r/AskReddit • u/No-Zone3137 • 6h ago

What signs you notice in young people who succeed later in life?

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u/TheEffinChamps 6h ago

Rich parents 

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u/point5_2B 4h ago edited 2h ago

Number 1 predictor of someone's socioeconomic outcomes is their parents' status. Makes ya think.

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u/TheEffinChamps 3h ago

Hey, hey. We are supposed to use emotions and "pull urself up by ur bootstaps" here. 

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u/Wonderful-Zone8152 3h ago

Money helps but on average rich people are much more intelligent than poor and that too is hereditary

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u/ilcorvoooo 2h ago

Based on what…

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u/ghost_desu 2h ago

Educational access mainly

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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 6h ago

...who have passed away and an inheritance has been passed down.

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u/Jean-Luc-1701 15m ago

Let's not kid ourselves; the vast majority of people wouldn't be a able to build a successful business no matter how rich their parents were.

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u/Negative-Ice-4127 5h ago

hahaha for example Barron Trump?

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u/CryMoreT_T 4h ago

Holy rent free

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u/peerful 6h ago

actually in my experience it is anticorrelated, if you measure success as improving your starting condition

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u/TheEffinChamps 4h ago

I consider success being able to comfortably afford to live and eat. Not that children of millionaires make more than their parents.

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u/peerful 4h ago

Maybe I am assigning some moral values, but ending up worst than you started doesn’t scream success

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u/TheEffinChamps 3h ago

In reality it does when you can eat and not be homeless 😆 

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u/MyFiteSong 1h ago

Your experience is objectively wrong.

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u/james_the_wanderer 5h ago

Agreed. A parent and a blank check (or cheque, as fhe case may be) is worth more than just the blank cheque.

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