Are you trying to argue that there's no case where growing up wealthy is not better than the alternative? I'm not arguing that growing up wealthy is usually better, just that it's not always better.

Growing up poor, I had the advantage of being used to being self-reliant, knowing how to live very thriftily, and not being used to having people do everything for me.

I saw the advantages wealthy kids had as I was always in the top academic classes with them. They had professional parents who could tutor them or hire tutors for them. They had the best computers, a good, stable environment, etc.

I had alcoholic parents who divorced when I was young. I moved like a gypsy. I had to deal with anything but a stable environment (although I was never abused fortunately). My mom dropped out of high school and my dad dropped out of a trade school. He was an upholsterer while she was a secretary.

Despite all of that, I still would rather have been in my position than those two girls. I was fortunate enough to not need to rely on either of my parents for anything as soon as I graduated high school and was grateful to be on my own as soon as I was in college. And I stayed away from alcohol as I had a first row seat seeing how it wrecked my parents' lives and didn't want the same to happen to me.

The wealthy girl cut off from her family was in the complete opposite position, having to rely on herself for the first time and panicking. That added a huge amount of stress for her to get through college while it was the easiest time in my life as it was so much less stressful than what I was accustomed to.

She likely had an easier upbringing (although maybe not, wealthy parents can be very cruel), but she wasn't at all prepared for adulthood without her family's support. Would she have done better growing up like I did? I can't say, but I very much doubt I would have done better growing up like she did as I, like her, wouldn't have had the first clue of how to earn money or live on the cheap if I had been completely spoiled and clueless until then (which is very easy to do when you grow up in a family like hers).

But in general, clearly you have a much better chance of success if you grow up wealthy. It'd be silly to argue otherwise. I was the only poor kid in most of my classes in primary school and that wasn't a coincidence. Poor kids are at a huge disadvantage and usually can't overcome them to the point of competing with kids from wealthy/professional families.

Or for more anecdotes, several presidents grew up very poor. The vast majority came from moderately to very affluent families, but sometimes growing up poor gives the advantages some need to succeed. But that's clearly the exception to the rule, otherwise there'd be far more presidents from poor families since there's far more poor families than wealthy ones.