Anonymous wrote:Rich people don't realize that poor people can't afford to buy in bulk in order to save money. Even a 16 pack of toilet paper costs too much, so you buy the 4pack instead. Even though the 16 pack costs less per roll.

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There is an enormous difference in the way rich people and poor people talk to their children.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich people don't know that meritocracy is a myth.

I know a lot of very smart, very hardworking young people who will never achieve as much as they deserve to, and many wealthy and entitled young people who will be given jobs just for breathing and occupying space.

This times one million!

Rich people have zero idea how easy they have it in most aspects of life.

To be fair , this is applicable to like the majority of UMC and middle class whites who are more likelt to have been beneficiaries of such mechanisms

I'm UMC from a dirt poor background. I have benefited from theme meritocracy.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich people don't know that meritocracy is a myth.

I know a lot of very smart, very hardworking young people who will never achieve as much as they deserve to, and many wealthy and entitled young people who will be given jobs just for breathing and occupying space.

This times one million!

Rich people have zero idea how easy they have it in most aspects of life.

To be fair , this is applicable to like the majority of UMC and middle class whites who are more likelt to have been beneficiaries of such mechanisms

Anonymous wrote:I am a nanny. My first “nanny” job was in a rural area as a sort of live-in (part-time help in exchange for room and board). The family I worked with then had 5 kids and live in rural upstate new york and have always been close to the wire. Kids are currently 18, 16, 13, 10 and 9. Recent story that mom shared with me:

The pipe from the woodstove they use to heat their house all winter vents the heat near the roof. Apparently, there was some insulation too close to it that caught fire. Dad was out of town. Mom was recovering from surgery and bedridden. When the smoke alarms went off, the 18yo boy called 911 and got mom, youngest 3 kids and their pets to safety in the barn. The 16yo boy got their fire extinguisher and went out a window and onto the roof, where he punched a hole with the extinguisher and sprayed into the crawlspace where the fire was spreading, and repeated a few times until the fire was out. By the time the fire department had arrived, there was nothing left for them to do.

I comparw that kind of awareness and responsibility and self-efficacy to the wealthy kids I nanny for now and just shake my head.

Anonymous wrote:I used my first bonus check when I finally got a really good job to fix my teeth after YEARS of neglect. I had several root canals, teeth extracted, crowns, etc. I got braces.

Also, when I first moved away to go to school at age 17, I was always embarrassed/scared to use certain words because while I knew a lot of "big" words (from books) I didn't know how to pronounce them (this was pre-internet) because nobody I knew used them.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich people don't know that meritocracy is a myth.

I know a lot of very smart, very hardworking young people who will never achieve as much as they deserve to, and many wealthy and entitled young people who will be given jobs just for breathing and occupying space.

This times one million!

Rich people have zero idea how easy they have it in most aspects of life.

You just described white privilege too.

Same thing I just said. If you have not been white, how do you know how hard their life is? If you are not white, how do you know that the problems you have experienced in your life are due to your skin color?

Because, you complete jagoff, I have ridden in a car while a very dark-skinned person was driving. Got pulled over and harassed in a way I never have when my pale ass was driving.

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This.

I started driving a tractor at age 6. I drove a 34' trailer on my 16th birthday. I drove a loaded trailer to florida and back by myself when I was 17.

things my rich DH didn't know: that you cut the rotten parts out of food and eat it anyway. How do to...everything. How to change a tire and plant a garden. How to can and preserve food you grew yourself. Which wild plants you can eat and which are poisonous. How to hot wire a vehicle. That you should keep jumper cables in the car and know how to use them. A thousand other things.

I would like to see a comprehensive list actually.

I know some of the things you know, but not all. And I know some different things:

How to kill and dress a chicken.
How to build a fire for warmth when you're half asleep, every morning.
Chopping wood, gardening
Yes, changing a tire, hearing when a car isn't right
Fixing stuff instead of calling tech support or replacing
Not giving up immediately.
Getting shit done in general.

A comprehensive list isn’t really possible but I know all those things. Are you rich?

However, it is 12:42 a.m, and I just finished painting some trim on my home. I started painting for my dad, who was a construction worker, at the age of 7. Before that I would be the cleanup person at his job sites when he picked me up from K and first grade.

We grew up with a coal stove and no other heat. I didn’t have electric or gas heat until I went to college. A glass of water used to freeze in my bedroom 8n winter. We slept in army surplus sleeping bags, the ones with a hole for your face only.

When I was 5 some wild dogs came, dug under the fence and slaughtered our chickens. I helped process them. And later, dozens of deer, beef and pigs. I have castrated at least 100 pigs personally, and dehorned hundreds of cattle because, while female, I am good with blood and calm in stressful times. Dehorning is a heck of a day if you haven’t done it.

I can kill an injured animal with a shovel to the neck, and have many times. I also know how to shoot larger livestock so they don’t suffer.

I need not go on and on I am sure. I went from hillbilly to Ivy League and was the rare student who went with an entire large box of canned venison so I would have some meat while there....there aren’t many of us.