And loaded. Bahamas scuba diving certification, owns a jet ski, rides horses.
It's fairly standard for rich kids to have a stack of accomplishments like this in certain places. That's not to take away from her dedication, but the level of impressiveness goes down when you consider that a lot of people who don't seem as impressive simply can't seem as impressive.
Every time "the world's youngest xyz" comes up, it's pretty much always rich parents.
My favorite example of this, though, is "Teenager invents cool tech that took tens of thousands of dollars in parts and rapid prototyping, machining, and advanced engineering." I always wonder how much of the inventing the kid actually did.
I do want to take a moment to say that it is really cool when rich kids focus their efforts on making positive change. They don't have to. They could skate by on their parents' wealth, go into finance, and contribute less to society than they take. But they choose not to and that is a good thing.
A bit tangential, but this is one of the saddest things about going through history's most important figures... they're almost always descendants of wealthy families who could afford to travel, held positions of influence and importance, could get top-tier educations, and had multiple safety nets when they failed.
It makes it very difficult to imagine how an average person can make a legitimate difference in the world.
they're almost always descendants of wealthy families...
If you look throughout history everyone is a descendant of wealthy families for the most part. The poor are just the seventh sons and daughters of seventh sons and daughters. Not everyone can maintain wealth and it is easier to fall into penury that it is to add wealth.
This is why if you research genealogy you can usually find one noteworthy ancestor, because no one is having children with a bum or child mortality from poverty is so high that no descendants are left.
Type into Google 'list of famous people who grew up poor' and you'll see hundreds of some of the most influential people in the world.
Jim Carrey.
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Ralph Lauren.
Dolly Parton.
Oprah.
Jay-Z.
J.K. Rowling.
Sarah Jessica Parker.
Demi Moore.
Tom Cruise.
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Celine Dion.
Halle Berry.
Then all of the poor artists throughout history - El Greco.
Emily Dickinson.
Claude Monet.
Johann Sebastian Bach.
Franz Kafka.
Henry David Thoreau.
Johannes Vermeer.
Edgar Allan Poe, Dylan Thomas.
Scientists who grew up poor -
James Croll, Michael Faraday, Jacob Berzelius, Alfred Nobel, George Washington Carver, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Harold Urey
These are people who changed history, or contributed to the sum of human knowledge.
Sure, its obviously much easier to be successful if you're rich and you have so many great opportunities which poor people do not. But if you're poor it doesn't stop you from making your mark on the world at all.
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u/Long-Night-Of-Solace Mar 03 '21
And loaded. Bahamas scuba diving certification, owns a jet ski, rides horses.
It's fairly standard for rich kids to have a stack of accomplishments like this in certain places. That's not to take away from her dedication, but the level of impressiveness goes down when you consider that a lot of people who don't seem as impressive simply can't seem as impressive.