just as the poor try to protect their children from the fact of not-being-well-off itself, so should the rich protect their children from their own well-to-doness
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but I don’t think my parents (or most wealthy parents) intentionally hid that knowledge from me rather they didn’t position themselves as wealthy people, so the default assumption was that we were vaguely ‘middle class’
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this ‘middle class’ assumption seemed to hold true even in my friends’ households where their parents were surgeons and high-paid corporate lawyers (and they owned 4-5 new luxury cars, lake houses, took big international vacations, etc.)
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