Date: July 5th, 2026 3:55 PM Author: avocado passionate stag film
whoops I misread OP but I would say that even if you had a roof over your head you count as growing up poor if your family regularly couldn't afford one or more of: electricity, food, running water
but yeah I agree people that made their way to white picket fence are way more likely to say that
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:07 PM Author: Wonderful Ruddy Garrison
Kind of how women dont see men who are under 6', they dont see the entire working class, just UMC and above so lower UMC is the floor and "poor" in a sense. To them
Date: July 5th, 2026 7:39 PM Author: Racy electric furnace
You just don’t understand!!! That bitch Kaitlyn wore head-to-toe Abercrombie and Kendra Scott jewelry while she had to get some of her wardrobe staples from Marshalls and Old Navy.
everything is experienced relative to your peers. this is the same kind of argument shitboomers make - "yeah Houses are 40-50x your Income now but back when I bought, we didn't have fancy electronics like iPhones!"
Date: July 5th, 2026 4:50 PM Author: avocado passionate stag film
you're in denial if you don't think some people in the U.S. are living like people in poor countries. obviously it's not as widespread here but there are absolutely people living in abject poverty.
Date: July 5th, 2026 5:19 PM Author: orchid hominid
yeah that's what I'm saying, it exists but the "I grew up poor" people aren't the ones who experience it. Maybe because they'd just say "I am poor atm" lol.
also because of credit cards the poorest idiots can experience Consoles and Disney World at least on occasion. so not experiencing these things is more likely to be parents not wanting to spend money on that shit, possibly combined with being frugal or Indian.
Date: July 6th, 2026 10:22 AM Author: Swollen Base
in the US you get free food, housing, and income. Not to mention the safety nets of police, fire, and adequate roadway/infastructure system. the only people who dont have this in the US are either drug addicts or retards.
you also do not have to worry about military conscription, child labor, sex slavery, and other brutal shit that happens in the slums of third world countries.
Jews fled persecution in Europe, came to America with 5 shekels in their pockets and somehow reached the pinnacle of their professions within a year of arriving.
Date: July 5th, 2026 7:47 PM Author: Racy electric furnace
People who grew up poor or poverty-adjacent mostly reminisce fondly about their upbringings and honor their families, even though, or maybe even *because* they struggled. But they do it very, very quietly and only in like company.
And then people who grew up poor AND caught up the some horrendous web of substance abusing family and similar things to hard to either end of the spectrum. Either they’re blowing up social media with a constant stream of attention-poasting about their “trauma” or they will work very, very, very had to avoid the subject of family and childhood altogether
Date: July 7th, 2026 8:09 AM Author: orchid hominid
That’s what I’m saying. Not just shame but that people will give them a blank look at best if they talk about it. It’s not the type of situation where you can milk it in any relevant way, and OCI is at stake.