A picture of youthful joy, no?
(Credit: Rich Kids of Instagram/Tumblr)
It's something lottery ads often ask: what would life be like if you were rich?
They show ordinary people blowing their money on improbable amusements and we all dream and laugh along.
Yet when the real thing comes by -- real rich people blowing their money on improbable amusements -- we become King Tut-Tut.
This rather unhip hypocrisy comes to mind on considering Rich Kids of Instagram. Should you have missed this cultural icon, it depicts the excesses of the young, restless, and loaded as they sail through life on a hull made of $100 bills.
Some have described the images on this Tumblr feed as "obnoxious." Others, such as the Atlantic Wire, suggested: "Preteens posing with helicopters they did nothing to earn and posting the pictures online for others to ogle provides an easy in for commentary on the state of the American dream. (Dead.)"
How appalling, critics say, that these kids of the wealthy, who might not ever have performed a day's work in their lives, can leap from tall buildings into large swimming pools, while we sit there and b... [Read more]
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