My daughter asked me this. How would you explain wealth inequality to a 12-year-old?

For context: ex-wife cheated on me and married this extremely wealthy Chinese guy. Crazy wealthy as in entire apartment building in Beijing’s CBD and a mansion out in the Shunyi district as his “main residences”. Daughter lives in China with my ex-wife, her husband and his son. Daughter lives with me during school breaks / holidays.

  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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    30 days ago

    I would explain this in 2 parts.

    Firstly, if you get a qualification and work most of your life, don’t fuck up by having a kid too early, or having a bad car accident, or getting addicted to something, then you’ll have enough money in your life to be comfortable and to care for the people you care about.

    Secondly, if you’re lucky enough to have wealthy parents you don’t have to worry about that.

    I also just want to add that I feel you buddy. You’ve been dealt a tough hand but the fact that you’re here asking this indicates that you’ve got game. It’s good to have a step dad with money but it’s better to have a dad that worries about what his kid thinks of him.