Respect is a relative word. While, it my serve as big admiration for someone, it might not mean the same to others. Demeaning someone else's life and telling everything is easy if their father is a milliinaire is not a correct way of expressing that. However, money just doesn't grow on trees, so definately people put up for all the sacrifices to become a millionaraire. There are stuffs that they lose as parents, unless obivously you won the lottery. At the end its all justified, where you start and where you want to go.
On a side note, tell him to sing "Started from the bottom, now we here'. it would be awesome.