Reason to be cheerful:

And, of course, kids can be a handy vehicle for combating status anxiety: even if your net worth is failing to keep up with the Einsteins' next door, you can still take solace in the fact that while the Einsteins' son is barely speaking in complete sentences, your son is already reading Heidegger.

I'd never considered Einstein's net worth before, but all those licensing fees must amount to a tidy sum.  ¶ 3:29 AM