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<p>No child should have to grow up hungry or be denied basic needs. But growing up with too much privilege can also create problems for kids, especially as they get older. It&#39;s called &quot;rich kid syndrome&quot; and it&#39;s what happens when children are excessively spoiled, sheltered, and never told &quot;no.&quot; This does no favors to anyone, including the kids themselves. Because being entitled and out-of-touch not only alienate other people, but it can make adult life difficult or even impossible, creating a never-ending cycle of dependency and entitlement. If you don&#39;t believe me, I can think of at least one very recent former U.S. president who exemplified what happens when a child grows up with too much wealth and too little discipline. Let&#39;s just say, it&#39;s not cute.</p><h2>Someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/c6cq6r/whats_the_worst_case_of_rich_kid_syndrome_youve/" target="_blank">asked</a> Reddit: &quot;What&#39;s the worst case of &#39;rich kid syndrome&#39; you&#39;ve seen?&quot;</h2><p>These 24 people share their worst stories of kids who grew up with obscene wealth and zero discipline:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ScientisticalMystica/">ScientisticalMystica</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I worked as a bouncer at a high end night club. The biggest boner of a rich kid, straight out of Malibu&rsquo;s Most Wanted, gets a VIP booth and bottle service. Racks up a massive bill trying to act like a baller. His credit card gets denied and he has to call his dad to come down at 1:30 am because he can&rsquo;t order any more bottles. His dad comes down in his pajamas. Obviously ashamed and furious at this douche of a kid. Ends up embarrassing the sh*t out of his kid in front of his whole group of friends.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>He takes the kids keys and is about to leave when his kid makes some sh*tty comment and goes back in the club. The dads about to walk away after he apologizes for his son when we offer to drag him out the rough way, he smiles and accepts. That kid hit every door and step on the way out.</p> <p>It was one of the most satisfying experiences working at that club.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2.) From [deleted]:</h2><blockquote> <p>A 12 year old family friend. Got an iPhone XS for his birthday, then deliberately shattered his iPhone 8.</p> </blockquote><h2>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/captain_screwup/">captain_screwup</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>In high school a kid was bragging that he got in his third fender bender in his &quot;old&quot; car (3 years old) that his parents gave him but he hated, so his parents were buying him an entirely new (current year) car to incentivize him to drive better.</p> </blockquote><h2>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AuthorizedVehicle/">AuthorizedVehicle</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My mom&#39;s friend used to buy new clothes each season and throw out the old ones. She had to be taught by her husband to save them for the next year.</p> </blockquote><h2>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/helenayo/">helenayo</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was complaining about how I was short on money one month (just couldn&#39;t go out to eat) because I had to pay rent and pay for tag renewal all in the same paycheck. My friend looked at me, super seriously, and was like &quot;don&#39;t worry they send you those in the mail for free!&quot;</p> <p>After a long discussion she learned that in fact, her mom had been paying for her new tags every year</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gaqua/">gaqua</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Worked with this kid who was a good kid, but completely disconnected from financial reality for most people. He&rsquo;d just moved out west from another state and was trying to get on like a &ldquo;normal&rdquo; adult.</p> <p>He went to buy a new car and was shocked that they couldn&rsquo;t just bill his dad for it, since they didn&rsquo;t know him.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>He ordered a bottle of wine at a restaurant and the sommelier said &ldquo;certainly, sir.&rdquo; Then the sommelier whispered &ldquo;just for your knowledge, sir, the bottle is $700.&rdquo;</p> <p>He looked straight at him and asked &ldquo;is that a lot?&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The sommelier honestly didn&rsquo;t know how to answer.</p> <p>Once he casually told his mom he needed some help with bills and she deposited $20,000 into his account.</p> </blockquote><h2>7.) From [deleted]:</h2><blockquote> <p>A guy looked at my $2,000 beater car in college and commented that it must&#39;ve been really cheap and guessed $15,000.</p> <p>For anyone curious it was a Kia Rio 2005 with 120k miles on it.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Vinegar_Fingers/">Vinegar_Fingers</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Dunno if it qualifies as rich kid syndrome but when I got out of the Navy I decided to use my GI bill at one of the Penn State satellites. I was sitting in the cafeteria drinking coffee and typing up a paper when a girl sits down across from me and opens her backpack. She pulls out a sandwich bag and looks at it in disgust then looks me dead in the eye and says &quot;I don&#39;t even know why I bother my mother never cuts off the crust&quot;. I let out one of those high pitched short laughs like is this girl for real? Oblivious to the tone of it she says &quot;I know right&quot; then asks me if I want it.