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Remember too that many billionaires are control freaks. Them policing their children's screen time may just be part of larger control regime. Lots of rich people, going back to most every king/queen in history, have been what we would today call overprotective parents. Tech royalty isn't any different.

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> Remember too that many billionaires are control freaks. Them policing their children's screen time may just be part of larger control regime. Lots of rich people, going back to most every king/queen in history, have been what we would today call overprotective parents. Tech royalty isn't any different.

Whether this is the cause or not, children of the rich do very well in life, regardless of the level of control freak

They are doing well, because they have resources that 99.99% of humans never will have. It's very hard to draw any conclusions here.

> They are doing well, because...

you just drew a big one

Still, what's more likely? Rich children doing better because of overcontrolling parents, or doing better because they have access to enough resources to resolve almost any difficulty they face in their lives?

I grew up with some very wealthy people, and the richer the parents the more absentee/oblivious the parenting in my experiences.

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