Trying To Live on $500,000 a Year (Part II) - The Nanny
Many rich kids grow up in the worst of homes. They are unloved their entire life although it's not their fault as children. Their parents view them as props to be vicariously lived through so they are treated like chattel. The kids absorb this lack of love early on and it becomes their being, manifesting itself in a multitude of deleterious ways in their adolescent years and adult years. Part of me genuinely feels sorry for people like this, another part of me finds it comical.
The attitude of these parents is to use the kids as show and tell at events but when it comes time to spend actual quality time with them, these parents pass the buck. They don't want their kids around unless it's for show and tell. They don't care what their kids think or feel unless it's self important. Instead of being parents, they hire a nanny. When a zillion and one toys and organized events to shuffle the kids back and forth is not enough to keep the kids away from the parents, it's the job of the nanny to keep them occupied.
In this New York Times article the average rich Wall Street snob spends $45,000 a year on a nanny. I have a better idea. How about cutting at least $40,000 of that? How about coordinating with friends and neighbors to group watch kids? How about having an older relative watch them for a few hours? How about spending more time at home instead of going to all your socialite functions? How about being a parent?
$45,000 a year is more than almost half this country makes and we are expected to raise families, have a roof over our heads, pay for school, pay for transportation, have health care, and everything else on $45,000 a year. You avaricious pigs spend this on a freaking nanny and now complain if you would only make half a million a year? Learn to live without the nanny. Learn to live on "only" $500,000 a year.
The attitude of these parents is to use the kids as show and tell at events but when it comes time to spend actual quality time with them, these parents pass the buck. They don't want their kids around unless it's for show and tell. They don't care what their kids think or feel unless it's self important. Instead of being parents, they hire a nanny. When a zillion and one toys and organized events to shuffle the kids back and forth is not enough to keep the kids away from the parents, it's the job of the nanny to keep them occupied.
In this New York Times article the average rich Wall Street snob spends $45,000 a year on a nanny. I have a better idea. How about cutting at least $40,000 of that? How about coordinating with friends and neighbors to group watch kids? How about having an older relative watch them for a few hours? How about spending more time at home instead of going to all your socialite functions? How about being a parent?
$45,000 a year is more than almost half this country makes and we are expected to raise families, have a roof over our heads, pay for school, pay for transportation, have health care, and everything else on $45,000 a year. You avaricious pigs spend this on a freaking nanny and now complain if you would only make half a million a year? Learn to live without the nanny. Learn to live on "only" $500,000 a year.
Posted by DavefromQueens.com at 2/8/2009 9:59 PM 
Categories: corporate greed, New York Times, family values
Categories: corporate greed, New York Times, family values
Comments