Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
I guess even superior parenting doesn't always produce lovely results, though. Perhaps socialized losses are the underachieving sibling.

However, if you don't flood your progeny with massive amounts of liquidity, aren't you essentially guaranteeing failure?

And, while you might not succeed in raising a (truly intrinsically valuable) power child, you need to do whatever is in your power to avoid what we could term a "terminal unsuccess catastrophe".

Basically, you are putting a floor under junior so that he doesn't fall into the middle class.