Did you grow up poor or with parents that had good jobs and money? How was your life growing up at home?
>>80081890my parents had plenty of money but weren't much inclined to spend it. This annoyed me a bit at the time but twenty-something years later I'm glad that I'm in line to inherit money instead of having to figure out how to pay for their medical care. some of it rubbed off, I refuse to get cable or streaming, or pay to have food delivered, because my dad thought that was a waste of money despite making six figures.
>>80081890My family is old money wealthy, so I had a great life so far.
My parents were immigrants and ran a restaurant. They made pretty good money off of it. We tended to have nicer, newer things than a lot of people we knew. But the tradeoff was that it took most of their time so I was always either with a babysitter or had to be at the restaurant too.Also my parents were extremely strict and extremely cold-hearted towards me. Sometimes I would cry at the end of the school day because I didn't want to go home.
>>80081948I had immigrant parents too that worked jobs that were a little better than minimum wage and was at the babysitter alot too. Also grew up on public assistance. Is that bad? Should my parents be ashamed?
>>80081890Parents had good money but were almost comically bad at everything so it didn't matter>had six kids all spaced out at least 7 years apart>kept "investing" in clear scams -- the funniest and most recent being eyedrop contact lenses>rented for decades even when they could have easily purchased multiple homes>spent tons of money trying to get their kids to do country club sports and rare instruments while ignoring any of their actual interests>bought tens of thousands in Chinese tech penny stocks, almost all of it vanished>paid for the entirety of my older brother's college. forgot to save for any of his siblingsmy dad was making $400k/year at his peak btw