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I looked around thinking I was getting pranked or something cause this sh*t is too stereotypical to be real and I just assumed I was being filmed. She shook it at me and gave me a &quot;well?&quot; look. So I said f**k it and took the sandwich, she then pulled out her student ID card and bought a crap ton of french fries. That sandwich was awesome, I think the bread was homemade and it was stacked like a Dagwood. It had all kinds of expensive looking meats and Dijon mustard, serious gourmet sh*t. I know this girls mother will never see this but I just wanna say someone appreciated that sandwich.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sholbyy/">sholbyy</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I worked at a Starbucks and we hired a new guy, who I was training. At one point, I had to show him how to clean the restrooms. I grab the bleach, and hand him a pair of gloves and he looks at me in disgust and says, &quot;we don&#39;t have a <em>maid</em> to clean the bathrooms??&quot;</p> <p>He quit the next day lol.</p> </blockquote><h2>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thecrusadeswereahoax/">thecrusadeswereahoax</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Went to a destination wedding in Mexico resort. Rich kids rented a golf cart, tore through the streets and flipped the cart (injuring people and causing a huge commotion and traffic jam).</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>A Mexican lady comes out and begins to scold them for their behavior. &quot;You wouldn&#39;t act this way at home!&quot;</p> <p>Rich kid responds, &quot;I promise you we do.&quot;</p> <p>It was the earnestness of his reply that got me.</p> </blockquote><h2>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Bammerice/">Bammerice</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>One girl from my high school got breast implants for her 18th birthday. Her mom joined her as a mother/daughter bonding activity, followed by the daughter getting a brand new $90,000 Mercedes as a high school graduation gift</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/spartanburt/">spartanburt</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>This kid back in high school was whining (I mean literally whimpering) that he had to wait something like 6 weeks for his custom built BMW to come over from Germany.</p> </blockquote><h2>13.) From [deleted]:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Went to HS with this insufferably spoiled kid. Family had a couch in their home&#39;s elevator. And classical European sculpture (this was in the U.S.). Kid talked down to/about the less fortunate on a regular basis. Once made fun of me for picking a coin up off the ground.</p> </blockquote><h2>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Arukaone/">Arukaone</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A Friend of mine inherited a lot of Money, enough to buy a House and he spend it on 2 Cars. A Subaru completely modded to Ken Blocks Version of it and some BMW, both extremely expensive. We asked him a few months alter why he didn&rsquo;t buy a House with it because he still lived with his Parents. So he told us that he already owned a Penthouse, he just didn&rsquo;t want to move yet...</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/JimmyTheOtherCat/">JimmyTheOtherCat</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Knew this one guy at my college who didn&#39;t understand why everybody is so worked up about student loans. I remember him saying something along the lines of &quot;why don&#39;t people just pay the tuition upfront.&quot; He was also quite sheltered.</p> </blockquote><h2>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/toilandbubble/">toilandbubble</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>&ldquo;I could absolutely survive on my own, my parents just pay for my food and house but I pay for everything else, if I got a job I could pay for my food and house too.&rdquo; -said at 18, in the middle of a discussion between two middle-class peers who were talking about saving money because they had to pay for their own college and living expenses. About five minutes prior to this conversation, both peers had ordered the cheap dinner options and declined a shopping trip later that night, while rich-girl was talking nonstop about buying the best/most expensive souvenirs for her friends.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Once tried working a regular-person-retail-job and quit within a couple weeks as it &ldquo;just wasn&rsquo;t right and I didn&rsquo;t like it&rdquo; (read: had actual responsibilities for the first time).</p> <p>Moved cross-country for an 8-month education course, where her parents pay food, rent, and school. They also gave her a debit card which replenishes up to $500 when it hits $50... she still posts Snapchat&rsquo;s with captions of &ldquo;that broke person life&rdquo; over pictures of her getting Starbucks every day, and insists she could survive on her own.