Took this picture in my parents’ private jet. I am considering taking it down from facebook before I go to college so that I seem like a ‘normal kid.’
Photo via lookbook
I have always wanted a normal upbringing, where I would have a healthy mix of ‘earning success’, along with some lil boosts along the way of having ‘nice shit handed to me.’ Unfortunately, as I have grown older, I have had to rely on the connections of my parents along with their financial support more than I would have liked to. It definitely changes the way that authentic people look at me. Most people can’t buy whatever they want and can’t do whatever they want [via financial constraints].
They think that I live in some sort of dream world, and that I’m not appreciative for what has been given to me, but I am actually very appreciative and very humble. I have problems that they can’t even relate to. I am rlly worried that when my parents die, I won’t be able to stay as rich as I am now. I feel like there is something inside of me that wants to make a lot of money so that I can be ‘double rich’ and just live in Manhattan or something. It would also be cool to marry another rich person, then we could pool our incomes and give money to ‘the arts’/'innercity schools.’
It’s hard dealing with social perception and class issues. I wish people could realize that rich ppl are ‘real people’ too, and that we want authentic human connections as much as other ppl. There’s more to people than ‘how much money they make.’ Wish people could see all the colours of the rainbow, instead of just ‘green’ [via metaphor about money].
R u ‘rich’?
do u h8 ‘rich alts’ who buy ‘designer shit’?
Would u trade ur ‘normal childhood’ for a $100K boost in ur parents’ income?
Did ur parents make/lose a lot of money during ur childhood?
R u afraid to fly in a private jet because of the increased risk of crash?
do u think that ‘money’ is ‘bullshit’ or ‘what makes the world go round’?
Is it hard to form authentic connections with alternative ppl who have had ‘everything handed 2 them’?
Is there such thing as an ‘authentic upbringing’?
r u a ‘private jet alt’?
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First Again?!?!
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Second for the best!
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many things i’d like to comment on this post but first i’d like to get across that i think money is bullshit. after working on a farm this summer i have c0me to the c0nclusi0n that bartering is the way to fucking go. MONEY CONSUMES WALL STREET. WALL STREET CONSUMES MONEY. look at fucking bernie madoff. how come it was such a huge deal for everyone? money has become the idyllic source of happiness, peace, acceptance and social standards in our culture today. some say if we wiped out the currency across the world the people would go crazy. what would people live for? mainstreamers would mellllllt without mula.
fuck cash. barter for a better tomorrow.
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//////////Reply by more
//////////Posted August 17th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
@bANANAS, i swap you leg of cow 4 broom handle
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//////////Reply by bANANAS
//////////Posted August 17th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
@more, i like that idea much0.
after im d0ne with a br00m handle, can i ebay trade u my 0ld beanie baby c0llection for Ur 0ld georgia o’keefe prints u used to hang on ur wall?
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//////////Reply by more
//////////Posted August 17th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
@bANANAS, you aiin’t never getting those o’keefes!
//////////Reply by el fggt
//////////Posted August 19th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
@bANANAS,
more like o’queefs am i rite
//////////Reply by montrealbro
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 12:02 am
@bANANAS,
you sound like the type of person who had an ‘erection’ during the last scene in ‘the fight clubs’ when the banks blew up and a ‘dick’ flashes across the screen.
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//////////Posted August 20th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
@montrealbro, lol.
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//////////Reply by Chrises
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 11:32 am
@bANANAS,
so you looking forward to getting back to community college in a few weeks??
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//////////Reply by shawshank
//////////Posted August 21st, 2009 at 12:39 am
@bANANAS, ummm geez, idk , maybe cuz you can’t really do practically ANYTHING without money. think of it you cant even GO anywhere without money, you even need money to turn on your lights, dont be fucking DUMB money makes this motherfuckin world go round
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yr adds r annoying. you’re getting paid for them obviously. rich kid?
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//////////Reply by bANANAS
//////////Posted August 17th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
@nathan, aw come ooooooon. save the h8t’in f0r ur 0wn h8t’in em0 bl0g/faceb00k n0tes secti0n
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//////////Reply by nathan
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 12:27 am
@bANANAS, okay. i will. this shit is bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-S!
