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In reply to the discussion: Why dislike the super rich? Envious? Jealous? That's what they think. [View all]Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)very ordinary college.
The super rich undergraduates I met there mostly convinced me that I was lucky not to have been born in the 0.1%.
Their parents neglected them and didn't seem to want to have much to do with them, the families were full of substance abuse and pedophilia and incest and other toxic relationships. Multiple divorces--parents married three to five times each--were common.
One young woman told how she had trouble learning to read and her parents were ready to put her into an institution for the mentally disabled, when one of the teachers noticed that she was always bumping into things. Lo and behold, she was legally blind.
That was the attitude--keep the kid out of the way.
I must add that not all of them were screwed up. Some were wonderful, unassuming people who were rather embarrassed by their family's wealth.