<prompt> Human: I hear people say Oh, they must have old money or Oh, their sitting on old money. During the Recession in 08, I heard many of the people were able to keep their home and jobs due to Old Money. Based on what I hear and observation of these people, the term Old Money means money that has been cycled through the generations of family and tend to be solidified in the Economy to withstand any current hardships of an American Financial Collapse. These individuals with Old Money tend to have stakes in big corporations that they invested in Pre-90s andor buying homes before the inevitable inflation of the housing market. Natural commodities were more valuable to invest in at the time these people were buying. Now everything is fast paced and made cheaply. I dont think its rare anymore to find something buying and holding onto long enough without the chance of it being worthless in the future. I guess its typically the baby boomers who have this old money. On the other hand, the term New Money, I am assuming is the modern money and would be the more common fluid money running todays markets; and possible the money that will ultimately be hit the hardest in a future next recession. New Money moves fast, New Money is gauging this current economy in a spiked upward direction at an alarming rate according to the economic analyst. So my question, how do I set myself up to solidify my money as Old Money for the future? I just dont feel natural commodities are as valuable as they used to be. What can I invest in to make sure my money stays at an elevated level and wont be impacted by the next move our wonderful leaders decide to take. Im not sure if Im making complete sense so please feel free to critique my post and anything else I may not be seeing clearly. Also, I apologize if its a bit scattered, I am writing this at work. Assistant: Old money vs. new money is more a descriptor of the source of someones wealth. Old money are people who are rich simply because their family has been rich forever. New money are people who got extremely wealthy themselves, lots of tech people now are new money.Human: Based on it being a generational type of descriptor, it is safe to say some new money being made today will one day become old money? Will tech market hold up the way some of the old markets have held up over the decades? Do people really believe TSLA will hold up for the next 100 years like FORD?  <response>: Sure if you make millions in the market and pass it down then your kids are old money but source of wealth is irrelevant. I could invent a thing that laces shoes for you and become a millionaire and pass it all to my kids and their kidss kids. Thats old money. Someone could win the lotto and not be an idiot and pass down millions. 