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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First generation American here- grew up with a single mom because dad abandoned us and took all the money with him. Tons of student loans. Worked 4 jobs in college and could barely afford shampoo. I’m an obvious minority and a woman and experienced it all. 20 years of hard work later I’m well off.

My absolute biggest privilege was being born in the USA. If you don’t get that, you’re ignorant of the world.[/quote]

Multiple people have gone off about this but it doesn't change the fact that the truly wealthy are usually a-hats who convince themselves that they deserve to be rich, no one else worked as hard as they do or their immigrant parents did (who came here with $1 and walked to and from their four jobs with no shoes uphill every day).  Yes, it is a nice thing to be born in the US compared to *some* other places, but it doesn't mean there aren't many, many people here who are living through great hardship.

Fact is, if you are wealthy, you got lucky in some way.  Tons of people work as hard or (likely) harder than you do every day and will never make six figures.  Tons of people have immigrant parents who worked four jobs and they are their kids never became wealthy.  Tons of people live good, honest lives and will never be wealthy.  If you are wealthy, you should be thankful for your good fortune, give back as much as you can, and stop believing you "deserve" this more than others.  You don't.  These myths about your life you tell yourself are just the way you soothe your (in some of your cases, vanishingly small) conscience.[/quote]

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