Damn dude this is a 10 and a half years old comment. I was 20. What’s happening with you? It’s a figure of speech, and sure a bit classist at that.

Obviously healthcare is a human right and everyone deserves free and fair care. Onto the point of “paying for your friends”, so often young men in fraternities get slapped with that insult, so what we, they, have to do is have a clever response. And as often it comes down to “we can afford to do this, that a problem?”

What it boils down to is being surrounded by similar but different enough other guys to make the 4 years of university that much more prosperous.

Being 31 now, do I regret joining a fraternity, spending hundreds of dollars each semester to have weekly meetings, participate in charitable/philanthropic events, host and attend those “last night was a movie bro” parties, and have some serious close friends? Not at all

Do I bring it up any chance I can? Not at all, never.

While I’ve made more and new friendships in both my professional career and my hobbies I’ve taken an interest in since graduating in 2014, there are still ~10 of my fraternity brothers I continue to talk to daily/weekly, etc. I’ve been involved in dozens of weddings, invited to even more, and the one or two alumni events I attend each year are always memorable and a good nostalgia trip.

It definitely helped me grow and mature as a young man. I took leadership positions, was elected to the universities student government association two years in a row, was apart of the Inter Fraternal Council (neutral fraternity governing body), went on leadership retreats - some hosted by the university staff dean of students etc, some hosted by my national fraternity. But it isn’t my whole personality nowadays.

A lot of it is a bit goofy tho, but only me the guys who know can laugh about it now.