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//////////Reply by sie
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 1:09 am
@nathan, i wuz thkn the same thing
//////////Reply by bANANAS
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 6:50 am
@nathan, damn, what kinda music you been listenin’ too? isn’t gwen stefani like 40 and balding?
//////////Reply by nathan
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
@bANANAS, grizzly bros, AnCo, brutal knights (http://www.myspace.com/brutalknights) , camera obscura…
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//////////Reply by Al x
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 8:08 am
@nathan, wish I got ad revenue fck
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I always feel ‘less sad’ when I find out that a plane crash involved a private plane.
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//////////Reply by jjj
//////////Posted August 17th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
@jjj, not sure if its bcus less ppl died or bcus they were livin the high life.
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//////////Reply by Hdub
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 6:05 am
@jjj, A dancer who was high in a field from a moment
Caught my breath on my way home
Couldn’t stop that spinning force
I fell into you
Everything drowns you to giggle
You are up with the flower and I care
So the dancer who gets wild to the deep reveling rhythm
But I am always away for weeks
that pass slow like mind gets lost
Feeling envy for the kid who danced in spite of anything
And we’re out in the flowers and feel better
If I could just leave my body for the night
Then we could be dancing no more missing you while I am gone
Then we could be dancing and you’d smile and say I like this song
And then ours would meet them we will recognize nothing’s wrong
And I wouldn’t feel so selfish I won’t be this way very long
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
And we’re dancing, early hours drunken days finally ended
And the streets turn for pillowcase
And I fumble all good lie
Then the ecstasy turns the writhing light through our windowpane
Now I am gone, I left flowers for you there
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//////////Reply by kafkaBro
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
@Hdub, kinda wanna leave my body for a day y’all
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DERS NO PILOTZ IN DAT PLANE!!!! IT’S GOING TO CRASH!!! EVERYONE OUT!! DANGER!!! CARLES GTFO OF THERE! PICK UP YOUR PURSE AND GTFO! USE A PARACHUTE, ETC.!!! VIA JUMP!!!!
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//////////Reply by picachu
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 8:38 am
@June, this made me roffs. <3 U
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My parents are “rich”, they own a Cessna and we live in a large house.
But they’re cheap as fuck.
For my 16th birthday instead of buying me a BMW/Lexus/Mercedes like they’ve bought my siblings they got me a 1992 Mazda something or other.
I think they h8 me cuz I want 2 b an artist.
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//////////Reply by Al x
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 8:10 am
@mosreal, fggt art is for pssys. U HAVE to bea lawyer doctor etc
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Rich alts cannot and never will be ‘trully’ authentic. Art, music, everything.
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//////////Reply by future
//////////Posted August 17th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
@trukstar, dont hate just because your $hit blows and you will never ‘make it’
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//////////Reply by cobones
//////////Posted August 17th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
@future, he’s not ‘hatin’, just talking real, stating fact.
take the poet noah cicero 4 an example: rich parents in poor ohio; told them to fuck off and washed dishes in authentic poverty in youngstown.
having rich parents doesn’t make you a boring normal person but owning a rly expensive car or pair of jeans does. it’s all abt priorities.
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//////////Reply by Anonymous
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 7:52 am
@cobones,
what about Julian Casablancas, yall?
//////////Reply by Brendan
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 9:02 am
@cobones, Wtf?! This is one of the last places I thought I would ever see a post about Noah Cicero or Youngstown.
alot of alt kids have moneys, your not alone
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my parents make somewhere just under $200,000 a year. not super rich, but enough to afford me a comfortable, privileged youth and finance my apt/drugs/college in an authentic US city.
can I still be alt with parents that make ~$200,000 a year? my dad’s a mechanical engineer, a pretty alt career
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//////////Reply by xoxo
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 9:27 am
no.
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//////////Reply by Funky Rutabaga
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 9:56 am
@doug, Parental money helps finance the alt lifestyle (unless your parents are poor or stingy, then you actually have to get a job, which is selling out).
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//////////Posted August 20th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
@dougbro, feel you, dad=materials engineer.. def. livin an altlifestyle
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dear crls
wheres the playlist for your satelite radio show you fggt?
stop being a ghey and post ur playlist plz
ps: when i say ghey and fggt im not calling you ‘happie’ or ‘a bundle of sticks’ im calling you a bro who likes peens and god h8s you
2k9, time to take america back 2 ‘the good ole days’
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//////////Reply by Mari
//////////Posted August 20th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
@louis, h8 u.
