Class Consciousness - What's your story?

My bio mom worked at Walmart her entire adult life and my bio dad is homeless while my adoptive parents (aunt and uncle) have literally 6 homes, one in park city, two in Maui and one luxury condo they are planning to retire in. And compared to their friends they don't see themselves as that wealthy. They certainly aren't smarter or harder working than anyone else either, although they are really nice people. My uncle is intelligent but not that intelligent. He just happened to be born as a white male in the 50s to educated upper middle class parents who were able to give their kids a stable home and send them to college. My biological parents are both Native American and were born into poverty, had to deal with racism growing up and dysfunctional catholic families. My father was sexually abused and dyslexic and has been self medicating for years, first with alcohol then harder drugs until he eventually ended up on the streets. My mother left him when he tried to sexually assault her in front of me when I was a toddler.

Growing up I split my time between all 3 families so it was always pretty obvious what was going on. I was a member of their country club and would spend summers walking across the street to learn tennis and golf or traveling to Maui for the 4th time or Disney World or the Grand Canyon then spend part of the school year with my mother in a house with my grandmother and uncle and great uncle who lived in the garage. That house was very old and in a poor neighborhood and across a field from several refineries. My grandma has had 3 different types of cancer.

And that's not even telling ya'll about what's happened to me!

When I see people defend really wealthy people with their deluded ideas about how they came to be wealthy they make it obvious they've never actually been around people with a lot of money and have no clue how completely out of touch with reality people with money are. They really do live in a bubble.

A few months ago I was leaving my adopted parents condo after having dinner and wine with them and drove past an old woman sleeping on a bus stop bench with her walker and bags parked next to her.

/r/LateStageCapitalism Thread