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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.  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.    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 they realized that they had no room for error, and no one was going to give them anything.   [/quote]

I’m the pp you’re responding to. Good point! Growing up poor, EVERYONE had more than me. Only a few people had less. So I didn’t focus in on the rich as a target to hate. On the contrary, by high school I was hanging out with rich (not UMC- rich) kids from a few private schools. They had no problem showing me the ropes and they explained why I should have hope for my future. I don’t harbor any resentment at all- I am grateful. A lot of rich people are more than happy to help other people figure out how to get ahead. [/quote]

Showing you what “ropes”? How to seek a disbursement from the trust to pay for law school? Those are the rich kid ropes. I know because I was one. None of my rich friends had any additional smarts or savvy. They did, however, have a line in with the good internships.[/quote]

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