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[quote=Anonymous]I’m always astonished by the rich people on here’s who tick they aren’t rich.  $300,000!!!!  Even $3,000 just out of college would have been life changing for me, to have the cushion of an emergency fund.

ANd then people are commenting that they’d rather have their parents alive than have all of their millions.  Well, duh!  But what HUGe privilege you had while they write alive yo never have to worry about money!  To never have to fear you couldn’t get surgery you needed, or couldn’t fix the car that got you to work and would then lose your job and home.

I have clawed my way up to the middle class after grow No up with addict parents in poverty.  My parents didn’t live to see my kids, either, but their elderly years were triple stressors for me because I had to financially care for them in retirement, too.  They had nothing but soxiabsecirity (and I know that even that makes us privileged compared to many.) I burned through my whole life savings in my 30’s because we couldn’t afford assisted living for my dad.  I’m now in my Kate 40’s with a young child, a good solid government job, and we have enough at the end of every month to get to take a vacation each year at a state park and go on some long weekends together camping and hiking.  He has never worried about food or money.  We are SO lucky.  But we have almost no savings and there is no older generation to bail us out if I lose my job or get disabled.  You guys have NO idea how lucky you are.

So yeah, I’m envious, too, OP.  I have lived my whole life with financial stress.  My whole childhood was fear of eviction, fear that the food would run out before the end of the month.  I know I’ve made a huge leap forward in one generation and I’m proud.  But I’m still envious.  I’m sure my life has been significantly shortened by chronic stress , while so many DCUM people have no idea what real stress is.  I am acutely aware, too, that I am still SO vastly privileged compared to the rest of the humans on the planet.  I have never had acute food insecurity for a ling time and have always had a home of some kind.

Yeah, sometimes the envy burns.  Especially as it is so unfair.  There is no merit to rich inheritors, and so, so many horrible rich people out there.[/quote]

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