“Born Rich”
Born Rich is a 2003 documentary movie directed by Jamie Johnson, of the family that founded the company Johnson & Johnson. The documentary consists of a series of interviews of college-aged children of the rich, along with some of Jamie’s narration.
An interesting conversation on the commentary track occurred when Jamie was talking about some of the negative reviews by various “freelance journalists.” Jamie says that most of them are living off of trust funds themselves, and they all got very defensive about that fact when he brought it up with them. This gets to a key point I make all the time on this blog, that the “cool” professions, such as journalism, are heavily populated by children of the rich, but they don’t wear t-shirts that say “my parents are decamillionaires,” so unfortunately many middle-class children try to get into these professions without realizing how the odds are so stacked against them.”