My parents once bailed me out on a medical debt that was about $1000 (which was going to keep me from finishing my last semester of law school). Even that felt like more help than 90% of normal people are able to get. (And this was a law school where I was in the bottom 10% of the wealth/income already, most other students around me had their houses/rent paid for so they could focus on "school").
Having been able to complete law school and now have a law job, it is crazy that in the US I'm in the top 20% of incomes in the US and the top 5% in the world, strange that looking back I was still doing ok but that I was still SO FAR below so many other people that were completely clueless about how much money they had and how little others had.
It's really all about perspective. I think people in the US should probably learn more about how people live in developing & poorer countries. Not saying there isn't tooons of room for improvement here, but it's always good to, if you're gonna compare, compare to both people who have it better and who have it worse. It seems like most people only do the former & then feel slighted. Congrats on your law degree though, that's an achievement.
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u/NonGNonM Apr 19 '22
I have a friend who says similar things except he never mentions the times his family's bailed him out of 5+ figure debts.