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Old September 3rd, 2012 #13
Kievsky
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This article:

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-r...or-2012-8?op=1

is utter nonsense about real rich people. It writes about the rich as though they are these great Zen masters, who "teach their children how to get rich."

Has this writer known any rich families and their life histories? Because Lord knows I have. My father was a flight instructor so I met rich families through him, and also I went to high school in a town with lots of old money and some new money. Rich families are very messed up. Drug addicts, they usually end up dead in either drug overdoses, car accidents, boating accidents or plane crashes.

The main problem is that the rich parents don't spend time with their kids. They are too busy either working or pleasuring, and they figure if the kid is will provisioned, he or she can "fend for himself." The girls of rich parents end up with abusive alpha male types (often blacks nowadays).

Teach your kids math and science and technology so they can survive the dystopian robot future. Don't worry about the Asian H1-B competition, the Asians are often pretty messed up. They can't get laid, they are video game addicts, they are socially awkward and turn to extreme Islam because life in the USA doesn't reward them as they hoped. I see it first hand because I take math and science classes at a local university.

The worst thing is to despair, because despair leads to inaction. Start by learning calculus (or precalculus and trig and algebra as necessary) for fun. Even if you don't do anything with it, maybe yiou'll teach it to your kids or nephews and nieces or something.

In the dystopian robot future, you're going to need to be able to maintain the complexity -- in other words, math/physics/programming.
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