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“Growing up in poverty never did me any harm” insists man psychologically compelled to wish similar financial hardship on others (newsthump.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

In my experience, boomers will definitely say this but only mean it for their kids (assuming they don't get disowned for breaking the boomer's idea of normal). Psychologically speaking, there's a sinful lack of empathy there, but they won't hear of it.

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