Reply #39: Everything - esp. speaks to your stated lack of sympathy.

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I don't want to make this thread about you or me or anyone else individually, but when you say you have no sympathy for people who are struggling because "well, I can cook something in 20 minutes", the larger perspective here is that people who are affluent have the means to afford to pay others to do chores like laundry, nannying, gardening, cleaning the home, shopping, etc. whereas people who are struggling financially DO get worn down by life and the ways in which they have to be supermoms, superdads and just super-people generally, doing everything for themselves.