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by madmaniak 3436 days ago
This is what the author wrote in the very beginning. "I have always had a very prosperous job and enough money to give my kids almost anything". Where do I missed the claim it translates to everyone?
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Then why write it at all?

The entire piece is structured as a piece to inform. It's not written as a piece to entertain -- That structure would include things like anecdotes, stories, little events that happened that reinforce or express a point, e.g. "This one time Sam really did a bad job fixing his car and...".

The piece is clearly a piece to inform. Yes, he acknowledges his affluence at the very beginning, but that doesn't mean he's aware of what a 'normal' income is and the problems and struggles that entails or his circumstance is wildly different than that of the average family.

Maybe they are writing it for other affluent families? Plenty of affluent families manage to mess up raising their kids, this one seemed to do something right.
That's how I see it.