hapiness that isn't fleeting. I'd be damned if I saw someone win the lottery and not smile a bit.
Achieve happiness, what does it sound like? Did you read my post? Providing for my family, my loved ones, being able to put my mom in a nice house with a yard, pay my grandmothers medical bills, put my little brother through college- if I could do those things I would be immensely happy- money makes all those things possible that no amount of hugging or daily meditation can.
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Some don't enter the lottery for fear of winning it, it's been known to destroy lives aswell. I have lived a life in which everything I don't have I earnt no headstarts. Providing for your family is not wrong by any means, thinking the lottery will make your life better, is.
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... what if you used your lottery winnings to provide for your family?
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What if you saved your money by not buying a ticket and taking comfort that sometimes the hardest earnt happiness is also the most valuable.
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I've now had a solid 5 minutes of total trance like slack jaw over your avatar btw.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: pineninja]
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It's a analogy, not meant to be taken literally.
Okay, what if you start a company and after two days of success you get an offer from someone to buy the company for millions of dollars? Again, an analogy.
All I am saying is providing for my family is what I care about; I could give a rats ass if the money came from the lottery or my burger flipping day job.
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And I'm not advocating you buy the lottery; but what I am saying is if one day I bought a 5$ ticket and won 5 million dollars, or something- then I would be much happier than if I put that 5$ into a savings account.
You are kind of missing the point, what good is working to your bone to provide for your family if you only get to see them for an hour every day; then spend the rest of your life working to provide for them- if you came into a large sum of money you could spend every day and every hour with your family.
Like Akira said earlier; you don't buy happiness, you spend it.
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I'm not missing the point. What if after this windfall you found yourself still unhappy? where would you look too next too find happiness? My guess would be turning to those things you had pre win because the money ain't gonna buy you love and respect that humbly provinding for your family always wouldve.
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I grew up comfortably. I won't say rich because we weren't rich, my parents probably made $100,000 a year Combined, but when you've got three children that's not rich...
I grew up entitled though however, and I know that it took some growing up to do to realize how entitled I had been as a youth. I realize now, living paycheck to paycheck with a 4.0GPA and an associates in chemistry that's got me nowhere and a fucked up back due to construction, the world doesn't give a fuck about your social position, and it'll slam you to the ground no matter how entitled you are if you don't take responsibility for yourself...
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There's actually a little truth to both sides. While you're right, money can't just buy you happiness, being financially unstable- worrying you're going to lose the roof over your head, wondering how you're going to feed yourself (or if you have children, how you're going to take care of them)... you're not going to be happy either. In that situation yes Money will help you become happy, because it will help you balance your financial situation out in order for you to concentrate on the things that Do make you happy, rather than worry about the things that drag you down.
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Repertoire89 said: Matresses are overrated, same shit as sleeping on the floor.
Not that im all about living in squalor for the sake of strangers, just dont think a matress is all that important.
It's really, really not. Japanese people sleep on the floor, and it's one thing that I disliked about living there. Mattresses are much more comfortable.
Put it on the floor by all means and go without a duvet and bed cover and all that, but at least have something comfortable to lay on.
This.
Having slept on deserted beaches(all in all it adds up to well over years time). Tent cots are awesome. Double stack high inflatable queen size mattresses are even better especially the newest one that inflates itself... $70 well spent. Fyi anyone that thinks sleeping on/in sand overnight is going to be fun..it's not.
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I like money I use it to buy lots of cool shit that I use to do things I find life enhancing like travel, catching sharks, spearfishing, hunting, building/creating stuff, droogs. Someday I'll use money to start my farm and rarely have to go to the grocery store ever again because most people in there repulse me.
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OP you sound like you were well off but I wasn't too different... I had plenty of video games as well Still, other kids at my middle school and high school somehow came off as being way more affluent then me. Compared to them I felt muuuuch more middle class, which is weird cause even they weren't thaaaat rich. Some were probably millionaires though. Anyways it just goes to show, it's all relative.
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Yeah but here in america all those things cost money, even a hunting license cost money.
Therefore, it cost money to be happy.
Your points are invalid.
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Money helps. Living out of a dumpster and wearing rags if you are even that lucky. It's illegal to harvest animals for food without rights. Trespassing is a law that keeps you in very limited areas. Sub zero temps without money for gear or a spot to hide, the hotel looks mighty friendly.
