Upper middle class (single mom so single income household) but it drives me nuts, too. Having any kind of upper or rich or whatever background gives you advantages your whole life other kids can't have, not because you worked hard or deserve it but just because you were lucky. You didn't work for the upbringing you had, your parents did, or they inherited money too.

To have had a privileged background then claim some rags to riches story is bullshit- it's disrespectful to those kids do who had to balance their lives with struggles a lot of us will never understand and cannot comprehend.

These are the kids who then grow up to whine about taxes and welfare. "Well, I never had to rely on welfare!" No shit your dads a surgeon and your mom a pediatrician. "No one ever gave me anything!" Sure it was a ghost that introduced you to the PR firm you interned with which gave you the experience you needed for a job. "Poor people are poor because they're lazy!" How'd you get the lawn to mow itself?

I'm sorry, man. I cant the imagine how infuriating it must be to have grown up poor and hear people thumping their chest about how hard they worked to have everything handed to them. College, never having to worry about money for college or dorms or food, these are all extremely rare luxuries yet from the way people talk you'd say everyone is born with a college dorm waiting for them.

I went to a private art school and hearing kids say "lol we're so poor lol" for four years was absolutely remarkable. We're in a private art school, dude. How are we poor because you can't get a professional cintiq shitheel.