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XO poll: how do we view nepo babies and generational wealthmos
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:02 AM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) I will be the first to admit that from personal experience and anecdotes I find most of them detestable. But I don't know EVERY spoiled rich kid on the planet. Surely, at least one of them must be doing some good in the world. What are your thoughts XO? Where are we on this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477039) |
Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:04 AM Author: The Soo CR National Champions JUGGERNAUT Better question is why you care if they’re doing good in the world? What good are you doing in the world? Do you not think a huge % of people “maeking it” are actively making the world a worse place in the process? Your views seem very clearly to be based in resentment. You said you grew up with some rich kids but were not yourself rich, it seems this anger that you didn’t get what you think you deserved instead of them is what drives your current views. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477048) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:29 AM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) I was always either the richest kid in the poorest neighborhood or the poorest kid in the richest neighborhood. However you want to look at it. I've always identified with Don Quixote. The lowest level of nobility. An aristocrat whose lands do not generate enough income to retire on.
I don't think I deserve more. I just believe the working class is due a lot more opportunity. And yes when you haven't got any money striving to maek it and support your family is inherently noble imo. Not making the world a worse place as long as you're not doing fraud. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:07 AM Author: \"''''"\\'"\'\"\'"\' I detest the ones who act as if nepotism/wealth didn't give them a huge advantage in life, otherwise I don't care. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477060) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:27 AM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) I would say entitlement and desperation for people to acknowledge their tangible real world accomplishments is a common theme. BUT I don't want to rule out that there are some down to Earth nepos I don't know about yet. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477137) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:28 AM Author: UhOh i've known several who are incredibly successful super strivers and it blows my mind. like i'd open a brewery or something and call it a life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477145) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:31 AM Author: SkaddenArse same. I'd be a librarian or some shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477157) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:33 AM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) It's probably better if you get the download in your 30s. Probably a good thing to have to row the boat for a while. If you get the bag young it'll mess you up more. I think you just freeze at whatever age you're at. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477166) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:43 AM Author: SkaddenArse they say that happens with fame too. Tommy Lee was famous at 20 so fifty years later he still acts like a frat boy rock star. lots of other examples.
winning lottery at 35 is probably the CR. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:46 AM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477211) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:31 AM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) I think I would have become a complete psychopath if I inherited RSF money. I would have at least been as bad but possibly worse. Striving made me a better person imo.
I've never met a nepo who became a super striver but I'm sure they're out there. I just haven't met one. Cool they're out there rowing the boat even though they didn't have to. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:44 AM Author: crotch goblin Imagine being a boomer and not being rich as fuck rn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477203) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:46 AM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) Crazy thing is half the boomer Gen is ludicrously rich, half have nothing. Both groups full of ridiculous entitlement. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477212) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 12:42 PM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477396) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:51 AM Author: OYT Magnus ( ) everyone here with the means intends to enable their kids the same way RSF is. the hypocrisy here is so blatant and indiscrete - it feels like a confessional for coping white collar dorks if I may be so bold. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477220) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:52 AM Author: The Soo CR National Champions JUGGERNAUT Even OP knows it’s cope deep down. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477225) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:53 AM Author: Covid was a Hoax give me a number in terms of parental nw that makes one a "nepo baby" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477227) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:53 AM Author: The Soo CR National Champions JUGGERNAUT Anything more than OP had (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477230) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:54 AM Author: Covid was a Hoax probably true but i still want to hear him give a number (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477233) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:54 AM Author: Civil Attorney It varies widely. I’m sure somebody like CSLG’s kids will turn out fine and avoid the pitfalls a middle aged house pet with bitch tits and alcoholism might stumble into, but a lot of these spoiled ultra wealthy kids end up with severely stunted personal development and lifelong desperate attempts to find validation in vapid and meaningless activities. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477232) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:54 AM Author: UhOh so they're just like the rest of us (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477234) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:56 AM Author: Civil Attorney Right but with more frequent flyer miles I suppose (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477241) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 12:35 PM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477388) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:55 AM Author: The Soo CR National Champions JUGGERNAUT Hopefully they too can one day find a higher purpose like spamming lib talking points 15 hours a day on an obscure message board, cosplaying as a 5’4” enforcer and driving those that know them to suicide. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477236) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 12:47 PM Author: bigeastboy no problem with them at all. I probably grew up poorer than everyone else on XO. I am by no means rich but I have a decent amount to leave my kids. I plan on helping out with down payments, careers, and whatever else is needed.
I understand the hate, especially when the nepo is a dick, but I wouldnt want my kids looked upon negatively just because I helped them out. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 12:55 PM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) I definitely think parents should help their kids. You're doing the right thing. Huge difference though between I'm going to leave them some money when I die when I'm 80 and they're 50 and, hey son you're 25 here's enough money to retire and life a life of extraordinary decadence. Is that really helping? To let them retire after 1 year of biglaw? Props to you if you admit you want your kids to never work and live in ridiculous over the top unearned abundance. If that's what you envision for them. Never having to face the real world and overcome challenges like you had to. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477432) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 1:02 PM Author: The Soo CR National Champions JUGGERNAUT Sounds 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477448) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 1:52 PM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) If everyone was rich who would cook the food and carry the plates? Surely someone has to be born a slave... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477607) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 2:49 PM Author: NSAM's Schizoid Conspiracy Advent Calendar (gunneratttt) tons of lawyers, doctors, etc. are nepo babies. which only makes sense since they'd have a big leg up with schooling, parenting, etc. in fact they're overrepresented in striver fields. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477782) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 2:55 PM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) Cr. Lots of 'I have 4 grandparents, 2 parents with ivy degrees' overrepresented in law and medicine and academia. Lots of multi generational lawmos.
