Holy crap. The tumblr the image is linked to is simultaneously disgusting and fascinating. I can't even believe some of those pictures are real. Wow.
There's something almost elemental about it, these people are past the level of "I want it and I don't care what it costs", they're spending money on bizarre and perverse stuff just for the sake of spending it: a 50th pair of thousand dollar shoes, a pet lion cub, private jet travel with a single passenger, joyriding over sand dunes in a quarter million dollar Rolls-Royce, or drinking 5 figures of exotic booze in a single night.
I'd bet that very few of them meet all these criteria:
- Not on psychiatric medication or in therapy
- No substance abuse problems
- Happily married parents
- Get along well with their parents
- Serious long-term plans for their life (family, philanthropy, art, business, whatever)
It reminds me of Born Rich, the documentary about children from ultra-rich families made by the heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune. He interviews a bunch of other kids from billionaire families and most of them come across as dysfunctional and weird, with problems ranging from depression to drug addiction to nihilistic hedonism (interestingly, some had such sheltered upbringings that they didn't realize they were richer than 99.999% of people until well into adolescence). Oddly enough the only one who actually comes across as well-adjusted is Ivanka Trump.