Are kids in the US really spoilt or something?

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Because while I understand that a lot of kids have part time jobs and such like, I've always wondered why it seems there are so many kids below working age managing to spend hundreds of dollars on websites, internet forum memberships and miscellaneous stuff that seems way outside any average kid's price range.

Maybe it's because I'm not from the USA, and that many kids around here, back when I was at school had very little knowledge of technology or the internet, but I swear all these kids and young teens on the internet have a ridiculous amount of disposable income these days.
 
We buy things that aren't necessary. We'll pay for it when we have to pay for bills and other ect.
 
A lot of people are over-privileged...wealthy families and such. It depends..
 
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So in Britain:
Mummy (yes, Mummy not Mommy
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) can I have a 3DS?
Oh, I'm not sure.... it looks expensive.

In America:
Can I buy a very classy state of the art mansion with a butler and all the other posh things, and maybe a monocle and have 50 servants waiting hand and foot while I sit in my very valuable pure gold throne?
Of course you can. Here, have an extra billion to spend on whatever you wish.
 
TheUltimateKoopa said:
So in Britain:
Mummy (yes, Mummy not Mommy
dry.gif
) can I have a 3DS?
Oh, I'm not sure.... it looks expensive.

In America:
Can I buy a very classy state of the art mansion with a butler and all the other posh things, and maybe a monocle and have 50 servants waiting hand and foot while I sit in my very valuable pure gold throne?
Of course you can. Here, have an extra billion to spend on whatever you wish.
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What are you talking about! Kids in 'merica don't care abour anything classy! They would take all of the money and spend it on DRUUUUUGGSSSSS!
 
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TUK was being sarcastic..Re-read it and add a little snickering attitude, lol.
 
My cousin is spoiled. Not a pretty sight from a certain viewpoint
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On the topic of money and the US, I was watching this show over in America talking about cheap houses. We saw a few of the houses that looked practically like mansions, and there were cheaper than some of the crappy houses over in Australia. Now, answer me this... with the Australian dollar recently being worth $1.10 US dollars (it's probably gone down, but it happened two days ago I think)... WHAT IS WRONG THE EXCHANGE RATE? Seriously, I'm thinking if you made a mediocre income in Australia and then travelled to America, you'd be instant-millionaire. (Obviously exaggerating there, but hey, it's pretty close to it).
 
Not the amount of kids you think in the US have a lot of money. There either are bragging or lying. There are a few who just saved up.
 
TheUltimateKoopa said:
So in Britain:
Mummy (yes, Mummy not Mommy
dry.gif
) can I have a 3DS?
Oh, I'm not sure.... it looks expensive.

In America:
Can I buy a very classy state of the art mansion with a butler and all the other posh things, and maybe a monocle and have 50 servants waiting hand and foot while I sit in my very valuable pure gold throne?
Of course you can. Here, have an extra billion to spend on whatever you wish.
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It really isn't that way at all. We have wealthy families and poor families but the US isn't that different from the UK. Perhaps we just have more kids here who decided to invest their time and funds into the internet. But most kiddies I know certainly aren't rich. If they are getting money, it's from a part-time job or an allowance. I never received an allowance, though, and few of my friends did. We lived in a middle-class community.
 
I have this friend who seems to have an allowance or something, because he just buys so much stuff.

I myself basically don't have an allowance or a job (yet, heh) or anything like that, I just rely on Birthday money and whatnot as a source of income.
 
There isn't really a generality about it. Some upper class people actually restrict their kids to what they own, and some lower class people buy everything in sight for their kids with credit cards. And then, of course, the opposite happens more often, but you get what I mean. You just have to think about it; You will always see the kids who use the Internet on the Internet, and the kids who can't aren't on the Internet, so that explains why there seems so few.

If we are talking "relatively" though, US kids probably have more access to things like the Internet than other kids in countries like Rwanda, lol.
 
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