As a young person, would you rather have a social circle of “elites,” I.e., children of centimillionaires/billionaires, celebrities, aristocrats, etc, or young professionals in great jobs/startup space etc

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Definitely the former. People in the social circle of the kardashian/jenner’s are able to make a living off of their friendship and parlay it into an instagram influencer gig. They’re out here making six figures for sponsored posts and going on all expense paid vacations on private jets

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I’ve been able to straddle both worlds, the former in my childhood and the latter with being a consultant. Being friends with billionaires is 100000x better than any young professional.

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I’d prefer two attractive women. Preferably at the same time.

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A1 - as BCG3 and EY2 figured out, I was making a reference to the movie “Office Space”.

Still, given the choice of hanging out with wealthy brats or driven jerks, I’d prefer to hang out with two beautiful women.

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The former.

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Neither tbh. - I find most consultants' values don't really align with my own (hustle / money / success vs. art / socialism / self-expression)

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Interesting - my friend group falls pretty squarely in the former (despite my upper - middle class provenance), and felt like maybe I was missing out on something by not surrounding myself with people who are hungry/driven + lifestyles more aligned with my own

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You can have both groups. I’m sure the people you work with are driven and you can join organization for that group and then have your close friends be the billionaires. Or have the billionaires fund a start up and you can hire the driven people

I’d like to be around normals. Bonus points if they have a boat

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People I like?

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Idk that id want to be the poor person in any group lmao so ima go with the latter

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Celebrities obviously

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Well that’s not the right answer!

Have friends in the first group by being a prominent member of the second group. After a while I realize some of the lifestyle choices (aka spending patterns) of the first group don’t align well with me, particularly those mostly living off their parents. Eventually managed to befriend with people who have both group characteristics 😁

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