The difference is these UMC families never quite crack UHNW. So every generation is doing 'well,' and maybe doing better now than ever before, but not enough to check out permanently in their 20s and jet set for the rest of their lives.
It takes one CSLG or one Mitch to breakout and earn BEAUCOUP dollars that will serve generations. Imagine if your great grandfather bought a football team. Now we're talking 4-5 gens that haven't worked a day in their lives. There's investing and then there's absolute nepotism. The difference is in the amount of support I guess.
James Dolan's dad bought him the Knicks. Not some Cravathmo passing down 3-5 million split among 5 kids or whatever. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 3:00 PM Author: Covid was a Hoax how many "generations" are you basing this off of lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477836) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 3:00 PM Author: The Soo CR National Champions JUGGERNAUT Yup, you got me all that $ def kept me from going to law school and practicing law! Def never worked a day after that either in other fields and didn’t bother with any additional schooling. Nothing but leisure, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477837) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 3:02 PM Author: NSAM's Schizoid Conspiracy Advent Calendar (gunneratttt) you can just go on wikipedia and click through the family trees of american aristrocratic families like the kennedys, roosevelts, vanderbilts, etc. and find plenty of people that committed their life to making the world better. any high schooler can name several famous ones off the top of their head. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477840) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 3:06 PM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) There's a ton of scholarship about how today's elites are NOT LIKE those of the Gilded Age. In the Gilded Age the average person was deeply thankful for their industrious overlords. Vandy and Carnegie were revered for being smart and capable and growing the country culturally and industrially and through charity.
Today most people think charities are a tax haven for the ultra rich to pass money around back to themselves. Huge difference. You can't compare two disparate eras. Today's rich are scummy and everyone hates them. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 2:53 PM Author: coiffed sandwich I don't know if what you are referring to are people who are spoiled or people who are given the advantage of nepotism. I assume the latter, in which case I think that its what everyone should strive to provide for their families. Jews do it and East Asians do it. European descended people are the only ones who are told that it is wrong, which is silly and makes no sense. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477801) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 2:54 PM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) What's funny is that Europeans invented it. It was Rousseau who codified the idea of investing in your children. But somewhere along the way boomers decided that all their money was for them I guess. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477808) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 2:59 PM Author: NSAM's Schizoid Conspiracy Advent Calendar (gunneratttt) only boomers, and not the wealthy. wealthy europeans certainly understand the value. it's mostly an aberration from upjumped boomers falling assbackwards into widespread class mobility but lacking the the upbringing that teaches passing down wealth plus the myopic bootstrap boomervision that is blind to their advantages and that "if i made it, my kids can too!"
there's probably some talmudic sorcery going on too whispering in boomer's ears like wormtongue to boom all the money or les pauls and margarittaville vacations. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 3:01 PM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) If you've ever seen a Boomer pull out a vintage Les Paul you'd know this was true (although SOME PEOPLE ding me for my 'ridiculous anecdotes'). But ya a boomer pulling out an heirloom is like EVERYONE STEP BACK. THIS WIZARDRY OF VALUE IS NOT FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477839) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 2:58 PM Author: the walter white of this generation (walt jr.) Generational wealth is way less irritating than someone with a job they got through nepotism. With the former, just mind your own business. The latter has actual negative externalities; also, some of them actually get confused about their own merit, and the others usually have a chip on their shoulder. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477823) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 3:00 PM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) The worst is when rich famous dudes give real jobs to their wives. This makes me utterly sick to my stomach. Like take the owner of the Red Sox he bought the local newspaper so his wife could run it and be a GIRLBOSS. Disgusting.
Bill Ackman does this shit too lmao remember his wife's absolutely insane CV of fake businesses and charities. It's HER TURN. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 3:03 PM Author: Covid was a Hoax as long as you include GIRLBOSS nepotism and AA NEPOTISM and ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT nepotism and all other forms of nepotism then fine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477845) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 3:00 PM Author: lex Expectations are high for sincerely wealthy kids, especially if their parents were UMC strivers and not born into money. I can see why some of them burn out under the pressure and languish, as if success, given their advantages, we're a binary 0/1 and they were supposed to outdo their dads. I have an immense amount of respect for anyone who can use their gifts well, though, whether that means building up their own dragon hoard from what they inherited, funding institutions and serving on boards well, art, etc. The creation of culture traditionally largely rests with people who have the leisure to pursue something beyond survival or mundane caring for family. That makes seeing someone solely squandering it on personal pleasures sad, even if I'm sympathetic to wealthy kid burnouts. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 3:03 PM Author: Rage Against the Margarita Machine (Goy First, America Always) (Ed Droste) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477844) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 3:04 PM Author: lex I don't know who that is. I'm thinking more of Josef Pieper on leisure and irl examples. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5805171&forum_id=2.#49477850) |