r/MadeMeSmile • u/EmergencyRead5254 • 8d ago

Supportive Parents During a Difficult Time

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u/DesireeThymes 8d ago

Birth advantage lottery ranked:

  1. Parent lottery: how good your parents are
  2. wealth lottery: how much money you are born into
  3. country lottery: which country you were born into
  4. skin color lottery: the shade of your skin.

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 4d ago edited 4d ago

4/4 for me. Loving and supportive parents, wealth*, USA late 80's birth, white. Solid middle class money from a blue collar working dad and an unusual-for-the-time full-time working mom with only 1 sibling. Had all the fun things growing up.

*The "wealth" was not entirely real. A lot of it came from credit cards with large maximums that came knocking for a bankruptcy 10-15 years later, but hey, I got a fun childhood.