Carson: Trump children grew up with the 'disadvantage' of wealth

Washington Examiner ^ | July 21,2016 | By T. BECKET ADAMS

[GnuThere]

I watched some documentary thing about Rich Kids of Instagram; it took several of them & showed their lives more in depth, and the sense of emptiness was noticeable, like, “OK, I'm sitting in Monte Carlo & have done my $25,000 shopping budget for the month, ho hum, what next?”
I think many of them seem spiritually and/or psychologically ungrounded.

[rdcbn]

My experience is that poor people struggle to survive and rich people survive to struggle.

Money does not buy happiness, the best money can do is remove obstacles to to happiness that can be solved with money.

Most of life's problems of consequence cannot be solved with money and many of life's most serious problems are created by or made worse by money

Money often buys misery, if for no other reason than rich people have no illusions that if they just had a bit more money, all their problems would be solved and life would be wonderful.

Wealth is highly over rated but poverty sucks

[lonevoice]

Unless there is an evidence to show that the kids of “billionaires and millionaires” are more prone to bad behavior than the lower/poor classes, it is just selection bias. And plain class warfare.

You are absolutely correct. Class warfare and demonizing the wealthy is a tactic of progressives and communists (really the same thing).

[jacquej]

Thank you for the reference - I am going to look it up.

[lakecumberlandvet]

If you can raise children, especially daughters, and have them turn out even nearly as well as the Trump kids then you have performed an incredible feat. Congratulations to the mothers and father of these amazing kids and to the kids themselves.

[Robert DeLong]

It really is true, and the reason is that the standard has been set so high for them from previous successes of the family lineage. I’ve known a few rich kids, and most of them were not really setting the world on fire. They had great educations which may have saved them down the line, haven’t been in touch for years now, but they were not as happy as we might imagine.