Why do people who are born into a poor family and get wealthy in adulthood get respected more?

Question

Than those who were into born wealthy families?

Look at George W. Bush and Paris Hilton. What is this all about?

Answer 1

Well, if you're born into money, you didn't earn it. That's the easy way in life of course. I've never understood how anyone would feel right about having someone else's hard earn money, it can be thrown in their face too much.

The people who do have to bust their bum are more respected because they overcame their learned life and created a new one for theirself which is hard. I came from a very poor family in Detroit, I overcame what I knew and got ahead. I opened my mind up to new things and thoughts. We only know what we're taught and see most of the time. I did it. No one can say, "I bought Jenn this or that". Everything I have I worked for and paid for. It surprises alot of people and even myself at times. I am not rich but I am very comfortable.

Answer 2

I think it's because we have more respect for someone who has overcome all odds to make it in this world. Inheriting a large sum of money is nice, but all they had to do was be born into wealth. That's great, but a person who has worked hard and reached their goal, gets my vote. I have no respect for Paris Hilton at all and all politicians have a lot of money. They have to just to get into the race. I respect people based on who they are rather than how much money they have.

Answer 3

its the fact that they had nothing and made it with their own company,
if you are born into a family that has money and that money or opportunity is then given to you then you have not earned it, you were given it.
that is why the expression (to teach a person to live or survive in the world you don't give him a fish you give him a fishing pole) or you teach him to fish. also they have done follow ups or studies that if you give a poor person a million dollars and within 3 years they have nothing. take away the money from a person that had everything and within 3 years they will get their money back. that's why when these poor people win the lottery it usually ends up not a good thing.
a person is also teaching their children how to handle money and a business by not giving all to their children, letting their kids pay their way through college, get a job in high school, buy their own car, they are not giving theses things.

Answer 4

Because they made themselves, proved their worth, worked hard to change the patterns of the past, and really earned their own way.

Without real work to balance a person, they just seem to come out skewed. When parents give their kids everything money can buy, the kid never really sees the value to a dollar. Without ever really working, grocery shopping, cleaning your house, or taking responsibility for your own actions, you are so out of touch with reality that you can't relate to other people.

Some wealthy parents are great parents...the ones who don't try to bail the kid out of trouble with the "best lawyers money can buy", but make the kid pay for their mistakes. The ones who make the kids still clean their rooms, have jobs, and earn things. The ones who give their kids the benefits of great educations as well as time and values.

Answer 5

Because of the fact that they started with nothing and have made something of themselves. Its your typical hero story. People born to wealth havent a clue what its like to work hard everyday and try to save for a future. Its true that when you have to work and pay for something on your own, you appreciate it more. How can you possibly appreciate ANYthng if its given to you? Being given to constantly makes for irresponsibility and has one expecting it after a while....thus, your typical spoiled brat like Paris Hilton.

Answer 6

The brats that are born into wealth are rarely taught the values it takes to make it rich. Poor people know what it is like to do without ~ those like Paris Hilton do not. They had credit cards and servants and can't do for themselves. Poor little rich kids ~ suffering because mommy and daddy were to stupid (or lazy) to raise them right.

Answer 7

the way i see it, people look up to them because of the evident progress they've had during their lifetime. People would rather see a person grow up with an impoverished state of life but struggles in search of wealth. Just like a fairytale, we would also like to see a person overcome his/her own 'monsters', and that is his/her present state of life. People find role models who know how to make life way better for them. And the respect? The more a person passes through difficult test, the more he/she becomes tougher. Therefore, people respect them because they are more experienced and 'educated' about things.

We also have this stereotypical impression that when a person is born with a silver spoon, they get used to that and they would no longer make an effort to learn, right? so maybe, this idea lingers in our minds.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Because they didn't make excuses for themselves or blame others for their problems.
I personally don't respect poor to rich anymore than people who are born into wealthy families. That's envy.
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Answer 10

Because the person that got wealthy after being poor, did so on their own merits, they didn't coast into wealth purely by accident of birth.