It’s like the old craft system. A cobblers son was most likely to be a cobbler because they grew up around the skills tools and equipment. If a parent has a high level of skill and resources it’s way easier to teach it to a kid for a kid and for them to succeed.
I mean I would loved to have a parent in a position to help fund and guide my first business venture like that kids has.
In her son’s case it’s going beyond that. She didn’t just encourage him to be an actor, use her connections to get him singing and acting lessons and get him in the door for auditions.
She herself got a movie made for him. You know she didn’t do rounds of interviews and decide at the end that her son was the best fit for the part. She set out to make a movie for him.
I mean likely.
I live in a better school district than most and have time to spend to help my kids with homework. I usually attribute all kid success to kid efforts. Don’t foresee myself as an adult going full narcissist and claiming credit,even partial, for the kid success.
It would be up to them to publicly acknowledge what they had other didn’t. Otherwise it’s kneecapping their achievements.
I can appreciate this perspective and I really respect you are being honest here.
I guess it can be helpful to remind ourselves and our family members to truly consider the advantages we have over others, and to remember that we could just as easily be in the shoes of any other person on earth.
If we experienced the same lives and had the same biology as anyone else, we would make the same decisions that they would.
It helps me to remember this, when someone elses’ behaviour bother me. I think to myself, “what kind of life would I have to have led for me to act that way?”, and give people the benefit of the doubt that people are trying their best.
Thanks. Realize the kind of answer I gave won’t win me ‘points’ .
realistically if I could do that for my kids I would. I think lots of wealthy families do, only when the opportunities are media facing does it get backlash.
There isn’t a social media page devoted to farm families passing down multimillion dollar businesses as a matter of fact.
There’s a difference between skills based on practice and exposure because of your prarents, and then merely fact that your parents are rich and famous. I don’t blame the kid for taking advantage of the opportunity they got, no worries there. At the same time, it’s not a level playing field, so we should not pretend it is.
Life isn’t even close to a level playing field. The family you are born into had the greatest effect on your future success than nearly any other factor.
Hydroponic greenhouses in the late 1970’s for one bankruptcy. Off a deep well on a high mountain valley with water that came out of the ground at 6-8C… Oh and brutally cold winters down to -30C The heating cost alone for the water was prohibitive. They blamed the Mexicans for “tanking the market” for that bankruptcy.
On the other side, they always chased last year’s market. Sugarbeets were high so they doubled their acres - bank forced sale of 300 on that one. Beef was high so they bought steers ar extremely high prices and then sold them at a loss… bank forced the sale of another 400 acres plus they lost their grazing contract. The last one was lamas. Yep they bought 100 of them… Somehow it was the blacks fault for that one… never did quite figure out how. I currently guess the bank got a new loan manager who happened to have a darker skin color.
I live in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and I do a lot of bicycling around the outskirts. It’s amazing how often I randomly bike past a llama farm. That shit can’t be profitable.
I mean it’s true. She doesn’t like hearing it.
It’s like the old craft system. A cobblers son was most likely to be a cobbler because they grew up around the skills tools and equipment. If a parent has a high level of skill and resources it’s way easier to teach it to a kid for a kid and for them to succeed.
I mean I would loved to have a parent in a position to help fund and guide my first business venture like that kids has.
If I was successful, I would do that for my kids.
In her son’s case it’s going beyond that. She didn’t just encourage him to be an actor, use her connections to get him singing and acting lessons and get him in the door for auditions.
She herself got a movie made for him. You know she didn’t do rounds of interviews and decide at the end that her son was the best fit for the part. She set out to make a movie for him.
Would you then deny that your kid has a leg up on others if you did do all that?
I mean likely. I live in a better school district than most and have time to spend to help my kids with homework. I usually attribute all kid success to kid efforts. Don’t foresee myself as an adult going full narcissist and claiming credit,even partial, for the kid success.
It would be up to them to publicly acknowledge what they had other didn’t. Otherwise it’s kneecapping their achievements.
I can appreciate this perspective and I really respect you are being honest here.
I guess it can be helpful to remind ourselves and our family members to truly consider the advantages we have over others, and to remember that we could just as easily be in the shoes of any other person on earth.
If we experienced the same lives and had the same biology as anyone else, we would make the same decisions that they would.
It helps me to remember this, when someone elses’ behaviour bother me. I think to myself, “what kind of life would I have to have led for me to act that way?”, and give people the benefit of the doubt that people are trying their best.
Thanks. Realize the kind of answer I gave won’t win me ‘points’ .
realistically if I could do that for my kids I would. I think lots of wealthy families do, only when the opportunities are media facing does it get backlash.
There isn’t a social media page devoted to farm families passing down multimillion dollar businesses as a matter of fact.
There’s a difference between skills based on practice and exposure because of your prarents, and then merely fact that your parents are rich and famous. I don’t blame the kid for taking advantage of the opportunity they got, no worries there. At the same time, it’s not a level playing field, so we should not pretend it is.
Life isn’t even close to a level playing field. The family you are born into had the greatest effect on your future success than nearly any other factor.
My parents and grandparents taught me how to go bankrupt…
Step 1: Mortgage inherited assets to follow the latest fad.
Step 2: Make no profit but spend tons money.
Step 3: Accept government handouts right and left but still lose money.
Step 4: Go bankrupt and lose everything you inherited.
Step 5: Blame everyone else for your own stupidity. Extra emphasis on people with darker skin color.
Out of curiosity, what was the fad?
Hydroponic greenhouses in the late 1970’s for one bankruptcy. Off a deep well on a high mountain valley with water that came out of the ground at 6-8C… Oh and brutally cold winters down to -30C The heating cost alone for the water was prohibitive. They blamed the Mexicans for “tanking the market” for that bankruptcy.
On the other side, they always chased last year’s market. Sugarbeets were high so they doubled their acres - bank forced sale of 300 on that one. Beef was high so they bought steers ar extremely high prices and then sold them at a loss… bank forced the sale of another 400 acres plus they lost their grazing contract. The last one was lamas. Yep they bought 100 of them… Somehow it was the blacks fault for that one… never did quite figure out how. I currently guess the bank got a new loan manager who happened to have a darker skin color.
I live in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and I do a lot of bicycling around the outskirts. It’s amazing how often I randomly bike past a llama farm. That shit can’t be profitable.
Reverse mortgage?