>>509576202Soo...you're an elder child, eh? Probably not an ELDEST child though, or you'd feel even more entitled.
Anyway, I didn't say that everyone loves babies. It concerns me that you dodged the point I made. I said that basically, the herd animal choice is to do whatever it takes to make it into the herd by the true litmus test of loyalty, selling out your freedom to a prejudiced legal system and capricious corporate hiring practices.
Your personal experiences are your own, but the rich are as I said, people who succeeded at leading, mostly by looking the part, in making the unmarried work twice as hard for half as much.
Everyone dies. Some people get to retire on time and don't feel helpless in old age, but most of us don't know if they'll make it until they get there very late in life. What you give up on the way is on you.
For my part, I expected no inheritance from my wobbly pile of dough mother who used my dad's money to harass people into providing her with indulgences in old age. I stopped talking to her because of it, and I kind of think that's the only reason I got any of dad's inheritance when she did pass on. It was more important to her to look like a rich person than to live like one. She had that money, but never spent it. Too bad she made a fit out of dad spending any of it in his retirement or she may not have been inclined to bully people, nor would she have been isolated as much as she was.
The cycle was there. Marriage bigotry, the young est "black sheep" male, the perpetually angry eldest daughter who took her in, because I refused to give up my own job to take a gamble on her money and her meddling.
It's still all the same. Eldest daughter was an ivy league Phd. She refused to give up her job too. Married people can't stop the reptile inside of them that lives on instant gratification. Big sis is still angry. When she retired, she moved away, even though family are all here.
It's ALL about the baby making.