Advertisement badness

[jwgh]

I see once again I am not going to sleep much tonight.

Anyway, in the current New Yorker there's an advertisement which depicts a couple of people in a jeep, apparently on safari in Africa or something, and the ad copy is:

"Current moral dilemma:
Spend it all?
Or leave it to the kids?
Yes, we love them. Yes, they need money.
No we can't sit around
and not have fun.
After all, giving them money
will only keep them from
learning how to earn it. Right?
But everything costs so
much more these days.
Maybe there's a way to
do both."

Emotional times require sound, unemotional financial advice.

Morgan Stanley
One client at a time.

OK. In what universe is "Do I give my kids a big stack of money, or do I go on a safari in Africa?" a moral dilemma?

I could say more, but eh.

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Actually, in a rich people universe, I'd say it's a real dilemma. In the glimpses I've had into life on the rich people planet, I've seen young people turned into idiots by knowing they had gigantic inheritances coming. From a child-welfare perspective their parents would have been better off just lighting their cigarettes with hundred-dollar bills.

[jwgh]

I agree it's a dilemma, I just don't see it as being a moral one. Maybe I'm just splitting hairs.

[donutgirl.livejournal.com]

old people have gotten too damn rich. We need to get rid of social security - why keep handing money to the richest segment of America? My own parents, long time liberals, now believe in trickle-down economics, simply because it benefits them.

I hope I die before I become so callous.