Sometimes a family gathering feels like sitting in the audience at a standup show where the headliner never met a punchline. This family’s weekend was a classic. Dad’s cousin, now 2 years into his seventies but still living off the kind of trust fund most people think is a myth, launches into a full rant about how kids in their thirties are too lazy to make anything of themselves. Work ethic, discipline, all the quintessential notes, delivered from the comfort of a life that’s been paid for, month after month, since he was barely old enough to rent a car.
And in a move that makes proud as a fan of cynicism, in this family they don’t let this type of irony slide. The sister-in-law pipes up with what everyone is actually thinking: Don’t you have a trust fund? And sure enough, it’s true. The man started getting $1,500 a month for life as a teenager, an amount that, especially back then, meant free college, a mortgage that never kept him up at night, and the kind of choices most people never get unless they hit the lottery or inherit a small island.
Years of not doing much led this guy retire at 50 so it’s only natural we should all be eager to learn from his extensive experience at nothing all and swallow the riff about hard work he learned on the way to golf?
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