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I was happy when I was a poor(broke) college student landscaping. But anything I bought before that time I could use outside doing things that made me happy. Fishing, hunting, boating, kayaking, triathlons. Buy once cry once! Does money make you happy? It certainly doesn't hurt. Having been poor/broke(1st world) I do not wish to return to that. Though I have no problem accepting that fate if that is what becomes. I do make use of anything and everything around me, but certainly not greedy or tight with money.
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Going to college isn't really poor. Poor is just released from prison with the shit clothes someone left behind because the guards burned your clothes. You get a couple of bucks and dumped off in your home town. Can't get a job and no prospects. This is a fact for 10% of Americans and growing.
Lucky that felons can still get food stamps. No public housing so it is likely back to prison people return.
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Lucky that felons can still get food stamps. No public housing so it is likely back to prison people return.
Going to college can make you poor.
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Job prospects that start at $60,000 a year with benefits is not exactly 'poor'.
Ya I get that some people purchased and education that results in a stupid degree. Not a lot of jobs for a philosophy degree. But it helps to have clean records and any education or job experience. It's what is expected.
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Morel Guy said: Job prospects that start at $60,000 a year with benefits is not exactly 'poor'.
Ya I get that some people purchased and education that results in a stupid degree. Not a lot of jobs for a philosophy degree. But it helps to have clean records and any education or job experience. It's what is expected.
Yeah, I've got a 4.0GPA and a degree in chemistry but I recently blew my back out working construction labor for shit wages, despite the fact I have a degree which no one cares about because it's not a masters or PhD...
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Very few college graduates are landing jobs that make $60k a year. A lot of college graduates I know ended up working as personal trainers, cooks, construction workers, etc...
The ones that did get office work had to settle for $30K, maybe up to $40K if they were lucky. Some of them settled for commission-only jobs which pay less than minimum wage, because there's nothing else out there.
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Morel Guy said: Going to college isn't really poor. Poor is just released from prison with the shit clothes someone left behind because the guards burned your clothes. You get a couple of bucks and dumped off in your home town. Can't get a job and no prospects. This is a fact for 10% of Americans and growing.
Lucky that felons can still get food stamps. No public housing so it is likely back to prison people return.
I'm a felon, no assistance in my current state of residence. No food, no housing, no heat, nothing!
Caught my case at 31, the only way back to my feet was doing what I knew best until I got a break working for cash doing the chef thing again. Saved and saved, couch surfed. Saved until I had done enough work, both legit and illicit to buy into a small diner.... saved more and so on. Thankfully I had a great group of friends and "family" to at least keep me warm and help me find work.
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I did pay alot of money for an educaton but was smart enough not to buy BS degree. Nuclear energy and chemistry. It was tough making ends meet during school since my parents are not wealthy(school teachers) with 3 brothers and a sister..all of whom have degrees and good to great jobs. May not have had a ton of $ growing up but my parents are the best I could ever ask for and fortunate for that. We were not poor but definitely not wealthy in money, we were well off with brains and/or athletics . They put us before them. Taught me to work for what I want. Traveled every year. My 1st vehicle was a 1966 Chevy belair which I still have and restoring it. Dad figured he would get us all old cheap classic cars. Mustang, nova, Trans am, belair, duster.
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pinedownpioneer said: I did pay alot of money for an educaton but was smart enough not to buy BS degree. Nuclear energy and chemistry. It was tough making ends meet during school since my parents are not wealthy(school teachers) with 3 brothers and a sister..all of whom have degrees and good to great jobs. May not have had a ton of $ growing up but my parents are the best I could ever ask for and fortunate for that. We were not poor but definitely not wealthy in money, we were well off with brains and/or athletics . They put us before them. Taught me to work for what I want. Traveled every year. My 1st vehicle was a 1966 Chevy belair which I still have and restoring it. Dad figured he would get us all old cheap classic cars. Mustang, nova, Trans am, belair, duster.
Honestly, I did all my schooling for free, but that was not fun. I had to work my ass off at keeping my GPA up, apply for every single scholarship under the sun, apply for every college grant I could, meet with random people just to get approval to even be considered for any of it. Even had to move back in with the parents while I was in my late 20's (ruining my social life) in order to make ends meet.
