I've always heard that rich people never think they're rich and met someone like this. He's not loaded but definitely more comfortable than most people: grew up on a large farm his family owned, they had multiple houses in different states, had every single console growing up, parents helped him buy his house in his 20s. Whenever I talk to him he often tries to relate to me by saying "I was poor too, I didn't have Internet growing up". Internet wasn't even that common back then, especially in farm country.

Why are people like this? How can people be so blind to their own privilege? He's actually a pretty cool guy and a good friend but completely tone def at times. I feel like a lot of Americans are like this, completely unaware of how good we have it. My life was a struggle but I was definitely better off just for being born in America. The very fact that people have disposable income to buy so much useless crap is evidence of this.

For us poors anti-consumerism isn't a choice, it's just life. Maybe that's why this movement is gaining traction lately? This inflation has people stretched thin and making sacrifices on luxuries, and because they've always identified themselves as poor they're having trouble defining it properly.