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
We ALL “desire” something, especially our next breath or that cool red Ferrari. The haves and the have nots will never see eye-to-eye and why should we ever bother trying to. This argument will exist until the end of time, which we just missed on 12-21-12, and judgement day belongs to God! Until then, let’s enjoy every breath we take, as we see fit!
and I’d still keep my d4 and pocketwizards. Love my gear. OH YEAH, I’d keep my wife too!
Ah, the dream of what if. In that position I’d have a penthouse just around the corner from my rittenhouse digs, a small beach place/boat and a ginormous studio, decked wall to wall with profoto strobes, a couple hassys and a few REDs. I’m easy to please. I’d keep my Xterra.
Most of the people who defend this concentration of wealth are ignoring one major economic factor. The greater the concentration of wealth on a small group then less wealth is available for the larger group. Think of it as two glass of water, as I pour water from one glass into the other glass the less water remains in the first glass.
Another way to think about it is the great old saying “The top 10% pay 40% of the taxes”, it sounds like they pay a lot. Once we break it down you will see that they do not. The top 10% possess 80% (or more) of the wealth. The remaining 90% of the people must pay 60% of the taxes with 20% of the wealth, I ask you who truly pays the higher price? Once you have your basic needs funded everything else is simply recreational surplus.
Great concentrations of wealth come with a price that society as a whole must pay. On the flip side our greatest architectural achievements are direct results of extreme wealth of course most of greatest wars have been as well.
We live in age that believes in forever growth, the belief is that everyone can be rich today and richer tomorrow forever, that is undeniably impossible. Everything is finite, everything comes with a price.
I look at this from a slightly different perspective I guess. The boat they filled up just made the station’s break-even quota for the day and now the manager can smile a little brighter. The bar tab for those shots just paid the overhead for the evening and there will be more tips for the staff. Someone built, delivered, and now maintains the car the stud is sitting in. All of these activities put the ‘wealth’ back into circulation, providing employment for a multitude of others along with the sales taxes that are collected. Keeping ‘wealth’ locked up in banks and stocks limits the people who have access to it. By spending it, although in a crass and pretentious manner that offends basically everyone else, is much better than hiding it in offshore accounts where it is available to a very few.