From the G6 to the yacht to the private island. by samuelfastlicht
When you combine youth, unlimited cash and iPhone technology, you get braggadocios photographic evidence of a lavish lifestyle. Also known as the Rich Kids of Instagram. At first glance, this Tumblr is so ridiculously over the top it’s laughable. But a deeper look reveals for me some cultural sadness…privileged kids posting bar tab receipts that cost more than four years of college at a private university and talking shit about it. Depending on your mood – it can be entertaining or awful.
But if art (or curation) is aimed to send a message, make a claim, create a reaction, my take is that this tumblr is worthy of your time – even if it’s to feel the weirdness.
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Side note, here’s an interesting article: On Raising Kids Who Seem to Have it All by Peggy Drexler. Peggy is writing a book about the impact of wealth on childrearing. She has a more empathetic outlook on these kids:
As absurd as it might sound to many, it’s not easy being a rich kid. Their parents tend to have high expectations. There’s nothing wrong with wanting your daughter to go to the best school, but you also want her to learn to be a good person, and encouraging achievement over character-building can mean kids never quite figure out who they are. They think their money is their most notable quality. And so they learn to use it — to buy affection, or friends.
For the rest of us, peering in on this group of not just the “1 percent”, but the one 1/100 of a %, there is an escape to a life of private jets, yachts, and more…either as a dream, or a nightmare. In both cases – worth the look.
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Off to London. by mohammedbinthani_70 #loadupthecar
Strategic pour by The Doc by joshpad
Mondays aren’t so bad. by seanmaicher #trustfunded
My dad on the left. I can hear his thoughts “who is this monster I created?” #christianlouboutin by kanel_k
350 gallon tank #hybridboat #fuelefficient #globalwarming by captaiinkevv
How was your Thanksgiving? by frankienastasi #ferrari
600 shots. #balltoohard by williamthewhale
Watch Wednesday, which should I pick? #rolex #hublot by vinideoebraganca
Irony at its finest. by nickchambon
#Gold #platinum Bars #Gift putting in the bank by yerayel
When my dad wanted to buy us dune buggies I thought he was kidding… Apparently not. by annabelschwartz
By the way, to don’t be so harsh. I remember a quote of Groucho Marx that said: “Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.”
I am from a called third world. I live in Buenos Aires. All this is obscene and all I can feel is the emptiness and nonsense of how the world works. Peggy needs to know a lot of other realities but a book of some kind of rich people syndrome honestly I think is all bullshit.
On July 7th, in The New York Times’ OPINION section, Dunn and Norton published an article titled “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” In the article, the authors submit that, while it is well accepted that money alone can’t assure us of happiness, their studies reveal an incipient shift in the socioeconomic zeitgeist of today: their data show clearly that, while the general and mental health of individuals and households who are living in comfort are usually much better than that of those living in poverty, after that “comfort point” is reached—which in the US they peg at an income of $75,000 per year—there is a steep diminishment of any return on wealth in the form of happiness. In fact, they find that when comfort becomes indulgence, and then overindulgence, the happiness quotient decreases significantly. Taking this startling study even further, according to Dunn and Norton, giving away wealth, the very act of “gifting”, swings the returns in the form of happiness profoundly towards the positive.
Maybe these children will grow up and discover the path to happiness…everyone will benefit!
You have a good point, Edward. To be honest, there’s nothing like earning something you’ve been wanting for weeks…months…years, and finally getting to buy it, making it all the more worth it. The concept of EARNING things is foreign to these kids, they just buy whatever they want with little consequence. And like a lot of people on here, I agree that there’s a difference between owning these things and flaunting these things. Clearly they want everyone to know what they have, and the picture descriptions are just the nail in the coffin. Things us “middle class” can’t even imagine owning, like an Aston Martin…and to top it off they say “thanks dad” or “21 year old me with my Aston” like it’s no big deal. But like another person mentioned on here, it’s clearly a cry for attention and at the end of the day, it doesn’t make them happy I’m sure.
This is a false study made in a (successful) attempt that the American dream is still attainable, you just have to work hard yadda yadda yadda. No, happiness levels increase parallel to wealth and income. We can do nothing but try to conceive the deep profound nirvana these children experience on a second to second basis.
The Watch Wednesday is quite sad. There must be over $45,000 worth of watches there. Imagine how many gifts you could buy for kids who have nothing with that money? (but maybe the owner of those watches does give to those less fortunate… but I doubt they’d take a picture of that). It’s the fact that they flaunt it that makes it just as sad. I feel bad for these people, really.
Nope, you’re jealous like the rest of us
Thanks for sharing Mr Jarvis. A Worthy look 🙂 – someone has to I guess.