If they’re in the US and didn’t grow up with “comfortable” parents, probably not. I’m in the same boat (edit: my partner and I make this combined) and it gets real tiring seeing people making equivalent money and acting like I’m irresponsible just because I’m broke. You know why I’m in so much fucking debt? Because my parents couldn’t support me through college like theirs could. I had to pay full room and board, cover my own food, buy my own cars without a co-signer, pay for all the insurance, and be working full time to do all that on top of school, which I paid for with loans once the grants ran out. And that school is how I make as much as I do.

Some dude had the gall to ask my why I didn’t have a savings right after he talked about his parents setting him up with a credit card at the age of 15 to start building his credit passively. And talking about how his parents used to pay for his plane tickets to go work over the summer at school and all he’d need to do was work “for beer money” but they usually ended up paying off his credit card for him.

These people don’t know what it’s like to couch surf with an infant or to be denied unemployment because your boss lied about why they fired you. By the way, are these pretentious fucks aware that filing a “false” unemployment claim can cause your WIC and food stamps to get “audited” and potentially lose you a month of benefits even if it’s unfounded? Because I fucking know that. But if I even shared with most of my coworkers that I’ve been on food stamps they’d think I was lazy or something.