Envy feelings - spoilt rich kids

Which in itself isn't so simply attained.

Will you be "theoretically wealthy" because of inheritance? Rather an odd attitude to take if so.

I am in the category of the group of people who have benefited greatly from parental wealth/income. I think (hope) that a combination of parental role modelling, good schools and personal attitude has helped me not be too spoiled by the situation. My parents don't hold back things from us if we want them but we have kind of learned not to be too demanding. It's a fine line with well-off kids not to spoil them. There were some spoiled girls at my schools.

I know it's easy to say this from a somewhat superior situation, but I feel for OP as I'm sure it can't be easy to see much better off kids swanning around her neighbourhood if her own background is v. poor. London can be strange that way - the upper classes live close to the poor in a lot of places. It's different in other parts of the country, where private schools and rich areas tend to be very separate.

In my experience half of them fail to become self-sufficient after university and end up in useless internships daddy patched up for them because he didn't want to have to say his daughter was unemployed at his weekly round of golf.

Is this experience from trite cinema?

It's experience from going to a posho university filled with people who harp on about how their dad looks down peoples mouths or shuffles important bits of paper for a living as though this in any way would be of any interest to any person ever. You graduate, you endure their presence on your facebook, you find tons of them doing internships at the sort of places that would never pay for it.

I say get them selling rhino horn from rhinio that died of natural causes. Use the money to pay them wages for protecting the live ones with guns. Meaning more rhinos, more rhino horn, decent jobs. Win/win.

You seem the thoughtful sort, but plenty of "rich kids" aren't, hence part of the problem.

At the Uni I went to, I noticed a lot that things well-off kids take for granted look incredibly spoiled to other people. Just to give examples: large allowances; nicer places to live; new cars; spare money for cool clothes; expensive holidays; exotic gap years; accessories. I realised over time that many of these goodies just seem normal to some kids, eg, those well above my social background. How many of those do you have Emily and hardly think about?

I'd imagine that the they would be pretty liberal in their definition of "natural causes".

Not necessarily, a lot of people have inherited their wealth.

Half of them though? How would you even know about the number of rich kids who don't reveal it or acted normal in order to judge the proportion?

Where did you go, Durham or something?

Few people are as financially secure as they might like to think they are.

if people like that see me and my friends in the shops or whatever its like nose in the air time!

Like everyone else has said: work hard and earn the cash, that way you can spoil your children.

I personally hate reading people who bitch about the rich, they had to work just as - if not harder - for their place in society. I see it a ton here on TSR, people complaining about 'toffs', grow up and work hard - it's what rich people did, to become rich in the first place -.-

Not necessarily. Also, I've never met a working class person who'd use the word 'toff'

I didnt want to bitch about it or be sad i was really just saying how it feels. I mean i'm 16 and my family have nothing really which isn't my fault although i will try and change it. Then i see these girls my age who have about a million times what we do and yes they are really spoilt so its hard not to be jealous they have such a lot more and so many advantages over me. I dont hate them and i suppose its really great and lovely for some of people are really spoilt but it bugs me is all the unfairness of it, but i s'pose there's nothing i can do about it other than work work.