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I love how rich alts try to live and dress like they are poor. I feel like people perceive being hip and being relatively as a truly genuine alternative lifestyle. But lifestyles pass and they will throw a suit on and follow suit. No problem with that. Spend you money wisely (doesnt mean donate) and work for something that will essentially help your community or on a greater scale, humanity. Dont just buy cars and live nigger rich (not racist/half black). Be smart which is usually alot to ask from a spoiled ass alt fuck.
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//////////Reply by sie
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 1:11 am
@zoetrope, ya totally agree. rich alts go to the salvation army buy 2 dollar shirts and 2 b ’soooo original’
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//////////Reply by spanishpete
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
@zoetrope,
I agree
x2
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This ad sucks, let’s see something that will really get the attention of a young, rich, alt girl.
You have to realize “to get the girl” you must market the visuals smarter…..
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Yo carles bro,
1. The new Gap ad campaign sucks dick and i m dissapoint it is on ur blog.
2. Two words: trust fund.
jus keepin it ‘real’ bros
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‘are they tryin to fool ppl w/ helvetty into thinkin it’s am appy?’
fuck the gap.
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WHATS YOUR DEALS MOTHER FUCKERS?
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it’s all about thrift stores man.
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rich parents are the (not-so) secret financiers of indie music. srsly so many indie bands do their music stuff full time and somehow make a living, theres no fucking way they make enough to live without a part time job. i think spencer krug is one of these people (via a hunch). without rich parents, indie music would look a lot different. my point is fuck them.
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//////////Reply by lol
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 4:41 am
@great job, yep, bang on. here in the uk all the hip indie bands usually are rich north london wankers who get a deal because daddy runs a recording studio.
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as someone who grew up quite poor, i am sometimes quick to write off “rich kids” as “snobs” or “jerks”. sometimes it’s legitimate, but sometimes it isn’t. I’m not as bad about it anymore, but when i was in high school i had a lot of distrust of most wealthy kids, not because they were wealthy, but because they often lacked a lot of values i find important.
that being said, i wish i was rich, or my parents were rich. i feel like everything would be better in my life. i’d have financial support to pursue my hopes and dreams in earnest.
maybe one day.
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defining millennial alts one post at a time.
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This blog is dead………….a bit like Vice Magazine
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Rich parents= rich alt kids that are slammin drugs by highschool at least in San Diego plus all the rich are mad conservative. Creates all sorts of ‘wavves’ in coming into adALThood
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entitlement 101 is a course mandatory for both freshmen and all graduating senors (it is to be taking twice)
need some help in finding a profitable way via the financial ruin of others? you can continue your studies as you work towards your degree…
http://www.dmwright.com/html/ferengi.htm
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if your parents do over 100k a yr, one way to stay alt is to become dependent on marijuana, fail high school, then go to community college and fail that to.
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//////////Reply by al x
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
@srbglfklb, shit…. i never got the notice about needing rich parents for that. wish sum 1 woulda told me this years ago.
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it ain’t the money it’s what u do with it. money i$ just a form of power and a way to accumulate social capital like access to good schools, good brands, travel and so on. The important thing is to mix having enough money with other, ‘authentic’ lifestyle choices.
my parents are dweebs in some ways but i appreciate what they did for me. they have a nice income, like $100k. so they could afford trips to europe and paying for me to go to a notorious stoner college where i got to lounge around a lot and pursue a frivolous, theory-laden humanities major.
so that much was kinda posh. but they also chose a inner-city urban area with a good brand to raise me in, plus eccentric hobbies that exposed me to a lot of ‘alt’ lifestyles as a kid. so i got a good mix of street cred, training in alt lifestyle, and education/connections/sense of entitlement.
i think the key to an ‘authentic’ childhood for rich families is to spend that $$ on giving your kid weird experiences. ditch the fuckin plane. teach them the good brands but don’t buy them so much. give them some experience that makes them feel like an outsider, then let them know they’re safe in your well-protected, burglar-alarmed 19th-century urban home.
