<p>i am, how can i not be?
wealthy teenagers who are like buying mansions right now since they're moving out of their parents mansions.
Bill Gates kids will never have to look at their bank account before they enter a store.
Like the Hiltons kids also.
not just celebrities but wealthy people as a whole who are traveling in private jets to the world's best vacation spots during spring break/holidays and stuff. Staying in hotels that look like penthouses and attending the best parties/clubs with their expensive designer clothes, not worrying about paying of their student loans or making sure to show up to work the next day so they can pay for their rent.
And really young people are living this lifestyle also, while i'm over here stressing out over finals and making sure to get financial aid next year so i can go to a private school.
knowing that i will probably never be able to do those things makes me envious of them.</p>
<p>sorry about this rant, i don't know if it's cuz i'm cramming for finals and i'm hating my life right now, but my tv was on and it was showing miley cyrus's 3.5 million dollar mansion she bought for herself, and she's 17.</p>
<p>I’m more envious of people who have found their calling in life, and are happy to wake up each day. People who can safely say that if they died the next day, they would have lived a good life. Some of those people may be rich (think Bill Gates). Some of them might only make enough to get by (think Dr. Paul Farmer). </p>
<p>Money isn’t everything. For some it might be… and that’s their choice. I’m not foolish enough to say it doesn’t matter at all. For me at least, I do want to make at least enough money to live in a nice town with good schools, and at least be able to afford putting my kids through a state university. I don’t need a mansion or Porsche or private jet or exotic vacations to be happy though.</p>
<p>edit: Come to think of it I know or have heard of many, many people who are very happy with their lives who don’t make six figures, or who weren’t handled the world on a silver spoon.</p>
<p>Yes. Honestly, my one big motivating factor is to be insanely rich one day. It must be nice to have your own Boeing 747 to take you to Biarritz whenever you feel like it.</p>
<p>Nope. Rich people still have problems. Though money can make life easier, things are much simpler without it. Sometimes there is beauty in simple.</p>
<p>Yes, I am. I don’t envy them for materialistic reasons - I’m kind of a minimalist (and it drives me crazy to have “extra” stuff, I’m practically ocd about it). But what I envy is that they never have to worry about money issues.</p>
<p>It must be nice to pick an awesome unpaid internship that will look great on your resume over the summer because you don’t have to work 30 hours a week instead at some random stupid job. It must be fun to not have to constantly worry if your parents can pay next semester’s tuition or if it’s going to be a big burden on them and maybe you should’ve just gone to the State U instead to make life easier. Money doesn’t solve all your problems, but it does eliminate many financial issues that people without it deal with (i’m not even talking about me specifically, there are people who are in extreme debt for health issues or whatever).</p>
<p>Not that I resent people who have worked hard for their money or something. Miley Cyrus whored herself out for that money and i guess she deserves her mansion.</p>
<p>Maybe a little…just for the financial security.</p>
<p>But when I think over all of the people who I look up to the most, either they have never been rich or I admire them for some other quality that they have, besides wealth. </p>
<p>I don’t spend much anyway :p. </p>
<p>And besides, everyone dies. Those rich people aren’t rich forever :p.</p>
<p>those rich kids will only be left to rely on mommy’s and daddy’s money.
nothing else. they won’t strive to make something of their lives.
so, i’m not jealous of them.</p>
<p>i shouldn’t generalize though. not all rich celeb kids are like that.
believe me, i would know.</p>
<p>I’m envious of people who have an easier life than me. They get to pursue a lot more than I do. At the same time, being low-income in America means I live a better life than something like 80% of the world. I’m okay with that.</p>
<p>I agree. But I honestly think I’d trade a good chunk of that experience for an easier life. I don’t even mean being rich, but not having to work all the time would help! Then again, I really shouldn’t complain. The fact that I have food, a house, a car, and an internet connection is far more than much of the world can say.</p>
<p>Lol I wouldn’t trade anything I have for the world. I’m happy with my life. & I come from a middle-class family.
Congrats on getting into Stanford, applicannot!</p>
<p>Abso-freaking-lutely. If poor and rich people have problems, I’d rather be rich.</p>
<p>I could do pretty nicely with a $5 million trust fund. Invest all of it in 30 year T-bills, coupon payments in the amount of $250k a year. I could live solely off the interest.</p>
<p>Honestly, not really. Because I’m pretty happy with life at the moment. Plus their food sucks and the style is weird and really all I need for fun is sex, dollar movies, friends, and…yeah. That’s mostly it. I can’t hate them because buying ridiculous cars and mansions is something stupid that I’d do also if I had that kind of money. Also one of those Tesla cars that just look so bad ass and a 65 Mustang. That way if I feel like ****ing away gas or saving the the environment I still look cool. Mostly I’d just take all my friends to the river and rent some cabins and those waveriders and just go nuts. Go to dave n busters, that kind of stuff. If I had money I’d just do stupid fun stuff a bit more richly rather than stupid fun stuff I do more cheaply.</p>
<p>Sure I am, but I like to laugh about it; not get all up in a tiffy…</p>
<p>a little while ago i watched an episode of teen cribs on MTV. It had a kid with 5, yes FIVE, huge flatscreen LCD TVs on one wall in his room. His reason for having them had something to do with wanting to play Wii, PS3 and XBOX at once; so he can have multiple games of rockband and guitar hero going on at the same time. Why? who the hell knows…
So sad… so sad.</p>
<p>What makes you think that? Bill Gates has stated publicly that he is planning to give away most of his money. I don’t know how much he is planning to leave to his children but I’m willing to be he expects them to work. I’ve always liked Warren Buffet’s quote “I’m leaving my kids enough so they can do anything but not so much that they can do nothing.”</p>
<p>^ Bill gates’ kids already have something that very, very, very, very few people have at their age and that’s connections - and tons of them. Old money exists much more frequently than new money, and why? because they all had connections. So what if Gates’ wont leave them enough to allow them “to do nothing”… they already have everything in the palm of their hand regardless of the money given to them. Maybe they’ll have to work, whatever, the hardest part is done for them.</p>