I grew up dirt poor. We’d go whole winters without gas and electricity. I’d have to go do my homework outside on a park bench by a light as my house would be in darkness. My parents would be out at the pub most nights when I got home from school and there would be nothing in the house to eat so I’d walk the streets looking for change on the floor to scrape together 10p so I could buy a cone of batter bits from the chip shop. I was about 11/12 when I remember my 15 year old sister flashing boys at school for 50p so we could buy bread and some beans on the way home. Sometimes she’d get tinned hotdogs and a can of coke and they tasted like heaven.

I did well at school and ended up going on to study engineering at uni and now at 40 I co own a business with two men I met at uni that will probably be sold in the next couple of years netting us all high 7 figure/low 8 figure payouts.

Am I allowed to be rich because I worked hard to get it and grew up poor? What about my kids? Are they not allowed it because it’s generational wealth?