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Constantly suggests the most expensive options for meals, activities, etc., and tacks on things like &ldquo;we can just split the bill, I know you&rsquo;re saving but it&rsquo;s just [amount at least $50], you&rsquo;ll be fine right?&rdquo; Then gets upset when people can&rsquo;t afford to spend time with her, or when someone dares to suggest that she helps cover costs.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/head-ghost/">head-ghost</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Friend got a theater with an arcade built over their family&rsquo;s 12 car garage. Parents didn&rsquo;t want the 5 year old sister to be jealous, so they hired an architect to design and built her a fully functioning play house with a bathroom, AC, and bedroom.</p> </blockquote><h2>18.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LovelyPorcelain/">LovelyPorcelain</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My fiance&#39;s cousin. He managed to crash 4 cars while still in high school because his father would replace them. When he moved onto college, he got kicked out of several apartments for owning a dog when they weren&#39;t permitted. He told me he didn&#39;t care though, since his father also funded his continuous stream of new housing. From what I last heard, his Father is now paying for his long-standing drug habit.</p> </blockquote><h2>19.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/GeneticsGuy/">GeneticsGuy</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>So my best friend&#39;s wife teaches at a ritzy 40k per year private school. As in, $40,000 a year for elementary and middle school (I think the HS is like 50k+). Well, she teaches 7th or 8th grade, I can&#39;t remember, and she said she always goes around the class after the summer break and ask them what they did over the summer and she particularly remembers one kid complaining about how much his summer sucked because he was stuck on his parent&#39;s yacht all summer and they didn&#39;t even take it to anywhere cool, just Italy.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>20.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/vobvobvob99/">vobvobvob99</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>One of my college classmates wrecked his Range Rover over winter break and came back in an Aston Martin</p> </blockquote><h2>21.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Lemuria_666/">Lemuria_666</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend literally throws away his change because he hates holding coins. Doesn&#39;t matter if its 99 cents he&#39;ll throw it away. That sh*t adds up.</p> </blockquote><h2>22.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/dominus83/">dominus83</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>In middle school we were asked to draw our homes for some assignment and hand it in at the end of class. A popular, extremely wealthy kid that sat behind me raised his hand and smugly asked the teacher for another sheet of paper because he couldn&rsquo;t draw it all on one page. His friends just snickered but I was cringing. Even at 12 I remember thinking it was such a snobby thing to say.</p> </blockquote><h2>23.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Gwiz3879/">Gwiz3879</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>This rich b*tch in high school got a BMW for her 17th birthday. About a week later she totaled it and me and a few of my friends wondered what happened considering there considered pretty safe and reliable. Apparently she wanted a brand new 2000 BMW 3. Series and she got a 1997.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>24.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LookAcrossTheWater/">LookAcrossTheWater</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I work for a dentist and her son is a spoiled brat. He was at the office one day because she had to bring him to an appointment later that day. He got bored and went out wandering around some of the local shops. He came back a little while later and without any preamble walked up to her and said &quot;give me $80&quot;. She asked him what it was for and he just repeated himself and she gave it to him.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

24 people share the worst examples of 'rich kid syndrome' they've ever seen.

No child should have to grow up hungry or be denied basic needs. But growing up with too much privilege can also create problems for kids, especially as they get older. It&#39;s called &quot;rich kid syndrome&quot; and it&#39;s what happens when children are excessively spoiled, sheltered, and never told &quot;no.&quot; This does no favors to anyone, including the kids themselves. Because being entitled and out-of-touch not only alienate other people, but it can make adult life difficult or even impossible, creating a never-ending cycle of dependency and entitlement. If you don&#39;t believe me, I can think of at least one very recent former U.S. president who exemplified what happens when a child grows up with too much wealth and too little discipline. Let&#39;s just say, it&#39;s not cute.Someone asked Reddit: &quot;What&#39;s the worst case of &#39;rich kid syndrome&#39; you&#39;ve seen?