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by jon889 2218 days ago
No one ever says this about m/billionaires or their children. There are always going to be a few people taking advantage of a system, that shouldn’t be a reason to punish everyone else.
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That’s because we call them trust fund babies instead and they are widely mocked and ridiculed.
You mean widely envied.
Envied? Sure. Respected? Nope. Such people often do have self-esteem issues because they know they didn't earn it, and so does everyone else.
Yes, they do say that about the children of wealthy people. The conventional wisdom is the first generation earns it, the second spends it, the third is back where the first started.

Wealthy people are well aware of this, and will often try to make their kids earn their things, send them to a military school, etc.