What Is Wrong With Our Parents?

WTF is wrong with our parents? My wife and I have spent almost two decades of leveling up in jobs and careers and are now in our late 30s with two small children in a HCOL state. We scraped and suffered to buy a small ranch house and two used larger cars for our family. Our credit suffered. I’m personally in $20k+ of cc debt that I am slowly working down. Our kids attend daycare that bled out our savings dry. Typical millennial shit. Last week I came across my FIL’s accounts summary. $10+M. Later that week I mentioned I saw that to my own dad. He said “Well he’s doing just a bit better than me then” LITERALLY WHAT THE FUCK. I would give my last dollar to my son to make sure he was more comfortable. To make sure he didn’t suffer debt or bad credit as long as he was working. Here are our own fucking parents sitting on their piles of gold watching us navigate a new level of fucked up economics and shopping for discounts and raising our children in sup par school districts and for fucking WHAT?

A Reddit-style text post describes a millennial couple struggling with debt, childcare costs, and expensive living while discovering that the wife’s father has more than $10 million. The punchline is the father’s casual response that the wealthy in-law is only “a bit better” off, highlighting the absurd generational wealth gap and parents’ unwillingness to help. It is shared as an angry, incredulous reaction to economic inequality and boomers’ financial privilege. EN: A Reddit-style text post describes a millennial couple struggling with debt, childcare costs, and expensive living while discovering that the wife’s father has more than $10 million. The punchline is the father’s casual response that the wealthy in-law is only “a bit better” off, highlighting the absurd generational wealth gap and parents’ unwillingness to help. It is shared as an angry, incredulous reaction to economic inequality and boomers’ financial privilege.

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