Most people on this forum are not upper middle class or significantly privileged. Maybe very few if any grew up in actual poverty, but there's a very fine line between that and what Fezzy is assuming in that basically everyone grew up like himself. My parents are very far above the poverty line, but they sure as hell aren't rich.
You have no idea how I grew up or anything about my family. So tell me, how is it that I assume everyone grew up? Because there are two conflicting stories you're telling. If I really think everyone grew up like I actually did, then that is very different from what I am articulating right now. So please enlighten me on what kind of life I live. I also seem to remember a poll from some time ago on forum members' classes, you might want to take a gander at that if you don't take my word for it.
I'm so over these trendy brats trying to be all different by faking poverty and hardship. In reality suburban American kids are all the same. It's pitiful to see people tripping all over themselves trying to fabricate this difficult life to make their sad, boring lives more interesting.
I'm thinking of the thread about your house for how you grew up.
You're making a rather amusing false dichotomy in this thread, amusing because it's kind of opebo-esque. Basically one is either prosperous and affluent or in poverty. And since no one on this forum has been in true poverty, everyone must've had an affluent upper-middle class upbringing. There's a lot more possible categories than that. Like I said, my parents make a lot more than the poverty line, but they sure as hell aren't rich. Hell I myself am making close to three times the poverty line and have enough money to have never missed a bill payment for any reason other than simply forgetting, yet calling me rich would be downright comical.
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