If you want your kids to get ahead in this world, it’s pointless to teach them the antiquated things from generations past. Being talented, smart & compassionate only gets them so far, if anywhere at all anymore.

Look at all the people who are succeeding now simply because they’re popular, beautiful, tall or D: all of the above. The Kardashian/Jenner sisters have made a fortune simply due to their beauty, and their popularity for being beautiful. Not a shred of talent or genius in that bunch — just the new things required to achieve success, which is incredible beauty & popularity via social connections. Look at athletes who are taller, bigger & stronger, and who are paid millions due to it. And those born into a wealthy & popular family like the Kennedys.

But this is not justice. What about people who are smart, nice, compassionate, trustworthy, and hard workers, all of whom don’t have good looks, are fat, short, ugly, and not socially-connected/popular, nor lucky enough to be born into the right family in the right country? Through little work & effort, you too can be rich & famous if you happen to have been born beautiful, tall & to the right social group.

Nowhere is this more prevalent than Hollywood & music. There are a lot of actors & singers/rappers who have very little talent (or dubious talent) who have been very successful. Rappers (the dubious “talent”) who make hundreds of millions. Cute young actors who are A-list superstars. Singers who sound like everyone else & have little talent for it & have billions of streams.

The problem is not them, but our society that values shallow superficial visual traits over substance, and social connections over good ideas & hard work/effort. Even the people who are in charge now are all rich & beautiful people, and ruthless. It’s not a far cry from the Indian caste system or British & European royalty, and history has held them in a bad light after the common masses have had enough. Ask Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette, Czar Nicholas II & his family, and Britain’s King Charles I (from the 1600’s — today’s king is Charles III). You can only get away with that for so long before society cuts off your credit — or your head in regards to the aforementioned royalty. Actually, the Czar’s family was shot to death — they didn’t waste time looking for a chopping block.