Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3146930-20150305174707

So obviously Weiss is supposed to be the rich girl, coming from a family that pretty much has a monopoly on Dust. Blake as far as we know has no known family and most likely got her weapon as a perk of being with the White Fang, but is most likely poor. However lets look at Yang and Ruby.

Yang owns a motorcycle, a very impressive looking motorcycle I might add. She is only 17 so no matter how many burgers she flipped before going to Beacon, she can't afford that bike. She is also a full time student so she doesn't have any gas money...Dust Lien. Ruby isn't old enough to drive yet, so obviously she doesn't own a car.

However Ruby did go to school in the city despite her and Yang growing up on an island. That could mean Ruby took a boat or airship into the city for school or her dad set her up with boarding at the school. Either way, that can get pretty expensive, especially at a 4 year school. Supposedly both Yang and Ruby went to Signal so that would be a combined 8 years of in-house boarding plus another 4 years at Beacon.

Now besides growing up on an island, all we know is that their father and both their mothers were Hunters, a job that is not easy to get. We also know that before her death, Summer was still taking on jobs. She could have been taking them from some kind of official Hunter job page in the paper or taking them independently. Either way I'm sure she was bringing in money. Plus if she had a life insurance policy then after she died, then her husband would get a ton of money possibly. It also appears that Taiyang may also take on jobs from time to time, as he had to leave the dog with Ruby and Yang. Lastly if he still lives on the island, he could have few expensive outside the usual (food, water, electricity maybe). As a result all his money is just gaining interest in some bank somewhere. 