However I did manage to get a $10,000 scholarship one year, that was a lifesaver. Helped me pay off debt I had started to build up while in school.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Morel Guy]
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Morel Guy said: Ya I get that some people purchased and education that results in a stupid degree. Not a lot of jobs for a philosophy degree.
Philosophy is often brought up as being a stupid degree, but I've heard it can be good for getting into law school.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: psi]
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Morel Guy said: Ya I get that some people purchased and education that results in a stupid degree. Not a lot of jobs for a philosophy degree.
Philosophy is often brought up as being a stupid degree, but I've heard it can be good for getting into law school.
No Hard work and intellect/logic gets you a JD.
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Morel Guy said: Ya I get that some people purchased and education that results in a stupid degree. Not a lot of jobs for a philosophy degree.
Philosophy is often brought up as being a stupid degree, but I've heard it can be good for getting into law school.
No Hard work and intellect/logic gets you a JD.
Never heard of the "intsllect/logic" major, sounds like something you would find in seminary school
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Morel Guy said: Ya I get that some people purchased and education that results in a stupid degree. Not a lot of jobs for a philosophy degree.
Philosophy is often brought up as being a stupid degree, but I've heard it can be good for getting into law school.
No Hard work and intellect/logic gets you a JD.
I never claimed otherwise. Apparently philosophy majors tend to do well on the LSATs though (maybe it has something to do with the focus on logic in philosopy?)
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: psi] 1
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My bad, I meant graduating law school. My cousin did and it damn near killed her. I think she had a psych degree maybe??? Law school is a lot of logic and memorizing, much different than philosophy, just my two pennies
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I have a cousin who scored in the top 1% percentile on the LSAT's, yet didn't pass the bar exam in 2 different states. It can happen.
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The overlap would be in areas like logic and rhetoric, not so much the memorization. I'm a computer science student and had to take a course on constructing proofs using symbolic logic and set theory, as a prerequisite for later theory courses. Philosophy majors at my school have to take courses on the same kind of material. Admittedly I don't know too much else about the program, but I wouldn't take it as a given that there is no logical rigor to the field of philosophy. Math and science were kind of born out of it.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Crystal G]
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Crystal G said: I have a cousin who scored in the top 1% percentile on the LSAT's, yet didn't pass the bar exam in 2 different states. It can happen.
Yea, that was kinda what I was talking about. Glad you smell what I'm stepping in  It is convient as a junkie alcoholic to have a lawyer in the family. Even though the bitch had me arrested twice in three days and thrown in St Louis county jail. I probably earned it, back in my Xanax daze.....  Don't EVER go to jail in STL county, EVER.
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I have a sister who became a lawyer not long ago as well. Thankfully I have not been in any legal trouble though.
Completing the whole process would definitely be a better metric for evaluating a major as preparation for law, but I haven't been able to find stats on completion rates by previous major.
I just think the implication that philosophy doesn't also involve a lot of logic seems unfounded. "Law school is a lot of logic and memorizing, much different than philosophy".
If philosophy majors were clueless about logic, they likely would not be able to score well on the LSAT. They could well run into problems with the rote memorization aspect or workload after that, but I don't see any reason to believe that they are likely to be weak on logic.
Or maybe their LSAT scores are just a fluke and a philosophy degree consists entirely of the study of advanced beard-stroking.
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pirate-blues said: I asked for a horse when I was about 13. I had been riding for over a decade at that point, and leased(yes, this is a thing) several horses.
My parents laughed in my face.
I procured all their financial information, made a giant spreadsheet of every single associated cost of ownership(from boarding, healthcare, contingency for emergency healthcare, to every single piece of equipment that would be necessary to buy) and compared it to what we were currently paying for riding lessons and the partial lease on the horse I rode most days out of the week, then I wrote a giant persuasive essay arguing my case and citing things like enrichment of character, sense of responsibility, and providing incentives such as working out a deal with the stable owner wherein I'd get a discount on board if I mucked stalls. Then I gave my parents a presentation on why it was not a giant financial leap nor totally unreasonable for me to suggest simply buying a horse.
So yeah, that's how I got a horse.
Now I work in data analysis/strategy, which was something I never thought I'd end up doing....but looking back, I'm not all that surprised now.
I was looking at memes and I stumbled upon this one.
This by chance wouldn't happen to be you as a kid would it?
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Crystal G]
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I just realized those glasses are upside-down too
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.

Agreed, even at my age and growing up with a father who made millions I know this is garbage. Dick
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