I told my kids they would have to go to college now..

I know. I thought the same thing. Regardless of how rich someone is, I would think they would want their children to continue their education or find some type of trade where they'd be good at. I know I would want that for my son, regardless of how much money he stood to inherit (which is close to nothing LOL).

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I know it's an awful habit to think you would spend someone else's money better than then but that comment really made me think I would. Well that and the whole 'What I did to get Bush elected in Florida was illegal'.

Yeah, like you I assumed the rich always sent their kids to college and could pay for the best ones whether they were qualified or not. I could see if they only had one or two children and figured they could not spend it all in their lifetime but they've got their parents ideals about money, that it flows like water through their fingers. Not only that, but they multiplied times 7 themselves and he has other children too. So that fortune has to be split at least 10 ways. That doesn't include the multiple spouses people go through these days and their own children. On top of that, how do you continue the good business sense that allowed the business to reach that point if all your children becomes targets of leeches. Your family business can be gone in a single generation with poor business choices, and I just assumed that was a priority for most that had it. I view money as a leg up not the only leg you'll ever have to stand on and its not even your own, that's quite the gamble. Also, from a practical standpoint, I would also worry that having kids with money and idle time would send my kids to early graves. Not to be terribly stereotypical, but your average late teen to early 20 something are rather vulnerable even if they are very self assured they're mature. I read an article recently that Alex Baldwin's 19 yr old is going to rehab. She is out of school but she's a beautiful girl who has done some modeling. But modeling is hardly full time and she's rich with idle time…hence drugs. I think about Bobby Kristina currently in a coma and probably never to be the same again. This world has just as much crap in it made to utterly destroy your life as it does to build one and its a b**ch to navigate without a firm ground and a purpose in life.

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I didn't get it either. Most of my friends come from wealthier backgrounds. , but if they didn't go to college or have a solid plan their parents would laugh and they'd be sol