Wealth and Entitlement (Response)
Prompt
Talk about entitlement. Is it a right, a priviledge, or are you entitled to have your college education paid for by your parents? When it comes to working aroud the house, mowing the lawn, shoveling snow, doing laundry, is this your mother and or father’s job? Have an opinion, write about and respond to this from any point of view you like.
Relevant bits of classmate’s post
… I also think the attitudes of children are diffrent depending on what social class the parents reside in.Ask a kid from a lower class family if they think they are entitled to have college paid for by their parents.They are just happy to have food,a roof over there head and maybe,just maybe, graduate from highschool.
Response
While I have seen children from wealthier families who felt entitled to what I consider a privilege, I’ve also observed the opposite - poor children who felt entitled and wealthy children to whom money is a privilege. Thus the attitude of the child doesn’t necessarily correspond to the social class of the family.
Many children of wealthier families only have the wealth held against them; if the child doesn’t acquiesce with the parents’ request, the child is cutoff from any fiscal allowances. In this manner the child is reared with money rather than love, and predominantly results in two things: (a) a very money-motivated individual who will likely have intimacy issues; and (b) someone who forsakes money and privilege of the upper classes and pursues family development to replace the family he/she felt they never had.