&quot;These 24 people share their worst stories of kids who grew up with obscene wealth and zero discipline:1.) From ScientisticalMystica: I worked as a bouncer at a high end night club. The biggest boner of a rich kid, straight out of Malibu&rsquo;s Most Wanted, gets a VIP booth and bottle service. Racks up a massive bill trying to act like a baller. His credit card gets denied and he has to call his dad to come down at 1:30 am because he can&rsquo;t order any more bottles. His dad comes down in his pajamas. Obviously ashamed and furious at this douche of a kid. Ends up embarrassing the sh*t out of his kid in front of his whole group of friends.  He takes the kids keys and is about to leave when his kid makes some sh*tty comment and goes back in the club. The dads about to walk away after he apologizes for his son when we offer to drag him out the rough way, he smiles and accepts. That kid hit every door and step on the way out. It was one of the most satisfying experiences working at that club. 2.) From [deleted]: A 12 year old family friend. Got an iPhone XS for his birthday, then deliberately shattered his iPhone 8. 3.) From captain_screwup: In high school a kid was bragging that he got in his third fender bender in his &quot;old&quot; car (3 years old) that his parents gave him but he hated, so his parents were buying him an entirely new (current year) car to incentivize him to drive better. 4.) From AuthorizedVehicle: My mom&#39;s friend used to buy new clothes each season and throw out the old ones. She had to be taught by her husband to save them for the next year. 5.) From helenayo: I was complaining about how I was short on money one month (just couldn&#39;t go out to eat) because I had to pay rent and pay for tag renewal all in the same paycheck. My friend looked at me, super seriously, and was like &quot;don&#39;t worry they send you those in the mail for free!&quot; After a long discussion she learned that in fact, her mom had been paying for her new tags every year 6.) From gaqua: Worked with this kid who was a good kid, but completely disconnected from financial reality for most people. He&rsquo;d just moved out west from another state and was trying to get on like a &ldquo;normal&rdquo; adult. He went to buy a new car and was shocked that they couldn&rsquo;t just bill his dad for it, since they didn&rsquo;t know him.  He ordered a bottle of wine at a restaurant and the sommelier said &ldquo;certainly, sir.&rdquo; Then the sommelier whispered &ldquo;just for your knowledge, sir, the bottle is $700.&rdquo; He looked straight at him and asked &ldquo;is that a lot?&rdquo;  The sommelier honestly didn&rsquo;t know how to answer. Once he casually told his mom he needed some help with bills and she deposited $20,000 into his account. 7.) From [deleted]: A guy looked at my $2,000 beater car in college and commented that it must&#39;ve been really cheap and guessed $15,000. For anyone curious it was a Kia Rio 2005 with 120k miles on it. 8.) From Vinegar_Fingers: Dunno if it qualifies as rich kid syndrome but when I got out of the Navy I decided to use my GI bill at one of the Penn State satellites. I was sitting in the cafeteria drinking coffee and typing up a paper when a girl sits down across from me and opens her backpack. She pulls out a sandwich bag and looks at it in disgust then looks me dead in the eye and says &quot;I don&#39;t even know why I bother my mother never cuts off the crust&quot;. I let out one of those high pitched short laughs like is this girl for real? Oblivious to the tone of it she says &quot;I know right&quot; then asks me if I want it.  I looked around thinking I was getting pranked or something cause this sh*t is too stereotypical to be real and I just assumed I was being filmed. She shook it at me and gave me a &quot;well?&quot; look. So I said f**k it and took the sandwich, she then pulled out her student ID card and bought a crap ton of french fries. That sandwich was awesome, I think the bread was homemade and it was stacked like a Dagwood. It had all kinds of expensive looking meats and Dijon mustard, serious gourmet sh*t. I know this girls mother will never see this but I just wanna say someone appreciated that sandwich. 9.) From sholbyy: I worked at a Starbucks and we hired a new guy, who I was training. At one point, I had to show him how to clean the restrooms. I grab the bleach, and hand him a pair of gloves and he looks at me in disgust and says, &quot;we don&#39;t have a maid to clean the bathrooms??&quot; He quit the next day lol. 10.) From thecrusadeswereahoax: Went to a destination wedding in Mexico resort. Rich kids rented a golf cart, tore through the streets and flipped the cart (injuring people and causing a huge commotion and traffic jam).  A Mexican lady comes out and begins to scold them for their behavior. &quot;You wouldn&#39;t act this way at home!&quot; Rich kid responds, &quot;I promise you we do.&quot; It was the earnestness of his reply that got me. 11.) From Bammerice: One girl from my high school got breast implants for her 18th birthday. Her mom joined her as a mother/daughter bonding activity, followed by the daughter getting a brand new $90,000 Mercedes as a high school graduation gift 12.) From spartanburt: This kid back in high school was whining (I mean literally whimpering) that he had to wait something like 6 weeks for his custom built BMW to come over from Germany. 