Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
I can't blame a child of a highly privileged background for thoughtlessly assuming that EVERYONE has those opportunities and that confidence that whatever they want to try, money is never an object. It might seem rude, but it's really just lack of life experience.

I don't object based on life experience, but unfortunately, there's a definite social element involved, too. It's a philosophy that everyone could have the same thing if they would just work harder, and that the people who have so much have it because they're more worthy (as viewed through the lenses of genetics and/or religion to varying degrees).

So, since you're somehow "better"... take all you can.

These children get this philosophy from adults, who should know better.