Envy feelings - spoilt rich kids

It sounds from your username as though you are a parent now. If you have a good lifestyle as they grow up, do you think you will "spoil" them more than you were, eg, give in to their wants for fashions, etc, more?

>implying Britain doesn't have poor social mobility compared to most of the developled world

No, implying that if you work hard and succeed you'll become rich - depending on your job.

Please, people move social class all the damn time, it's asinine to assume otherwise. Seriously.

It's difficult to say how things will turn out - when I was a child I didn't have that much interest in clothes, it came as I was about 12. I really hope my children will be allowed to remain children and not young Barbie dolls. But as they get older, teenagers etc, I will probably allow them a lot more than my parents allowed me as a teenager. As long as they end up being good people with morals, that's what's important. It's also important that they work hard at school. If they do all that, I honestly see no wrong in helping them out and give them a good lifestyle.

work hard at school, get a good job to secure the lifestyle for your family that you were once envious of

But the differences the OP seem to be referring to are related to wealth mostly and disposable income and this is definitely within everyone's own control.

Often not when you are a child or teenager though, which is OPs situation. I think young people are often confined to their role, either in poor circumstances or well-off.

My childhood has definitely motivated me to make sure I marry a good rich man and to work hard to look after my future kids. Just try to learn lessons from the **** parts of life rather than let them make you miserable.

What's the best cure for having bad envy feelings?

I get really really jealous of girls who have such nice lives, i live in a mixed sort of area and i go to a school that tries hard to push us but my family have like zero money. On the way to school or in the street i see these girls my age with designer everything or lazing around in totally posh cars being driven to posh school in their posh uniforms. I get really incredibly jelly of them, not just for all the nice things they have either, they look really spoilt and happy and comfy. Its really really hard work to achieve anything for me but they look like its all dreamy and probs it is at least partly, i mean i know they probs have some hard things to do but everything is basically the best for them.

What's the cure? I see them every day and don't want to hate them but end up feeling that way. Then on TSR i have chatted with some really posh girls and they seem quite nice and normal and friendly, but there is like zero interaction in real life, if people like that see me and my friends in the shops or whatever its like nose in the air time!

What's the cure?

"Its really really hard work to achieve anything for me"

This seems like you are hopeless and your children will feel the same as how you feel now because you probably are too lazy to achieve anything as you are complaining about this..

Ooohhh, you're nice. Just feel like you're someone I would like to know, it kind of runs off the page.

Just because your parents didn't work hard enough at school does not mean that you should be envious of more well off people. it's not our fault that they love booz, fags and prostitutes more than you.