13.) From [deleted]:  Went to HS with this insufferably spoiled kid. Family had a couch in their home&#39;s elevator. And classical European sculpture (this was in the U.S.). Kid talked down to/about the less fortunate on a regular basis. Once made fun of me for picking a coin up off the ground. 14.) From Arukaone: A Friend of mine inherited a lot of Money, enough to buy a House and he spend it on 2 Cars. A Subaru completely modded to Ken Blocks Version of it and some BMW, both extremely expensive. We asked him a few months alter why he didn&rsquo;t buy a House with it because he still lived with his Parents. So he told us that he already owned a Penthouse, he just didn&rsquo;t want to move yet... 15.) From JimmyTheOtherCat: Knew this one guy at my college who didn&#39;t understand why everybody is so worked up about student loans. I remember him saying something along the lines of &quot;why don&#39;t people just pay the tuition upfront.&quot; He was also quite sheltered. 16.) From toilandbubble: &ldquo;I could absolutely survive on my own, my parents just pay for my food and house but I pay for everything else, if I got a job I could pay for my food and house too.&rdquo; -said at 18, in the middle of a discussion between two middle-class peers who were talking about saving money because they had to pay for their own college and living expenses. About five minutes prior to this conversation, both peers had ordered the cheap dinner options and declined a shopping trip later that night, while rich-girl was talking nonstop about buying the best/most expensive souvenirs for her friends.  Once tried working a regular-person-retail-job and quit within a couple weeks as it &ldquo;just wasn&rsquo;t right and I didn&rsquo;t like it&rdquo; (read: had actual responsibilities for the first time). Moved cross-country for an 8-month education course, where her parents pay food, rent, and school. They also gave her a debit card which replenishes up to $500 when it hits $50... she still posts Snapchat&rsquo;s with captions of &ldquo;that broke person life&rdquo; over pictures of her getting Starbucks every day, and insists she could survive on her own.  Constantly suggests the most expensive options for meals, activities, etc., and tacks on things like &ldquo;we can just split the bill, I know you&rsquo;re saving but it&rsquo;s just [amount at least $50], you&rsquo;ll be fine right?&rdquo; Then gets upset when people can&rsquo;t afford to spend time with her, or when someone dares to suggest that she helps cover costs. 17.) From head-ghost: Friend got a theater with an arcade built over their family&rsquo;s 12 car garage. Parents didn&rsquo;t want the 5 year old sister to be jealous, so they hired an architect to design and built her a fully functioning play house with a bathroom, AC, and bedroom. 18.) From LovelyPorcelain: My fiance&#39;s cousin. He managed to crash 4 cars while still in high school because his father would replace them. When he moved onto college, he got kicked out of several apartments for owning a dog when they weren&#39;t permitted. He told me he didn&#39;t care though, since his father also funded his continuous stream of new housing. From what I last heard, his Father is now paying for his long-standing drug habit. 19.) From GeneticsGuy: So my best friend&#39;s wife teaches at a ritzy 40k per year private school. As in, $40,000 a year for elementary and middle school (I think the HS is like 50k+). Well, she teaches 7th or 8th grade, I can&#39;t remember, and she said she always goes around the class after the summer break and ask them what they did over the summer and she particularly remembers one kid complaining about how much his summer sucked because he was stuck on his parent&#39;s yacht all summer and they didn&#39;t even take it to anywhere cool, just Italy. 20.) From vobvobvob99: One of my college classmates wrecked his Range Rover over winter break and came back in an Aston Martin 21.) From Lemuria_666: My friend literally throws away his change because he hates holding coins. Doesn&#39;t matter if its 99 cents he&#39;ll throw it away. That sh*t adds up. 22.) From dominus83: In middle school we were asked to draw our homes for some assignment and hand it in at the end of class. A popular, extremely wealthy kid that sat behind me raised his hand and smugly asked the teacher for another sheet of paper because he couldn&rsquo;t draw it all on one page. His friends just snickered but I was cringing. Even at 12 I remember thinking it was such a snobby thing to say. 23.) From Gwiz3879: This rich b*tch in high school got a BMW for her 17th birthday. About a week later she totaled it and me and a few of my friends wondered what happened considering there considered pretty safe and reliable. Apparently she wanted a brand new 2000 BMW 3. Series and she got a 1997. 24.) From LookAcrossTheWater: I work for a dentist and her son is a spoiled brat. He was at the office one day because she had to bring him to an appointment later that day. He got bored and went out wandering around some of the local shops. He came back a little while later and without any preamble walked up to her and said &quot;give me $80&quot;. She asked him what it was for and he just repeated himself and she gave it to him. 

No child should have to grow up hungry or be denied basic needs. But growing up with too much privilege can also create problems for kids, especially as they get older. It&#39;s called &quot;rich kid syndrome&quot; and it&#39;s what...