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  • Was more explaining that I doubt all that wealth and privilege leads to a rewarding, full or happy life.

    Fuck it all off then.
    If not the royal arseholes then your mates who I'm guessing are just regular posh/rich arseholes. I'm not sure I ever said that all their wealth and privilege leads to a rewarding, full or happy life either, just that the "devoting your life to public service" stuff is bollocks and their relatively minor inconveniences are vastly outweighed by undeserved privileges.

  • Fuck it all off then.

    Fair dos. I didn't say otherwise.

    If not the royal arseholes then your mates who I'm guessing are just regular posh/rich arseholes

    The main person I am thinking of is rich for sure but her circumstances are due to being the child of a high profile terrorist target. We worked at the same company for a while in the early 00s, where she attended with her armed security detail. She never got to go to school, had 6 armed men with her when she went on her first date with a boyfriend and in her 20s had literally never been shopping, to the cinema or to the park with friends. She didn't really have any friends because its hard to make friends when you can't do anything with your life. ~ 20 years later she still lives in the same circumstances.

    ^ Anyway, because this is LFGSS I'll have to add my usual reminder that me observing that life behind a security curtain with loads of money sometimes is not like having your own life at all and does not mean I feel sorry for the royals, think they should exist, suffer like the rest of us etc etc. Was just pointing out that what we describe as a privileged life might not actually be a freely lived independent life at all.

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