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People assume life will get better after high school. Family life, work, friends, etc.. Doesn’t really work out that way for most people, so they start looking at their past as their best of days. It may be more apparent for US citizens because a large part of our history education is the concept of “American exceptionalism,” which really only existed for the small generation right out of WWII.
Worked out that way for me. I hated my life as a kid and college student and love my adulthood that only gets better and better with time.
But it's true most people I meet... seem stuck in the past. And I'm meeting people in their 30s mostly who seem deeply bitter and unhappy that they aren't multi-millionaires they thought they would be. And I'm sitting over here perfectly content with my 500K of net worth.
500k would be life changing. Even 100k would be
in my city people consider you a failure at life if you aren't somewhere between 5-50 million.
it's stupid and revolting, but it is what it is. everyone wants to cry about how poor they are and then condemn anyone with less money than them. I do not understand it, but I grew up poor and had to earn my own money, the little prole that I am.