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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe I’m in the minority but I just don’t feel this way. I grew up poor, now make more money than I thought possible, and have always viewed the wealthy as people who have something I can learn. I’m not at all like the cynical pp who thinks that only the wealth can get/stay wealthy. Really rich people are an inspiration. [/quote]

Me, too. [b] It's interesting to me that most of the resentment being expressed here is from people who grew up UMC around generational wealth.  I think it's because the UMC kids are entitled, themselves, and it makes them furious to find out that there are people who were given more.  If you grow up poor, you realize that you're not entitled to anything. [/b]   If you grew up UMC in New York, you're probably not going to know many people who moved up in life, because you're already so near the top. The "rich" people in my home town were poorer than the "middle class" people in DC.  I know lots of people who are better off than their parents, because I know people who grew up poor or lower middle class.  Yes, luck is part of it, but they all worked extremely hard, because [b]they realized that they had no room for error, and no one was going to give them anything. [/b]  [/quote]

I hope I know you IRL.  You get it. [/quote]

Plus 1000   I grew up with no safety net financially or emotionally. I had to keep a certain gpa for my scholarship, if I didn’t have that I would not have many other options.  I worked from the time I could and I absolutely sought to create financial stability for myself and my kids.  I don’t envy others, and I don’t flaunt what we have but I make darn sure my kids understand our backgrounds and sacrifices.   Now, to be fair, I was born with some advantages, white, reasonably smart, reasonably good looking, extroverted personality, athletic.  My parents dysfunction and poverty was tough but I made it out through hard work and definitely some luck. On the flip side, I’ve battled depression, anxiety and an addictive personality my whole life- that was also part of the gene pool. [/quote]

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