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//////////Reply by fredMS
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
@dandandan, jus want to let u kno u have absolutely no street cred
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//////////Reply by dandandan
//////////Posted August 19th, 2009 at 12:14 am
@fredMS, hahaha how authentic is that?!
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//////////Reply by fredMS
//////////Posted August 19th, 2009 at 12:46 am
@dandandan, not very/whatever whitey
Why does everyone one copy the style of this blog when they leave comments?…
You are throwing any authenticism you had out the door! Bummer huh?
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//////////Reply by broski
//////////Posted August 18th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
@idahobro, gu3ss u don’t ‘get it’
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//////////Reply by el fggt
//////////Posted August 19th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
@idahobro,
what do u kno about the authenticities???
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I wish my parents’ private jet had a hot chick in it. I have to settle for a stupid flatscreen TV.
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Money is nice but Honey is nicer. I love you
-Your Space Shaman
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It’s been well documented that approx. 85.2% of the “artists” in Williamsburg/PDX are spoiled rich kids who receive monthly “allowances” from their parents so they will be free to “make art” and “be creative” instead of having to “sell out” and “become corporate tools” like their less privileged peers.
Why, you ask, do these people even exist? Simple. Working in law=hard. Working in finance=hard. Earning and living and struggling for survival=hard. Spending your days sitting in coffee shops reading fashion mags and “staying current” on your favorite blogs, shopping with Daddy’s plastic, attending “cultural events”, writing “poetry” and working on your “experimental” music= EASY.
The irony is, all it takes to make great art is talent and inspiration. One does not necessarily need to suffer or starve. What it means for the rest of us is that there will be more garbage to wade through in order to find quality and authenticity.
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The only reason to be rich is to score chicks like the one in the picture.
Attractive girls don’t notice poor boys.
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Re: the post – i know what u mean man
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my parents are ‘fucking loaded’ but i hate it. i wish i had a ‘normal childhood’ where i wasn’t afraid to bring friends over to my house because it’s so ‘large’ and embarassing. i used to accept their ‘generous gifts’ when i was an entry-level alt, but now i’m trying to ‘make it on my own’ because living off your parents and having everything handed to you is ‘fucking retarded.’ so basically, not all children of rich parents are stupid and mnstrm.
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no ones saying rich kids are dumb. they have just never wanted the unattainable.. therefore i believe that they make crap musicians artists and designers.
all the best come from a background that creates the kind of human emotions that make good art and music
sorry rich kid.. get a desk job if i was you
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i am a serving member of the british army and have been for 14 years since the age of just turned 16, today i went for a walk around edinburgh scotland where i am currently based here there are alot of people who have money, you see it every day big houses everywhere fast expensive big cars and as i was walking i was thinking what are these people doing to help other people if they all help as much as people say they do how do they afford they fast cars big houses, i earn £32,000 a year and for that i have served my country forgeting no putting to one side my family and the thought of making enough money to stay at the level i am or even making more money, in one month i go to the most dangerous region of afghanistan and i leave my wife and my 4 year old son, if something happens to me they will get round about £250,000 not even enough to buy ahouse and live comfortably for the rest of their lives so i think even though yes you have different sort of problems it is the rich that have a problem with the class divide instead of worring if you can keep yourself as rich as you are with your parents alive why dont you think now how you can help the people that keep you rich. makes me laugh when you see programmes pn the television raising money for charities especially at these times of global finacial problems big stars are saying we should give what we can i cant spare anything but these stars who make millions still have 5 6 7 8 homes drive the worlds most expensive cars do what they please but preach to us the people that are suffering because of the greed of the rich bankers bussieness men and so on i think you have more things to be worried or concerned over thatn if you apper normal at college and if you wanted that in the first place why put that pic of you up at all hmmm. ah well what a world we live in if you really want to see normal i invite you to edinburgh and i will show you normal people and what they worry about. enjoy college
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Hi there, I just found out about your blog via google and it seems nice.
I’m not rich, maybe above the average but not much, and I know that most rich kids are spoiled in some way or another. Rich kids don’t know what it is to not always get what they want.. it mostly depends on their parents but they live this kind of lifestyle. I know it looks like I’m tagging, but it’s true.
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No money, no honey.
P.S.
Being rich is good
Being super rich is brilliant
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