poor folks can work and achieve stuff. they just have to beat the odds stacked against them.

and whatever they achieve will just always been less than what the rich and privileged folks were born into, and they will forever look down on them for it.

poor people’s achievements are rich people’s failures. like a poor person going to college is a huge deal… for a rich person it’s the equivalent of learning to tie your shoes.

I’m in the no man’s land of being born into a poor family, having made it ‘big’ by getting a fancy education, but then only having a middle-class life, and basically being told by everyone I’m a rich privileged assholes and a poor loser piece of shit, depending on their mood at the moment, often from the same person. Schrodinger economic status, I guess?

But I’m also an asshole in that I view folks in their economic whole, and I don’t really believe them when they cry poor.