Chelsea Clinton: I tried to care about money but couldn't

[philosslayer]

The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and ex-secretary of state Hillary Clinton explained in a recent interview why she left lucrative professions and opted for working with her family’s philanthropic foundation. ‘I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,’ she said.

Chelsea Clinton says it's 'frustrating' that after multiple tries at different careers, she realized she wanted to work with her parents.
Hillary Clinton insists she isn’t “well-off” and now daughter Chelsea, according to a recent interview, claims she couldn't care less about money.

“I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,” she told Fast Company in an interview that ran in the magazine's May edition, explaining why she gave up lucrative gigs to join her family’s philanthropic foundation.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/chelsea-clinton-care-money-article-1.1840138


A fine young woman, and a great example for her generation.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It's easy not to care about money when you have a ton of it.

[Luciferous]

2. Exactly what I was thinking!

[hobbit709]

4. +1000

[Duckhunter935]

6. exactly

[tk2kewl]

8. like George Baily said...

"It comes in pretty handy down here bub!"

[cherokeeprogressive]

10. Exactly

[artislife]

26. ^^^This

There couldn't be an easier example of privilege than her statement.

Try being poor, Chelsea. Oh, that's right, she really has only known this Paris Hilton life.

[merrily]

34. Bingo. Yet another tone deaf comment.

Doesn't she know her parents were broke?

Never in this life, of course, but possibly in another lifetime, if reincarnation is really a thing?

[Nay]

50. You read my mind. nt

[tazkcmo]

51. Ding ding ding! n/t

[Hiraeth]

3. I wish I could afford to not care about money, too. sheesh.

[fleur-de-lisa]

5. Always interesting when those with money . . .

say they don't care about it.

What is her salary? $600,000?

Perhaps I wouldn't care about it either if I was making that much.

[Duckhunter935]

7. I know

[merrily]

35. Her salary's not so impressive. Her net worth, on the other hand.....

[Ed Suspicious]

57. To be fair, it's 17 times my family of 4's household income. So, that's pretty impressive.

[merrily]

58. You are not 1%. As the 1% goes, $600,000 a year is not impressive.

However, Chelsea has a net worth of many millions. Hell, probably Charlotte does as well.

[Ed Suspicious]

60. I get your point, merrily. I'm still disgusted.

Also, there are two earners in that family.

[merrily]

66. I am not trying to get you undisgusted, just giving perspective.

Her wedding cost an estimated $3 million. She just bought a home for $10.5 million. Even people making $600K a year don't manage that.

[Ed Suspicious]

68. $600,000 is the stipend for being Clinton.

[merrily]

70. So are the many millions of dollars.

[Ed Suspicious]

73. +1. It is her birthright.

[Human101948]

75. For New York rich, $600,000 is pocket money...

But I will bet that she never has to pay for dinner, or her limo, or her evening gowns that she wears on the red carpet, or much of anything else.

[Ed Suspicious]

82. Oh I agree. And I definitely wind up paying for my own limo rides and evening gowns. It's a real

struggle.

[tazkcmo]

76. AKA

minimum wage.

[tularetom]

9. She "left" the "lucrative profession" of being a "reporter" because she sucked at it

The fact that she possesses absolutely no personality or charisma became apparent.

As empty headed and vapid as the bush twins. Actually she may be worse. At least they know they're airheads.

[hedda_foil]

14. That may be unfair to the Bush twins who stopped acting like idiots before they left college.

They didn't go into high finance to see if they could care about money. Who the hell decides to see if they're giving MONEY a fair chance?

[saltpoint]

11. It's true. Chelsea, pure of heart,

has renounced wealth, despite her parents having quite a shitload of it, and went to work in an obscure leper colony in Romania, where she has been since her 18th birthday. She lives in a wooden shed. She eats roots and berries from the nearby woods.

It is a humble life. But she has the heart for such a calling.

[artislife]

27. *chortle

[Kall]

29. OK, that was good :)

Coming from Chelsea, wealthy and connected beyond measure, who with no relevant journalistic qualifications (but a famous name) locked up a $600,000 correspondent job at NBC, putting another more qualified and educated person related to the school of journalism out of work, this is pretty rich.

Talk about Marie Antoinette.

[Ed Suspicious]

59. She's a regular Mahatma Gandhi.

[Dr. Strange]

85. Oh saltpoint. You are poetry embodied!

[snagglepuss]

89. Bwahahaha The comments on this thread are killing me.

Hopefully Colbert will get wind of this entitled inanity.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

12. Let's trade net worth, Chelsea. You'll care in <24 hours.

[jfern]

25. Naw, she'll just hit up mom and dad or her husband for another million

[merrily]

36. Scrooge, is that you? I *hope* you don't really expect her to get along on only one measly million.

Her wedding is estimated to have cost 3 million; she just bought an apartment for 10.5 million and you're talking abfout begging mom and dad for one million?

