My childhood was affluent; but I’m a first-generation immigrant not a second-generation one. There’s a difference between being 0, 1, 2, or more generations away from poverty or genocide starting your family’s wealth back to zero. Each constrains your risk tolerance differently.
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There’s this awful assumption that if you ever actually admit “The Holocaust/the Cultural Revolution/slavery/etc really screwed over my family, in ways that put me at a disadvantage even today” that you’re asking for pity or charity, which self-respecting people recoil at.
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You can keep your sense of autonomous agency, and keep your gratitude for all the ways you are lucky, and *still* acknowledge that someone committed injustice against you. Even if you’re fine and aren’t fishing for sympathy or craving revenge.
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Yes, which is part of the reason why our real world credit ratings are so heritable.
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