Originally Posted by familybiz

It sounds crazy as by logic all parents will want their kids to be rich and successful. But then again it's not as crazy as it sounds because some parents still want a sense of power and ego. Usually, these parents are just average income earners and still working and has old school rigid thinking. If their kid suddenly becomes much richer than them it reflects bad on them. Its like sibling rivalry, if your sister/brother becomes rich, you may secretly feel jealous or hate them even. But in this case it is parent-children, which is more exacerbated due to the fact they have say 3 decades of life more than you and by all logic should be way richer and wiser.