I suspect I'm quite a bit older than you. I'm a Gen X with 3 grown millennial boys. That said, I agree with you.

My parents grew up during the depression, Black and poor. You know what they wanted for me? Hunger in my belly? Lack? Ugly, ill-fitting clothes? No, they wanted and gave me everything they could to make sure I never felt those things! Oh and education, the one thing they thought might lift me out of the cycle.

Then I had kids. And the struggle was real. I remember writing cheques I knew weren't going to clear (but it took 2 weeks then, si I knew the cash would be there by then) to buy food for my boys. I remember never buying clothes for myself and working 3 jobs.

I remember going back to school to get, not 1 but 2 degrees. And I did that shit because I never wanted my kids to feel that stress of lack.

They are all good boys, they all have good jobs. Their father belittles them. It's out of jealously. He classes it as character building, but it isn't, it's pure and simple jealously that hihs kids surpassed him and his lot in life, which by the way is EXACTLY what we want for our kids if we have half a brain.

This poverty porn, nobility in the struggle shit is just that, bullshit. Imma bout the write about this myself and I'm gonna credit you for reminding me.