re: #435 callahan23

Usually they’ve inherited themselves. If not great wealth then they’ve inherited to be connected to the right people to get a position or job that let them them live in comfort.
It is very easy to be endowed like that and then spewing liberal / socialist crap. Very many of the so-called middle-class here in Old Europe do fit this mould perfectly.

Sort of like our trustafarians. It’s hard to overestimate the importance of connections. My daughter recently started her first job in D.C. She got it purely through her own efforts, as we are very obscure and uninfluential people. It would have been nice if we could have called up Dad’s old Yale roommate who’s a bigwig on the Hill, but we don’t know anyone important. Luckily she had a professor that took an interest in her and wrote sterling recommendations for her internships. He knows some people and that has helped her.