My message to Chelsea, the Obamas and future presidential kids.

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19. The kids (unlike their parents) will never know what it's like to live paycheck-to-paycheck

As most of us do.

They will never have to choose between fixing the car or paying the rent.

Hard work is not enough; it is a myth that hard work will make you successful. Sometimes it does, but sometimes it's a crapshoot. You can do everything right, everything they tell you you are supposed to do and still fail. Those kids will never know that sense of failure. They will never have to eat ramen noodles every night after working their crappy Wal-Mart job. They just cannot know that. Not their fault. But it is really false for their parents to pretend that they will ever truly know what it is like. It is not something you can ever learn unless you are there. Empathy is good, but they shouldn't pretend that they will ever actually know what it is like.

They have connections. And no matter what anyone says about the BS that is the "American dream", it is ALL about connections. Not hard work. Never has been. Look at Chelsea Clinton. Now, I'm sure she's a nice enough person. I know that she is smart. But $600K for basically no work at all. THAT is privilege and connections and nothing more.