Why, God, why?

[snagglepuss]

88. LOL This thread is a barrel of laughs. At first sight I thought the OP

was from The Onion. I suppose she just happened by chance on Mr Hedgefund Moneybags and fell in love thinking he was a UPS driver.

[99Forever]

13. Funny how those who "don't care about money"...

... usually already have way more of it than they will ever need. Meanwhile, us people that actually have to earn our livings would end up homeless and starving if we adopted the same "I don't care about money" approach to life.

[PowerToThePeople]

23. Many would say

That you are just jealous of their success.

[merrily]

37. Or mocking their tone deafness.

Actually, I don't know if many would say anything about jealousy. Maybe a minority of DU would, but I think most people would get it.

[Ed Suspicious]

64. Right? If you want to be rich, fine, just shut the hell up about it.

[merrily]

69. Trying to have it both ways, tone deaf about money.

Tree. Apple. Fall.

There was a thread here at one point about things Hillary has said about poor people. It was amazing. I don't think Bill would ever make those kinds of mistakes, but I could be wrong.

[merrily]

72. Speaking of which, this thread is active right now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511024747

I hadn't heard about this before.

[jfern]

93. Chelsea hasn't been very successful at anything

She'd care a hell of a lot more about money if her parents didn't get rich from payback for all they did for Wall Street.

[cheapdate]

15. Sure it easier to not care about money

when your family is financially secure, it's still a good attitude and I applaud her for it. I share her outlook and I hope I've instilled that same value in my own children. There are more important things in life than money.

[Bohunk68]

62. Her husband is a hedge fund manager.

But, she doesn't care about money.

[cheapdate]

71. Just so. I would assume she's sincere.

[tazkcmo]

78. I'm sure she is.

But it's an attitude born of wealth and privilege. I share her attitude and have had it for most of my life. My attitude was born from recognizing the "game". Consume, consume, consume. Wage slavery, etc. Also, a few periods of homelessness helped. Her? It's because she's never NEEDED money because she's always had money. Context matters.

[cheapdate]

84. I half-agree.

My attitude toward money comes from many of the same places as yours, but on a simpler level, I'm happier camped on a bald or beside a creek far back in the Nantahala Mountains than sitting in traffic on my way to work.

But, neither Chelsea Clinton nor anyone else has any control over the world they were born into. Whatever her path was, she's come to the same place as me -- money isn't what life is about. We're together on that.

[tazkcmo]

86. I'm with you there!

I'd rather be roughing it deep in the woods with my dog than anything else! I'll bet young Chelsea does too. She's not a bad person.

[senz]

96. Her first job straight out of Stanford was at a hedge fund.

Never fails to boggle my mind.

[ms liberty]

16. Really? It must be nice to be able to afford that.

Those of us who dont have much or any don't have that luxury. You care desperately about money when you or a loved one are a couple of paychecks away from a serious financial crisis.

[Punkingal]

17. What a ridiculous piece of public relations.

[Skwmom]

18. She has a 10 million apartment. Unlike average Americans she has no worries.

Plus, wonder what her salary is?

[Champion Jack]

19. Did she say this from her new 10.5 million dollar apartment?

[merrily]

38. But that's her city place. Where, oh, where does one summer?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

41. The previous post says 10 million, and your post says 10.5. Either way, I've never had a house

that added up to the 500,000 difference in those two numbers.

[loyalsister]

20. "I was curious if I could care about (money)"

In full context of occupy, economic injustice, etc... It's kind of like saying "I was checking to see if I was self absorbed and immoral enough to be one of them (her peers). But, I'm not. I'm naturally genuine, compassionate, and an inherently ethical person."

[KentuckyWoman]

21. Color me skeptical

Chelsea may be a wonderful young woman and philanthropically oriented but rich people have the luxury of not having to care about money.

[RedCappedBandit]

22. LOL

[TSIAS]

24. This comes off as off-putting to me

If I never had to worry about money, I wouldn't care either. Just give me a house, car, insurance, and some spending money and I'd be fine.

I can understand that she isn't obsessed with money, but I doubt she'll ever have to worry about going without any basic needs.

[LibDemAlways]

28. Only someone with no money worries at all

could make that statement. She lives in a $10,000,000 apartment, is married to a wealthy Wall Streeter, and stands to inherit a shit ton of money.

Most of us don't have the luxury of deciding whether we care about money or not. We're too busy scrambling to bring home enough to keep the bill collectors at bay -- something little miss entitled will never have to concern herself with.

[grasswire]

30. wasn't there just a feature about her new apartment with 6 1/2 bathrooms?

I know there was. It's a very extravagant NYC apartment.

[merrily]

39. Bill, Hillary, Chelsea, Marc, Charlotte and one on the way. Hell, they've outgrown

the 6.5 bathrooms already. Where will guests and (ugh) tradespeople wee wee?

