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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
No, I'm not poor.
But I was relatively low on the totem pole growing up.
My father took his first job after graduate school, in the 20k range. High 20k I think. Then he lost his job when the economy turned south in Texas during the oil bust.
What were the wrong choices he made?
I never went hungry so I wasn't truly poor.
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Well, I didn't say "all", so I'm not going to respond to every counterexample you want to conjure up.
My wife for a time was truly poor and it was because of some of the choices her dad made.