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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An example of hard-working, high earning dcum self-made from rags to riches:
"I am smart and I got the degree bcs I am smart, and I earned that degree and I worked hard for it. I am a self-made millionaire, all by myself. Nobody helped me, I work hard, I will even drive an uber to earn more money. So, no I am not privileged at all, I am a self-made rag to riches story!"

(update to the post, mom and dad paid for college, and grad school, and off-campus housing, and a new corolla, and food since college food is gross. So, of course, I have a car to drive as an uber! And the down payments and they got the job with uncle Jimmy at his law firm. That does not help, that is just what every kid got! And I had to work way harder for it, than Suzy and Mark and Kevin, cause their dad is Jeff Bezos! I am actually from the ghetto, in Potomac, do you know how hard that was for me? That they had a huge place in DC, but I have to live in the sticks!"
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Or, here is my real one.  I grew up in the midwest.  My parents worked their whole lives; we weren't poor, but we could see it from our standard of living.  It was a big deal to get a new pair of shoes.  The schools were horrible, though I didn't know it until much later.  There were no vacations, except the driving ones to see my grandparents; we couldn't afford hotels, except for a one night stay at the Howard Johnson every now and then (I didn't fly on an airplane until I was in my twenties).  I got my first job in seventh grade and worked through high school at the grocery store and in college as a janitor.  I was  the first person in my family to go to college.  I paid for college and law school with student debt and what little I earned.  I made it to big law and my big partner salary because I worked incredibly hard and finished at the top of my law school class; I got lucky , too, as does anyone who makes it to the point of earning millions.  But most don't get to that point without a lot of sweat equity.  My biggest concern as an adult is that my kids don't know what it is to strive and struggle, and I have told them a million times that my wife and I worked hard, sure, but that a lot of people worked just as hard and things just didn't break their way.

I don't have a hard luck story (mine is a common one among economically similarly situated people), but I damn sure wasn't raised privileged.     [/quote]

Don’t bother, OP is going to tell you how stupid you are for even posting this and not seeing your privilege in having shoes and grandparents. [/quote]

Or that your parents were married so you're privileged and how lucky you were to not be abused. [/quote]

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