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patrickBOOTH 
I personally don't understand the whole idea of the rich man not getting the son a nice car. It's a thought that the commoner likes to say to themselves, and when he hears it makes him feel like a better parent. I mean, one can be taught the value of money and still be given a nice car. If you have the money, why wouldn't you want your kid to have a nice car? If your kid is a good person, respectable, has a job, does well in school at this point in their life I think that is all that is asked of them and they deserve a nice car if dad (or mom) has the means. Giving an expensive vehicle to a dickhead is something else entirely.
I went to HS in princeton NJ. Most of the kids at our public school were either from out of town, the few poor residents of princeton, or the rich kids who, despite their family's connections and money, couldn't be bought into private schools.
I'm not saying all the kids whose parent's had money to buy them nice cars were morons who crashed/destroyed/didn't take care of them, but there were definitely enough who didn't seem like spoiled little shits then proceeded to crash/destroy/mutilate their brand new lexus/beamer/merc that if I had a seemingly well adjusted kid they'd be getting the same thing my father gave me for my first car: nothing.
Myself and the other kids who had to buy junkers (or one kid who actually rebuilt a corsair from a chassis he picked up at the junkyard) tended to take much better care of our rides, and mine was in perfect working order when I gave my shitty little corolla to my mother and got an old, used subaru, which I'm still driving and maintaining eight years later with nothing but some minor cosmetic damage, cosmetics never really having been subaru's strongpoint anyway.