[grasswire]

31. kind of sounds like Bill's "tried to inhale, but couldn't" nt

[pugetres]

32. A great example

That made me laugh. Too late for my kids but hopefully my unborn grandkids will work hard and find some super-wealthy parents to give birth to them.

It could happen! And, they'll be a fine example for their generation

[JonathanRackham]

33. I'll bet my kids remember her from community college.

[steve2470]

40. oh Chelsea....

You really need to talk to a lot of ordinary people.

[marmar]

42. ........

[davidpdx]

43. She's as out of touch with reality as her mom is

[Donkees]

44. I tried to care about Chelsea but couldn't

[raouldukelives]

45. Not the Onion?

[Fast Walker 52]

46. I understand what she means, but it sounds tone-deaf, at minimum

[bigwillq]

47. Go away, Chelsea. And take Mom and Dad with you.

Just stop.

[Vinca]

48. The poor thing.

I'm finding it funny that this somehow sounds noble to her. If there was no Clinton in her name, you can bet she'd care about money just like every other person who has to work for a living.

[aikoaiko]

49. I don't think Chelsea is ready for public speaking.

Bless her heart.

[CBGLuthier]

52. That's what a lot of people who have never had to worry a day in their lives about money say.

BFD.

Those of us who have to work for a living have to care about money or we starve, live on the streets, die.

Tone deaf just like her parents.

[BeyondGeography]

53. I tried, but had to

[Puglover]

54. Psst!

You forgot the thingie.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

55. She made tens of millions of dollars working at a hedge fund firm fresh out of college.

We're supposed to believe she made that money from commissions while handling clients' accounts. But the amount of money she would have to be entrusted to manage in order to earn tens of millions of dollars is more money than many veteran managers would ever be allowed to handle let alone a neophyte.

She was given a fake job in order to pay her millions to curry favor with her mother. It's bribery-by-proxy and anyone who says otherwise is either playing us for saps or are a bigger saps themselves.

[nashville_brook]

61. i was waiting for someone to point this out

you don't just "become a hedge fund manager" straight out of college.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

63. Yep. Bribery-by-proxy.

[nashville_brook]

65. same as the foundation. it's the Clinton model.

[Iggy Knorr]

81. +1

"It's bribery-by-proxy and anyone who says otherwise is either playing us for saps or are a bigger saps themselves."

[snagglepuss]

92. Very interestingand illuminating. This would be a great OP.

Just sayin.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

99. I did back in November of 2014. At the time I got a lot of push-back --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025848323

[jberryhill]

56. I tried not to care about money...

...when I was unemployed and had a child to feed.

I developed a pretty healthy respect for it after that.

[Odin2005]

67. Says the privileged wife of a Wall Street capitalist parasite.

[Golden Raisin]

74. Livin' in a bubble

and singing those, "born with a silver spoon in my mouth blues". Her distance, dissonance and disassociation from the economic reality of most American citizens is astounding.

[stone space]

77. I sure wish I didn't have to care about money.

I try not caring for a while, but then I run out, and that just makes me start caring, again.

[treestar]

79. She will probably never have to worry about it

And never in her lifetime did, so her experience is different. And she sounds a little like she wanted to do something that couldn't be traced to her parents.

She's like a Kennedy - a lot of them dedicate themselves to public service in some way when they don't have to.

[Stellar]

80. she responded exactly as I thought she would...

like somebody with a whole bunch of money and don't have to worry about paying a bill.

[madaboutharry]

83. Chelsea Clinton is going to inherit millions upon millions of dollars.

The Clintons are worth a fortune. Chelsea has lived a life of extreme privilege. She lives in an apartment in Manhattan that cost millions.

This was truly a tone deaf statement. The last thing Chelsea Clinton should do is talk about money.

[azmom]

87. Wow. Clueless

[snagglepuss]

90. What a load of steaming poop. Anyone who spends 3 million on a wedding

and 10.5 million on a house is clearly obsessed with money.

[Joe the Revelator]

91. Poor little Rich Girl....

My heart breaks.

[silenttigersong]

94. Oh my

Poor dear.Moral dilemmas.

[Art_from_Ark]

95. I dedicate this song to Chelsea

[Blue_In_AK]

97. Well, dear, I probably wouldn't care about money either, if I were you.

She will never lack.

[nolabels]

98. When you are fishing, they call it a float

It keeps the bait and hook at level and place in the water appropriate for the kind of fish you trying catch. And another purpose it serves is to tells you when you are getting a nibble or when the fish has ate or taken the hook.

Clelsea is that tool, a float, a tool being used to measure the engagement. Set up by her folks in somewhat of a dysfunctional relationship where she cannot even be her own person.

Yep, living a bubble, it sometimes gets hard even telling which end is up