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They love pretending they are poor when it suits them, yes indeed. Stop parroting their non-sense. They are one SIGNIFICANT disaster away from sharing a homeless shelter with the poors, or more realistically, couch-surfing or staying in a friend's guest-room. They are also more likely to do those things quickly, versus genuine poor people. Meanwhile, their bank accounts are flush from selling off furniture, and maybe one of their vehicles. Retirement plans un-touched.
gods help them, they might have to rent-out a house or cash-out some of their equity! I'm sitting over here with a family of four, $130,000 in yearly income between my wife and I, and you think my "plight" is comparable to the trailer-park residents, Section 8 - apartment dwellers, and/or people with multiple un-related roommates scraping by on the median income of $35,000 a year?
Had your power or water shut-off because you were genuinely unable to pay it in the last 5 or ten years? Ever been on food-stamps for more than a few months(we have, over 10 years ago)? I'll bet not, or you wouldn't be spouting this garbage.
I'll bet you're angry the genuinely low-income kids are often exempt from fees for extra-curriculars, while yours(or a neice/nephew, or friends' kids) aren't. Anyone you hear bitching about that is full of it.
Personally, we pay an absurd amount of money for things like sports, dance lessons, scouting, friggen motorsports for teens!!(okay, that's the neighbors), and more, but here's the thing; We can afford to. When you hear about cutting out Starbuck's Coffee and Avocado toast, you're right to think that's not helping anyone and the people saying it would never actually do it; We have SO MUCH FAT to cut from our budgets if things get bad enough.
Hell, most of my friends went FIRE. Still working part-time jobs in their mid-30's, but they don't even need those. They don't have kids, so they live like kings and I don't even have reason to envy them. None of their parents made over $100,000/yr, not even as families, and they still don't.