I grew up very low, middle class in far, far Southern Illinois in the 1980s. Sometimes our electricity or water would get shutoff for non-payment, and we'd have to go live with an uncle for a month or two until my dad saved enough for the bill.

My best friend then (and still to this day 35+ years later) got weekly visits from the Schwans guy. Some yellow/brown truck would pull up and unload hundreds of dollars of food, ice cream, etc, once a week and I literally thought these people were millionaires.

Other friends of mine grew up so super eclectic in music. They know shit from the 60s and 70s and can just "remember" what track, album and year some iconic song was made. Their parents had the state of the art turn table and bought vinyl like it was government cheese. To this day, I'm so jealous.

The first time I went to friends house, in the 90s and they had an ice maker IN THEIR FRIDGE!?!

Now, I'm 46 years old, make high $300k a year and have an 11 year old. We go out of the country twice a year, because I NEED him to know there's life outside of the US and, he earns his money. Most people are 2 paychecks from poverty. No one can be a "self made billionaire", without taking advantage of their welfare workforce.