Current Events > Scenario: Your son was training to be a doctor when he won the lottery and quit.

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If that's the life he wants to live then who am I to tell him no?

Literally one of his parents

As long as his lifestyle is sustainable

Literally one of his parents

He could have been saving lives and now hes just wasting his, seems selfish

Isn't he over 18 now? What right do you have as a parent to try and demand something of someone who is now legally an adult?

Nobody should be dictated on how they live. There are other doctors who can save lives. Its not selfish to live how you want.

Isn't he over 18 now? What right do you have as a parent to try and demand something of someone who is now legally an adult?

Nobody should be dictated on how they live. There are other doctors who can save lives. Its not selfish to live how you want.

He gets disowned at the fries with pizza.

He's a literal millionaire

He choose to take the long-term annuity payout to get his money in installments.

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If your 22 year old daughter started cutting her leg off with an expensive replica of Aribeth's Sword from Neverwinter Nights she sold her car to have comissioned, would you go "Oh she's an adult so I don't give a fuck"?

I think you're confusing respecting independence with a state of complete apathy. Of course you care about your kids if you're a parent.

At least if you're not a jerk.

Because you want the best for your son? This is not a controversial take. We're not talking about demanding, but clearly advising him on doing something more fulfilling with his life.

Medicine in America in general is dying. It's becoming less and less about providing care to patients, and its more scutwork and paperwork nowadays to deal with insurance, and at the same time protecting yourself from malpractice lawyers with overdocumentation and filling out forms. Patients, at least in NY, have very unrealistic expectations which makes being a physician very difficult because there is really no solution to advanced comorbidities in the elderly; it is just making the patient as comfortable as possible. However, family members nowadays demand they make their loved ones be able to run the NYC marathon. And if you somehow do, they will still be unappreciative. On top of this, with awful reimbursements and high patient volumes, the career overall is absolutely not worth spending 7+ years of your life and 300K+ student loans for.

sounds like he is fulfilled

Because you want the best for your son? This is not a controversial take. We're not talking about demanding, but clearly advising him on doing something more fulfilling with his life.

As long as his lifestyle is sustainable and he's not gonna end up broke with nothing to fall on like so many other lottery winners, good for him. Living the dream.

He's a literal millionaire

And there are many, many accounts of lottery winners who blew their millions and ended up bankrupt, or worse.

True but they usually bought mansions and went around the world

Not sat in their pants in an apartment playing Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage (Gateway To Glimmer)

They also won ten times what this guy won or significantly more. As I mentioned, you're looking at a lower class lifestyle to try to stretch 11 mil pre-tax to 60 years, especially given that you don't have some of that money for up to 29 years. (If it's post-tax, you could live pretty comfortably as a single person, though. No mansion or anything, but you wouldn't need to work and could live a middle-class lifestyle easily. If he invests most of the early money to guard against inflation, he'll also do fine, but that wasn't mentioned.)

You're awful witth money if you can't make 11 million last a life time.

The median U.S. income in 2021 was $69,717.

You'd have to work for 100 years to get 11 million.

You don't understand how inflation works if you think about 7-8 million (because the 11 million is pre-tax) will last a lifetime