Anonymous #1 16h

That’s why you have grandparents

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Anonymous #1 16h

i got my school paid for so thats a perk, and i went on vacations as a kid and i feel like thats helped me out a lot in life, but theyre so fucking cheap anytime we’d travel we’d have ti turn our phones off so we dont GOD FORBID accidentally get a 50 cent per minute phone call bill

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Anonymous OP 16h

no my grandparents r the ones w money and that are stingy. and my parents r afraid to buy me anything cause they dont wanna look bad in front of my grandparents

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Anonymous #1 16h

which ofc as a bratty tween missing my friends every summer pissed me off. which led to me getting the “ungrateful” label. so theyve made it a point to make me get a job while in school (even tho i dont have rent to pay so i literally dont need it, its just about images)

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Anonymous #3 16h

You obviously haven’t been to my highschool or… college 😂😂

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Anonymous #3 16h

the privilege some people live with is genuinely unfathomable, and the worst part is that a lot of them refuse to even recognize the fact that they’re immensely privileged in comparison to the rest of the world.

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Anonymous #4 16h

This is such insane behavior that it has to be bait

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Anonymous #3 16h

?? i think they were agreeing w u

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Anonymous #1 16h

I’m talking about OP

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Anonymous #3 16h

oh i mean there r one or two cyber trucks at my college. and at my private highschool people drove teslas and stuff (cyber trucks werent out yet). certain breeds of rich people loveee the status symbol they get when even their kids driving around in a nice car

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Anonymous #5 16h

Government denied her social security for 10 years and taxed most of the backpay when she was finally awarded it. Trump just changed taxes so she pays more from what little she gets now. My families have been in the US since the colonies and immigration documentation, immigrating with just the clothes on their backs to avoid being killed by their home counties governments. But yeah, our fault we don’t have money

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Anonymous #5 16h

Your grandma has land and property, which is more than a lot of people who’ve been here just as long have. Your situation is horrible, but other family members could’ve worked together to help her, which is a separate issue. My point is that I understand having nothing if your family immigrated here one generation ago, but after 2+ generations in the US, how does a family still have nothing to show for it?

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Anonymous #1 16h

i think theres smth to be said about the work ethic that comes out of necessity and the one that comes out of comfort. im lowkey a stoner hippie more than a grinder tho so im a little fucked but

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Anonymous #1 16h

also its not just work ethic ofc. luck and opportunity have a LOT to do w it

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Anonymous #1 16h

2-3+ generations of family is more than enough time to seek opportunities or build luck. Means someone in your family wasn’t grinding or taking steps to build generational wealth

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Anonymous OP 16h

shit happens man. getting sick or just meeting misfortune in general and set back any amount of progress also, not everyone naturally wants to go into fields that make a lot of money. u cant fault someone for going into education over say investment banking even tho one clearly makes more money

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Anonymous OP 16h

did u even read what i said lol

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Anonymous OP 16h

Land and property doesn’t mean shit when you pay more in property taxes than she can save in a year. And what other family members? Dad’s sister is dead. Mom’s older sister’s wife is dying of metastatic cancer and they pay for twice weekly chemo, radiation, and experimental treatments, mom’s younger sister fled an abusive marriage and owes thousands in court fees and current husband barely makes enough to keep their home.

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Anonymous #1 16h

Yeah I get that. I don’t expect everyone to be well off or comfortable, etc… life happens. But the amount of people who aren’t is actually incredible.

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Anonymous OP 16h

my moms side grinded and successfully built generational wealth cause my grandfather was a finance wiz. on my dad’s side my grandfather was drafted to vietnam at 18 and came back a stoner with no money and no hope. idk what the fam was like before him but ik my dad was poor as fuck cause of it

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Anonymous OP 16h

Let’s also not forget 3 generations ago the Great Depression that caused many people to lose EVERYTHING. I actually recently found my great grandma’s parents bank book when we cleaned out her house after she died (lived to 101, and needed 24 hour medical care, imagine how much that costs the family), and saw the last entry a week before the stock market crash. They lost EVERYTHING. Great grandpa drove the school bus for a literal penny a day while also keeping up the farm

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Anonymous #5 16h

Her situation is horrible and I wish her and your family the best. But there are a lot of other people not going through that and they are still not well off. Like not even middle class. Very poor although their family was here for generations

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Anonymous OP 16h

Is some people’s situation tied to poor decisions? Sure. Are a majority of people dealing with small problems that snowball into financial ruin due to our failing systems? Yes

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Anonymous #3 16h

a cybertruck or any tesla or even the newest Bronco for a teenager is basically screaming “idgaf about safety ratings for my child’s vehicle” tbh 😵‍💫

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Anonymous OP 16h

You’re telling me you’re genuinely confused as to why wealth is concentrated in a tiny group of ppl like it always has been in all of human history, bc not everyone’s relatives are rich

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Anonymous #2 16h

I’m not talking about the small percentage of people with $200M+. I’m talking about people with $500K to $10M+. If your family has been here for 3 to 4 generations and collectively has less than $10K to show for it, that’s a HUGE problem. Even consistently putting small amounts into savings or investments over the years could’ve made a massive difference.

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Anonymous OP 16h

i think there’s just a lot that can go wrong and cause someone to lose their savings. we have several wars, economic collapses, businesses can bankrupt, people can get randomly fired, people can have unexpected or too many kids, someone can lose all their savings sending a family member to college, a lot can happen

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Anonymous OP 16h

My mom has early onset Alzheimer’s her memory care is 7500 a month out of pocket, and that’s a cheaper one. There’s no insurance for this except Medicaid….after you’ve spent all your money.

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