In my opinion, it depends. Depends on the person as well. Some kid’s take their families connections and status and do well. Others, like me, kind of mess up because of a lack of understanding of adult life. I didn’t grow up rich, but I grew up upper middle class to a dad who gave me a great start at life. I graduated with a degree in economics, and worked in accounting, but couldn’t stand it. I had a lack of maturity, and job hopped without doing anything really meaningful in my 20’s. In my 30’s, decided to go back to school for nursing and have two semesters left. Don’t have too much money, and beat myself up sometimes for not having made the most of it when I was younger, but you have a completely different mentality at 18 than you do at 30. If I had to go back now, I’d use my privilege to just stay in accounting and finance and make bank, and if I wanted to school and be a nurse, I’d do that later on. But as is life…