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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 686196" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Paj, sure. I agree. Totally.</p><p></p><p>But there is a middle road.</p><p></p><p>In our school parking lot back when the dinasaurs lived (tongue in cheek), it was ridiculous. In my suburb of doctors, lawyers and CEOS (and our govenor) there would be brand new sports cars, Cadillac and Lincoln in there. They often belonged to the kids for no other reason than the kids got a drivers license. It to me was insane. I wasn't jealous. Funky expensive toys and clothes with the labels turned me off. I'd shop at discount stores on purpose to make a statement.....at the towns version of Walmart. I didnt have to. My father made a decent living... just wasn't real rich. I always saw huge expensive items as "shallow"(my own word).</p><p></p><p>Most of these kids did succeed. A disproportionate percentage of them did not and got into the counter culture and stole, abused drugs, and some disappeared. A few died of drugs.</p><p></p><p>It doesn't ruin most kids, but for the ones who get into drugs and have parents willing to enable them...it's a comfortable way to do nothing. I had friends who ended up just like that. I worked. They watched TV and smoked pot or worse.</p><p></p><p>I knew no poor kids at all so did not see that end of the spectrum. I'm thinking that the poor entitled blame the system, not their parents. But honestly I don't know first hand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 686196, member: 1550"] Paj, sure. I agree. Totally. But there is a middle road. In our school parking lot back when the dinasaurs lived (tongue in cheek), it was ridiculous. In my suburb of doctors, lawyers and CEOS (and our govenor) there would be brand new sports cars, Cadillac and Lincoln in there. They often belonged to the kids for no other reason than the kids got a drivers license. It to me was insane. I wasn't jealous. Funky expensive toys and clothes with the labels turned me off. I'd shop at discount stores on purpose to make a statement.....at the towns version of Walmart. I didnt have to. My father made a decent living... just wasn't real rich. I always saw huge expensive items as "shallow"(my own word). Most of these kids did succeed. A disproportionate percentage of them did not and got into the counter culture and stole, abused drugs, and some disappeared. A few died of drugs. It doesn't ruin most kids, but for the ones who get into drugs and have parents willing to enable them...it's a comfortable way to do nothing. I had friends who ended up just like that. I worked. They watched TV and smoked pot or worse. I knew no poor kids at all so did not see that end of the spectrum. I'm thinking that the poor entitled blame the system, not their parents. But honestly I don't know first hand. [/QUOTE]
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