And in this, at least, the world has not changed much. There has always been a relative minority of wealthy kids who believed they deserved the world handed to them on a silver platter, and that any trouble they had could be fixed with money.
Being the vicious, vindictive bastard I am, I've always found it most amusing when those types finally get what's coming to them, especially when it involves a nice long stretch in a prison filled with the very kinds of people they stepped on all their lives. Sorry, but that's the way I am.