Hi, guys.
Welcome back to anything goes.
Okay, so today's episode is inspired by a question that I answered in my last episode that I cut out because I ended up deciding that I wanted to make an entire episode about this.
And the question that someone asked me, Washington, along the lines of this, hi, Emma.
I'm struggling because I'm a middle class person, but I go to school with a lot of rich people, and it makes me feel really bad about myself, and I need help.
Like, how do I not look at things like that?
And how do I stop the jealousy?
Right?
And I got that question, and I related to it beyond belief, and I got super passionate.
Like, I was, like, screaming when I was answering this question.
And I realized, you know what, Emma?
Let's make this into an episode, because there's a lot here, and I really, really want to dig into this topic, just the overall jealousy of wealth and the truth of it, because I grew up in a very normal family where, like, meaning my parents and I.
Where, you know, they were by no means rich.
And, you know, my parents got divorced when I was five, so I kind of only knew them being apart, which financially can be tough, because each of them had to support themselves and me individually rather than together.
I mean, they were, of course, splitting everything that had to do with me.
But, like, when it came to living, food and housing and everything, like, everything was.
They had to do it on their own, which definitely was tougher than it would have been if they weren't divorced.
Right?
And, you know, they also worked normal jobs.
Like, they didn't have some sort of Google tech job, so they were like normal parents, but also living in northern California, where there's a lot of money and a lot of wealth.