[alukima]

I try to explain this to people all the time. Most of my childhood friends/family worked much harder than any I know now and are just barely making it, some not at all.

I watch friends in the Bay Area spend everything-save nothing and then call the homeless kids in the Haight lazy bums. I have a savings but if the tech bubble did burst there's a very real chance I could end up home. My family doesn't have wealth and some of my siblings are already homeless.